John C. Fiala

5.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

John C. Fiala is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Control and Systems Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Fiala has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 11 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in John C. Fiala's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 papers), Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (7 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (6 papers). John C. Fiala is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 papers), Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (7 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (6 papers). John C. Fiala collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and Russia. John C. Fiala's co-authors include Kristen M. Harris, Josef Špaček, Marcia Feinberg, Linnaea Ostroff, Daniel Bullock, Stephen Grossberg, Sergei A. Kirov, Karin E. Sorra, Albert J. Wavering and Frank H. Guenther and has published in prestigious journals such as Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

John C. Fiala

45 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Reconstruct: a free editor for serial section microscopy

2005 733 citations John C. Fiala Journal of Microscopy profile →
Dendritic Spine Pathology: Cause or Consequence of Neurological Disorders?

2002 646 citations John C. Fiala, Josef Špaček et al. Brain Research Reviews profile →
Synaptogenesis Via Dendritic Filopodia in Developing Hippocampal Area CA1

1998 626 citations John C. Fiala, Marcia Feinberg et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John C. Fiala United States	23	2.4k	1.3k	1.1k	608	499	49	4.2k
Roberto Lent Brazil	31	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	894 1.5×	737 1.5×	101	4.8k
Juan Burrone United Kingdom	33	2.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	327 0.5×	291 0.6×	54	4.0k
Takuya Sasaki Japan	33	2.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	217 0.4×	529 1.1×	109	4.4k
Hiroki Taniguchi Japan	36	3.4k 1.4×	2.3k 1.7×	2.7k 2.5×	423 0.7×	413 0.8×	164	7.9k
Yoshiyuki Kubota Japan	42	4.5k 1.9×	1.9k 1.4×	2.2k 2.0×	464 0.8×	444 0.9×	138	6.2k
Xiangmin Xu United States	33	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.9×	453 0.7×	523 1.0×	123	4.2k
Allan R. Jones United States	30	2.2k 0.9×	4.5k 3.4×	1.3k 1.2×	759 1.2×	553 1.1×	54	8.8k
Tomomi Nemoto Japan	29	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	491 0.5×	344 0.6×	322 0.6×	107	4.0k
Michael C. Crair United States	44	4.2k 1.7×	2.8k 2.1×	2.7k 2.5×	548 0.9×	420 0.8×	77	6.1k
Tetsuo Yamamori Japan	31	2.0k 0.8×	2.0k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	392 0.6×	308 0.6×	121	4.4k

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Datta, Amlan, John C. Fiala, & Shariar Motakef. (2021). 2D perovskite-based high spatial resolution X-ray detectors. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 22897–22897. 30 indexed citations

Lu, Ju, John C. Fiala, & Jeff W. Lichtman. (2009). Semi-Automated Reconstruction of Neural Processes from Large Numbers of Fluorescence Images. PLoS ONE. 4(5). e5655–e5655. 52 indexed citations

Fiala, John C., Marcia Feinberg, Alan Peters, & Helen Barbas. (2007). Mitochondrial degeneration in dystrophic neurites of senile plaques may lead to extracellular deposition of fine filaments. Brain Structure and Function. 212(2). 195–207. 49 indexed citations

Germuska, Michael, Subhash Saha, John C. Fiala, & Helen Barbas. (2005). Synaptic Distinction of Laminar-specific Prefrontal-temporal Pathways in Primates. Cerebral Cortex. 16(6). 865–875. 48 indexed citations

Fiala, John C.. (2005). Reconstruct: a free editor for serial section microscopy. Journal of Microscopy. 218(1). 52–61. 733 indexed citations breakdown →

Lumia, R., John C. Fiala, & Albert J. Wavering. (2005). An Architecture To Support Autonomy, Teleoperation, And Shared Control. 1. 472–476. 1 indexed citations

Kirov, Sergei A., et al.. (2004). Dendritic spines disappear with chilling but proliferate excessively upon rewarming of mature hippocampus. Neuroscience. 127(1). 69–80. 144 indexed citations

Schneeweiss, O., et al.. (2003). Galvannealing cycle's effects on substrate/coating interfacial structures observed by Mössbauer spectroscopy. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

Fiala, John C.. (2003). Three-dimensional structure of synapses in the brain and on the Web. 1–4. 10 indexed citations

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Fiala, John C., et al.. (2003). Timing of neuronal and glial ultrastructure disruption during brain slice preparation and recovery in vitro. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 465(1). 90–103. 111 indexed citations

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Harris, Kristen M., John C. Fiala, & Linnaea Ostroff. (2003). Structural changes at dendritic spine synapses during long-term potentiation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 358(1432). 745–748. 141 indexed citations

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Fiala, John C., Josef Špaček, & Kristen M. Harris. (2002). Dendritic Spine Pathology: Cause or Consequence of Neurological Disorders?. Brain Research Reviews. 39(1). 29–54. 646 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wavering, Albert J., et al.. (2002). TRICLOPS: a high-performance trinocular active vision system. 76. 410–417. 6 indexed citations

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Fiala, John C., et al.. (2002). Dendritic spines do not split during hippocampal LTP or maturation. Nature Neuroscience. 5(4). 297–298. 97 indexed citations

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Ostroff, Linnaea, et al.. (2002). Polyribosomes Redistribute from Dendritic Shafts into Spines with Enlarged Synapses during LTP in Developing Rat Hippocampal Slices. Neuron. 35(3). 535–545. 339 indexed citations

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Fiala, John C. & Kristen M. Harris. (2001). Extending Unbiased Stereology of Brain Ultrastructure to Three-dimensional Volumes. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 8(1). 1–16. 167 indexed citations

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Syková, Eva, et al.. (2001). Extracellular space volume changes and diffusion barriers in rats with kaolin-induced and inherited hydrocephalus.. PubMed. 11 Suppl 1. S34–7. 12 indexed citations

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Fiala, John C. & Kristen M. Harris. (2001). Cylindrical diameters method for calibrating section thickness in serial electron microscopy. Journal of Microscopy. 202(3). 468–472. 121 indexed citations

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Fiala, John C. & Daniel Bullock. (1996). Neural network models of motor timing and coordination. 10 indexed citations

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Fiala, John C. & Albert J. Wavering. (1992). Experimental evaluation of Cartesian stiffness control on a seven degree-of-freedom robot arm. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems. 5(1). 5–24. 5 indexed citations

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