Marshall Devor

23.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
223 papers, 17.6k citations indexed

About

Marshall Devor is a scholar working on Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Marshall Devor has authored 223 papers receiving a total of 17.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Physiology, 121 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 45 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Marshall Devor's work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (133 papers), Nerve injury and regeneration (46 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (36 papers). Marshall Devor is often cited by papers focused on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (133 papers), Nerve injury and regeneration (46 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (36 papers). Marshall Devor collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Marshall Devor's co-authors include Patrick D. Wall, Ron Amir, Ruth Govrin-Lippmann, Pnina Raber, Wilfrid Jänig, Martin Michaelis, Z. Harry Rappaport, Jun Lu, Clifford B. Saper and David Sherman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Marshall Devor

217 papers receiving 17.0k citations

Hit Papers

A putative flip–flop switch for cont... 1979 2026 1994 2010 2006 1993 1979 1999 1983 250 500 750
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. A putative flip–flop switch for control of REM sleep
    2006 819 citations Marshall Devor et al. profile →
  2. Peripheral nerve injury triggers noradrenergic sprouting within dorsal root ganglia
    1993 576 citations Marshall Devor, Martin Michaelis et al. profile →
  3. Autotomy following peripheral nerve lesions: experimental anesthesia dolorosa
    1979 529 citations Patrick D. Wall, Marshall Devor et al. Pain profile →
  4. Heritability of nociception I: Responses of 11 inbred mouse strains on 12 measures of nociception
    1999 528 citations Marshall Devor et al. Pain profile →
  5. Sensory afferent impulses originate from dorsal root ganglia as well as from the periphery in normal and nerve injured rats
    1983 525 citations Patrick D. Wall, Marshall Devor Pain profile →
  6. Injured sensory neuron–derived CSF1 induces microglial proliferation and DAP12-dependent pain
    2015 422 citations Marshall Devor et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marshall Devor Israel 69 10.4k 7.1k 3.5k 3.5k 2.6k 223 17.6k
William D. Willis United States 82 13.4k 1.3× 8.8k 1.2× 1.8k 0.5× 4.8k 1.4× 3.9k 1.5× 353 22.7k
Martin Koltzenburg United Kingdom 65 8.0k 0.8× 5.6k 0.8× 1.9k 0.5× 3.6k 1.0× 1.9k 0.7× 171 17.6k
Patrick W. Mantyh United States 84 11.9k 1.1× 8.4k 1.2× 1.0k 0.3× 6.2k 1.8× 1.9k 0.7× 199 21.9k
Stephen B. McMahon United Kingdom 98 15.5k 1.5× 17.0k 2.4× 2.5k 0.7× 7.9k 2.3× 2.0k 0.8× 340 33.9k
Karin N. Westlund United States 67 6.7k 0.6× 5.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.4× 2.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 236 13.0k
Ronald Dubner United States 94 23.0k 2.2× 11.5k 1.6× 4.8k 1.4× 4.7k 1.3× 5.5k 2.1× 293 33.9k
M. Zimmermann Germany 54 9.3k 0.9× 7.0k 1.0× 1.5k 0.4× 4.0k 1.1× 1.4k 0.5× 215 16.1k
Howard L. Fields United States 92 17.0k 1.6× 15.5k 2.2× 2.5k 0.7× 6.4k 1.8× 9.3k 3.6× 250 30.9k
Michael W. Salter Canada 74 11.0k 1.1× 12.3k 1.7× 1.7k 0.5× 9.4k 2.7× 2.0k 0.8× 180 25.1k
Wilfrid Jänig Germany 54 6.0k 0.6× 2.7k 0.4× 1.0k 0.3× 1.3k 0.4× 1.1k 0.4× 197 10.8k

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All Works

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Baron, Mark S., Anne Minert, & Marshall Devor. (2025). Pain and the evolutionary origins of subjective experience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 48. e80–e80.
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Baron, Mark S., et al.. (2024). Molecular and cellular targets of GABAergic anesthetics in the mesopontine tegmentum that enable pain-free surgery. Pain. 166(7). 1549–1564. 1 indexed citations
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Baron, Mark S. & Marshall Devor. (2023). From molecule to oblivion: dedicated brain circuitry underlies anesthetic loss of consciousness permitting pain-free surgery. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 16. 1197304–1197304. 6 indexed citations
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Bortsov, Andrey V., Marshall Devor, Mari Kaunisto, et al.. (2018). CACNG2 polymorphisms associate with chronic pain after mastectomy. Pain. 160(3). 561–568. 15 indexed citations
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Minert, Anne, et al.. (2017). Location of the Mesopontine Neurons Responsible for Maintenance of Anesthetic Loss of Consciousness. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(38). 9320–9331. 37 indexed citations
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Devor, Marshall. (2016). Where is pain in the brain?. Animal Sentience. 1(3). 2 indexed citations
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Nissenbaum, J., Marshall Devor, Ze’ev Seltzer, et al.. (2010). Susceptibility to chronic pain following nerve injury is genetically affected by CACNG2. Genome Research. 20(9). 1180–1190. 102 indexed citations
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Persson, Anna‐Karin, Mathias Gebauer, Suzana Jordan, et al.. (2009). Correlational Analysis for Identifying Genes whose Regulation Contributes to Chronic Neuropathic Pain. Molecular Pain. 5. 7–7. 33 indexed citations
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Niv, David & Marshall Devor. (2007). Position paper of the European Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC) on the subject of pain management. European Journal of Pain. 11(5). 487–489. 28 indexed citations
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Pisanté, Anne, et al.. (2006). An integrative approach for the identification of quantitative trait loci. Animal Genetics. 37(s1). 7–9. 16 indexed citations
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Amir, Ron, Jeffery D. Kocsis, & Marshall Devor. (2005). Multiple Interacting Sites of Ectopic Spike Electrogenesis in Primary Sensory Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(10). 2576–2585. 131 indexed citations
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Amir, Ron & Marshall Devor. (2003). Extra Spike Formation in Sensory Neurons and the Disruption of Afferent Spike Patterning. Biophysical Journal. 84(4). 2700–2708. 24 indexed citations
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Devor, Marshall, Ron Amir, & Z. Harry Rappaport. (2002). Pathophysiology of Trigeminal Neuralgia: The Ignition Hypothesis. Clinical Journal of Pain. 18(1). 4–13. 330 indexed citations
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Devor, Marshall, Ruth Govrin-Lippmann, & Z. Harry Rappaport. (2002). Mechanism of trigeminal neuralgia: an ultrastructural analysis of trigeminal root specimens obtained during microvascular decompression surgery. Journal of neurosurgery. 96(3). 532–543. 223 indexed citations
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Liu, Chang‐Ning, Ron Amir, & Marshall Devor. (1999). Effect of age and nerve injury on cross-excitation among sensory neurons in rat dorsal root ganglia. Neuroscience Letters. 259(2). 95–98. 13 indexed citations
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Devor, Marshall. (1991). Sensory basis of autotomy in rats. Pain. 45(2). 109–110. 23 indexed citations
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Frey, Joseph M., Ralph Laufer, Chaim Gilon, et al.. (1987). Behavioural effects of receptor-specific substance P agonists. Pain. 31(2). 263–276. 112 indexed citations

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