Jeff W. Lichtman

36.2k total citations · 11 hit papers
222 papers, 24.1k citations indexed

About

Jeff W. Lichtman is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biophysics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeff W. Lichtman has authored 222 papers receiving a total of 24.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 72 papers in Biophysics and 67 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jeff W. Lichtman's work include Cell Image Analysis Techniques (53 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (48 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (44 papers). Jeff W. Lichtman is often cited by papers focused on Cell Image Analysis Techniques (53 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (48 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (44 papers). Jeff W. Lichtman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Jeff W. Lichtman's co-authors include Joshua R. Sanes, José-Angel Conchello, Quyen T. Nguyen, Dale Purves, Douglas S. Richardson, Thomas Misgeld, Guoping Feng, Hyuno Kang, Cynthia R. Keller-Peck and M. Bernstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jeff W. Lichtman

217 papers receiving 23.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Imaging Neuronal Subsets in Transgenic Mice Expressing Multiple Spectral Variants of GFP

2000 2.5k citations Jeff W. Lichtman, Joshua R. Sanes et al. Neuron profile →
Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the nervous system

2007 1.4k citations Hyuno Kang, Joshua R. Sanes et al. Nature profile →
DEVELOPMENT OF THE VERTEBRATE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION

1999 1.2k citations Joshua R. Sanes, Jeff W. Lichtman profile →
Fluorescence microscopy

2005 1.2k citations Jeff W. Lichtman et al. profile →
Cell diversity and network dynamics in photosensitive human brain organoids

2017 870 citations Daniel R. Berger, Jeff W. Lichtman et al. Nature profile →
Induction, assembly, maturation and maintenance of a postsynaptic apparatus

2001 817 citations Joshua R. Sanes, Jeff W. Lichtman profile →
Clarifying Tissue Clearing

2015 794 citations Jeff W. Lichtman et al. profile →
Elimination of Synapses in the Developing Nervous System

1980 626 citations Jeff W. Lichtman et al. Science profile →
Optical sectioning microscopy

2005 547 citations Jeff W. Lichtman et al. profile →
Distinct Profiles of Myelin Distribution Along Single Axons of Pyramidal Neurons in the Neocortex

2014 398 citations Giulio Srubek Tomassy, Daniel R. Berger et al. Science profile →
Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation

2021 200 citations Daniel Witvliet, Ben Mulcahy et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jeff W. Lichtman United States	73	10.6k	10.5k	4.1k	3.0k	2.7k	222	24.1k
Mark H. Ellisman United States	108	25.9k 2.4×	11.2k 1.1×	3.3k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	6.5k 2.4×	518	47.7k
Stephen J Smith United States	71	11.5k 1.1×	13.3k 1.3×	1.2k 0.3×	3.1k 1.0×	4.7k 1.7×	157	25.5k
Daniel Choquet France	78	9.2k 0.9×	9.0k 0.9×	2.1k 0.5×	677 0.2×	3.7k 1.4×	183	17.6k
Bernardo L. Sabatini United States	81	10.1k 1.0×	14.5k 1.4×	1.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	2.1k 0.8×	174	24.3k
Guoping Feng United States	79	9.0k 0.8×	12.2k 1.2×	939 0.2×	2.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	190	23.0k
Rafael Yuste United States	90	6.2k 0.6×	17.6k 1.7×	2.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	275	25.1k
Pierre J. Magistretti Switzerland	89	13.0k 1.2×	14.6k 1.4×	1.7k 0.4×	3.3k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	423	35.3k
Atsushi Miyawaki Japan	94	22.6k 2.1×	8.8k 0.8×	9.7k 2.4×	1.1k 0.4×	5.5k 2.0×	367	36.8k
Fritjof Helmchen Switzerland	62	4.3k 0.4×	8.7k 0.8×	4.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.4×	713 0.3×	162	20.2k
Antoine Triller France	75	10.1k 1.0×	9.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.3×	868 0.3×	3.0k 1.1×	220	18.2k

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Wan, Jia, Wanhua Li, Evelina Sjöstedt, et al.. (2025). TriSAM: Tri-Plane SAM for Zero-Shot Cortical Blood Vessel Segmentation in VEM Images. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 29(11). 8246–8255.

