William Olson

507 total citations
17 papers, 226 citations indexed

About

William Olson is a scholar working on Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, William Olson has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 226 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Physiology, 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in William Olson's work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (5 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (4 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (2 papers). William Olson is often cited by papers focused on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (5 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (4 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (2 papers). William Olson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Oman and China. William Olson's co-authors include Wenqin Luo, Michael S. Fleming, Minghong Ma, Lian Cui, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Yuan‐Xiang Tao, Xuerong Miao, Lingli Liang, Tobias Raabe and Lian Cui and has published in prestigious journals such as Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

William Olson

14 papers receiving 223 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Olson United States 8 118 82 60 32 30 17 226
Yu Omori Japan 7 185 1.6× 142 1.7× 61 1.0× 51 1.6× 60 2.0× 8 309
Tayler D. Sheahan United States 8 229 1.9× 148 1.8× 81 1.4× 26 0.8× 22 0.7× 14 354
Mehdi Hossaini Netherlands 10 210 1.8× 158 1.9× 90 1.5× 16 0.5× 36 1.2× 11 364
Tom Earnest United States 7 80 0.7× 71 0.9× 47 0.8× 85 2.7× 41 1.4× 11 238
Behrang Sharif Canada 6 233 2.0× 161 2.0× 103 1.7× 43 1.3× 30 1.0× 9 353
Noboru Iwagaki United Kingdom 6 199 1.7× 154 1.9× 64 1.1× 108 3.4× 21 0.7× 6 325
Jon E. T. Jakobsson Sweden 7 201 1.7× 167 2.0× 152 2.5× 63 2.0× 33 1.1× 8 395
Zhen-Yu Wu China 7 159 1.3× 90 1.1× 72 1.2× 128 4.0× 29 1.0× 18 339
Robert P. Ganley Switzerland 9 162 1.4× 127 1.5× 81 1.4× 17 0.5× 57 1.9× 14 275
Shing-Hong Lin Taiwan 6 201 1.7× 101 1.2× 152 2.5× 17 0.5× 47 1.6× 8 366

Countries citing papers authored by William Olson

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Olson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Olson

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

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Olson, William, et al.. (2025). Muscle spindles provide flexible sensory feedback for movement sequences. Cell Reports. 44(11). 116452–116452.
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Olson, William. (2025). Sleep cycles process memories. Nature Neuroscience. 28(6). 1115–1115.
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Olson, William, et al.. (2024). Trigeminal innervation and tactile responses in mouse tongue. Cell Reports. 43(9). 114665–114665. 1 indexed citations
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Guo, Changxiong, Haowu Jiang, Cheng-Chiu Huang, et al.. (2023). Pain and itch coding mechanisms of polymodal sensory neurons. Cell Reports. 42(11). 113316–113316. 14 indexed citations
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Olson, William, et al.. (2023). Elephant trunks: Strength and dexterity from mini-fascicles. Current Biology. 33(22). R1203–R1205. 1 indexed citations
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Cui, Lian, Jeff J. Guo, Mayank Gautam, et al.. (2022). Glutamate in primary afferents is required for itch transmission. Neuron. 110(5). 809–823.e5. 19 indexed citations
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Guo, Changxiong, Haowu Jiang, Cheng-Chiu Huang, et al.. (2022). Pain and Itch Coding Mechanisms of Polymodal Sensory Neurons. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Cui, Lian, et al.. (2019). Leaky expression of channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) in Ai32 mouse lines. PLoS ONE. 14(3). e0213326–e0213326. 8 indexed citations
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Olson, William & Wenqin Luo. (2018). Somatotopic organization of central arbors from nociceptive afferents develops independently of their intact peripheral target innervation. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 526(18). 3058–3065. 7 indexed citations
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Olson, William, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Lian Cui, et al.. (2017). Sparse genetic tracing reveals regionally specific functional organization of mammalian nociceptors. eLife. 6. 39 indexed citations
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Yu, Yiqun, Andrew H. Moberly, Janardhan P. Bhattarai, et al.. (2017). The Stem Cell Marker Lgr5 Defines a Subset of Postmitotic Neurons in the Olfactory Bulb. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(39). 9403–9414. 10 indexed citations
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Cui, Lian, Xuerong Miao, Lingli Liang, et al.. (2016). Identification of Early RET+ Deep Dorsal Spinal Cord Interneurons in Gating Pain. Neuron. 91(5). 1137–1153. 77 indexed citations
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Olson, William, et al.. (2016). The specification and wiring of mammalian cutaneous low‐threshold mechanoreceptors. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Developmental Biology. 5(3). 389–404. 33 indexed citations
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Olson, William & Nikhil Balram. (1996). <title>Lower bound for LCD image quality</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2651. 108–116. 1 indexed citations
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Olson, William & Nikhil Balram. (1996). <title>Video quality on AMLCD versus shadow-mask CRT</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2734. 12–22. 1 indexed citations

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