John Rinzel

20.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
192 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

John Rinzel is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, John Rinzel has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 81 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 74 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in John Rinzel's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (139 papers), stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (79 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (48 papers). John Rinzel is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (139 papers), stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (79 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (48 papers). John Rinzel collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Lithuania. John Rinzel's co-authors include Bard Ermentrout, Arthur Sherman, David Golomb, Yuexian Li, Wilfrid Rall, Robert J. Butera, Jeffrey C. Smith, Timothy J. Lewis, Paul F. Pinsky and Xiao‐Jing Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John Rinzel

191 papers receiving 12.8k citations

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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.

Analysis of neural excitability and oscillations

1989 623 citations John Rinzel, Bard Ermentrout MIT Press eBooks profile →
Equations for InsP3 Receptor-mediated [Ca2+]i Oscillations Derived from a Detailed Kinetic Model: A Hodgkin-Huxley Like Formalism

1994 470 citations John Rinzel 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 Rinzel United States	64	8.9k	5.4k	4.9k	3.3k	2.1k	192	13.4k
Nancy Kopell United States	74	12.6k 1.4×	7.8k 1.4×	3.4k 0.7×	3.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	164	17.4k
Bard Ermentrout United States	60	10.0k 1.1×	5.1k 0.9×	6.3k 1.3×	6.2k 1.9×	2.3k 1.1×	219	17.2k
Alain Destexhe France	63	12.7k 1.4×	8.5k 1.6×	3.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	242	15.0k
Roger D. Traub United States	69	13.9k 1.6×	13.2k 2.4×	1.6k 0.3×	905 0.3×	3.6k 1.7×	165	17.8k
Xiao‐Jing Wang United States	77	20.5k 2.3×	9.2k 1.7×	2.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	2.2k 1.1×	212	24.7k
Gustavo Deco Spain	78	20.0k 2.2×	3.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	529	24.0k
Eve Marder United States	82	11.3k 1.3×	15.7k 2.9×	2.2k 0.5×	717 0.2×	4.3k 2.1×	300	22.4k
Andreas K. Engel Germany	79	27.2k 3.0×	9.0k 1.7×	1.7k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	309	31.7k
André Longtin Canada	51	5.8k 0.6×	1.7k 0.3×	5.0k 1.0×	2.6k 0.8×	907 0.4×	210	10.8k
Miles A. Whittington United Kingdom	70	12.7k 1.4×	11.6k 2.1×	1.1k 0.2×	604 0.2×	3.8k 1.8×	178	17.1k

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Bose, Amitabha, et al.. (2024). Dynamical mechanisms of how an RNN keeps a beat, uncovered with a low-dimensional reduced model. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 26388–26388. 3 indexed citations

Bose, Amitabha, et al.. (2022). A biophysical counting mechanism for keeping time. Biological Cybernetics. 116(2). 205–218. 4 indexed citations

Rinzel, John, et al.. (2020). Buildup and bistability in auditory streaming as an evidence accumulation process with saturation. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(8). e1008152–e1008152. 8 indexed citations

Bose, Amitabha, Áine Byrne, & John Rinzel. (2019). A neuromechanistic model for rhythmic beat generation. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(5). e1006450–e1006450. 15 indexed citations

Goldwyn, Joshua H., Myles Mc Laughlin, Eric Verschooten, Philip X. Joris, & John Rinzel. (2017). Signatures of Somatic Inhibition and Dendritic Excitation in Auditory Brainstem Field Potentials. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(43). 10451–10467. 12 indexed citations

Li, Hsin-Hung, James Rankin, John Rinzel, Marisa Carrasco, & David J. Heeger. (2017). An attention model of binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision. 17(10). 579–579. 1 indexed citations

Huguet, Gemma, John Rinzel, & Jean‐Michel Hupé. (2014). Noise and adaptation in multistable perception: Noise drives when to switch, adaptation determines percept choice. Journal of Vision. 14(3). 19–19. 60 indexed citations

Khurana, Sandeep, Michiel W. H. Remme, John Rinzel, & Nace L. Golding. (2011). Dynamic Interaction of Ih and IK-LVA during Trains of Synaptic Potentials in Principal Neurons of the Medial Superior Olive. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(24). 8936–8947. 71 indexed citations

Shpiro, Asya, Rubén Moreno‐Bote, Nava Rubin, & John Rinzel. (2009). Balance between noise and adaptation in competition models of perceptual bistability. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 27(1). 37–54. 128 indexed citations

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Fall, Christopher P. & John Rinzel. (2006). An intracellular Ca2+ subsystem as a biologically plausible source of intrinsic conditional bistability in a network model of working memory. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 20(1). 97–107. 20 indexed citations

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Bem, Tiaza & John Rinzel. (2004). Short Duty Cycle Destabilizes a Half-Center Oscillator, But Gap Junctions Can Restabilize the Anti-Phase Pattern. Journal of Neurophysiology. 91(2). 693–703. 57 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaojing & John Rinzel. (1998). Oscillatory and bursting properties of neurons. MIT Press eBooks. 686–691. 86 indexed citations

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Booth, Victoria & John Rinzel. (1996). Plateau potentials in bistable motoneurons. 47–52. 1 indexed citations

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Booth, Victoria & John Rinzel. (1995). A minimal, compartmental model for a dendritic origin of bistability of motoneuron firing patterns. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 2(4). 299–312. 59 indexed citations

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Li, Yuxiu, John Rinzel, Leoncio Vergara, & Stanko S. Stojilković. (1995). Spontaneous electrical and calcium oscillations in unstimulated pituitary gonadotrophs. Biophysical Journal. 69(3). 785–795. 52 indexed citations

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Segev, Idan, John Rinzel, & Gordon M. Shepherd. (1994). The theoretical foundation of dendritic function: Selected papers of Wilfrid Rall with commentaries. MIT Press eBooks. 81 indexed citations

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Stokes, Cynthia L. & John Rinzel. (1993). Diffusion of extracellular K+ can synchronize bursting oscillations in a model islet of Langerhans. Biophysical Journal. 65(2). 597–607. 25 indexed citations

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Rinzel, John & Bard Ermentrout. (1989). Analysis of neural excitability and oscillations. MIT Press eBooks. 135–169. 623 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chay, Teresa Ree & John Rinzel. (1985). Bursting, beating, and chaos in an excitable membrane model. Biophysical Journal. 47(3). 357–366. 181 indexed citations

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Rinzel, John. (1978). On repetitive activity in nerve.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 37(14). 2793–802. 59 indexed citations

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