Michael S. Bienkowski

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Michael S. Bienkowski is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael S. Bienkowski has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.2k 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 5 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael S. Bienkowski's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (5 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (4 papers). Michael S. Bienkowski is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (5 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (4 papers). Michael S. Bienkowski collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Michael S. Bienkowski's co-authors include Hong‐Wei Dong, Houri Hintiryan, Nicholas N. Foster, Ian Bowman, Lin Gou, Seita Yamashita, Monica Y. Song, Linda Rinaman, Brian Zingg and Arthur W. Toga and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Michael S. Bienkowski

15 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Neural Networks of the Mouse Neocortex

2014 518 citations Brian Zingg, Houri Hintiryan et al. Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael S. Bienkowski United States	10	764	624	186	122	111	18	1.2k
Lin Gou United States	6	719 0.9×	597 1.0×	186 1.0×	104 0.9×	132 1.2×	9	1.2k
Houri Hintiryan United States	10	781 1.0×	605 1.0×	205 1.1×	131 1.1×	141 1.3×	15	1.3k
Monica Y. Song United States	6	739 1.0×	595 1.0×	200 1.1×	101 0.8×	56 0.5×	6	1.2k
Nicholas N. Foster United States	8	695 0.9×	592 0.9×	203 1.1×	130 1.1×	59 0.5×	10	1.1k
Ian Bowman United States	7	703 0.9×	557 0.9×	173 0.9×	120 1.0×	41 0.4×	10	1.1k
Seita Yamashita United States	4	688 0.9×	569 0.9×	168 0.9×	100 0.8×	43 0.4×	4	1.0k
Dinu F. Albeanu United States	16	370 0.5×	1.1k 1.7×	295 1.6×	82 0.7×	75 0.7×	18	1.6k
Biafra Ahanonu United States	8	325 0.4×	473 0.8×	235 1.3×	69 0.6×	167 1.5×	10	1.0k
Sarah Lindo United States	6	531 0.7×	620 1.0×	412 2.2×	57 0.5×	114 1.0×	7	1.2k
Shay Q. Neufeld United States	8	436 0.6×	489 0.8×	171 0.9×	93 0.8×	87 0.8×	9	811

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Kim, T. Edward, Connie Huang, Mahnaz Shahidi, et al.. (2025). Electric field stimulation directs target-specific axon regeneration and partial restoration of vision after optic nerve crush injury. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0315562–e0315562. 3 indexed citations

Pachicano, Maricarmen, et al.. (2025). Laminar organization of pyramidal neuron cell types defines distinct CA1 hippocampal subregions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10604–10604.

Smith, Zoe M., et al.. (2024). Neurodegenerative Changes to Subiculum Cell Type Morphology in 5xFAD Mice. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S1). e089846–e089846.

Bienkowski, Michael S.. (2023). Further refining the boundaries of the hippocampus CA2 with gene expression and connectivity: Potential subregions and heterogeneous cell types. Hippocampus. 33(3). 150–160. 7 indexed citations

Stephen, Terri‐Leigh, Laura Korobkova, Ryan P. Cabeen, et al.. (2022). Combined segmentation and classification of Alzheimer’s disease pathology distribution within human hippocampal subregions. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 18(S4).

Ard, Tyler, et al.. (2022). Integrating Data Directly into Publications with Augmented Reality and Web-Based Technologies – Schol-AR. Scientific Data. 9(1). 8 indexed citations

Bienkowski, Michael S., Farshid Sepehrband, Nyoman D. Kurniawan, et al.. (2021). Homologous laminar organization of the mouse and human subiculum. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 3729–3729. 9 indexed citations

Hahn, Joel D., Larry W. Swanson, Ian Bowman, et al.. (2020). An open access mouse brain flatmap and upgraded rat and human brain flatmaps based on current reference atlases. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 529(3). 576–594. 17 indexed citations

Zhu, Muye, Junning Li, Michael S. Bienkowski, et al.. (2019). Precise segmentation of densely interweaving neuron clusters using G-Cut. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1549–1549. 33 indexed citations

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Bienkowski, Michael S., et al.. (2019). Extrastriate connectivity of the mouse dorsal lateral geniculate thalamic nucleus. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 527(9). 1419–1442. 10 indexed citations

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Bienkowski, Michael S., Ian Bowman, Monica Y. Song, et al.. (2018). Integration of gene expression and brain-wide connectivity reveals the multiscale organization of mouse hippocampal networks. Nature Neuroscience. 21(11). 1628–1643. 132 indexed citations

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Hintiryan, Houri, Nicholas N. Foster, Ian Bowman, et al.. (2016). The mouse cortico-striatal projectome. Nature Neuroscience. 19(8). 1100–1114. 328 indexed citations

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Zingg, Brian, Houri Hintiryan, Lin Gou, et al.. (2014). Neural Networks of the Mouse Neocortex. Cell. 156(5). 1096–1111. 518 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bienkowski, Michael S., et al.. (2013). Organization of multisynaptic circuits within and between the medial and the central extended amygdala. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 521(15). 3406–3431. 11 indexed citations

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Bienkowski, Michael S. & Linda Rinaman. (2012). Common and distinct neural inputs to the medial central nucleus of the amygdala and anterior ventrolateral bed nucleus of stria terminalis in rats. Brain Structure and Function. 218(1). 187–208. 61 indexed citations

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Bienkowski, Michael S. & Linda Rinaman. (2011). Immune challenge activates neural inputs to the ventrolateral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Physiology & Behavior. 104(2). 257–265. 17 indexed citations

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Bienkowski, Michael S. & Linda Rinaman. (2008). Noradrenergic inputs to the paraventricular hypothalamus contribute to hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis and central Fos activation in rats after acute systemic endotoxin exposure. Neuroscience. 156(4). 1093–1102. 60 indexed citations

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Bienkowski, Michael S. & Linda Rinaman. (2007). Noradrenergic pathways contribute to hypothalamic activation in rats after LPS. The FASEB Journal. 21(6). 1 indexed citations

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