John Simmers

2.6k total citations
56 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

John Simmers is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Simmers has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 30 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 17 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in John Simmers's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (27 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (15 papers) and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (15 papers). John Simmers is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (27 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (15 papers) and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (15 papers). John Simmers collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United States. John Simmers's co-authors include Pierre Meyrand, Maurice Moulins, Didier Morin, Laurent Juvin, Muriel Thoby‐Brisson, Denis Combes, Hans Straka, Romuald Nargeot, Boris P. Chagnaud and Stefan Clemens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

John Simmers

55 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Simmers France 26 971 844 399 327 325 56 1.9k
Peter Wallén Sweden 25 863 0.9× 702 0.8× 279 0.7× 699 2.1× 172 0.5× 38 2.2k
Galina A Pavlova Russia 20 585 0.6× 392 0.5× 226 0.6× 241 0.7× 269 0.8× 65 1.4k
Russell H. Hill Sweden 27 1.1k 1.1× 481 0.6× 383 1.0× 660 2.0× 153 0.5× 64 2.2k
Paul S. G. Stein United States 31 1.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 294 0.7× 1.1k 3.3× 455 1.4× 66 2.7k
Yu.I. Arshavsky Russia 22 702 0.7× 561 0.7× 278 0.7× 263 0.8× 249 0.8× 27 1.5k
Daniel Cattaert France 25 1.4k 1.5× 570 0.7× 110 0.3× 210 0.6× 342 1.1× 84 2.5k
S. Grillner Sweden 23 1.2k 1.3× 630 0.7× 264 0.7× 1.0k 3.1× 168 0.5× 44 2.2k
Yutaka Fujito Japan 27 1.1k 1.1× 497 0.6× 207 0.5× 102 0.3× 277 0.9× 60 1.6k
James T. Buchanan United States 23 1.2k 1.2× 574 0.7× 275 0.7× 1.2k 3.8× 192 0.6× 47 2.1k
Keith T. Sillar United Kingdom 35 1.8k 1.8× 720 0.9× 462 1.2× 1.3k 3.9× 513 1.6× 91 2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Simmers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Simmers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Simmers based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with John Simmers. John Simmers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Lambert, François, Mathieu Beraneck, Hans Straka, & John Simmers. (2023). Locomotor efference copy signaling and gaze control: An evolutionary perspective. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 82. 102761–102761. 2 indexed citations
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Straka, Hans, François Lambert, & John Simmers. (2022). Role of locomotor efference copy in vertebrate gaze stabilization. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 16. 1040070–1040070. 5 indexed citations
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Thoby‐Brisson, Muriel, et al.. (2021). Synergistic interaction between sensory inputs and propriospinal signalling underlying quadrupedal locomotion. The Journal of Physiology. 599(19). 4477–4496. 1 indexed citations
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Straka, Hans, John Simmers, & Boris P. Chagnaud. (2018). A New Perspective on Predictive Motor Signaling. Current Biology. 28(5). R232–R243. 90 indexed citations
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Simmers, John. (2016). Neurobiology’s solutions to the predator–prey conundrum. Current Biology. 26(16). R742–R744. 1 indexed citations
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Sieling, Fred, et al.. (2014). Differential Roles of Nonsynaptic and Synaptic Plasticity in Operant Reward Learning-Induced Compulsive Behavior. Current Biology. 24(9). 941–950. 24 indexed citations
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Cornet, Charles, et al.. (2013). Implication of dopaminergic modulation in operant reward learning and the induction of compulsive-like feeding behavior inAplysia. Learning & Memory. 20(6). 318–327. 14 indexed citations
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Lambert, François, Denis Combes, John Simmers, & Hans Straka. (2012). Gaze Stabilization by Efference Copy Signaling without Sensory Feedback during Vertebrate Locomotion. Current Biology. 22(18). 1649–1658. 55 indexed citations
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Barrière, Grégory, John Simmers, & Denis Combes. (2008). Multiple Mechanisms for Integrating Proprioceptive Inputs That Converge on the Same Motor Pattern-Generating Network. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(35). 8810–8820. 15 indexed citations
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Simmers, John, et al.. (2008). Intercostal and Abdominal Respiratory Motoneurons in the Neonatal Rat Spinal Cord: Spatiotemporal Organization and Responses to Limb Afferent Stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology. 99(5). 2626–2640. 33 indexed citations
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Nargeot, Romuald, et al.. (2007). Behavioral andIn VitroCorrelates of Compulsive-Like Food Seeking Induced by Operant Conditioning inAplysia. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(30). 8059–8070. 31 indexed citations
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Faumont, Serge, Denis Combes, Pierre Meyrand, & John Simmers. (2005). Reconfiguration of multiple motor networks by short‐ and long‐term actions of an identified modulatory neuron. European Journal of Neuroscience. 22(10). 2489–2502. 20 indexed citations
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Thoby‐Brisson, Muriel & John Simmers. (2002). Long-Term Neuromodulatory Regulation of a Motor Pattern–Generating Network: Maintenance of Synaptic Efficacy and Oscillatory Properties. Journal of Neurophysiology. 88(6). 2942–2953. 49 indexed citations
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Clemens, Stefan, Jean‐Charles Massabuau, Pierre Meyrand, & John Simmers. (2001). A modulatory role for oxygen in shaping rhythmic motor output patterns of neuronal networks. Respiration Physiology. 128(3). 299–315. 16 indexed citations
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Meyrand, Pierre, Serge Faumont, John Simmers, Andrew E. Christie, & Michael P. Nusbaum. (2000). Species‐specific modulation of pattern‐generating circuits. European Journal of Neuroscience. 12(7). 2585–2596. 33 indexed citations
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Clemens, Stefan, Pierre Meyrand, & John Simmers. (1998). Feeding-induced changes in temporal patterning of muscle activity in the lobster stomatogastric system. Neuroscience Letters. 254(2). 65–68. 15 indexed citations
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Combes, Denis, John Simmers, & Maurice Moulins. (1997). Conditional dendritic oscillators in a lobster mechanoreceptor neurone.. The Journal of Physiology. 499(1). 161–177. 21 indexed citations
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Simmers, John, Pierre Meyrand, & Maurice Moulins. (1995). Dynamic Networks of Neurons. 83(3). 262–268. 8 indexed citations
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Combes, Denis, John Simmers, Liliane Nonnotte, & Maurice Moulins. (1993). Tetrodotoxin‐sensitive dendritic spiking and control of axonal firing in a lobster mechanoreceptor neurone.. The Journal of Physiology. 460(1). 581–602. 27 indexed citations

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