Joshua Levitz

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Joshua Levitz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Levitz has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 22 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Joshua Levitz's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (37 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (29 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers). Joshua Levitz is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (37 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (29 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers). Joshua Levitz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Joshua Levitz's co-authors include Andreas Reiner, Ehud Y. Isacoff, Dirk Trauner, Reza Vafabakhsh, Johannes Broichhagen, Guillaume Sandoz, Zhu Fu, Nohely Abreu, Vanessa A. Gutzeit and Benjamin M. Gaub and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Levitz

60 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Glutamatergic Signaling in the Central Nervous System: Ionotropic and Metabotropic Receptors in Concert

2018 420 citations Andreas Reiner, Joshua Levitz Neuron profile →
An epigenetic barrier sets the timing of human neuronal maturation

2024 77 citations Gabriele Ciceri, Arianna Baggiolini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua Levitz United States	31	1.9k	1.9k	685	151	143	61	2.8k
Eric Trinquet France	36	2.8k 1.5×	1.7k 0.9×	348 0.5×	313 2.1×	126 0.9×	67	4.1k
Cyril Goudet France	34	2.3k 1.2×	2.1k 1.1×	417 0.6×	376 2.5×	102 0.7×	68	3.3k
Andreas Reiner Germany	19	951 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	630 0.9×	108 0.7×	130 0.9×	31	1.9k
Valentina Carabelli Italy	33	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	258 0.4×	260 1.7×	131 0.9×	81	2.3k
Anne Feltz France	41	2.9k 1.5×	2.3k 1.2×	410 0.6×	305 2.0×	294 2.1×	96	3.8k
Jonathan S. Marvin United States	26	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	217 0.3×	117 0.8×	476 3.3×	44	3.4k
Vasanthi Jayaraman United States	28	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	165 0.2×	303 2.0×	87 0.6×	96	2.5k
Philippe Rondard France	38	2.7k 1.4×	2.0k 1.1×	126 0.2×	150 1.0×	95 0.7×	74	3.4k
Antonio Cortés Spain	22	1.0k 0.6×	738 0.4×	320 0.5×	100 0.7×	109 0.8×	61	2.0k
Víctor Fernández‐Dueñas Spain	29	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	130 0.2×	214 1.4×	115 0.8×	82	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Joshua Levitz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua Levitz

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Oberst, Polina, Nan Xu, Hermany Munguba, et al.. (2025). Environmental and genetic risk factors of depression converge on neuronal dysfunction driven by changes in cholesterol homeostasis. Developmental Cell. 61(1). 102–116.e6.

Levitz, Joshua, et al.. (2024). Red and far-red cleavable fluorescent dyes for self-labelling enzyme protein tagging and interrogation of GPCR co-internalization. RSC Chemical Biology. 6(1). 11–20. 1 indexed citations

Polacco, Benjamin J., Braden T. Lobingier, Emily E. Blythe, et al.. (2024). Profiling the proximal proteome of the activated μ-opioid receptor. Nature Chemical Biology. 20(9). 1133–1143. 18 indexed citations

Fetcho, Robert N., Jin Xu, Ruirong Yang, et al.. (2024). Elevating levels of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol blunts opioid reward but not analgesia. Science Advances. 10(48). eadq4779–eadq4779. 5 indexed citations

Menon, I. A., Taras Sych, Takefumi Morizumi, et al.. (2024). A cholesterol switch controls phospholipid scrambling by G protein–coupled receptors. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(2). 105649–105649. 11 indexed citations

Minotti, Andrew P., Polina Oberst, Zeping Zhao, et al.. (2024). Combined small-molecule treatment accelerates maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons. Nature Biotechnology. 42(10). 1515–1525. 39 indexed citations

Gonzalez-Hernandez, Alberto J., Caspar Schattenberg, Han Sun, et al.. (2024). Deuteration as a General Strategy to Enhance Azobenzene‐Based Photopharmacology. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(39). e202408300–e202408300. 3 indexed citations

Su, Minfei, Jinan Wang, N. Hung, et al.. (2023). Structural basis of agonist specificity of α1A-adrenergic receptor. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4819–4819. 9 indexed citations

Gonzalez-Hernandez, Alberto J., et al.. (2023). Dissecting the molecular basis for the modulation of neurotransmitter GPCR signaling by GINIP. Structure. 32(1). 47–59.e7. 7 indexed citations

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Ast, Julia, Dorien A. Roosen, Joon Lee, et al.. (2022). Sulfonated red and far-red rhodamines to visualize SNAP- and Halo-tagged cell surface proteins. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 20(30). 5967–5980. 23 indexed citations

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Gutzeit, Vanessa A., Amanda Acosta-Ruiz, Hermany Munguba, et al.. (2021). A fine-tuned azobenzene for enhanced photopharmacology in vivo. Cell chemical biology. 28(11). 1648–1663.e16. 43 indexed citations

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Lee, Joon, Changhao He, Hermany Munguba, et al.. (2021). Structural and compositional diversity in the kainate receptor family. Cell Reports. 37(4). 109891–109891. 21 indexed citations

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Thibado, Jordana K., Joon Lee, Davide Provasi, et al.. (2021). Differences in interactions between transmembrane domains tune the activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors. eLife. 10. 18 indexed citations

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Abreu, Nohely, et al.. (2021). Mechanisms of differential desensitization of metabotropic glutamate receptors. Cell Reports. 35(4). 109050–109050. 33 indexed citations

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Gutzeit, Vanessa A., Julia Ast, Joon Lee, et al.. (2020). Interrogating surface versus intracellular transmembrane receptor populations using cell-impermeable SNAP-tag substrates. Chemical Science. 11(30). 7871–7883. 30 indexed citations

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Lee, Joon, Hermany Munguba, Vanessa A. Gutzeit, et al.. (2020). Defining the Homo- and Heterodimerization Propensities of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors. Cell Reports. 31(5). 107605–107605. 54 indexed citations

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Habrian, Chris, Joshua Levitz, Vojtěch Vyklický, et al.. (2019). Conformational pathway provides unique sensitivity to a synaptic mGluR. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5572–5572. 51 indexed citations

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Berry, Michael H., Amy Holt, Julia Veit, et al.. (2019). Restoration of high-sensitivity and adapting vision with a cone opsin. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1221–1221. 107 indexed citations

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Acosta-Ruiz, Amanda, Vanessa A. Gutzeit, Mary Jane Skelly, et al.. (2019). Branched Photoswitchable Tethered Ligands Enable Ultra-efficient Optical Control and Detection of G Protein-Coupled Receptors In Vivo. Neuron. 105(3). 446–463.e13. 57 indexed citations

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Levitz, Joshua, Chris Habrian, Shashank Bharill, et al.. (2016). Mechanism of Assembly and Cooperativity of Homomeric and Heteromeric Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors. Neuron. 92(1). 143–159. 129 indexed citations

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