Neir Eshel

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Neir Eshel is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Neir Eshel has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 6 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Neir Eshel's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (6 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (6 papers). Neir Eshel is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (6 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (6 papers). Neir Eshel collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Neir Eshel's co-authors include Jonathan P. Roiser, Naoshige Uchida, Monique Ernst, Ju Tian, Daniel S. Pine, Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida, James Blair, Eric E. Nelson, Quentin J. M. Huys and Peter Dayan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Neir Eshel

30 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) as a platform for explainable machine learning in behavioral neuroscience

2024 62 citations Nastacia L. Goodwin, Eric R Szelenyi et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers

Neir Eshel

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Marc Guitart‐Masip United Kingdom

Nasir H. Naqvi United States

Gerhard Jocham Germany

Thorsten Kahnt United States

Raymond Y. Cho United States

R. Alison Adcock United States

Ruth M. Krebs Belgium

Hanneke E.M. den Ouden Netherlands

Dara G. Ghahremani United States

Jiansong Xu United States

Marc Guitart‐Masip United Kingdom

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924 ×1.2

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705 ×1.1

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291 ×0.8

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320 ×1.0

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Citations per year, relative to Neir Eshel Neir Eshel (= 1×) peers Marc Guitart‐Masip

Countries citing papers authored by Neir Eshel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Neir Eshel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Neir Eshel

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Pomrenze, Matthew B., et al.. (2025). 5-HT2C receptors in the nucleus accumbens constrain the rewarding effects of MDMA. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(11). 5405–5416. 2 indexed citations

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Goodwin, Nastacia L., Eric R Szelenyi, Xiaoyu Tong, et al.. (2024). Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) as a platform for explainable machine learning in behavioral neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience. 27(7). 1411–1424. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pinto, Daniel F. Cardozo, et al.. (2024). Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin. Nature. 639(8053). 143–152. 9 indexed citations

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Martin, Hugo, et al.. (2024). Review: Dopamine, Serotonin, and the Translational Neuroscience of Aggression in Autism Spectrum Disorder. PubMed. 3(1). 29–41. 5 indexed citations

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Eshel, Neir, Allan Wang, Daniel F. Cardozo Pinto, et al.. (2023). Striatal dopamine integrates cost, benefit, and motivation. Neuron. 112(3). 500–514.e5. 16 indexed citations

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Goetz, Teddy G., Krisha Aghi, Christoph Anacker, et al.. (2023). Perspective on equitable translational studies and clinical support for an unbiased inclusion of the LGBTQIA2S+community. Neuropsychopharmacology. 48(6). 852–856. 5 indexed citations

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Pomrenze, Matthew B., Daniel F. Cardozo Pinto, Peter A. Neumann, et al.. (2022). Modulation of 5-HT release by dynorphin mediates social deficits during opioid withdrawal. Neuron. 110(24). 4125–4143.e6. 33 indexed citations

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Faulkner, Paul, Quentin J. M. Huys, Neir Eshel, et al.. (2021). A comparison of ‘pruning’ during multi-step planning in depressed and healthy individuals. Psychological Medicine. 52(16). 3948–3956. 1 indexed citations

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Eshel, Neir, Corey J. Keller, Wei Wu, et al.. (2020). Global connectivity and local excitability changes underlie antidepressant effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neuropsychopharmacology. 45(6). 1018–1025. 90 indexed citations

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Lally, Níall, Quentin J. M. Huys, Neir Eshel, et al.. (2017). The Neural Basis of Aversive Pavlovian Guidance during Planning. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(42). 10215–10229. 15 indexed citations

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Eshel, Neir, et al.. (2016). Dopamine neurons share common response function for reward prediction error. Nature Neuroscience. 19(3). 479–486. 191 indexed citations

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Eshel, Neir, et al.. (2015). Arithmetic and local circuitry underlying dopamine prediction errors. Nature. 525(7568). 243–246. 243 indexed citations

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Eshel, Neir, et al.. (2015). Psychiatric Consultations in Less-Than-Private Places: Challenges and Unexpected Benefits of Hospital Roommates. Psychosomatics. 57(1). 97–101. 3 indexed citations

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Eshel, Neir, Ju Tian, & Naoshige Uchida. (2013). Opening the black box: dopamine, predictions, and learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17(9). 430–431. 8 indexed citations

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Huys, Quentin J. M., Neir Eshel, Elizabeth O’Nions, et al.. (2012). Bonsai Trees in Your Head: How the Pavlovian System Sculpts Goal-Directed Choices by Pruning Decision Trees. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(3). e1002410–e1002410. 266 indexed citations

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Eshel, Neir, Christian C. Ruff, Bernhard Spitzer, Felix Blankenburg, & Jon Driver. (2010). Effects of parietal TMS on somatosensory judgments challenge interhemispheric rivalry accounts. Neuropsychologia. 48(12). 3470–3481. 11 indexed citations

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Eshel, Neir & Jonathan P. Roiser. (2010). Reward and Punishment Processing in Depression. Biological Psychiatry. 68(2). 118–124. 439 indexed citations

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Eshel, Neir, Eric E. Nelson, James Blair, Daniel S. Pine, & Monique Ernst. (2006). Neural substrates of choice selection in adults and adolescents: Development of the ventrolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices. Neuropsychologia. 45(6). 1270–1279. 282 indexed citations

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Ernst, Monique, Eric E. Nelson, Erin B. McClure, et al.. (2004). Choice selection and reward anticipation: an fMRI study. Neuropsychologia. 42(12). 1585–1597. 298 indexed citations

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Ernst, Monique, Daniel P. Dickstein, Suzanne Munson, et al.. (2004). Reward-related processes in pediatric bipolar disorder: a pilot study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 82. S89–S101. 48 indexed citations

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