Mathias Mahn

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Mathias Mahn is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mathias Mahn has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Mathias Mahn's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (6 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (3 papers). Mathias Mahn is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (6 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (3 papers). Mathias Mahn collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Switzerland and Germany. Mathias Mahn's co-authors include Ofer Yizhar, Matthias Prigge, Rivka Levy, Yoav Printz, Shiri Ron, J. Simon Wiegert, Valentina Emiliani, Emilia Entcheva, Rainer Hedrich and Peter Hegemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mathias Mahn

9 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Optogenetics for light control of biological systems

2022 241 citations Valentina Emiliani, Emilia Entcheva et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mathias Mahn Israel	8	835	516	246	128	76	9	1.1k
Aimei Yang United States	12	922 1.1×	631 1.2×	252 1.0×	108 0.8×	102 1.3×	17	1.3k
Helen H. Yang United States	10	723 0.9×	414 0.8×	337 1.4×	134 1.0×	85 1.1×	13	1.1k
Patrick E. Monahan United States	3	815 1.0×	361 0.7×	207 0.8×	141 1.1×	120 1.6×	3	928
Nathan C Klapoetke United States	9	935 1.1×	446 0.9×	237 1.0×	129 1.0×	83 1.1×	10	1.1k
Michael Henninger Germany	7	850 1.0×	397 0.8×	197 0.8×	147 1.1×	121 1.6×	25	1.0k
M. Bret Schneider United States	11	1.1k 1.3×	532 1.0×	188 0.8×	275 2.1×	117 1.5×	23	1.4k
Amy S. Chuong United States	7	1.5k 1.8×	672 1.3×	419 1.7×	258 2.0×	195 2.6×	7	1.7k
Namsoo Kim South Korea	24	598 0.7×	495 1.0×	562 2.3×	192 1.5×	37 0.5×	73	1.6k
Ao Dong China	11	434 0.5×	191 0.4×	248 1.0×	73 0.6×	53 0.7×	18	823

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mathias Mahn

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Mahn, Mathias, et al.. (2025). Stimulus-specific and adaptive value representations in the basolateral amygdala in male mice. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5239–5239. 1 indexed citations

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Printz, Yoav, et al.. (2023). Determinants of functional synaptic connectivity among amygdala-projecting prefrontal cortical neurons in male mice. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1667–1667. 18 indexed citations

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d‘Aquin, Simon, András Szőnyi, Mathias Mahn, et al.. (2022). Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity during associative learning. Science. 376(6590). eabf7052–eabf7052. 33 indexed citations

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Emiliani, Valentina, Emilia Entcheva, Rainer Hedrich, et al.. (2022). Optogenetics for light control of biological systems. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 2(1). 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hagihara, Kenta M., Olena Bukalo, Martin Zeller, et al.. (2021). Intercalated amygdala clusters orchestrate a switch in fear state. Nature. 594(7863). 403–407. 71 indexed citations

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Forli, Angelo, Dania Vecchia, Noemi Binini, et al.. (2018). Two-Photon Bidirectional Control and Imaging of Neuronal Excitability with High Spatial Resolution In Vivo. Cell Reports. 22(11). 3087–3098. 101 indexed citations

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Mahn, Mathias, Pritish Patil, Katayun Cohen-Kashi Malina, et al.. (2018). High-efficiency optogenetic silencing with soma-targeted anion-conducting channelrhodopsins. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4125–4125. 170 indexed citations

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Wiegert, J. Simon, Mathias Mahn, Matthias Prigge, Yoav Printz, & Ofer Yizhar. (2017). Silencing Neurons: Tools, Applications, and Experimental Constraints. Neuron. 95(3). 504–529. 197 indexed citations

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Mahn, Mathias, Matthias Prigge, Shiri Ron, Rivka Levy, & Ofer Yizhar. (2016). Biophysical constraints of optogenetic inhibition at presynaptic terminals. Nature Neuroscience. 19(4). 554–556. 251 indexed citations

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