Weston Fleming

917 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 461 citations indexed

About

Weston Fleming is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weston Fleming has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 461 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Weston Fleming's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (5 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (4 papers). Weston Fleming is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (5 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (4 papers). Weston Fleming collaborates with scholars based in United States. Weston Fleming's co-authors include Ilana B. Witten, Julia Cox, Sharon Ornelas, Ben Engelhard, Hee Jae Jang, Nathaniel D. Daw, Joel Finkelstein, David W. Tank, Sue Ann Koay and Stephan Y. Thiberge and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Neuron and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Weston Fleming

10 papers receiving 456 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.

Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons

2019 312 citations Ben Engelhard, Joel Finkelstein et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weston Fleming United States	7	303	287	146	31	27	10	461
Ben Engelhard United States	8	446 1.5×	345 1.2×	138 0.9×	33 1.1×	21 0.8×	10	593
Courtney M. Cameron United States	8	251 0.8×	334 1.2×	162 1.1×	29 0.9×	25 0.9×	9	453
Justin K. O’Hare United States	9	460 1.5×	407 1.4×	129 0.9×	55 1.8×	32 1.2×	11	686
Tom Macpherson Japan	11	258 0.9×	226 0.8×	123 0.8×	43 1.4×	17 0.6×	21	512
Jung Ho Hyun South Korea	8	156 0.5×	237 0.8×	136 0.9×	24 0.8×	26 1.0×	10	359
M. McLean Bolton United States	10	203 0.7×	371 1.3×	119 0.8×	24 0.8×	12 0.4×	12	483
Eran Lottem Israel	9	365 1.2×	365 1.3×	118 0.8×	70 2.3×	29 1.1×	13	581
Evan G. Antzoulatos United States	12	393 1.3×	242 0.8×	73 0.5×	39 1.3×	22 0.8×	15	595
Karlijn I. van Aerde Netherlands	8	242 0.8×	309 1.1×	213 1.5×	20 0.6×	18 0.7×	8	479
Babak Tahvildari Canada	9	472 1.6×	459 1.6×	110 0.8×	42 1.4×	16 0.6×	9	603

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weston Fleming

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Fleming, Weston, et al.. (2025). Opioid-driven disruption of the septum reveals a role for neurotensin-expressing neurons in withdrawal. Neuron. 113(14). 2325–2343.e9. 1 indexed citations

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Guthman, Eartha Mae, et al.. (2024). Independent inhibitory control mechanisms for aggressive motivation and action. Nature Neuroscience. 27(4). 702–715. 6 indexed citations

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Cox, Julia, Weston Fleming, Christopher A Zimmerman, et al.. (2023). A neural substrate of sex-dependent modulation of motivation. Nature Neuroscience. 26(2). 274–284. 20 indexed citations

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Fleming, Weston, et al.. (2022). Cholinergic interneurons mediate cocaine extinction in male mice through plasticity across medium spiny neuron subtypes. Cell Reports. 39(9). 110874–110874. 8 indexed citations

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Fleming, Weston, Sean Jewell, Ben Engelhard, Daniela Witten, & Ilana B. Witten. (2021). Inferring spikes from calcium imaging in dopamine neurons. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0252345–e0252345. 18 indexed citations

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Fleming, Weston, Alexandra Libby, Anna D. Zych, et al.. (2021). Perineuronal Nets in the Dorsomedial Striatum Contribute to Behavioral Dysfunction in Mouse Models of Excessive Repetitive Behavior. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 2(4). 460–469. 11 indexed citations

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Choi, Jung Yoon, Hee Jae Jang, Sharon Ornelas, et al.. (2020). A Comparison of Dopaminergic and Cholinergic Populations Reveals Unique Contributions of VTA Dopamine Neurons to Short-Term Memory. Cell Reports. 33(11). 108492–108492. 20 indexed citations

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Cai, Lili, et al.. (2020). Distinct signals in medial and lateral VTA dopamine neurons modulate fear extinction at different times. eLife. 9. 64 indexed citations

9.

Engelhard, Ben, Joel Finkelstein, Julia Cox, et al.. (2019). Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons. Nature. 570(7762). 509–513. 312 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fleming, Weston, et al.. (2006). iWISE: A FRAMEWORK FOR PROVIDING DISTRIBUTED PROCESS VISIBILITY USING AN EVENT-BASED PROCESS MODELLING APPROACH. 224–233. 1 indexed citations

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