Nicholas Sofroniew

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 801 citations indexed

About

Nicholas Sofroniew is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Sofroniew has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 801 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 1 paper in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Sofroniew's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (4 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (3 papers). Nicholas Sofroniew is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (4 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (3 papers). Nicholas Sofroniew collaborates with scholars based in United States. Nicholas Sofroniew's co-authors include Karel Svoboda, Daniel Flickinger, Jonathan King, Jeremy Freeman, Jeremy D. Cohen, Albert K. Lee, Chao-Tsung Yang, Davis Bennett, Nikita Vladimirov and Misha B. Ahrens and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Methods and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Sofroniew

6 papers receiving 789 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A large field of view two-photon mesoscope with subcellular resolution for in vivo imaging

2016 391 citations Nicholas Sofroniew, Daniel Flickinger et al. eLife profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Sofroniew United States	5	447	407	236	121	94	6	801
Nathan Clack United States	9	438 1.0×	358 0.9×	282 1.2×	188 1.6×	48 0.5×	10	933
Daniel Aharoni United States	11	447 1.0×	400 1.0×	204 0.9×	84 0.7×	54 0.6×	25	816
Ikuko T. Smith United States	8	434 1.0×	525 1.3×	158 0.7×	202 1.7×	50 0.5×	12	778
Friedrich Förstner Germany	9	245 0.5×	516 1.3×	285 1.2×	270 2.2×	111 1.2×	9	938
Jiannis Taxidis United States	8	461 1.0×	430 1.1×	126 0.5×	88 0.7×	51 0.5×	11	717
Brandon Brown United States	5	290 0.6×	301 0.7×	129 0.5×	103 0.9×	56 0.6×	10	571
Sue Ann Koay United States	10	760 1.7×	618 1.5×	216 0.9×	213 1.8×	70 0.7×	13	1.2k
Shay Q. Neufeld United States	8	436 1.0×	489 1.2×	93 0.4×	171 1.4×	67 0.7×	9	811
Pak-Ming Lau China	13	324 0.7×	515 1.3×	87 0.4×	272 2.2×	114 1.2×	31	848
Armen Stepanyants United States	15	779 1.7×	727 1.8×	250 1.1×	195 1.6×	48 0.5×	27	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Nicholas Sofroniew

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicholas Sofroniew

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Nicholas Sofroniew. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Nicholas Sofroniew. The network helps show where Nicholas Sofroniew may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Sofroniew

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

All Works

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Sofroniew, Nicholas. (2017). Q&A: The brain under a mesoscope: the forest and the trees. BMC Biology. 15(1). 82–82. 2 indexed citations

2.

Sofroniew, Nicholas, Daniel Flickinger, Jonathan King, & Karel Svoboda. (2016). A large field of view two-photon mesoscope with subcellular resolution for in vivo imaging. eLife. 5. 391 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sofroniew, Nicholas & Karel Svoboda. (2015). Whisking. Current Biology. 25(4). R137–R140. 48 indexed citations

4.

Sofroniew, Nicholas, Yurii A. Vlasov, Samuel Andrew Hires, Jeremy Freeman, & Karel Svoboda. (2015). Neural coding in barrel cortex during whisker-guided locomotion. eLife. 4. 81 indexed citations

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Freeman, Jeremy, Nikita Vladimirov, Takashi Kawashima, et al.. (2014). Mapping brain activity at scale with cluster computing. Nature Methods. 11(9). 941–950. 180 indexed citations

6.

Sofroniew, Nicholas, Jeremy D. Cohen, Albert K. Lee, & Karel Svoboda. (2014). Natural Whisker-Guided Behavior by Head-Fixed Mice in Tactile Virtual Reality. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(29). 9537–9550. 99 indexed citations

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