Tian, Qiyuan, Chanon Ngamsombat, Hong‐Hsi Lee, et al.. (2025). Quantifying axonal features of human superficial white matter from three-dimensional multibeam serial electron microscopy data assisted by deep learning. NeuroImage. 313. 121212–121212. 1 indexed citations

Czeisler, Mark É., Yongli Shan, Richard Schalek, et al.. (2024). Extensive soma‐soma plate‐like contact sites (ephapses) connect suprachiasmatic nucleus neurons. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 532(6). e25624–e25624.

Dasgupta, Sanjoy, et al.. (2024). A neural algorithm for computing bipartite matchings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(37). e2321032121–e2321032121. 1 indexed citations

Meirovitch, Yaron, Richard Schalek, Adi Peleg, et al.. (2023). Connectomics of the Octopus vulgaris vertical lobe provides insight into conserved and novel principles of a memory acquisition network. eLife. 12. 12 indexed citations

Mulcahy, Ben, Daniel Witvliet, James K. Mitchell, et al.. (2022). Post-embryonic remodeling of the C. elegans motor circuit. Current Biology. 32(21). 4645–4659.e3. 13 indexed citations

Witvliet, Daniel, Ben Mulcahy, James K. Mitchell, et al.. (2021). Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation. Nature. 596(7871). 257–261. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

Kim, Yeon Jin, Orin Packer, Kenneth R. Sloan, et al.. (2020). Connectomic reconstruction of the human midget pathway: unexpected connectivity linked to preterm birth. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 61(7). 5040–5040. 1 indexed citations

Roossien, Douglas H., Yan Yan, Cristina Mazuski, et al.. (2019). Multispectral tracing in densely labeled mouse brain with nTracer. Bioinformatics. 35(18). 3544–3546. 14 indexed citations

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Litvina, Elizabeth Y., Alison L. Barth, Marcel P. Bruchez, et al.. (2019). BRAIN Initiative: Cutting-Edge Tools and Resources for the Community. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(42). 8275–8284. 16 indexed citations

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Berger, Daniel R., H. Sebastian Seung, & Jeff W. Lichtman. (2018). VAST (Volume Annotation and Segmentation Tool): Efficient Manual and Semi-Automatic Labeling of Large 3D Image Stacks. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 12. 88–88. 106 indexed citations

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Packer, Orin, Richard Schalek, Rachel Wong, et al.. (2017). Restricted cone connections of horizontal cells in the human foveal center. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 58(8). 1035–1035. 2 indexed citations

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Tomassy, Giulio Srubek, Daniel R. Berger, Hsu-Hsin Chen, et al.. (2014). Distinct Profiles of Myelin Distribution Along Single Axons of Pyramidal Neurons in the Neocortex. Science. 344(6181). 319–324. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lichtman, Jeff W., Hanspeter Pfister, & Nir Shavit. (2014). The big data challenges of connectomics. Nature Neuroscience. 17(11). 1448–1454. 131 indexed citations

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Tapia, Juan Carlos, Narayanan Kasthuri, Kenneth J. Hayworth, et al.. (2012). High-contrast en bloc staining of neuronal tissue for field emission scanning electron microscopy. Nature Protocols. 7(2). 193–206. 206 indexed citations

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Valdez, Gregorio, Juan Carlos Tapia, Hyuno Kang, et al.. (2010). Attenuation of age-related changes in mouse neuromuscular synapses by caloric restriction and exercise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(33). 14863–14868. 406 indexed citations

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Lichtman, Jeff W., et al.. (2009). Discovering the wiring diagram of the brain.. 75–82.

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Turney, Stephen G. & Jeff W. Lichtman. (2008). Chapter 11 Imaging Fluorescent Mice In Vivo Using Confocal Microscopy. Methods in cell biology. 89. 309–327. 10 indexed citations

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Kummer, Terrance T., Thomas Misgeld, Jeff W. Lichtman, & Joshua R. Sanes. (2004). Nerve-independent formation of a topologically complex postsynaptic apparatus. The Journal of Cell Biology. 164(7). 1077–1087. 129 indexed citations

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Gan, Wen-Biao, Jaime Grutzendler, Wai T. Wong, Rachel Wong, & Jeff W. Lichtman. (2000). Multicolor “DiOlistic” Labeling of the Nervous System Using Lipophilic Dye Combinations. Neuron. 27(2). 219–225. 277 indexed citations

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