Leslie B. Vosshall

30.1k total citations · 14 hit papers
100 papers, 19.4k citations indexed

About

Leslie B. Vosshall is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Sensory Systems and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Leslie B. Vosshall has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 19.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 37 papers in Sensory Systems and 37 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Leslie B. Vosshall's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (72 papers), Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (37 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (35 papers). Leslie B. Vosshall is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (72 papers), Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (37 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (35 papers). Leslie B. Vosshall collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Switzerland. Leslie B. Vosshall's co-authors include Richard Axel, Richard Benton, Andreas Keller, Stephen Conway, Gabriel Gasque, Yi Rao, Juan Huang, Allan M. Wong, Kirsten Vannice and Kazushige Touhara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Leslie B. Vosshall

98 papers receiving 19.1k citations

Hit Papers

Small molecule drug screening in D... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2013 2004 1994 2009 1999 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. Small molecule drug screening in Drosophila identifies the 5HT2A receptor as a feeding modulation target
    2013 2.1k citations Gabriel Gasque, Stephen Conway et al. Scientific Reports profile →
  2. Or83b Encodes a Broadly Expressed Odorant Receptor Essential for Drosophila Olfaction
    2004 1.0k citations Walton D. Jones, Leslie B. Vosshall et al. profile →
  3. Topographic organization of sensory projections to the olfactory bulb
    1994 1.0k citations Leslie B. Vosshall et al. Cell profile →
  4. Variant Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors as Chemosensory Receptors in Drosophila
    2009 975 citations Leslie B. Vosshall et al. Cell profile →
  5. A Spatial Map of Olfactory Receptor Expression in the Drosophila Antenna
    1999 891 citations Leslie B. Vosshall et al. Cell profile →
  6. An Olfactory Sensory Map in the Fly Brain
    2000 820 citations Leslie B. Vosshall et al. Cell profile →
  7. Insect olfactory receptors are heteromeric ligand-gated ion channels
    2008 816 citations Maurizio Pellegrino, Leslie B. Vosshall et al. Nature profile →
  8. Atypical Membrane Topology and Heteromeric Function of Drosophila Odorant Receptors In Vivo
    2006 752 citations Leslie B. Vosshall et al. profile →
  9. Molecular Architecture of Smell and Taste inDrosophila
    2007 662 citations Leslie B. Vosshall et al. profile →
  10. Two-Photon Calcium Imaging Reveals an Odor-Evoked Map of Activity in the Fly Brain
    2003 634 citations Leslie B. Vosshall et al. Cell profile →
  11. Humans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli
    2014 528 citations Leslie B. Vosshall, Andreas Keller et al. Science profile →
  12. Two chemosensory receptors together mediate carbon dioxide detection in Drosophila
    2006 507 citations Walton D. Jones, Pelin Cayirlioglu et al. Nature profile →
  13. A Systematic Nomenclature for the Insect Brain
    2014 437 citations Leslie B. Vosshall et al. profile →
  14. Multimodal Integration of Carbon Dioxide and Other Sensory Cues Drives Mosquito Attraction to Humans
    2014 332 citations Conor J. McMeniman, Román A. Corfas et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leslie B. Vosshall United States 59 13.1k 6.6k 6.2k 5.0k 3.0k 100 19.4k
Bill S. Hansson Germany 74 11.8k 0.9× 11.0k 1.7× 8.0k 1.3× 2.4k 0.5× 7.4k 2.4× 430 20.0k
Cornelia I. Bargmann United States 98 11.2k 0.9× 1.3k 0.2× 3.4k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 901 0.3× 181 34.4k
Richard Axel United States 102 18.3k 1.4× 2.5k 0.4× 7.8k 1.3× 12.8k 2.6× 2.1k 0.7× 186 42.9k
Liqun Luo United States 101 19.1k 1.5× 1.1k 0.2× 4.3k 0.7× 2.3k 0.5× 1.7k 0.6× 242 36.3k
David J. Anderson United States 123 18.6k 1.4× 1.0k 0.2× 6.4k 1.0× 3.3k 0.7× 2.0k 0.7× 419 50.3k
Stephen J. Simpson Australia 100 4.2k 0.3× 9.6k 1.5× 8.8k 1.4× 327 0.1× 10.3k 3.4× 524 31.8k
Yuh Nung Jan United States 152 29.1k 2.2× 1.3k 0.2× 6.5k 1.1× 2.3k 0.5× 1.8k 0.6× 432 63.4k
Martin Heisenberg Germany 66 12.0k 0.9× 2.6k 0.4× 5.6k 0.9× 755 0.2× 4.9k 1.6× 157 15.4k
Hugo J. Bellen United States 96 9.8k 0.7× 1.1k 0.2× 3.5k 0.6× 1.4k 0.3× 858 0.3× 298 29.5k
