Michael B. Orger

15.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
33 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Michael B. Orger is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael B. Orger has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Cell Biology, 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Michael B. Orger's work include Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (26 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (9 papers). Michael B. Orger is often cited by papers focused on Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (26 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (9 papers). Michael B. Orger collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and Germany. Michael B. Orger's co-authors include Sabine L. Renninger, Eric R. Schreiter, Tsai‐Wen Chen, Loren L. Looger, Douglas S. Kim, Yi Sun, Trevor J. Wardill, Stefan R. Pulver, Karel Svoboda and Vivek Jayaraman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Michael B. Orger

32 papers receiving 8.4k citations

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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.

Ultrasensitive fluorescent proteins for imaging neuronal activity

2013 4.4k citations Sabine L. Renninger, Michael B. Orger et al. profile →
Whole-brain functional imaging at cellular resolution using light-sheet microscopy

2013 865 citations Misha B. Ahrens, Michael B. Orger et al. Nature Methods profile →
An optimized fluorescent probe for visualizing glutamate neurotransmission

2013 680 citations Sabine L. Renninger, Michael B. Orger et al. Nature Methods profile →
Brain-wide neuronal dynamics during motor adaptation in zebrafish

2012 458 citations Misha B. Ahrens, Jennifer Li et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael B. Orger Portugal	21	4.4k	2.9k	2.8k	2.0k	1.5k	33	8.5k
Douglas S. Kim United States	28	5.5k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	3.7k 1.3×	734 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	40	9.1k
Tsai‐Wen Chen United States	18	4.3k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	482 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	23	7.1k
Misha B. Ahrens United States	31	2.6k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	45	5.5k
Pavel Osten United States	41	4.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	3.5k 1.3×	698 0.3×	980 0.7×	73	8.3k
Florian Engert United States	41	3.3k 0.8×	2.7k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	2.8k 1.4×	498 0.3×	83	6.7k
Vivek Jayaraman United States	27	7.2k 1.6×	3.4k 1.2×	2.9k 1.1×	830 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	34	10.7k
Herwig Baier United States	64	5.1k 1.2×	2.2k 0.8×	6.2k 2.3×	5.9k 2.9×	627 0.4×	129	11.8k
Vincent A. Pieribone United States	48	5.5k 1.2×	1.7k 0.6×	3.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.6×	541 0.4×	120	8.7k
Sabine L. Renninger Portugal	9	3.3k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	511 0.3×	816 0.6×	12	5.4k

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Ostrovsky, Aaron D., et al.. (2025). Characterization of Transgenic Lines Labeling Reticulospinal Neurons in Larval Zebrafish. eNeuro. 12(5). ENEURO.0581–24.2025. 1 indexed citations

Groneberg, Antonia H., et al.. (2024). The adaptor protein 2 (AP2) complex modulates habituation and behavioral selection across multiple pathways and time windows. iScience. 27(4). 109455–109455. 2 indexed citations

Renninger, Sabine L., et al.. (2024). Structural and functional organization of visual responses in the inferior olive of larval zebrafish. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(8). e2352212023–e2352212023. 5 indexed citations

Sena-Tomás, Carmen de, et al.. (2024). Neutrophil immune profile guides spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 120. 514–531. 7 indexed citations

Feierstein, Claudia E., et al.. (2023). Dimensionality reduction reveals separate translation and rotation populations in the zebrafish hindbrain. Current Biology. 33(18). 3911–3925.e6. 3 indexed citations

Groneberg, Antonia H., et al.. (2020). Early-Life Social Experience Shapes Social Avoidance Reactions in Larval Zebrafish. Current Biology. 30(20). 4009–4021.e4. 48 indexed citations

Johnston, Jamie, et al.. (2019). A Retinal Circuit Generating a Dynamic Predictive Code for Oriented Features. Neuron. 102(6). 1211–1222.e3. 21 indexed citations

Marques, João C. & Michael B. Orger. (2018). Clusterdv: a simple density-based clustering method that is robust, general and automatic. Bioinformatics. 35(12). 2125–2132. 17 indexed citations

Opbergen, Chantal J.M. van, Charlotte D. Koopman, Bart Kok, et al.. (2018). Optogenetic sensors in the zebrafish heart: a novel in vivo electrophysiological tool to study cardiac arrhythmogenesis. Theranostics. 8(17). 4750–4764. 39 indexed citations

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Lu, Rongwen, Wenzhi Sun, Yajie Liang, et al.. (2017). Video-rate volumetric functional imaging of the brain at synaptic resolution. Nature Neuroscience. 20(4). 620–628. 183 indexed citations

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Orger, Michael B. & Rubén Portugues. (2016). Correlating Whole Brain Neural Activity with Behavior in Head-Fixed Larval Zebrafish. Methods in molecular biology. 1451. 307–320. 7 indexed citations

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Severi, Kristen E., Rubén Portugues, João C. Marques, et al.. (2014). Neural Control and Modulation of Swimming Speed in the Larval Zebrafish. Neuron. 83(3). 692–707. 157 indexed citations

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Portugues, Rubén, Claudia E. Feierstein, Florian Engert, & Michael B. Orger. (2014). Whole-Brain Activity Maps Reveal Stereotyped, Distributed Networks for Visuomotor Behavior. Neuron. 81(6). 1328–1343. 186 indexed citations

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Feierstein, Claudia E., Rubén Portugues, & Michael B. Orger. (2014). Seeing the whole picture: A comprehensive imaging approach to functional mapping of circuits in behaving zebrafish. Neuroscience. 296. 26–38. 32 indexed citations

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Ahrens, Misha B., Michael B. Orger, Drew N. Robson, Jennifer Li, & Philipp Keller. (2013). Whole-brain functional imaging at cellular resolution using light-sheet microscopy. Nature Methods. 10(5). 413–420. 865 indexed citations breakdown →

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Renninger, Sabine L. & Michael B. Orger. (2013). Two-photon imaging of neural population activity in zebrafish. Methods. 62(3). 255–267. 39 indexed citations

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Orger, Michael B., Adam R. Kampff, Kristen E. Severi, Johann H. Bollmann, & Florian Engert. (2008). Control of visually guided behavior by distinct populations of spinal projection neurons. Nature Neuroscience. 11(3). 327–333. 191 indexed citations

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Orger, Michael B. & Herwig Baier. (2005). Channeling of red and green cone inputs to the zebrafish optomotor response. Visual Neuroscience. 22(3). 275–281. 106 indexed citations

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Orger, Michael B., Ethan Gahtan, Akira Muto, et al.. (2004). Behavioral Screening Assays in Zebrafish. Methods in cell biology. 77. 53–68. 74 indexed citations

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Orger, Michael B., Matthew C. Smear, Stuart Anstis, & Herwig Baier. (2000). Perception of Fourier and non-Fourier motion by larval zebrafish. Nature Neuroscience. 3(11). 1128–1133. 140 indexed citations

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