Scott A. Juntti

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Scott A. Juntti is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott A. Juntti has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Scott A. Juntti's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (9 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (5 papers). Scott A. Juntti is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (9 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (5 papers). Scott A. Juntti collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Scott A. Juntti's co-authors include Nirao M. Shah, Russell D. Fernald, Elizabeth K. Unger, Michael C. Chiang, Cindy F. Yang, Daniel C. Gray, James A. Wells, Johannes Hell, Alcino J. Silva and Nils Brose and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Scott A. Juntti

24 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Sexually Dimorphic Neurons in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus Govern Mating in Both Sexes and Aggression in Males

2013 500 citations Cindy F. Yang, Michael C. Chiang et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott A. Juntti United States	15	418	362	340	295	202	26	1.3k
Aki Takahashi Japan	30	901 2.2×	573 1.6×	816 2.4×	267 0.9×	269 1.3×	70	2.7k
Kei Yamamoto France	19	305 0.7×	340 0.9×	254 0.7×	77 0.3×	80 0.4×	25	1.1k
Paul M. Forlano United States	19	201 0.5×	131 0.4×	347 1.0×	354 1.2×	155 0.8×	35	1.7k
Tali Kimchi Israel	20	482 1.2×	219 0.6×	666 2.0×	282 1.0×	171 0.8×	36	1.7k
Suresh Jesuthasan Singapore	25	560 1.3×	980 2.7×	202 0.6×	163 0.6×	95 0.5×	52	2.1k
Luke Remage‐Healey United States	30	299 0.7×	152 0.4×	647 1.9×	571 1.9×	155 0.8×	68	3.0k
Melissa M. Holmes Canada	26	323 0.8×	217 0.6×	573 1.7×	408 1.4×	303 1.5×	71	1.9k
Earl T. Larson United States	22	380 0.9×	173 0.5×	422 1.2×	112 0.4×	363 1.8×	31	1.5k
Colin J. Saldanha United States	34	357 0.9×	254 0.7×	631 1.9×	810 2.7×	203 1.0×	72	2.9k
Jennifer Coats United States	7	502 1.2×	456 1.3×	291 0.9×	226 0.8×	120 0.6×	14	1.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Juntti, Scott A.. (2025). Cichlid fishes. Nature Methods. 22(9). 1755–1756.

Li, Chengyu, et al.. (2024). A pheromone receptor in cichlid fish mediates attraction to females but inhibits male parental care. Current Biology. 34(17). 3866–3880.e7. 2 indexed citations

Arunachalam, M., et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal visual statistics of aquatic environments in the natural habitats of zebrafish. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12028–12028. 3 indexed citations

Fischer, Bettina, Joost M. Woltering, Jakob Biran, et al.. (2023). Genome editing in East African cichlids and tilapias: state-of-the-art and future directions. Open Biology. 13(11). 230257–230257. 7 indexed citations

Turner, George F., Alan Smith, Domino A. Joyce, et al.. (2022). Oca2 targeting using CRISPR/Cas9 in the Malawi cichlid Astatotilapia calliptera. Royal Society Open Science. 9(4). 220077–220077. 15 indexed citations

Juntti, Scott A., et al.. (2022). Environmental plasticity in opsin expression due to light and thyroid hormone in adult and developing Astatotilapia burtoni. Hydrobiologia. 850(10-11). 2315–2329. 8 indexed citations

Juntti, Scott A., et al.. (2022). Testing Wickler’s hypothesis: cichlids are unable to distinguish eggs from egg spots in the wild. Hydrobiologia. 850(10-11). 2355–2369. 1 indexed citations

Li, Chengyu, et al.. (2021). Manipulation of the Tyrosinase gene permits improved CRISPR/Cas editing and neural imaging in cichlid fish. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 15138–15138. 19 indexed citations

Alward, Beau A., et al.. (2020). Modular genetic control of social status in a cichlid fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(45). 28167–28174. 50 indexed citations

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Juntti, Scott A.. (2019). The Future of Gene-Guided Neuroscience Research in Non-Traditional Model Organisms. Brain Behavior and Evolution. 93(2-3). 108–121. 19 indexed citations

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Juntti, Scott A., Austin T. Hilliard, Anusha Kumar, et al.. (2016). A Neural Basis for Control of Cichlid Female Reproductive Behavior by Prostaglandin F 2α. Current Biology. 26(7). 943–949. 65 indexed citations

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Roberts, Natalie B., Scott A. Juntti, Kaitlin P. Coyle, et al.. (2016). Polygenic sex determination in the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 835–835. 64 indexed citations

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Bryant, Astra S., Anna K. Greenwood, Scott A. Juntti, Alexandra Byrne, & Russell D. Fernald. (2016). Dopaminergic inhibition of gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the cichlid fish,Astatotilapia burtoni. Journal of Experimental Biology. 219(Pt 24). 3861–3865. 20 indexed citations

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Juntti, Scott A. & Russell D. Fernald. (2016). Timing reproduction in teleost fish: cues and mechanisms. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 38. 57–62. 29 indexed citations

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Ma, Yunyong, Scott A. Juntti, Caroline K. Hu, John R. Huguenard, & Russell D. Fernald. (2015). Electrical synapses connect a network of gonadotropin releasing hormone neurons in a cichlid fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(12). 3805–3810. 32 indexed citations

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Juntti, Scott A., Caroline K. Hu, & Russell D. Fernald. (2013). Tol2-Mediated Generation of a Transgenic Haplochromine Cichlid, Astatotilapia burtoni. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e77647–e77647. 35 indexed citations

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Yang, Cindy F., Michael C. Chiang, Daniel C. Gray, et al.. (2013). Sexually Dimorphic Neurons in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus Govern Mating in Both Sexes and Aggression in Males. Cell. 153(4). 896–909. 500 indexed citations breakdown →

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Halt, Amy R., Robert F. Dallapiazza, Yu Zhou, et al.. (2012). CaMKII binding to GluN2B is critical during memory consolidation. The EMBO Journal. 31(5). 1203–1216. 199 indexed citations

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Juntti, Scott A., Jessica Tollkühn, Melody V. Wu, et al.. (2010). The Androgen Receptor Governs the Execution, but Not Programming, of Male Sexual and Territorial Behaviors. Neuron. 66(2). 260–272. 179 indexed citations

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Juntti, Scott A., Jennifer Coats, & Nirao M. Shah. (2008). A genetic approach to dissect sexually dimorphic behaviors. Hormones and Behavior. 53(5). 627–637. 29 indexed citations

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