Roberto Leiras

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 844 citations indexed

About

Roberto Leiras is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Leiras has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 844 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Roberto Leiras's work include Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (5 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (4 papers) and Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (3 papers). Roberto Leiras is often cited by papers focused on Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (5 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (4 papers) and Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (3 papers). Roberto Leiras collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Spain and Denmark. Roberto Leiras's co-authors include Ole Kiehn, Vittorio Caggiano, Vanessa Caldeira, Carmelo Bellardita, Julien Bouvier, Jared M. Cregg, Gilberto Fisone, Débora Masini, Andrea Fuchs and Kira Balueva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Leiras

13 papers receiving 836 citations

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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.

Midbrain circuits that set locomotor speed and gait selection

2018 292 citations Vittorio Caggiano, Roberto Leiras et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roberto Leiras Sweden	9	328	284	247	174	130	13	844
Carmelo Bellardita Sweden	9	338 1.0×	239 0.8×	274 1.1×	120 0.7×	120 0.9×	12	859
Kazuya Saitoh Japan	13	326 1.0×	427 1.5×	151 0.6×	121 0.7×	133 1.0×	20	932
Vanessa Caldeira Sweden	6	262 0.8×	190 0.7×	224 0.9×	111 0.6×	102 0.8×	10	633
Julien Bouvier France	15	365 1.1×	442 1.6×	384 1.6×	550 3.2×	129 1.0×	24	1.4k
Mengliang Zhang Denmark	19	356 1.1×	255 0.9×	77 0.3×	140 0.8×	97 0.7×	57	917
B. Anne Bannatyne United Kingdom	17	405 1.2×	217 0.8×	200 0.8×	142 0.8×	43 0.3×	26	819
Laurent Juvin France	15	179 0.5×	219 0.8×	265 1.1×	212 1.2×	66 0.5×	23	787
Henryk Majczyński Poland	19	285 0.9×	280 1.0×	177 0.7×	124 0.7×	72 0.6×	41	1.1k
Édouard Pearlstein France	14	533 1.6×	199 0.7×	330 1.3×	177 1.0×	33 0.3×	23	885
Aidas Alaburda Lithuania	12	414 1.3×	334 1.2×	171 0.7×	58 0.3×	41 0.3×	30	718

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Leiras

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

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Cregg, Jared M., et al.. (2024). Basal ganglia–spinal cord pathway that commands locomotor gait asymmetries in mice. Nature Neuroscience. 27(4). 716–727. 14 indexed citations

2.

Selvan, Raghavendra, et al.. (2023). Pedunculopontine Chx10+ neurons control global motor arrest in mice. Nature Neuroscience. 26(9). 1516–1528. 15 indexed citations

3.

Leiras, Roberto, Jared M. Cregg, & Ole Kiehn. (2022). Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 45(1). 63–85. 75 indexed citations

4.

Cregg, Jared M., et al.. (2020). Brainstem neurons that command mammalian locomotor asymmetries. Nature Neuroscience. 23(6). 730–740. 85 indexed citations

5.

Caggiano, Vittorio, Roberto Leiras, Débora Masini, et al.. (2018). Midbrain circuits that set locomotor speed and gait selection. Nature. 553(7689). 455–460. 292 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bellardita, Carmelo, Vittorio Caggiano, Roberto Leiras, et al.. (2017). Spatiotemporal correlation of spinal network dynamics underlying spasms in chronic spinalized mice. eLife. 6. 57 indexed citations

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Bouvier, Julien, Vittorio Caggiano, Roberto Leiras, et al.. (2015). Descending Command Neurons in the Brainstem that Halt Locomotion. Cell. 163(5). 1191–1203. 168 indexed citations

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Leiras, Roberto, et al.. (2015). Cat's medullary reticulospinal and subnucleus reticularis dorsalis noxious neurons form a coupled neural circuit through collaterals of descending axons. Journal of Neurophysiology. 115(1). 324–344. 2 indexed citations

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Leiras, Roberto, et al.. (2013). Electrophysiological Study of Supraspinal Input and Spinal Output of Cat's Subnucleus Reticularis Dorsalis (SRD) Neurons. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e60686–e60686. 6 indexed citations

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Leiras, Roberto, et al.. (2010). Processing Afferent Proprioceptive Information at the Main Cuneate Nucleus of Anesthetized Cats. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(46). 15383–15399. 35 indexed citations

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Soto‐Sánchez, Cristina, et al.. (2008). Processing noxious information at the subnucleus reticularis dorsalis (SRD) of anesthetized cats: Wind-up mechanisms. Pain. 140(1). 190–208. 8 indexed citations

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Pérez–Tilve, Diego, Lucas C. González-Matías, Mayte Álvarez-Crespo, et al.. (2006). Exendin-4 Potently Decreases Ghrelin Levels in Fasting Rats. Diabetes. 56(1). 143–151. 80 indexed citations

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Martín‐Cora, Francisco, et al.. (2005). GABAB receptor-mediated modulation of cutaneous input at the cuneate nucleus in anesthetized cats. Neuroscience. 137(3). 1015–1030. 7 indexed citations

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