Thomas Akam

68 total papers · 2.1k total citations
27 papers, 982 citations indexed

About

Thomas Akam is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Akam has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 982 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Akam’s work include Neural dynamics and brain function (21 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (7 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (7 papers). Thomas Akam is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (21 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (7 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (7 papers). Thomas Akam collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Portugal and United States. Thomas Akam's co-authors include Dimitri M. Kullmann, Mark E. Walton, Rui M. Costa, Peter Dayan, Nils Kolling, Emily Ferenczi, Laura Mantoan Ritter, Iris Oren, Marta Blanco-Pozo and Timothy E.J. Behrens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Neuron and Nature Neuroscience.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Akam

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

Thomas Akam

26 papers receiving 975 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Akam

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