Venkatesh N. Murthy

19.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
107 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Venkatesh N. Murthy is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Sensory Systems and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Venkatesh N. Murthy has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 42 papers in Sensory Systems and 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Venkatesh N. Murthy's work include Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (42 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (33 papers) and Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (22 papers). Venkatesh N. Murthy is often cited by papers focused on Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (42 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (33 papers) and Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (22 papers). Venkatesh N. Murthy collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Venkatesh N. Murthy's co-authors include Eberhard E. Fetz, Charles F. Stevens, Alexander Mathis, Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, Matthias Bethge, Taiga Abe, Kevin M. Cury, Pranav Mamidanna, Gabor C. Petzold and Juan Burrone and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Venkatesh N. Murthy

105 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning
    2018 2.5k citations Alexander Mathis, Venkatesh N. Murthy et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  2. Coherent 25- to 35-Hz oscillations in the sensorimotor cortex of awake behaving monkeys.
    1992 769 citations Venkatesh N. Murthy et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut
    2022 264 citations Jessy Lauer, Mu Zhou et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers

Venkatesh N. Murthy
Markus Meister United States
Naoshige Uchida United States
Edward M. Callaway United States
Fan Wang United States
Hongkui Zeng United States
Lawrence C Katz United States
Vivek Jayaraman United States
Tobias Bonhoeffer Germany
Loren L. Looger United States
Anita E. Hendrickson United States
Markus Meister United States
Venkatesh N. Murthy
Citations per year, relative to Venkatesh N. Murthy Venkatesh N. Murthy (= 1×) peers Markus Meister

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Fields of papers citing papers by Venkatesh N. Murthy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Venkatesh N. Murthy

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shneidman, Anna V., Jack Alvarenga, Jean‐Christophe Dupré, et al.. (2025). Design Principles From Natural Olfaction for Electronic Noses. Advanced Science. 12(12). e2412669–e2412669. 4 indexed citations
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Hennig, Jay A., et al.. (2025). Prospective contingency explains behavior and dopamine signals during associative learning. Nature Neuroscience. 28(6). 1280–1292. 2 indexed citations
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Qin, Shanshan, et al.. (2024). One Nose but Two Nostrils: Learning to Align with Sparse Connections between Two Olfactory Cortices. PubMed. 2(4). 1 indexed citations
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Pehlevan, Cengiz, et al.. (2024). Bilateral Alignment of Receptive Fields in the Olfactory Cortex. eNeuro. 11(11). ENEURO.0155–24.2024. 3 indexed citations
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Pavlichenko, Ida, Anna V. Shneidman, Bettina V. Lotsch, et al.. (2023). Nonequilibrium sensing of volatile compounds using active and passive analyte delivery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(31). e2303928120–e2303928120. 6 indexed citations
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Lauer, Jessy, Mu Zhou, Shaokai Ye, et al.. (2022). Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut. Nature Methods. 19(4). 496–504. 264 indexed citations breakdown →
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Giardina, Fabio, et al.. (2022). Dynamics of cooperative excavation in ant and robot collectives. eLife. 11. 6 indexed citations
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Lau, C. Geoffrey, et al.. (2021). Deletion of TrkB in parvalbumin interneurons alters cortical neural dynamics. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 237(1). 949–964. 9 indexed citations
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Zak, Joseph D., Jenelle L. Wallace, & Venkatesh N. Murthy. (2020). How neuroscience labs can limit their environmental impact. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 21(7). 347–348. 4 indexed citations
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Gire, David H., Vikrant Kapoor, Annie E. Arrighi‐Allisan, Agnese Seminara, & Venkatesh N. Murthy. (2016). Mice Develop Efficient Strategies for Foraging and Navigation Using Complex Natural Stimuli. Current Biology. 26(10). 1261–1273. 72 indexed citations
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Haddad, Rafi, Anne Lanjuin, Linda Madisen, et al.. (2013). Olfactory cortical neurons read out a relative time code in the olfactory bulb. Nature Neuroscience. 16(7). 949–957. 148 indexed citations
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Isogai, Yoh, Lorena Pont‐Lezica, Taralyn Tan, et al.. (2011). Molecular organization of vomeronasal chemoreception. Nature. 478(7368). 241–245. 225 indexed citations
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Markopoulos, Foivos, et al.. (2011). Postnatal Development of Dendrodendritic Inhibition in the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 5. 10–10. 17 indexed citations
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Albeanu, Dinu F., Edward Soucy, Tomokazu Sato, Markus Meister, & Venkatesh N. Murthy. (2008). LED Arrays as Cost Effective and Efficient Light Sources for Widefield Microscopy. PLoS ONE. 3(5). e2146–e2146. 52 indexed citations
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Li, Zhiying, et al.. (2005). Synaptic vesicle recycling studied in transgenic mice expressing synaptopHluorin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(17). 6131–6136. 126 indexed citations
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Murthy, Venkatesh N., et al.. (2005). Real‐time imaging of Rab3a and Rab5a reveals differential roles in presynaptic function. The Journal of Physiology. 569(1). 103–117. 55 indexed citations
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Tyler, William J. & Venkatesh N. Murthy. (2004). Synaptic vesicles. Current Biology. 14(8). R294–R297. 4 indexed citations
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Burrone, Juan, Michael L. O’Byrne, & Venkatesh N. Murthy. (2002). Multiple forms of synaptic plasticity triggered by selective suppression of activity in individual neurons. Nature. 420(6914). 414–418. 378 indexed citations
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Murthy, Venkatesh N.. (1997). Synaptic plasticity: Neighborhood influences. Current Biology. 7(8). R512–R515. 3 indexed citations

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