Ritchie Chen

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Ritchie Chen is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ritchie Chen has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ritchie Chen's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (6 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (6 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers). Ritchie Chen is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (6 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (6 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers). Ritchie Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Ritchie Chen's co-authors include Polina Anikeeva, Andrés Canales, Michael G. Christiansen, A. Mohr, Gabriela Romero, Karl Deisseroth, Philip H. Choi, Ronald N. Zuckermann, Ki Tae Nam and Christian Kisielowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ritchie Chen

20 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Wireless magnetothermal deep brain stimulation

2015 501 citations Ritchie Chen, Gabriela Romero et al. Science profile →
Neural recording and modulation technologies

2017 481 citations Ritchie Chen, Andrés Canales et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ritchie Chen United States	17	1.2k	954	675	498	451	22	2.8k
Denis Scaini Italy	27	945 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	547 0.8×	385 0.8×	351 0.8×	63	2.5k
Yoonkey Nam South Korea	33	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	356 0.5×	219 0.4×	671 1.5×	107	2.8k
Francesca Santoro Italy	33	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	611 0.9×	193 0.4×	922 2.0×	122	3.4k
Sung June Kim South Korea	38	1.8k 1.5×	1.9k 2.0×	661 1.0×	176 0.4×	1.4k 3.1×	168	4.4k
Keiichi Torimitsu Japan	33	852 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	710 1.1×	170 0.3×	1.1k 2.5×	115	3.1k
Giada Cellot Italy	20	857 0.7×	894 0.9×	284 0.4×	343 0.7×	176 0.4×	32	1.8k
Yael Hanein Israel	34	1.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	246 0.4×	128 0.3×	1.1k 2.3×	123	3.5k
Xi Wang China	31	493 0.4×	1.8k 1.9×	975 1.4×	195 0.4×	368 0.8×	137	4.1k
Valentina Benfenati Italy	26	745 0.6×	455 0.5×	670 1.0×	428 0.9×	268 0.6×	62	2.1k
Ksenija Jeftinija United States	12	1.3k 1.1×	710 0.7×	1.4k 2.1×	884 1.8×	116 0.3×	18	4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Ritchie Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ritchie Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ritchie Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ritchie Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ritchie Chen 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 Ritchie Chen. Ritchie Chen 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

Burke, Dennis A., et al.. (2026). Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning. Nature Neuroscience.

Crowther, Andrew, Sakeen W. Kashem, Henry Chang, et al.. (2025). Keratinocyte–TRPV1 sensory neuron interactions in a genetically controllable mouse model of chronic neuropathic itch. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(24). e2411724122–e2411724122.

Zhang, Qiming, et al.. (2024). Integrated Bioelectronic and Optogenetic Methods to Study Brain–Body Circuits. ACS Nano. 18(44). 30117–30122. 5 indexed citations

Tan, Longzhi, Bibudha Parasar, Inma Cobos, et al.. (2023). Lifelong restructuring of 3D genome architecture in cerebellar granule cells. Science. 381(6662). 1112–1119. 28 indexed citations

Sylwestrak, Emily, YoungJu Jo, Sam Vesuna, et al.. (2022). Cell-type-specific population dynamics of diverse reward computations. Cell. 185(19). 3568–3587.e27. 33 indexed citations

Tan, Longzhi, Wenping Ma, Honggui Wu, et al.. (2021). Changes in genome architecture and transcriptional dynamics progress independently of sensory experience during post-natal brain development. Cell. 184(3). 741–758.e17. 108 indexed citations

Chen, Ritchie, Felicity Gore, Quynh-Anh Nguyen, et al.. (2020). Deep brain optogenetics without intracranial surgery. Nature Biotechnology. 39(2). 161–164. 150 indexed citations

Lovett-Barron, Matthew, Ritchie Chen, Aaron S. Andalman, et al.. (2020). Multiple convergent hypothalamus–brainstem circuits drive defensive behavior. Nature Neuroscience. 23(8). 959–967. 55 indexed citations

Rao, Siyuan, Ritchie Chen, Michael G. Christiansen, et al.. (2019). Remotely controlled chemomagnetic modulation of targeted neural circuits. Nature Nanotechnology. 14(10). 967–973. 86 indexed citations

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Andalman, Aaron S., Matthew Lovett-Barron, Michael Broxton, et al.. (2019). Neuronal Dynamics Regulating Brain and Behavioral State Transitions. Cell. 177(4). 970–985.e20. 158 indexed citations

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Tran, Helen, Vivian R. Feig, Kathy Liu, et al.. (2019). Stretchable and Fully Degradable Semiconductors for Transient Electronics. ACS Central Science. 5(11). 1884–1891. 119 indexed citations

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Park, Seongjun, Yuanyuan Guo, Xiaoting Jia, et al.. (2017). One-step optogenetics with multifunctional flexible polymer fibers. PMC. 2 indexed citations

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Park, Seongjun, Yuanyuan Guo, Xiaoting Jia, et al.. (2017). One-step optogenetics with multifunctional flexible polymer fibers. Nature Neuroscience. 20(4). 612–619. 289 indexed citations

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Chen, Ritchie, Andrés Canales, & Polina Anikeeva. (2017). Neural recording and modulation technologies. Nature Reviews Materials. 2(2). 481 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Ritchie, Michael G. Christiansen, A. Mohr, et al.. (2016). High-Performance Ferrite Nanoparticles through Nonaqueous Redox Phase Tuning. Nano Letters. 16(2). 1345–1351. 92 indexed citations

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Loynachan, Colleen N., Gabriela Romero, Michael G. Christiansen, et al.. (2015). Targeted Magnetic Nanoparticles for Remote Magnetothermal Disruption of Amyloid‐β Aggregates. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 4(14). 2100–2109. 31 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Yuri, Ritchie Chen, Polina Anikeeva, & Alan Jasanoff. (2015). Engineering intracellular biomineralization and biosensing by a magnetic protein. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8721–8721. 52 indexed citations

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Loynachan, Colleen N., Gabriela Romero, Michael G. Christiansen, et al.. (2015). Alzheimer's Disease: Targeted Magnetic Nanoparticles for Remote Magnetothermal Disruption of Amyloid‐β Aggregates (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 14/2015). Advanced Healthcare Materials. 4(14). 2049–2049. 1 indexed citations

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Kudirka, Romas, Helen Tran, Babak Sanii, et al.. (2011). Folding of a single‐chain, information‐rich polypeptoid sequence into a highly ordered nanosheet. Biopolymers. 96(5). 586–595. 86 indexed citations

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Nam, Ki Tae, Sarah A. Shelby, Philip H. Choi, et al.. (2010). Free-floating ultrathin two-dimensional crystals from sequence-specific peptoid polymers. Nature Materials. 9(5). 454–460. 367 indexed citations

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