Laura A. DeNardo

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Laura A. DeNardo is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura A. DeNardo has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 8 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Laura A. DeNardo's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (13 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (11 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (7 papers). Laura A. DeNardo is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (13 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (11 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (7 papers). Laura A. DeNardo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Laura A. DeNardo's co-authors include Liqun Luo, William E. Allen, Cindy D. Liu, Dominic S. Berns, Drew Friedmann, Marc Tessier‐Lavigne, Eliza L. Adams, Casey J. Guenthner, Benita Jin and Katherine E. DeLoach and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Laura A. DeNardo

26 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Temporal evolution of cortical ensembles promoting remote... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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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. Temporal evolution of cortical ensembles promoting remote memory retrieval
    2019 336 citations Laura A. DeNardo, Cindy D. Liu et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laura A. DeNardo United States 15 701 653 379 250 196 29 1.5k
Georgia M. Alexander United States 19 1.1k 1.6× 830 1.3× 537 1.4× 264 1.1× 181 0.9× 30 1.8k
Casey J. Guenthner United States 7 767 1.1× 629 1.0× 322 0.8× 157 0.6× 182 0.9× 8 1.3k
Drew Friedmann United States 10 669 1.0× 489 0.7× 435 1.1× 146 0.6× 147 0.8× 13 1.2k
Haohong Li China 17 747 1.1× 619 0.9× 330 0.9× 276 1.1× 200 1.0× 33 1.3k
Kyriaki Sidiropoulou Greece 19 766 1.1× 508 0.8× 485 1.3× 119 0.5× 329 1.7× 42 1.7k
Aslihan Selimbeyoglu United States 8 759 1.1× 747 1.1× 377 1.0× 266 1.1× 129 0.7× 8 1.5k
James M. Otis United States 17 737 1.1× 667 1.0× 489 1.3× 358 1.4× 272 1.4× 24 1.6k
Minsuk Hyun United States 14 1.3k 1.8× 787 1.2× 534 1.4× 191 0.8× 196 1.0× 17 2.0k
Peng Cao China 21 739 1.1× 595 0.9× 583 1.5× 190 0.8× 236 1.2× 54 1.7k
Katherine E. DeLoach United States 7 1.3k 1.9× 1.0k 1.6× 623 1.6× 247 1.0× 304 1.6× 8 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura A. DeNardo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura A. DeNardo

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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DeNardo, Laura A., et al.. (2025). Long‐Term Memory Engrams From Development to Adulthood. Hippocampus. 35(5). e70032–e70032.
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DeNardo, Laura A., et al.. (2025). Prefrontal cortex development and its implications in mental illness. Neuropsychopharmacology. 51(1). 114–128. 1 indexed citations
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Jin, Benita, et al.. (2025). Developmental changes in brain-wide fear memory networks. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 219. 108037–108037. 1 indexed citations
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Zeidler, Zachary & Laura A. DeNardo. (2024). The Role of Prefrontal Ensembles in Memory Across Time: Time-Dependent Transformations of Prefrontal Memory Ensembles. Advances in neurobiology. 38. 67–78. 1 indexed citations
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Couto, João, et al.. (2023). Brain-Wide Projections and Differential Encoding of Prefrontal Neuronal Classes Underlying Learned and Innate Threat Avoidance. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(32). 5810–5830. 15 indexed citations
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Yang, Taehong, Daniel W. Bayless, Yichao Wei, et al.. (2023). Hypothalamic neurons that mirror aggression. Cell. 186(6). 1195–1211.e19. 30 indexed citations
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Gabriel, Christopher, Zachary Zeidler, Benita Jin, et al.. (2022). BehaviorDEPOT is a simple, flexible tool for automated behavioral detection based on markerless pose tracking. eLife. 11. 29 indexed citations
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Osterhout, Jessica A., Vikrant Kapoor, Stephen W. Eichhorn, et al.. (2022). A preoptic neuronal population controls fever and appetite during sickness. Nature. 606(7916). 937–944. 92 indexed citations
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Biase, Lindsay M. De, et al.. (2022). Synapse-specific roles for microglia in development: New horizons in the prefrontal cortex. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 15. 965756–965756. 9 indexed citations
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Tasaka, Gen‐ichi, Maya Groysman, Laura A. DeNardo, et al.. (2020). The Temporal Association Cortex Plays a Key Role in Auditory-Driven Maternal Plasticity. Neuron. 107(3). 566–579.e7. 57 indexed citations
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Tasaka, Gen‐ichi, Maya Groysman, Laura A. DeNardo, et al.. (2019). Temporal Association Cortex - A Cortical Hub for Processing Infant Vocalizations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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DeNardo, Laura A., Cindy D. Liu, William E. Allen, et al.. (2019). Temporal evolution of cortical ensembles promoting remote memory retrieval. Nature Neuroscience. 22(3). 460–469. 336 indexed citations breakdown →
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Berns, Dominic S., Laura A. DeNardo, Daniel T. Pederick, & Liqun Luo. (2018). Teneurin-3 controls topographic circuit assembly in the hippocampus. Nature. 554(7692). 328–333. 110 indexed citations
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Allen, William E., Laura A. DeNardo, Michael Z. Chen, et al.. (2017). Thirst-associated preoptic neurons encode an aversive motivational drive. Science. 357(6356). 1149–1155. 244 indexed citations
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DeNardo, Laura A. & Liqun Luo. (2017). Genetic strategies to access activated neurons. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 45. 121–129. 100 indexed citations
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Savas, Jeffrey N., Yizhi Wang, Laura A. DeNardo, et al.. (2017). Amyloid Accumulation Drives Proteome-wide Alterations in Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease-like Pathology. Cell Reports. 21(9). 2614–2627. 49 indexed citations
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DeNardo, Laura A., et al.. (2012). NGL-2 Regulates Input-Specific Synapse Development in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons. Neuron. 76(4). 762–775. 52 indexed citations
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Wilke, Scott A., Benjamin J. Hall, Joseph K. Antonios, et al.. (2012). NeuroD2 regulates the development of hippocampal mossy fiber synapses. Neural Development. 7(1). 9–9. 34 indexed citations

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