William Menegas

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 958 citations indexed

About

William Menegas is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, William Menegas has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 958 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in William Menegas's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (3 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (3 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (2 papers). William Menegas is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (3 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (3 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (2 papers). William Menegas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Sweden. William Menegas's co-authors include Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida, Naoshige Uchida, Ryunosuke Amo, Bénédicte M. Babayan, Sachie K. Ogawa, Joseph F. Bergan, Kannan Umadevi Venkataraju, Pavel Osten, Yoh Isogai and Valentina Di Santo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Nature Methods and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

William Menegas

8 papers receiving 951 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.

Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut

2022 264 citations Jessy Lauer, Mu Zhou et al. Nature Methods profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Menegas United States	6	490	397	292	125	95	8	958
Mikhail Kislin Finland	12	242 0.5×	207 0.5×	301 1.0×	143 1.1×	76 0.8×	31	972
Ralph E. Peterson United States	4	394 0.8×	384 1.0×	92 0.3×	164 1.3×	150 1.6×	6	911
Winthrop F. Gillis United States	10	367 0.7×	331 0.8×	108 0.4×	120 1.0×	109 1.1×	14	776
Jeffrey E. Markowitz United States	16	586 1.2×	573 1.4×	123 0.4×	120 1.0×	126 1.3×	21	1.2k
Giuliano Iurilli Italy	12	637 1.3×	699 1.8×	169 0.6×	107 0.9×	114 1.2×	14	1.4k
Timothy Dunn United States	14	569 1.2×	410 1.0×	390 1.3×	543 4.3×	87 0.9×	33	1.4k
Eric A. Yttri United States	12	290 0.6×	405 1.0×	81 0.3×	76 0.6×	91 1.0×	22	850
Gonçalo Lopes Portugal	9	471 1.0×	395 1.0×	136 0.5×	233 1.9×	119 1.3×	17	967
Megan R. Carey Portugal	17	534 1.1×	475 1.2×	238 0.8×	116 0.9×	85 0.9×	25	1.1k
Andrew J. Peters United States	12	724 1.5×	1.1k 2.8×	146 0.5×	60 0.5×	55 0.6×	18	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Menegas

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Chen, Yefei, William Menegas, Qiangge Zhang, & Guoping Feng. (2025). Common marmoset: An emerging non-human primate model for translational applications in brain disorders. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 92. 102998–102998. 1 indexed citations

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Fabian, Niora, Anthony Mannion, David J. Anderson, et al.. (2023). Evaluation and comparison of pharmacokinetic profiles and safety of two extended-release buprenorphine formulations in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Scientific Reports. 13(1). 11864–11864. 1 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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Menegas, William, et al.. (2019). Planar-Polarized Semaphorin-5c and Plexin A Promote the Collective Migration of Epithelial Cells in Drosophila. Current Biology. 29(6). 908–920.e6. 34 indexed citations

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Menegas, William, et al.. (2018). Dopamine neurons projecting to the posterior striatum reinforce avoidance of threatening stimuli. Nature Neuroscience. 21(10). 1421–1430. 228 indexed citations

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Menegas, William, Bénédicte M. Babayan, Naoshige Uchida, & Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida. (2017). Opposite initialization to novel cues in dopamine signaling in ventral and posterior striatum in mice. eLife. 6. 165 indexed citations

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Menegas, William, Joseph F. Bergan, Sachie K. Ogawa, et al.. (2015). Dopamine neurons projecting to the posterior striatum form an anatomically distinct subclass. eLife. 4. e10032–e10032. 222 indexed citations

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Horne‐Badovinac, Sally, Joseph A. Hill, Gary F. Gerlach, William Menegas, & David Bilder. (2012). A Screen for Round Egg Mutants inDrosophilaIdentifies Tricornered, Furry, and Misshapen as Regulators of Egg Chamber Elongation. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 2(3). 371–378. 43 indexed citations

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