Sami El‐Boustani

2.1k total citations
19 papers, 736 citations indexed

About

Sami El‐Boustani is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sami El‐Boustani has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 736 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 10 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 6 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Sami El‐Boustani's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (17 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (5 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers). Sami El‐Boustani is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (17 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (5 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers). Sami El‐Boustani collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Germany. Sami El‐Boustani's co-authors include Alain Destexhe, Yves Frégnac, Mriganka Sur, Olivier Marre, Georgios Foustoukos, Carl C.H. Petersen, Pierre Yger, Graham Knott, Haruhiko Bito and Jacque Pak Kan Ip and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sami El‐Boustani

17 papers receiving 728 citations

Peers

Sami El‐Boustani
Eilif Müller Switzerland
Robert Rosenbaum United States
Jorge F. Mejías Netherlands
Stephan Lawrence Marguet United States
Valentina Pasquale Italy
Michael Reimann Switzerland
Michael Okun United Kingdom
Lyle Muller Canada
Henry Markram Switzerland
Katsunori Kitano Japan
Eilif Müller Switzerland
Sami El‐Boustani
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sami El‐Boustani

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

All Works

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Gjorgjieva, Julijana, et al.. (2025). Cortical circuits for cross-modal generalization. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4230–4230.
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Mayrhofer, Johannes M., et al.. (2022). Cortical sensory processing across motivational states during goal-directed behavior. Neuron. 110(24). 4176–4193.e10. 22 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami, et al.. (2020). Anatomically and functionally distinct thalamocortical inputs to primary and secondary mouse whisker somatosensory cortices. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3342–3342. 72 indexed citations
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Mayrhofer, Johannes M., et al.. (2019). Distinct Contributions of Whisker Sensory Cortex and Tongue-Jaw Motor Cortex in a Goal-Directed Sensorimotor Transformation. Neuron. 103(6). 1034–1043.e5. 48 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami, Jacque Pak Kan Ip, Vincent Breton‐Provencher, et al.. (2018). Locally coordinated synaptic plasticity of visual cortex neurons in vivo. Science. 360(6395). 1349–1354. 124 indexed citations
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Estebanez, Luc, Sami El‐Boustani, Alain Destexhe, & Daniel E. Shulz. (2014). Ce que les vibrisses disent au cerveau tactile. médecine/sciences. 30(1). 93–98. 2 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami & Mriganka Sur. (2014). Response-dependent dynamics of cell-specific inhibition in cortical networks in vivo. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5689–5689. 45 indexed citations
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Estebanez, Luc, Sami El‐Boustani, Alain Destexhe, & Daniel E. Shulz. (2012). Correlated input reveals coexisting coding schemes in a sensory cortex. Nature Neuroscience. 15(12). 1691–1699. 60 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami, Pierre Yger, Yves Frégnac, & Alain Destexhe. (2012). Stable Learning in Stochastic Network States. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(1). 194–214. 22 indexed citations
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Yger, Pierre, Sami El‐Boustani, Alain Destexhe, & Yves Frégnac. (2011). Topologically invariant macroscopic statistics in balanced networks of conductance-based integrate-and-fire neurons. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 31(2). 229–245. 34 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami & Alain Destexhe. (2010). BRAIN DYNAMICS AT MULTIPLE SCALES: CAN ONE RECONCILE THE APPARENT LOW-DIMENSIONAL CHAOS OF MACROSCOPIC VARIABLES WITH THE SEEMINGLY STOCHASTIC BEHAVIOR OF SINGLE NEURONS?. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. 20(6). 1687–1702. 21 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami, Olivier Marre, Pierre Baudot, et al.. (2009). Network-State Modulation of Power-Law Frequency-Scaling in Visual Cortical Neurons. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(9). e1000519–e1000519. 57 indexed citations
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Marre, Olivier, Sami El‐Boustani, Yves Frégnac, & Alain Destexhe. (2009). Prediction of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Neural Activity from Pairwise Correlations. Physical Review Letters. 102(13). 138101–138101. 89 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami & Alain Destexhe. (2008). A Master Equation Formalism for Macroscopic Modeling of Asynchronous Irregular Activity States. Neural Computation. 21(1). 46–100. 103 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami & Alain Destexhe. (2008). A Master Equation Formalism for Macroscopic Modeling of Asynchronous Irregular Activity States. Neural Computation. 0(0). 2923878145–55. 2 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami & Alain Destexhe. (2007). Mesoscopic model of balanced neuron networks using a Master equation formalism. BMC Neuroscience. 8(S2). 1 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami, et al.. (2007). Activated cortical states: Experiments, analyses and models. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 101(1-3). 99–109. 27 indexed citations
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El‐Boustani, Sami, Pascal R. Buenzli, & Philippe Martin. (2006). Equilibrium correlations in charged fluids coupled to the radiation field. Physical Review E. 73(3). 36113–36113. 7 indexed citations

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