Simon Rumpel

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Simon Rumpel is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Rumpel has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 29 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Simon Rumpel's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (25 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (8 papers). Simon Rumpel is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (25 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (8 papers). Simon Rumpel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Simon Rumpel's co-authors include Roberto Malinow, Anthony M. Zador, Joseph E. LeDoux, Dominik F. Aschauer, Sebastian Kreuz, Yonatan Loewenstein, Matthew Klein, Ingrid Ehrlich, Kurt Gottmann and Brice Bathellier and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Simon Rumpel

37 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Postsynaptic Receptor Trafficking Underlying a Form of Associative Learning

2005 592 citations Simon Rumpel, Joseph E. LeDoux et al. Science profile →
Analysis of Transduction Efficiency, Tropism and Axonal Transport of AAV Serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 in the Mouse Brain

2013 405 citations Dominik F. Aschauer, Sebastian Kreuz et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Rumpel Germany	18	1.7k	1.3k	785	249	233	41	2.5k
Raphael Lamprecht Israel	22	1.6k 1.0×	910 0.7×	758 1.0×	319 1.3×	180 0.8×	51	2.4k
Kevin J. Bender United States	29	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	966 1.2×	173 0.7×	356 1.5×	51	2.8k
Melanie A. Woodin Canada	28	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	220 0.9×	141 0.6×	49	2.7k
Lynn E. Dobrunz United States	26	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	225 0.9×	170 0.7×	50	2.8k
Alison L. Barth United States	30	2.6k 1.6×	1.9k 1.5×	1.1k 1.5×	284 1.1×	149 0.6×	70	3.7k
Akiko Hayashi‐Takagi Japan	22	1.7k 1.0×	931 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	273 1.1×	425 1.8×	32	3.3k
Tomás J. Ryan United States	18	2.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	781 1.0×	405 1.6×	135 0.6×	34	3.0k
Robin Tremblay United States	10	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	567 0.7×	207 0.8×	104 0.4×	10	2.2k
Jennifer N. Bourne United States	20	1.8k 1.1×	784 0.6×	959 1.2×	353 1.4×	175 0.8×	31	2.8k
Daniel J. O’Shea United States	11	1.9k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	573 0.7×	176 0.7×	304 1.3×	16	3.1k

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Aschauer, Dominik F., et al.. (2026). Representational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(5). e2503046123–e2503046123.

Kaschube, Matthias, et al.. (2025). Perceptual and semantic maps in individual humans share structural features that predict creative abilities. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 30–30. 2 indexed citations

Noda, Takahiro, Eike Kienle, Dominik F. Aschauer, et al.. (2025). Homeostasis of a representational map in the neocortex. Nature Neuroscience. 28(7). 1533–1545.

Turner, Daniel, et al.. (2025). A reduced perception of sensory information is linked with elevated boredom in people with and without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 47–47.

Aschauer, Dominik F., Alexander Arlt, Jeanette A.M. Maier, et al.. (2024). Premature cognitive decline in a mouse model of tuberous sclerosis. Aging Cell. 23(12). e14318–e14318. 1 indexed citations

Rumpel, Simon, et al.. (2024). Validation of a German version of the Boredom Proneness Scale and the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2905–2905. 2 indexed citations

Noda, Takahiro, et al.. (2024). Representational maps in the brain: concepts, approaches, and applications. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 18. 1366200–1366200. 3 indexed citations

Rumpel, Simon, et al.. (2023). Modeling fashion as an emergent collective behavior of bored individuals. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20480–20480. 2 indexed citations

Kienle, Eike, Martin Oti, María Méndez-Lago, et al.. (2023). An unbiased AAV-STARR-seq screen revealing the enhancer activity map of genomic regions in the mouse brain in vivo. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6745–6745. 10 indexed citations

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Rumpel, Simon, et al.. (2023). High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 350–350. 6 indexed citations

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Chambers, Anna R., et al.. (2022). A stable sensory map emerges from a dynamic equilibrium of neurons with unstable tuning properties. Cerebral Cortex. 33(9). 5597–5612. 5 indexed citations

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Peter, Manuel, Dominik F. Aschauer, Anne Sinning, et al.. (2021). Rapid nucleus-scale reorganization of chromatin in neurons enables transcriptional adaptation for memory consolidation. PLoS ONE. 16(5). e0244038–e0244038. 8 indexed citations

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Ceballo, Sebastián, Alexandre Kempf, Zuzanna Piwkowska, et al.. (2019). Cortical recruitment determines learning dynamics and strategy. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1479–1479. 10 indexed citations

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Mongillo, Gianluigi, Simon Rumpel, & Yonatan Loewenstein. (2018). Inhibitory connectivity defines the realm of excitatory plasticity. Nature Neuroscience. 21(10). 1463–1470. 86 indexed citations

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Mongillo, Gianluigi, Simon Rumpel, & Yonatan Loewenstein. (2017). Intrinsic volatility of synaptic connections — a challenge to the synaptic trace theory of memory. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 46. 7–13. 66 indexed citations

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Aschauer, Dominik F. & Simon Rumpel. (2016). The Sensory Neocortex and Associative Memory. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences. 37. 177–211. 10 indexed citations

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Loewenstein, Yonatan, et al.. (2015). Predicting the Dynamics of Network Connectivity in the Neocortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(36). 12535–12544. 55 indexed citations

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Fischer, Ruth M., Bruno M. Fontinha, Stephan Kirchmaier, et al.. (2013). Co-Expression of VAL- and TMT-Opsins Uncovers Ancient Photosensory Interneurons and Motorneurons in the Vertebrate Brain. PLoS Biology. 11(6). e1001585–e1001585. 58 indexed citations

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Bathellier, Brice, Lyubov Ushakova, & Simon Rumpel. (2012). Discrete Neocortical Dynamics Predict Behavioral Categorization of Sounds. Neuron. 76(2). 435–449. 140 indexed citations

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Rumpel, Simon, Joseph E. LeDoux, Anthony M. Zador, & Roberto Malinow. (2005). Postsynaptic Receptor Trafficking Underlying a Form of Associative Learning. Science. 308(5718). 83–88. 592 indexed citations breakdown →

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