Michael R. Best

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Michael R. Best is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael R. Best has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 24 papers in Sensory Systems and 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Michael R. Best's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (27 papers), Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (24 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 papers). Michael R. Best is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (27 papers), Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (24 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 papers). Michael R. Best collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Michael R. Best's co-authors include Michael Domjan, Lewis M. Barker, Phillip J. Best, John D. Batson, W. Robert Batsell, G. Andrew Mickley, Elaine Brown, Dale S. Cannon, Stephen F. Davis and Gervase Markham and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Behaviour Research and Therapy and Experimental Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Michael R. Best

50 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Learning mechanisms in food selection 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 100 200 300
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. Learning mechanisms in food selection
    1977 399 citations Lewis M. Barker, Michael R. Best 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
Michael R. Best United States 22 926 637 620 416 238 55 1.6k
Walter G. Hankins United States 14 769 0.8× 566 0.9× 644 1.0× 523 1.3× 276 1.2× 14 2.0k
Kenneth W. Rusiniak United States 20 893 1.0× 667 1.0× 838 1.4× 717 1.7× 284 1.2× 26 2.3k
James W. Kalat United States 12 1.0k 1.1× 406 0.6× 400 0.6× 389 0.9× 335 1.4× 33 2.2k
Bathsheva Rifkin United States 9 656 0.7× 385 0.6× 413 0.7× 343 0.8× 152 0.6× 10 1.4k
Marvin Nachman United States 17 594 0.6× 882 1.4× 531 0.9× 727 1.7× 209 0.9× 23 1.9k
Bow Tong Lett Canada 20 507 0.5× 821 1.3× 251 0.4× 193 0.5× 215 0.9× 38 1.6k
Steve Reilly United States 28 894 1.0× 1.1k 1.7× 770 1.2× 1.1k 2.5× 267 1.1× 95 2.2k
Dominic M. Dwyer United Kingdom 26 956 1.0× 608 1.0× 357 0.6× 416 1.0× 362 1.5× 116 2.1k
J. S. Schwartzbaum United States 31 1.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.7× 287 0.5× 247 0.6× 293 1.2× 65 2.3k
Charles L. Kutscher United States 22 422 0.5× 561 0.9× 256 0.4× 278 0.7× 389 1.6× 58 2.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael R. Best

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael R. Best

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brown, Alan S., Michael R. Best, & David B. Mitchell. (2013). More than meets the eye: Implicit perception in legally blind individuals. Consciousness and Cognition. 22(3). 996–1002.
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Best, Michael R.. (2009). Standing in Rich Place: Electrifying the Multiple-Text Edition or, Every Text is Multiple. College literature. 36(1). 26–36. 4 indexed citations
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Best, Michael R.. (2005). ‘Is this a vision? is this a dream?’: Finding New Dimensions in Shakespeare’s Texts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 0(11). 1 indexed citations
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Best, Michael R.. (2004). Can the Internet be a Human Right?. Digital Commons - DU (University of Denver). 4(1). 23–31. 22 indexed citations
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Best, Michael R.. (2002). The Text of Performance and the Performance of Text in the Electronic Edition. Computers and the Humanities. 36(3). 269–282. 3 indexed citations
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Best, Michael R., et al.. (1990). Differential taste-aversions resulting from varying retention intervals. 1 indexed citations
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Best, Michael R., Stephen F. Davis, & Cathy A. Grover. (1989). Straight alley extinction performance is disrupted by taste-aversion conditioning. Learning and Motivation. 20(4). 358–372. 5 indexed citations
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Davis, Stephen F., Michael R. Best, & Cathy A. Grover. (1988). Toxicosis-mediated potentiation in a taste/taste compound: Evidence for within-compound associations. Learning and Motivation. 19(2). 183–205. 21 indexed citations
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Cannon, Dale S., et al.. (1988). Occasion setting of fluid ingestion by contextual cues. Learning and Motivation. 19(3). 239–253. 56 indexed citations
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Batson, John D., et al.. (1986). Foraging on the radial-arm maze: Effects of altering the reward at a target location. Animal Learning & Behavior. 14(3). 241–248. 25 indexed citations
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Batson, John D. & Michael R. Best. (1981). Single-element assessment of conditioned inhibition. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 18(6). 328–330. 7 indexed citations
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Domjan, Michael & Michael R. Best. (1980). Interference with ingestional aversion learning produced by preexposure to the unconditioned stimulus: Associative and nonassociative aspects. Learning and Motivation. 11(4). 522–537. 30 indexed citations
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Best, Michael R., et al.. (1979). Disrupting the conditioned stimulus preexposure effect in flavor-aversion learning: Effects of interoceptive distractor manipulations.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 5(4). 321–334. 2 indexed citations
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Barker, Lewis M., Michael R. Best, & Michael Domjan. (1977). Learning mechanisms in food selection. 399 indexed citations breakdown →
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Domjan, Michael & Michael R. Best. (1977). Paradoxical effects of proximal unconditioned stimulus preexposure: Interference with and conditioning of a taste aversion.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 3(4). 310–321. 48 indexed citations
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Domjan, Michael, et al.. (1977). Early environmental influences on conditioned and unconditioned ingestional and locomotor behaviors. Developmental Psychobiology. 10(6). 499–506. 17 indexed citations
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Best, Michael R., et al.. (1977). Role of short-term processes in the conditioned stimulus preexposure effect and the delay of reinforcement gradient in long-delay taste-aversion learning.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 3(3). 253–263. 49 indexed citations
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Best, Michael R. & Phillip J. Best. (1976). The effects of state of consciousness and latent inhibition on hippocampal unit activity in the rat during conditioning. Experimental Neurology. 51(3). 564–573. 95 indexed citations
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Best, Phillip J., Michael R. Best, & G. Andrew Mickley. (1973). Conditioned aversion to distinct environmental stimuli resulting from gastrointestinal distress.. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 85(2). 250–257. 92 indexed citations
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Best, Phillip J., Michael R. Best, & Robert H. Ahlers. (1971). Transfer of discriminated taste aversion to a leverpressing task. Psychonomic Science. 25(5). 281–282. 14 indexed citations

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