William E. Brownell

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
131 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

William E. Brownell is a scholar working on Sensory Systems, Biomedical Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Brownell has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Sensory Systems, 67 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 65 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in William E. Brownell's work include Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics (102 papers), Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (65 papers) and Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (49 papers). William E. Brownell is often cited by papers focused on Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics (102 papers), Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (65 papers) and Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (49 papers). William E. Brownell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Japan. William E. Brownell's co-authors include Daniel Bertrand, Y. de Ribaupierre, Charles R. Bader, Aleksander S. Popel, Alexander A. Spector, Bahman Anvari, Robert M. Raphael, Fred A. Pereira, R. Dieler and John S. Oghalai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

William E. Brownell

129 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Evoked Mechanical Responses of Isolated Cochlear Outer Hair Cells

1985 1.4k citations William E. Brownell et al. profile →
Essential role of BETA2/NeuroD1 in development of the vestibular and auditory systems

2000 561 citations Fred A. Pereira, William E. Brownell et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William E. Brownell United States	37	4.5k	3.1k	1.6k	1.6k	1.4k	131	6.3k
Robert Fettiplace United States	55	6.9k 1.5×	2.9k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	3.3k 2.4×	111	9.4k
Guy P. Richardson United Kingdom	57	6.6k 1.5×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	3.8k 2.8×	146	9.2k
Jonathan Ashmore United Kingdom	39	4.3k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	120	5.7k
Corné J. Kros United Kingdom	43	4.9k 1.1×	1.4k 0.5×	707 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	2.3k 1.7×	73	6.1k
Paul Avan France	38	3.3k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	309 0.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	179	5.2k
Anthony J. Ricci United States	39	3.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	836 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	111	5.2k
Mats Ulfendahl Sweden	35	2.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	558 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	728 0.5×	149	3.8k
David Z. Z. He United States	34	4.1k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	819 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	94	4.9k
Jian Zuo United States	39	2.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	557 0.3×	657 0.4×	1.8k 1.3×	106	5.5k
Joseph Santos‐Sacchi United States	37	4.0k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	124	5.0k

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Spector, Alexander A., et al.. (2013). Effects of Plasma Membrane Cholesterol Level and Cytoskeleton F-Actin on Cell Protrusion Mechanics. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e57147–e57147. 52 indexed citations

Powers, Richard J., Sitikantha Roy, Erdinç Atılgan, et al.. (2012). Stereocilia Membrane Deformation: Implications for the Gating Spring and Mechanotransduction Channel. Biophysical Journal. 102(2). 201–210. 37 indexed citations

Gupta, Sharad, et al.. (2012). Effects of cholesterol on nano-mechanical properties of the living cell plasma membrane. Soft Matter. 8(32). 8350–8350. 71 indexed citations

Brownell, William E., Stefan Jacob, Pierre Hakizimana, Mats Ulfendahl, & Anders Fridberger. (2011). Membrane cholesterol modulates cochlear electromechanics. Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology. 461(6). 677–686. 27 indexed citations

Nakagawa, Takashi, John S. Oghalai, Peter Saggau, Richard D. Rabbitt, & William E. Brownell. (2006). Photometric recording of transmembrane potential in outer hair cells. Journal of Neural Engineering. 3(2). 79–86. 10 indexed citations

Ermilov, Sergey A., David R. Murdock, Dania Daye, William E. Brownell, & Bahman Anvari. (2005). Effects of Salicylate on Plasma Membrane Mechanics. Journal of Neurophysiology. 94(3). 2105–2110. 24 indexed citations

Anvari, Bahman, et al.. (2005). High Frequency Electrically-Induced Force Generation by Cellular Plasma Membranes. PubMed. 96. 1055–1057. 1 indexed citations

Rabbitt, Richard D., et al.. (2004). Evidence of Piezoelectric Resonance in Isolated Outer Hair Cells. Biophysical Journal. 88(3). 2257–2265. 20 indexed citations

Ermilov, Sergey A., William E. Brownell, & Bahman Anvari. (2004). Effect of salicylate on outer hair cell plasma membrane viscoelasticity: studies using optical tweezers. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2 indexed citations

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Spector, Alexander A., Aleksander S. Popel, & William E. Brownell. (2003). PIEZOELECTRIC PROPERTIES ENHANCE OUTER HAIR CELL HIGH-FREQUENCY RESPONSE. 152–160. 3 indexed citations

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Weitzel, Erik K, et al.. (2003). Outer hair cell piezoelectricity: Frequency response enhancement and resonance behavior. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 114(3). 1462–1466. 41 indexed citations

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Raphael, Robert M., Aleksander S. Popel, & William E. Brownell. (2000). A Membrane Bending Model of Outer Hair Cell Electromotility. Biophysical Journal. 78(6). 2844–2862. 117 indexed citations

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Oghalai, John S., et al.. (1999). Transverse and lateral mobility in outer hair cell lateral wall membranes. Hearing Research. 135(1-2). 19–28. 29 indexed citations

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Spector, Alexander A., William E. Brownell, & Aleksander S. Popel. (1999). Mechanical and electromotile characteristics of auditory outer hair cells. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 37(2). 247–251. 9 indexed citations

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Nguyễn, Trọng Tuân & William E. Brownell. (1998). Contribution of membrane cholesterol to outer hair cell lateral wall stiffness. Otolaryngology. 119(1). 14–20. 64 indexed citations

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Popel, Aleksander S., et al.. (1996). Potential distribution for a spheroidal cell having a conductive membrane in an electric field. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 43(9). 970–972. 23 indexed citations

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Spector, Alexander A., William E. Brownell, & Aleksander S. Popel. (1996). A model for cochlear outer hair cell deformations in micropipette aspiration experiments: An analytical solution. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 24(2). 241–249. 18 indexed citations

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Zidanic, M. & William E. Brownell. (1990). Fine structure of the intracochlear potential field. I. The silent current. Biophysical Journal. 57(6). 1253–1268. 98 indexed citations

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Manis, Paul B. & William E. Brownell. (1983). Synaptic organization of eighth nerve afferents to cat dorsal cochlear nucleus. Journal of Neurophysiology. 50(5). 1156–1181. 27 indexed citations

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Crandall, James E., Marieta Barrow Heaton, & William E. Brownell. (1977). Tectal projection of displaced ganglion cells in avian retina.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 16(8). 774–6. 20 indexed citations

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