Romain Brette

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
99 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Romain Brette is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Romain Brette has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 27 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Romain Brette's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (50 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (27 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (22 papers). Romain Brette is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (50 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (27 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (22 papers). Romain Brette collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Burundi. Romain Brette's co-authors include Wulfram Gerstner, Dan F. M. Goodman, Marcel Stimberg, Jonathan Platkiewicz, Jonathan Touboul, Victor Benichoux, Bertrand Fontaine, Maarten H. P. Kole, Carl C.H. Petersen and Sandrine Lefort and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Romain Brette

94 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Adaptive Exponential Integrate-and-Fire Model as an Effec... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2019 250 500 750
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.

  1. Adaptive Exponential Integrate-and-Fire Model as an Effective Description of Neuronal Activity
    2005 778 citations Romain Brette et al. profile →
  2. Brian 2, an intuitive and efficient neural simulator
    2019 389 citations Marcel Stimberg, Romain Brette 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
Romain Brette France 29 2.7k 1.7k 1.4k 635 453 99 3.6k
L. F. Abbott United States 18 3.2k 1.2× 2.0k 1.2× 1.0k 0.7× 803 1.3× 570 1.3× 31 4.1k
Stefan Rotter Germany 30 3.4k 1.3× 2.3k 1.4× 1.0k 0.7× 851 1.3× 303 0.7× 106 4.0k
Moshe Abeles Israel 30 3.8k 1.4× 2.4k 1.4× 669 0.5× 513 0.8× 565 1.2× 55 4.7k
Brent Doiron United States 36 3.8k 1.4× 2.4k 1.4× 875 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 304 0.7× 80 4.4k
Christian K. Machens Portugal 27 3.0k 1.1× 1.3k 0.7× 607 0.4× 322 0.5× 486 1.1× 50 3.5k
Tim P. Vogels United Kingdom 19 2.3k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 907 0.7× 324 0.5× 345 0.8× 35 2.9k
Sonja Grün Germany 29 2.8k 1.0× 1.5k 0.9× 412 0.3× 493 0.8× 346 0.8× 107 3.3k
Alex D. Reyes United States 28 4.2k 1.5× 3.2k 1.9× 703 0.5× 928 1.5× 191 0.4× 41 4.8k
William W. Lytton United States 30 2.3k 0.9× 1.8k 1.1× 522 0.4× 261 0.4× 259 0.6× 146 3.5k
Markus Diesmann Germany 40 5.3k 2.0× 3.0k 1.7× 2.5k 1.8× 1.1k 1.7× 837 1.8× 143 6.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Romain Brette

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Romain Brette

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Romain Brette. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Romain Brette 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 Romain Brette. Romain Brette 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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Brette, Romain. (2025). Theory of axo-axonic inhibition. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(4). e1013047–e1013047.
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Fronzaroli‐Molinières, Laure, Norbert Ankri, Salvatore Incontro, et al.. (2025). Visual activity enhances neuronal excitability in thalamic relay neurons. Science Advances. 11(4). eadp4627–eadp4627. 1 indexed citations
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Brette, Romain, et al.. (2023). Interaction of the mechanosensitive microswimmer Paramecium with obstacles. Royal Society Open Science. 10(5). 221645–221645. 1 indexed citations
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Brette, Romain. (2022). Le modèle managérial de la recherche. médecine/sciences. 38(1). 84–88. 2 indexed citations
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Ankri, Norbert, et al.. (2021). Neural excitability increases with axonal resistance between soma and axon initial segment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(33). 15 indexed citations
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Zbili, Mickaël, Sylvain Rama, Pierre Yger, et al.. (2020). Axonal Na + channels detect and transmit levels of input synchrony in local brain circuits. Science Advances. 6(19). eaay4313–eaay4313. 25 indexed citations
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Pontani, Léa-Lætitia, et al.. (2020). A simple device to immobilize protists for electrophysiology and microinjection. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223(12). 4 indexed citations
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Bellec, Guillaume, Mathieu Galtier, Romain Brette, & Pierre Yger. (2016). Slow feature analysis with spiking neurons and its application to audio stimuli. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 40(3). 317–329. 2 indexed citations
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Yger, Pierre, Marcel Stimberg, & Romain Brette. (2015). Fast Learning with Weak Synaptic Plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(39). 13351–13362. 19 indexed citations
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Brette, Romain. (2015). Philosophy of the Spike: Rate-Based vs. Spike-Based Theories of the Brain. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 9. 151–151. 148 indexed citations
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Benichoux, Victor, Bertrand Fontaine, Shotaro Karino, Philip X. Joris, & Romain Brette. (2014). Frequency-dependent time differences between the ears are matched in neural tuning. Nature Neuroscience.
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Brette, Romain, et al.. (2014). A Structural Theory of Pitch. eNeuro. 1(1). ENEURO.0033–14.2014. 14 indexed citations
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Brette, Romain. (2013). Sharpness of Spike Initiation in Neurons Explained by Compartmentalization. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(12). e1003338–e1003338. 48 indexed citations
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Brette, Romain, et al.. (2012). Handbook of Neural Activity Measurement. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 101 indexed citations
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Kremer, Yves, Jean‐François Léger, Dan F. M. Goodman, Romain Brette, & Laurent Bourdieu. (2011). Late Emergence of the Vibrissa Direction Selectivity Map in the Rat Barrel Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(29). 10689–10700. 49 indexed citations
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Fontaine, Bertrand, Dan F. M. Goodman, Victor Benichoux, & Romain Brette. (2011). Brian Hears: Online Auditory Processing Using Vectorization Over Channels. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 5. 9–9. 21 indexed citations
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Rossant, Cyrille, Dan F. M. Goodman, Bertrand Fontaine, et al.. (2011). Fitting Neuron Models to Spike Trains. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 5. 9–9. 52 indexed citations
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Fontaine, Bertrand & Romain Brette. (2011). Neural Development of Binaural Tuning through Hebbian Learning Predicts Frequency-Dependent Best Delays. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(32). 11692–11696. 9 indexed citations
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Goodman, Dan F. M. & Romain Brette. (2010). Learning to localise sounds with spiking neural networks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 23. 784–792. 6 indexed citations
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Brette, Romain. (2008). Generation of Correlated Spike Trains. Neural Computation. 0(0). 2923878145–28. 5 indexed citations

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