Robert Hill

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Robert Hill is a scholar working on Developmental Neuroscience, Neurology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Hill has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Developmental Neuroscience, 14 papers in Neurology and 10 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Robert Hill's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (16 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (13 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (10 papers). Robert Hill is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (16 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (13 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (10 papers). Robert Hill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Austria. Robert Hill's co-authors include Akiko Nishiyama, Jaime Grutzendler, Лей Тонг, Xiaoqin Zhu, Peng Yuan, Sasidhar Murikinati, Shobhana Gupta, Ryusuke Suzuki, Dirk Dietrich and Kiran D. Patel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Robert Hill

38 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Regional Blood Flow in the Normal and Ischemic Brain Is C... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Regional Blood Flow in the Normal and Ischemic Brain Is Controlled by Arteriolar Smooth Muscle Cell Contractility and Not by Capillary Pericytes
    2015 524 citations Robert Hill, Лей Тонг et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Hill United States 18 970 850 631 595 317 42 2.6k
Ilse Bartke Germany 13 428 0.4× 676 0.8× 716 1.1× 1.1k 1.8× 278 0.9× 15 2.5k
Peter H. Larsen Canada 19 360 0.4× 244 0.3× 762 1.2× 433 0.7× 484 1.5× 28 2.1k
Alessandra Bergami Italy 27 1.3k 1.3× 1.2k 1.4× 1.6k 2.5× 857 1.4× 360 1.1× 46 4.0k
Elena Brambilla Italy 26 857 0.9× 1.7k 2.0× 1.3k 2.0× 900 1.5× 199 0.6× 62 3.8k
Takuya Shimazaki Japan 32 706 0.7× 2.0k 2.3× 2.7k 4.3× 1.4k 2.4× 466 1.5× 61 5.1k
Stefano Amadio Italy 25 504 0.5× 828 1.0× 1.1k 1.7× 716 1.2× 89 0.3× 46 3.0k
Ubaldo Del Carro Italy 31 604 0.6× 937 1.1× 1.5k 2.4× 1.2k 2.0× 119 0.4× 81 3.9k
Xiaoqin Zhu China 15 744 0.8× 1.3k 1.5× 950 1.5× 713 1.2× 541 1.7× 46 2.4k
Henrik Ahlenius Sweden 24 1.1k 1.2× 1.8k 2.1× 3.1k 5.0× 1.4k 2.4× 318 1.0× 46 5.7k
James Garbern United States 39 755 0.8× 636 0.7× 2.2k 3.5× 1.4k 2.3× 183 0.6× 78 4.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Hill

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Hill

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schwarz, Katrin, et al.. (2025). Mitochondria are absent from microglial processes performing surveillance, chemotaxis, and phagocytic engulfment. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11104–11104.
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Hill, Robert, et al.. (2024). Mitochondrial network reorganization and transient expansion during oligodendrocyte generation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6979–6979. 8 indexed citations
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Olveda, Genaro E., et al.. (2024). Microglial phagocytosis of single dying oligodendrocytes is mediated by CX3CR1 but not MERTK. Cell Reports. 43(7). 114385–114385. 7 indexed citations
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Chapman, Timothy W., et al.. (2024). Oligodendrocyte Maturation Alters the Cell Death Mechanisms That Cause Demyelination. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(13). e1794232024–e1794232024. 14 indexed citations
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Hill, Robert, Akiko Nishiyama, & Ethan G. Hughes. (2023). Features, Fates, and Functions of Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 16(3). a041425–a041425. 22 indexed citations
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Li, A. M., Robert Hill, & Jaime Grutzendler. (2021). Intravital Imaging of Neocortical Heterotopia Reveals Aberrant Axonal Pathfinding and Myelination around Ectopic Neurons. Cerebral Cortex. 31(9). 4340–4356. 5 indexed citations
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Тонг, Лей, Robert Hill, Eyiyemisi C. Damisah, et al.. (2020). Imaging and optogenetic modulation of vascular mural cells in the live brain. Nature Protocols. 16(1). 472–496. 30 indexed citations
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Olveda, Genaro E., et al.. (2020). The potassium channel subunit K v β1 serves as a major control point for synaptic facilitation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(47). 29937–29947. 14 indexed citations
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Damisah, Eyiyemisi C., Robert Hill, Anupama Rai, et al.. (2020). Astrocytes and microglia play orchestrated roles and respect phagocytic territories during neuronal corpse removal in vivo. Science Advances. 6(26). eaba3239–eaba3239. 195 indexed citations
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Chapman, Timothy W. & Robert Hill. (2019). Myelin plasticity in adulthood and aging. Neuroscience Letters. 715. 134645–134645. 51 indexed citations
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Du, Ming, Robert Hill, Maximilian Joesch, et al.. (2018). Flexible Learning-Free Segmentation and Reconstruction of Neural Volumes. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 14247–14247. 10 indexed citations
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Hill, Robert, Eyiyemisi C. Damisah, Fuyi Chen, Alex C. Kwan, & Jaime Grutzendler. (2017). Targeted two-photon chemical apoptotic ablation of defined cell types in vivo. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15837–15837. 35 indexed citations
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Damisah, Eyiyemisi C., Robert Hill, Лей Тонг, Katie N. Murray, & Jaime Grutzendler. (2017). A fluoro-Nissl dye identifies pericytes as distinct vascular mural cells during in vivo brain imaging. Nature Neuroscience. 20(7). 1023–1032. 82 indexed citations
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Hill, Robert, et al.. (2014). Modulation of oligodendrocyte generation during a critical temporal window after NG2 cell division. Nature Neuroscience. 17(11). 1518–1527. 153 indexed citations
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Hill, Robert, et al.. (2014). Organotypic Slice Cultures to Study Oligodendrocyte Dynamics and Myelination. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e51835–e51835. 19 indexed citations
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Schain, Aaron, Robert Hill, & Jaime Grutzendler. (2014). Label-free in vivo imaging of myelinated axons in health and disease with spectral confocal reflectance microscopy. Nature Medicine. 20(4). 443–449. 129 indexed citations
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Hill, Robert, et al.. (2013). NG2 Cells in White Matter But Not Gray Matter Proliferate in Response to PDGF. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(36). 14558–14566. 128 indexed citations
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Hill, Robert, Rie Natsume, Kenji Sakimura, & Akiko Nishiyama. (2011). NG2 cells are uniformly distributed and NG2 is not required for barrel formation in the somatosensory cortex. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 46(4). 689–698. 12 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xiaoqin, Robert Hill, & Akiko Nishiyama. (2008). NG2 cells generate oligodendrocytes and gray matter astrocytes in the spinal cord. PubMed. 4(1). 19–26. 133 indexed citations
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Hill, Robert. (1996). What About Me? Growing Up with a Developmentally Disabled Sibling. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 154(2). 199–199. 14 indexed citations

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