John C Tuthill

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

John C Tuthill is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, John C Tuthill has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 16 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 13 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in John C Tuthill's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (25 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (12 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (11 papers). John C Tuthill is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (25 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (12 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (11 papers). John C Tuthill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. John C Tuthill's co-authors include Eiman Azim, Rachel I. Wilson, Michael B. Reiser, Gerald M. Rubin, Aljoscha Nern, Stephen L Holtz, Evyn S Dickinson, Akira Mamiya, Anthony W. Azevedo and Bingni W. Brunton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John C Tuthill

32 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Proprioception 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Proprioception
    2018 279 citations John C Tuthill, Eiman Azim Current Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John C Tuthill United States 17 774 398 387 255 227 34 1.5k
Wyatt Korff United States 14 529 0.7× 272 0.7× 269 0.7× 168 0.7× 245 1.1× 18 1.3k
John A. Bender United States 13 594 0.8× 481 1.2× 609 1.6× 137 0.5× 140 0.6× 25 1.5k
Pavan P Ramdya Switzerland 19 878 1.1× 476 1.2× 323 0.8× 128 0.5× 353 1.6× 30 1.6k
Amir Ayali Israel 29 1.3k 1.7× 607 1.5× 528 1.4× 477 1.9× 282 1.2× 123 2.5k
Yoshichika Baba Japan 23 567 0.7× 274 0.7× 244 0.6× 261 1.0× 706 3.1× 47 2.1k
Gwyneth M Card United States 21 1.5k 1.9× 712 1.8× 803 2.1× 339 1.3× 280 1.2× 37 2.0k
Shigehiro Namiki Japan 23 1.1k 1.5× 596 1.5× 447 1.2× 198 0.8× 107 0.5× 44 1.3k
Damon A. Clark United States 31 1.5k 2.0× 424 1.1× 560 1.4× 613 2.4× 818 3.6× 68 3.3k
Hitoshi Aonuma Japan 23 989 1.3× 609 1.5× 665 1.7× 148 0.6× 130 0.6× 137 1.8k
Hans‐Joachim Pflüger Germany 30 1.5k 2.0× 800 2.0× 713 1.8× 257 1.0× 249 1.1× 78 2.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John C Tuthill

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dallmann, Chris J., et al.. (2025). Divergent neural circuits for proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensing of the Drosophila leg. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4105–4105. 2 indexed citations
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Karashchuk, Pierre, et al.. (2025). Sensorimotor delays constrain robust locomotion in a 3D kinematic model of fly walking. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations
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Dallmann, Chris J., Yichen Luo, Sweta Agrawal, et al.. (2025). Selective presynaptic inhibition of leg proprioception in behaving Drosophila. Nature. 647(8089). 445–453. 1 indexed citations
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Tuthill, John C, et al.. (2024). Miniature linear and split-belt treadmills reveal mechanisms of adaptive motor control in walking Drosophila. Current Biology. 34(19). 4368–4381.e5. 6 indexed citations
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Siwanowicz, Igor, Christina Christoforou, Karen L Hibbard, et al.. (2024). Motor neurons generate pose-targeted movements via proprioceptive sculpting. Nature. 628(8008). 596–603. 9 indexed citations
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Mamiya, Akira, Anne Sustar, Igor Siwanowicz, et al.. (2023). Biomechanical origins of proprioceptor feature selectivity and topographic maps in the Drosophila leg. Neuron. 111(20). 3230–3243.e14. 9 indexed citations
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Golding, Dominic, et al.. (2023). Snow flies self-amputate freezing limbs to sustain behavior at sub-zero temperatures. Current Biology. 33(21). 4549–4556.e3. 4 indexed citations
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Agrawal, Sweta & John C Tuthill. (2022). The two-body problem: Proprioception and motor control across the metamorphic divide. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 74. 102546–102546. 4 indexed citations
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Phelps, Jasper S., David G. C. Hildebrand, Brett J. Graham, et al.. (2021). Reconstruction of motor control circuits in adult Drosophila using automated transmission electron microscopy. Cell. 184(3). 759–774.e18. 117 indexed citations
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Chen, Chenghao, Sweta Agrawal, Brandon Mark, et al.. (2021). Functional architecture of neural circuits for leg proprioception in Drosophila. Current Biology. 31(23). 5163–5175.e7. 17 indexed citations
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Dallmann, Chris J., Pierre Karashchuk, Bingni W. Brunton, & John C Tuthill. (2021). A leg to stand on: computational models of proprioception. Current Opinion in Physiology. 22. 100426–100426. 13 indexed citations
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Karashchuk, Pierre, Evyn S Dickinson, Sarah Walling-Bell, et al.. (2021). Anipose: A toolkit for robust markerless 3D pose estimation. Cell Reports. 36(13). 109730–109730. 136 indexed citations
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Kuan, Aaron T., Jasper S. Phelps, Logan A. Thomas, et al.. (2020). Dense neuronal reconstruction through X-ray holographic nano-tomography. Nature Neuroscience. 23(12). 1637–1643. 88 indexed citations
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Namiki, Shigehiro, J. Douglas Armstrong, Gwyneth M Card, et al.. (2020). A Systematic Nomenclature for the Drosophila Ventral Nerve Cord. Neuron. 107(6). 1071–1079.e2. 44 indexed citations
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Agrawal, Sweta, Evyn S Dickinson, Anne Sustar, et al.. (2020). Central processing of leg proprioception in Drosophila. eLife. 9. 35 indexed citations
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Mamiya, Akira, et al.. (2018). Neural Coding of Leg Proprioception in Drosophila. Neuron. 100(3). 636–650.e6. 73 indexed citations
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Tuthill, John C & Rachel I. Wilson. (2016). Parallel Transformation of Tactile Signals in Central Circuits of Drosophila. Cell. 164(5). 1046–1059. 68 indexed citations
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Tuthill, John C, Aljoscha Nern, Stephen L Holtz, Gerald M. Rubin, & Michael B. Reiser. (2013). Contributions of the 12 Neuron Classes in the Fly Lamina to Motion Vision. Neuron. 79(1). 128–140. 152 indexed citations
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Astrada, Martín Berón de, John C Tuthill, & Daniel Tomsic. (2009). Physiology and morphology of sustaining and dimming neurons of the crab Chasmagnathus granulatus (Brachyura: Grapsidae). Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 195(8). 791–798. 12 indexed citations

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