Mrinalini Hoon

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Mrinalini Hoon is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mrinalini Hoon has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 29 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mrinalini Hoon's work include Retinal Development and Disorders (29 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (25 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (23 papers). Mrinalini Hoon is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Development and Disorders (29 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (25 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (23 papers). Mrinalini Hoon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Mrinalini Hoon's co-authors include Rachel Wong, Haruhisa Okawa, Luca Della Santina, Frédérique Varoqueaux, Nils Brose, Fred Rieke, Raunak Sinha, Tolga Soykan, Alexandros Poulopoulos and Peter Jedlička and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Mrinalini Hoon

33 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Functional architecture of the retina: Development and disease

2014 408 citations Mrinalini Hoon, Haruhisa Okawa et al. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mrinalini Hoon United States	17	1.2k	1.1k	324	263	200	36	1.7k
Sandra Siegert Austria	13	1.2k 1.1×	995 0.9×	258 0.8×	90 0.3×	131 0.7×	23	1.8k
Miguel Morales Spain	21	882 0.8×	865 0.8×	193 0.6×	269 1.0×	71 0.4×	47	1.6k
Yifeng Zhang China	10	1.2k 1.0×	949 0.9×	404 1.2×	136 0.5×	156 0.8×	20	1.5k
Noga Vardi United States	36	2.8k 2.4×	2.5k 2.3×	296 0.9×	318 1.2×	216 1.1×	71	3.5k
Peter R. MacLeish United States	24	1.5k 1.3×	1.5k 1.3×	255 0.8×	163 0.6×	171 0.9×	38	2.1k
Rana N. El‐Danaf United States	15	917 0.8×	872 0.8×	542 1.7×	80 0.3×	239 1.2×	17	1.4k
Haruhisa Okawa United States	17	1.4k 1.2×	841 0.8×	267 0.8×	166 0.6×	257 1.3×	19	1.9k
Elena Novelli Italy	24	1.1k 0.9×	737 0.7×	129 0.4×	104 0.4×	419 2.1×	44	1.6k
Juliette Johnson United States	19	1.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	394 1.2×	229 0.9×	85 0.4×	24	2.0k
Andreas Feigenspan Germany	24	2.3k 2.0×	2.1k 1.9×	215 0.7×	136 0.5×	168 0.8×	48	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mrinalini Hoon

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Gupta, Saibal, et al.. (2025). Divergent mechanisms of neural adaptation and instability in the mammalian retina. Current Biology. 35(14). 3381–3395.e4.

Hoon, Mrinalini, et al.. (2025). Nanophysiology approach reveals diversity in calcium microdomains across zebrafish retinal bipolar ribbon synapses. eLife. 14.

Santina, Luca Della & Mrinalini Hoon. (2025). Image Analysis Routines for Quantification of Synaptic Density and Connectivity. Methods in molecular biology. 2910. 179–204. 1 indexed citations

Vázquez, Jessica, et al.. (2024). A non-conducting role of the Cav1.4 Ca2+ channel drives homeostatic plasticity at the cone photoreceptor synapse. eLife. 13.

Grimes, William N., David M. Berson, Mrinalini Hoon, et al.. (2024). Layer-specific anatomical and physiological features of the retina’s neurovascular unit. Current Biology. 35(1). 109–120.e4. 7 indexed citations

Hoon, Mrinalini, et al.. (2024). Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Retinal Synapse Development. Annual Review of Vision Science. 10(1). 377–402. 3 indexed citations

Hoon, Mrinalini, et al.. (2023). Regional variation in the organization and connectivity of the first synapse in the primate night vision pathway. iScience. 26(11). 108113–108113. 3 indexed citations

Grimes, William N., et al.. (2023). Sensory deprivation arrests cellular and synaptic development of the night-vision circuitry in the retina. Current Biology. 33(20). 4415–4429.e3. 5 indexed citations

Bleckert, Adam, Clare Gamlin, Wan‐Qing Yu, et al.. (2021). Organization and emergence of a mixed GABA-glycine retinal circuit that provides inhibition to mouse ON-sustained alpha retinal ganglion cells. Cell Reports. 34(11). 108858–108858. 9 indexed citations

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Grimes, William N., Mrinalini Hoon, Takeshi Yoshimatsu, et al.. (2021). A High-Density Narrow-Field Inhibitory Retinal Interneuron with Direct Coupling to Müller Glia. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(28). 6018–6037. 12 indexed citations

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Hoon, Mrinalini, et al.. (2021). GABAA presynaptic inhibition regulates the gain and kinetics of retinal output neurons. eLife. 10. 11 indexed citations

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Sinha, Raunak, William N. Grimes, Fred Rieke, et al.. (2021). Transient expression of a GABA receptor subunit during early development is critical for inhibitory synapse maturation and function. Current Biology. 31(19). 4314–4326.e5. 13 indexed citations

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Sinha, Raunak, Tabrez J. Siddiqui, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2020). LRRTM4: A Novel Regulator of Presynaptic Inhibition and Ribbon Synapse Arrangements of Retinal Bipolar Cells. Neuron. 105(6). 1007–1017.e5. 27 indexed citations

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Yadav, Ravi Prakash, Brittany Williams, Jussara Hagen, et al.. (2020). A dual role for Cav1.4 Ca2+ channels in the molecular and structural organization of the rod photoreceptor synapse. eLife. 9. 25 indexed citations

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Gamlin, Clare, Wan‐Qing Yu, Rachel Wong, & Mrinalini Hoon. (2018). Assembly and maintenance of GABAergic and Glycinergic circuits in the mammalian nervous system. Neural Development. 13(1). 12–12. 15 indexed citations

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Hoon, Mrinalini, et al.. (2017). Loss of Neuroligin3 specifically downregulates retinal GABAAα2 receptors without abolishing direction selectivity. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0181011–e0181011. 6 indexed citations

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Sinha, Raunak, Mrinalini Hoon, Jacob Baudin, et al.. (2017). Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms Shaping the Perceptual Properties of the Primate Fovea. Cell. 168(3). 413–426.e12. 116 indexed citations

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Hoon, Mrinalini, Raunak Sinha, & Haruhisa Okawa. (2016). Using Fluorescent Markers to Estimate Synaptic Connectivity In Situ. Methods in molecular biology. 1538. 293–320. 12 indexed citations

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Hoon, Mrinalini, Haruhisa Okawa, Luca Della Santina, & Rachel Wong. (2014). Functional architecture of the retina: Development and disease. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research. 42. 44–84. 408 indexed citations breakdown →

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Poulopoulos, Alexandros, Gayane Aramuni, Guido R.Y. De Meyer, et al.. (2009). Neuroligin 2 Drives Postsynaptic Assembly at Perisomatic Inhibitory Synapses through Gephyrin and Collybistin. Neuron. 63(5). 628–642. 391 indexed citations

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