L. F. Abbott

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
6 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

L. F. Abbott is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, L. F. Abbott has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 2 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 2 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in L. F. Abbott's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (2 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (2 papers) and Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (2 papers). L. F. Abbott is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (2 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (2 papers) and Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (2 papers). L. F. Abbott collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. L. F. Abbott's co-authors include P. Sikivie, Sen Song, Kenneth D. Miller, Sidney Coleman, Giuseppe Silvestri, Adrian Podoleanu, Peter J. I. Ellis, Darren K. Griffin, Rasmus D. Engelsholm and Adrian Bradu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

L. F. Abbott

4 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

A cosmological bound on the invisible axion

1983 2.0k citations L. F. Abbott, P. Sikivie Physics Letters B profile →
Competitive Hebbian learning through spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity

2000 1.9k citations Sen Song, Kenneth D. Miller et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
L. F. Abbott United States	4	1.9k	1.5k	1.5k	1.4k	1.2k	6	4.0k
Stiliyan Kalitzin Netherlands	29	844 0.4×	2.1k 1.5×	103 0.1×	337 0.2×	966 0.8×	87	3.5k
Volker Koch United States	37	3.6k 1.9×	500 0.3×	209 0.1×	650 0.5×	102 0.1×	185	4.7k
P. Bonifazi Italy	25	110 0.1×	1.4k 1.0×	320 0.2×	385 0.3×	1.3k 1.1×	84	2.6k
Daniel Lenz Germany	21	589 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	102 0.1×	1.5k 1.1×	240 0.2×	48	3.1k
Amanda Redlich United States	18	999 0.5×	980 0.7×	139 0.1×	342 0.2×	234 0.2×	40	3.0k
Andrew Sornborger United States	21	286 0.1×	199 0.1×	198 0.1×	299 0.2×	158 0.1×	94	1.8k
Jason Puchalla United States	19	258 0.1×	468 0.3×	185 0.1×	398 0.3×	382 0.3×	37	1.5k
F. Della Valle Italy	21	600 0.3×	242 0.2×	215 0.1×	362 0.3×	148 0.1×	63	1.6k
Joel Zylberberg United States	16	155 0.1×	573 0.4×	224 0.2×	240 0.2×	294 0.3×	41	1.1k
M. Burghoff Germany	24	282 0.1×	702 0.5×	163 0.1×	57 0.0×	184 0.2×	108	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of L. F. Abbott

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Abbott, L. F., et al.. (2025). Investigating phototoxicity of optical coherence tomography imaging in porcine and human spermatozoa. Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 52(1). 105175–105175.

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Abbott, L. F., et al.. (2023). Novel calibration method for optical coherence tomography instruments using multiple spectrometers. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 14–14.

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Abbott, L. F., et al.. (2004). Equalization of Synaptic Efficacy by Activity- and Timing-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity. Journal of Neurophysiology. 91(5). 2273–2280. 37 indexed citations

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Song, Sen, Kenneth D. Miller, & L. F. Abbott. (2000). Competitive Hebbian learning through spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity. Nature Neuroscience. 3(9). 919–926. 1914 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abbott, L. F. & Sidney Coleman. (1985). The collapse of an anti-de sitter bubble. Nuclear Physics B. 259(1). 170–174. 27 indexed citations

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Abbott, L. F. & P. Sikivie. (1983). A cosmological bound on the invisible axion. Physics Letters B. 120(1-3). 133–136. 1981 indexed citations breakdown →

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