Richard Benton

14.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
119 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Richard Benton is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Benton has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 46 papers in Genetics and 26 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Richard Benton's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (73 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (42 papers) and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (19 papers). Richard Benton is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (73 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (42 papers) and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (19 papers). Richard Benton collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Richard Benton's co-authors include Leslie B. Vosshall, Daniel St Johnston, Kirsten Vannice, Carolina Gomez‐Diaz, Raphael Rytz, Vincent Croset, Liliane Abuin, Scott R. Whittemore, Silke Sachse and Stephen W. Michnick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Richard Benton

118 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

Variant Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors as Chemosensory Receptors in Drosophila

2009 975 citations Richard Benton, Kirsten Vannice et al. Cell profile →
Atypical Membrane Topology and Heteromeric Function of Drosophila Odorant Receptors In Vivo

2006 752 citations Richard Benton, Silke Sachse et al. profile →
Ancient Protostome Origin of Chemosensory Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors and the Evolution of Insect Taste and Olfaction

2010 545 citations Vincent Croset, Richard Benton et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Richard Benton	6.7k	3.8k	3.4k	2.2k	1.8k	119	9.9k
Kei Ito	6.3k 0.9×	2.9k 0.8×	998 0.3×	1.9k 0.8×	2.1k 1.2×	115	7.8k
Barry J. Dickson	12.0k 1.8×	4.6k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	8.9k 4.1×	3.5k 1.9×	128	18.5k
Daisuke Yamamoto	4.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	953 0.3×	2.6k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	204	7.0k
Paul Garrity	3.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.4×	931 0.3×	1.9k 0.9×	765 0.4×	55	6.1k
Marc Freeman	4.2k 0.6×	816 0.2×	672 0.2×	2.6k 1.2×	335 0.2×	100	7.7k
Hugo J. Bellen	9.8k 1.5×	3.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.3×	19.7k 9.0×	858 0.5×	298	29.5k
Michael B. O’Connor	5.4k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	11.2k 5.1×	1.1k 0.6×	205	16.6k
S Lawrence Zipursky	7.9k 1.2×	1.7k 0.4×	416 0.1×	11.1k 5.0×	535 0.3×	232	15.5k
Andrea H. Brand	6.1k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	750 0.2×	12.2k 5.6×	590 0.3×	113	16.8k
Toshiro Aigaki	1.9k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	1.1k 0.3×	2.6k 1.2×	934 0.5×	138	5.5k

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Mermet, Jérôme, et al.. (2025). Multilayer regulation underlies the functional precision and evolutionary potential of the olfactory system. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9514–9514. 1 indexed citations

Takagi, S., Liliane Abuin, J. Roman Arguello, et al.. (2024). Olfactory sensory neuron population expansions influence projection neuron adaptation and enhance odour tracking. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7041–7041. 11 indexed citations

Abuin, Liliane, et al.. (2024). Circadian plasticity evolves through regulatory changes in a neuropeptide gene. Nature. 635(8040). 951–959. 10 indexed citations

Himmel, Nathaniel J., David Moi, & Richard Benton. (2023). Remote homolog detection places insect chemoreceptors in a cryptic protein superfamily spanning the tree of life. Current Biology. 33(22). 5023–5033.e4. 10 indexed citations

Benton, Richard & Nathaniel J. Himmel. (2023). Structural screens identify candidate human homologs of insect chemoreceptors and cryptic Drosophila gustatory receptor-like proteins. eLife. 12. 13 indexed citations

Auer, Thomas O., et al.. (2023). Odor-regulated oviposition behavior in an ecological specialist. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3041–3041. 18 indexed citations

Prieto-Godino, Lucia L., Hayden R. Schmidt, & Richard Benton. (2021). Molecular reconstruction of recurrent evolutionary switching in olfactory receptor specificity. eLife. 10. 18 indexed citations

Cruchet, Steeve, et al.. (2021). Olfactory receptor–dependent receptor repression in Drosophila. Science Advances. 7(32). 18 indexed citations

Arguello, J. Roman, et al.. (2021). Targeted molecular profiling of rare olfactory sensory neurons identifies fate, wiring, and functional determinants. eLife. 10. 8 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Hayden R. & Richard Benton. (2020). Molecular mechanisms of olfactory detection in insects: beyond receptors. Open Biology. 10(10). 200252–200252. 71 indexed citations

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Khallaf, Mohammed A., Thomas O. Auer, Veit Grabe, et al.. (2020). Mate discrimination among subspecies through a conserved olfactory pathway. Science Advances. 6(25). eaba5279–eaba5279. 37 indexed citations

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Benton, Richard, Christophe Dessimoz, & David Moi. (2020). A putative origin of the insect chemosensory receptor superfamily in the last common eukaryotic ancestor. eLife. 9. 16 indexed citations

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Prieto-Godino, Lucia L., Ana F. Silbering, Mohammed A. Khallaf, et al.. (2020). Functional integration of “undead” neurons in the olfactory system. Science Advances. 6(11). eaaz7238–eaaz7238. 29 indexed citations

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Sutcliffe, Ben, J. Ng, Thomas O. Auer, et al.. (2017). Second-Generation Drosophila Chemical Tags: Sensitivity, Versatility, and Speed. Genetics. 205(4). 1399–1408. 21 indexed citations

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LeBoeuf, Adria C., Patrice Waridel, Colin S. Brent, et al.. (2016). Oral transfer of chemical cues, growth proteins and hormones in social insects. eLife. 5. 86 indexed citations

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Chen, Chenghao, Edgar Buhl, Min Xu, et al.. (2015). Drosophila Ionotropic Receptor 25a mediates circadian clock resetting by temperature. Nature. 527(7579). 516–520. 128 indexed citations

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Benton, Richard & Anupama Dahanukar. (2010). Chemosensory coding in single sensilla. IRIS. 1 indexed citations

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Han, Shu, Srinivas D Sithu, Edward T. Mahoney, et al.. (2010). Rescuing vasculature with intravenous angiopoietin-1 and v 3 integrin peptide is protective after spinal cord injury. Brain. 133(4). 1026–1042. 93 indexed citations

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Benton, Richard, Kirsten Vannice, Carolina Gomez‐Diaz, & Leslie B. Vosshall. (2009). Variant Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors as Chemosensory Receptors in Drosophila. Cell. 136(1). 149–162. 975 indexed citations breakdown →

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Doerflinger, Hélène, Richard Benton, Isabel Torres, Maarten Zwart, & Daniel St Johnston. (2006). Drosophila Anterior-Posterior Polarity Requires Actin-Dependent PAR-1 Recruitment to the Oocyte Posterior. Current Biology. 16(11). 1090–1095. 59 indexed citations

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