Tim Sainburg

752 total citations
16 papers, 319 citations indexed

About

Tim Sainburg is a scholar working on Developmental Biology, Signal Processing and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Sainburg has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 319 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Developmental Biology, 5 papers in Signal Processing and 3 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Tim Sainburg's work include Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (7 papers), Music and Audio Processing (4 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (3 papers). Tim Sainburg is often cited by papers focused on Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (7 papers), Music and Audio Processing (4 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (3 papers). Tim Sainburg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Argentina. Tim Sainburg's co-authors include Timothy Q. Gentner, Marvin Thielk, Leland McInnes, Marie A. Roch, Vlad Demartsev, Marta B. Manser, Frants H. Jensen, Ariana Strandburg‐Peshkin, Robert M. French and Yizhou Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Tim Sainburg

14 papers receiving 307 citations

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim Sainburg United States	7	156	92	72	62	56	16	319
Marvin Thielk United States	3	110 0.7×	60 0.7×	55 0.8×	47 0.8×	29 0.5×	6	237
Ryosuke O. Tachibana Japan	11	116 0.7×	29 0.3×	72 1.0×	56 0.9×	42 0.8×	41	309
Jeppe Have Rasmussen United States	8	149 1.0×	52 0.6×	62 0.9×	119 1.9×	19 0.3×	11	271
Yannick Jadoul Italy	5	67 0.4×	101 1.1×	29 0.4×	41 0.7×	114 2.0×	17	338
Kyle Srivastava United States	6	147 0.9×	35 0.4×	92 1.3×	86 1.4×	31 0.6×	7	285
Michelle Spierings Netherlands	12	213 1.4×	30 0.3×	137 1.9×	84 1.4×	14 0.3×	16	375
Toby Gifford Australia	8	142 0.9×	58 0.6×	34 0.5×	161 2.6×	38 0.7×	33	358
Alice Eldridge United Kingdom	12	246 1.6×	96 1.0×	51 0.7×	213 3.4×	13 0.2×	33	495
Piera Filippi Austria	11	172 1.1×	34 0.4×	31 0.4×	43 0.7×	16 0.3×	18	327
Maxime Garcia Austria	12	302 1.9×	58 0.6×	167 2.3×	161 2.6×	48 0.9×	26	440

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16 of 16 papers shown

Weinreb, Caleb, Tim Sainburg, Winthrop F. Gillis, et al.. (2026). Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks. Neuron. 114(5). 922–937.e12.

Sainburg, Tim, et al.. (2025). Domain general noise reduction for time series signals with Noisereduce. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 30905–30905.

Sainburg, Tim, et al.. (2025). Expectation-driven sensory adaptations support enhanced acuity during categorical perception. Nature Neuroscience. 28(4). 861–872. 1 indexed citations

Koch, Bernard, et al.. (2024). A Primer on Deep Learning for Causal Inference. Sociological Methods & Research. 54(2). 397–447. 4 indexed citations

Jensen, Frants H., Vlad Demartsev, Marta B. Manser, et al.. (2022). A practical guide for generating unsupervised, spectrogram‐based latent space representations of animal vocalizations. Journal of Animal Ecology. 91(8). 1567–1581. 20 indexed citations

Sainburg, Tim, et al.. (2022). Syntactic modulation of rhythm in Australian pied butcherbird song. Royal Society Open Science. 9(9). 220704–220704. 6 indexed citations

Sainburg, Tim. (2022). American postdoctoral salaries do not account for growing disparities in cost of living. Research Policy. 52(3). 104714–104714. 5 indexed citations

Sainburg, Tim, et al.. (2022). Long-range sequential dependencies precede complex syntactic production in language acquisition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1970). 20212657–20212657. 5 indexed citations

Sainburg, Tim & Timothy Q. Gentner. (2021). Toward a Computational Neuroethology of Vocal Communication: From Bioacoustics to Neurophysiology, Emerging Tools and Future Directions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 15. 811737–811737. 25 indexed citations

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Sainburg, Tim, Leland McInnes, & Timothy Q. Gentner. (2021). Parametric UMAP: learning embeddings with deep neural networks for representation and semi-supervised learning. 14 indexed citations

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Sainburg, Tim, Marvin Thielk, & Timothy Q. Gentner. (2020). Finding, visualizing, and quantifying latent structure across diverse animal vocal repertoires. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(10). e1008228–e1008228. 157 indexed citations

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Sainburg, Tim, et al.. (2019). Parallels in the sequential organization of birdsong and human speech. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3636–3636. 47 indexed citations

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Zuidema, Willem, Robert M. French, Kevin Ellis, et al.. (2019). Five Ways in Which Computational Modeling Can Help Advance Cognitive Science: Lessons From Artificial Grammar Learning. Topics in Cognitive Science. 12(3). 925–941. 7 indexed citations

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Sainburg, Tim. (2019). timsainb/noisereduce: v1.0. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 26 indexed citations

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Sainburg, Tim, Marvin Thielk, & Timothy Q. Gentner. (2018). Learned context dependent categorical perception in a songbird. 1 indexed citations

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Thielk, Marvin, Tim Sainburg, Tatyana O. Sharpee, & Timothy Q. Gentner. (2018). Combining Biological and Artificial Approaches to Understand Perceptual Spaces for Categorizing Natural Acoustic Signals. 1 indexed citations

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