Markus Meister

22.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
93 papers, 15.2k citations indexed

About

Markus Meister is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Meister has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 15.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 52 papers in Molecular Biology and 48 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Markus Meister's work include Retinal Development and Disorders (46 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (45 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (40 papers). Markus Meister is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Development and Disorders (46 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (45 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (40 papers). Markus Meister collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Israel. Markus Meister's co-authors include Michael J. Berry, Tim Gollisch, D. A. Baylor, Stephen A. Baccus, Carla J. Shatz, David K. Warland, Rachel Wong, Joshua R. Sanes, Diomedes E. Logothetis and David K. Welsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Markus Meister

90 papers receiving 14.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Individual neurons dissociated from rat suprachiasmatic nucleus express independently phased circadian firing rhythms
    1995 1.1k citations Markus Meister et al. Neuron profile →
  2. Synchronous Bursts of Action Potentials in Ganglion Cells of the Developing Mammalian Retina
    1991 869 citations Markus Meister et al. profile →
  3. Loss of Sex Discrimination and Male-Male Aggression in Mice Deficient for TRP2
    2002 650 citations Markus Meister et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Markus Meister 8.9k 7.3k 5.9k 2.0k 1.7k 93 15.2k
Edward M. Callaway 10.3k 1.2× 10.1k 1.4× 4.5k 0.8× 929 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 155 17.3k
Z. Josh Huang 11.7k 1.3× 8.6k 1.2× 5.3k 0.9× 979 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 115 17.1k
Loren L. Looger 10.8k 1.2× 5.3k 0.7× 8.9k 1.5× 929 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 141 21.0k
Hongkui Zeng 6.9k 0.8× 4.5k 0.6× 6.6k 1.1× 839 0.4× 2.2k 1.3× 128 16.6k
Naoshige Uchida 6.6k 0.7× 5.4k 0.7× 4.2k 0.7× 2.1k 1.1× 862 0.5× 118 14.3k
Wade G. Regehr 14.2k 1.6× 7.4k 1.0× 6.8k 1.2× 1.3k 0.7× 863 0.5× 142 19.1k
Bernardo L. Sabatini 14.5k 1.6× 6.2k 0.9× 10.1k 1.7× 581 0.3× 899 0.5× 174 24.3k
Lawrence C Katz 10.1k 1.1× 4.1k 0.6× 3.8k 0.6× 2.6k 1.3× 441 0.3× 195 14.2k
Eve Marder 15.7k 1.8× 11.3k 1.5× 4.3k 0.7× 573 0.3× 2.0k 1.2× 300 22.4k
R. Llinás 14.8k 1.7× 9.2k 1.3× 8.8k 1.5× 2.3k 1.2× 1.6k 1.0× 234 25.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Markus Meister

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Meister

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Tony, et al.. (2024). Endotaxis: A neuromorphic algorithm for mapping, goal-learning, navigation, and patrolling. eLife. 12. 4 indexed citations
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Meister, Markus, et al.. (2024). The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?. Neuron. 113(2). 192–204. 12 indexed citations
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Meister, Markus, et al.. (2024). A Fast Algorithm for All-Pairs-Shortest-Paths Suitable for Neural Networks. Neural Computation. 36(12). 2710–2733.
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Monavarfeshani, Aboozar, Mu Qiao, Yvonne Kölsch, et al.. (2023). Evolution of neuronal cell classes and types in the vertebrate retina. Nature. 624(7991). 415–424. 71 indexed citations
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Zhang, Tony, et al.. (2023). Endotaxis: A neuromorphic algorithm for mapping, goal-learning, navigation, and patrolling. eLife. 12. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Ya-tang & Markus Meister. (2023). Functional cell types in the mouse superior colliculus. eLife. 12. 14 indexed citations
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Meister, Markus, et al.. (2023). Efficient population coding of sensory stimuli. Physical Review Research. 5(4).
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Colonell, Jennifer, Bill Karsh, Jan Putzeys, et al.. (2021). Electrode pooling can boost the yield of extracellular recordings with switchable silicon probes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5245–5245. 6 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Matthew, Tony Zhang, Pietro Perona, & Markus Meister. (2021). Mice in a labyrinth show rapid learning, sudden insight, and efficient exploration. eLife. 10. 50 indexed citations
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Meister, Markus, et al.. (2018). Augmented reality powers a cognitive assistant for the blind. eLife. 7. 40 indexed citations
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Real, Esteban, Hiroki Asari, Tim Gollisch, & Markus Meister. (2017). Neural Circuit Inference from Function to Structure. Current Biology. 27(2). 189–198. 32 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yifeng, In-Jung Kim, Joshua R. Sanes, & Markus Meister. (2012). The most numerous ganglion cell type of the mouse retina is a selective feature detector. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(36). E2391–8. 204 indexed citations
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Asari, Hiroki & Markus Meister. (2012). Divergence of visual channels in the inner retina. Nature Neuroscience. 15(11). 1581–1589. 78 indexed citations
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Ölveczky, Bence P., Stephen A. Baccus, & Markus Meister. (2007). Retinal Adaptation to Object Motion. Neuron. 56(4). 689–700. 52 indexed citations
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Geffen, Maria N., Saskia de Vries, & Markus Meister. (2007). Retinal Ganglion Cells Can Rapidly Change Polarity from Off to On. PLoS Biology. 5(3). e65–e65. 84 indexed citations
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Hosoya, Toshihiko, Stephen A. Baccus, & Markus Meister. (2005). Dynamic predictive coding by the retina. Nature. 436(7047). 71–77. 336 indexed citations
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Ölveczky, Bence P., Stephen A. Baccus, & Markus Meister. (2003). Segregation of object and background motion in the retina. Nature. 423(6938). 401–408. 302 indexed citations
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Baccus, Stephen A. & Markus Meister. (2002). Fast and Slow Contrast Adaptation in Retinal Circuitry. Neuron. 36(5). 909–919. 384 indexed citations
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Meister, Markus, et al.. (1998). Synchronous Period-Doubling in Flicker Vision of Salamander and Man. Journal of Neurophysiology. 79(4). 1869–1878. 79 indexed citations
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Berry, Michael J. & Markus Meister. (1997). Refractoriness and Neural Precision. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 110–116. 1 indexed citations

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