Kenneth Kay

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Kenneth Kay is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth Kay has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kenneth Kay's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (10 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (6 papers). Kenneth Kay is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (10 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (6 papers). Kenneth Kay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Poland. Kenneth Kay's co-authors include Karl Deisseroth, Alexxai V. Kravitz, Philip R. L. Parker, Myo T. Thwin, Anatol C. Kreitzer, Benjamin Freeze, Loren M. Frank, Mattias Karlsson, Viviana Gradinaru and Feng Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth Kay

16 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Regulation of parkinsonian motor behaviours by optogeneti... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Regulation of parkinsonian motor behaviours by optogenetic control of basal ganglia circuitry
    2010 1.3k citations Alexxai V. Kravitz, Benjamin Freeze et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kenneth Kay United States 11 1.9k 1.2k 506 389 169 17 2.4k
Benjamin Freeze United States 7 1.3k 0.7× 659 0.6× 686 1.4× 391 1.0× 83 0.5× 9 1.8k
Mark W. Howe United States 10 1.5k 0.8× 1.0k 0.9× 260 0.5× 725 1.9× 65 0.4× 14 2.1k
Brian I. Hyland New Zealand 28 2.0k 1.1× 2.1k 1.8× 546 1.1× 790 2.0× 207 1.2× 65 3.5k
Reiko Kawagoe Japan 16 1.2k 0.6× 1.9k 1.7× 395 0.8× 414 1.1× 181 1.1× 25 2.8k
Talia N. Lerner United States 18 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 224 0.4× 618 1.6× 72 0.4× 28 2.4k
John N. J. Reynolds New Zealand 26 2.1k 1.1× 1.9k 1.6× 518 1.0× 901 2.3× 187 1.1× 76 3.5k
Tibor Koós United States 21 3.0k 1.6× 1.6k 1.4× 781 1.5× 1.1k 2.9× 58 0.3× 25 3.6k
Juan Mena‐Segovia United Kingdom 24 1.6k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 938 1.9× 515 1.3× 33 0.2× 31 2.4k
Fatuel Tecuapetla Mexico 23 2.4k 1.3× 1.5k 1.3× 675 1.3× 890 2.3× 31 0.2× 32 3.0k
Nicholas Wall United States 9 1.6k 0.8× 1.0k 0.9× 137 0.3× 685 1.8× 104 0.6× 12 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kenneth Kay

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenneth Kay

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kenneth Kay. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kenneth Kay 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 Kenneth Kay. Kenneth Kay is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Miconi, Thomas & Kenneth Kay. (2025). Neural mechanisms of relational learning and fast knowledge reassembly in plastic neural networks. Nature Neuroscience. 28(2). 406–414. 3 indexed citations
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Kay, Kenneth, et al.. (2024). A mathematical theory of relational generalization in transitive inference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(28). e2314511121–e2314511121. 3 indexed citations
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Kay, Kenneth, Manuel Beirán, Christopher J. Cueva, et al.. (2024). Emergent neural dynamics and geometry for generalization in a transitive inference task. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(4). e1011954–e1011954. 4 indexed citations
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Frank, Loren M., et al.. (2022). Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1866). 20210336–20210336. 32 indexed citations
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Kay, Kenneth, Jason E. Chung, Marielena Sosa, et al.. (2020). Constant Sub-second Cycling between Representations of Possible Futures in the Hippocampus. Cell. 180(3). 552–567.e25. 159 indexed citations
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Kay, Kenneth & Loren M. Frank. (2018). Three brain states in the hippocampus and cortex. Hippocampus. 29(3). 184–238. 36 indexed citations
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Yu, Jai Y., Kenneth Kay, Daniel F. Liu, et al.. (2017). Distinct hippocampal-cortical memory representations for experiences associated with movement versus immobility. eLife. 6. 29 indexed citations
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Kay, Kenneth, et al.. (2016). A hippocampal network for spatial coding during immobility and sleep. Nature. 531(7593). 185–190. 145 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Anna K., Emily A Aery Jones, Mattias Karlsson, et al.. (2016). Apolipoprotein E4 Causes Age-Dependent Disruption of Slow Gamma Oscillations during Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples. Neuron. 90(4). 740–751. 134 indexed citations
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Kay, Kenneth. (2016). Novel patterns of activity in the hippocampus. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Daniel F., et al.. (2015). Decoding position from multiunit activity using a marked point process filter. BMC Neuroscience. 16(S1). 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Daniel F., et al.. (2015). Clusterless Decoding of Position from Multiunit Activity Using a Marked Point Process Filter. Neural Computation. 27(7). 1438–1460. 42 indexed citations
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Kravitz, Alexxai V., Benjamin Freeze, Philip R. L. Parker, et al.. (2010). Regulation of parkinsonian motor behaviours by optogenetic control of basal ganglia circuitry. Nature. 466(7306). 622–626. 1329 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Liping, Martin Brauner, Jana Liewald, et al.. (2007). Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry. Nature. 446(7136). 633–639. 55 indexed citations
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Gradinaru, Viviana, Kimberly R. Thompson, Feng Zhang, et al.. (2007). Targeting and Readout Strategies for Fast Optical Neural ControlIn VitroandIn Vivo. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(52). 14231–14238. 377 indexed citations
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Kay, Kenneth, et al.. (1973). Architecture of Neel Reid in Georgia.
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Kay, Kenneth & William O. Rieke. (1963). Tuberculin Hypersensitivity: Studies with Radioactive Antigen and Mononuclear Cells. Science. 139(3554). 487–490. 25 indexed citations

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