Seymour Benzer United States 73 8.8k 0.7× 2.5k 0.4× 3.7k 0.6× 599 0.1× 1.7k 0.6× 119 20.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Morita, Takeshi, Olivia V. Goldman, Trevor R. Sorrells, et al.. (2025). Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans. Science Advances. 11(1). eadn5758–eadn5758. 7 indexed citations
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Sorrells, Trevor R., et al.. (2022). A persistent behavioral state enables sustained predation of humans by mosquitoes. eLife. 11. 21 indexed citations
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Matthews, Benjamin J. & Leslie B. Vosshall. (2020). How to turn an organism into a model organism in 10 ‘easy’ steps. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223(Suppl_1). 79 indexed citations
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Obaldia, Maria Elena De, et al.. (2020). Fruitless mutant male mosquitoes gain attraction to human odor. eLife. 9. 36 indexed citations
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Matthews, Benjamin J., Meg A. Younger, & Leslie B. Vosshall. (2019). The ion channel ppk301 controls freshwater egg-laying in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. eLife. 8. 70 indexed citations
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Hsieh, Julien Wen, et al.. (2017). SMELL-S and SMELL-R: Olfactory tests not influenced by odor-specific insensitivity or prior olfactory experience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(43). 11275–11284. 53 indexed citations
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Yapici, Nilay, et al.. (2016). A Taste Circuit that Regulates Ingestion by Integrating Food and Hunger Signals. Cell. 165(3). 715–729. 102 indexed citations
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Warren, Andrew, Cristina Aurrecoechea, Brian P. Brunk, et al.. (2015). RNA-Rocket: an RNA-Seq analysis resource for infectious disease research. Bioinformatics. 31(9). 1496–1498. 9 indexed citations
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McMeniman, Conor J., Román A. Corfas, Benjamin J. Matthews, Scott A. Ritchie, & Leslie B. Vosshall. (2014). Multimodal Integration of Carbon Dioxide and Other Sensory Cues Drives Mosquito Attraction to Humans. Cell. 156(5). 1060–1071. 332 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gasque, Gabriel, Stephen Conway, Juan Huang, Yi Rao, & Leslie B. Vosshall. (2013). Small molecule drug screening in Drosophila identifies the 5HT2A receptor as a feeding modulation target. Scientific Reports. 3(1). srep02120–srep02120. 2071 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pellegrino, Maurizio, et al.. (2008). Insect Odorant Receptors Are Molecular Targets of the Insect Repellent DEET. Science. 319(5871). 1838–1842. 270 indexed citations
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Vosshall, Leslie B.. (2008). The form and function of an olfactory sensory map in the fly brain. Developmental Biology. 319(2). 466–466. 2 indexed citations
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Asahina, Kenta, et al.. (2008). The Survival Advantage of Olfaction in a Competitive Environment. Current Biology. 18(15). 1153–1155. 55 indexed citations
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Vosshall, Leslie B.. (2007). 4 Olfactory/Gustatory Processing. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 49. 79–100.
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Jones, Walton D., Pelin Cayirlioglu, Ilona C Grunwald Kadow, & Leslie B. Vosshall. (2006). Two chemosensory receptors together mediate carbon dioxide detection in Drosophila. Nature. 445(7123). 86–90. 507 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fishilevich, Elane & Leslie B. Vosshall. (2005). Genetic and Functional Subdivision of the Drosophila Antennal Lobe. Current Biology. 15(17). 1548–1553. 470 indexed citations
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Vosshall, Leslie B.. (2004). Olfaction: Attracting Both Sperm and the Nose. Current Biology. 14(21). R918–R920. 27 indexed citations
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Keller, Andreas & Leslie B. Vosshall. (2004). Human olfactory psychophysics. Current Biology. 14(20). R875–R878. 42 indexed citations
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Vosshall, Leslie B.. (2000). Olfaction in Drosophila. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 10(4). 498–503. 126 indexed citations

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