William Shain

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
129 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

William Shain is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Shain has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 32 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 29 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William Shain's work include Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (38 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (19 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (17 papers). William Shain is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (38 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (19 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (17 papers). William Shain collaborates with scholars based in United States and South Korea. William Shain's co-authors include James N. Turner, M. Isaacson, Daryl R. Kipke, Gregory J. Gage, Donald H. Szarowski, Harold G. Craighead, Maja Dam Andersen, Scott T. Retterer, Matthew R. Hynd and Lance C. Kam and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

William Shain

128 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

Brain responses to micro-machined silicon devices

2003 645 citations Donald H. Szarowski, Maja Dam Andersen et al. Brain Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Shain United States	44	4.1k	2.2k	1.6k	1.3k	963	129	7.3k
James N. Turner United States	43	2.7k 0.7×	2.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	803 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	168	6.7k
Bianxiao Cui United States	48	3.0k 0.7×	3.2k 1.5×	611 0.4×	2.9k 2.3×	1.3k 1.3×	136	8.7k
Micha E. Spira Israel	45	4.3k 1.0×	906 0.4×	962 0.6×	2.2k 1.8×	814 0.8×	128	6.2k
Ichiji Tasaki United States	43	3.5k 0.9×	816 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	2.3k 1.8×	302 0.3×	170	7.2k
Soon‐Tae Lee South Korea	56	2.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	4.2k 3.3×	505 0.5×	341	12.9k
Joseph J. Pancrazio United States	39	2.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	854 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	734 0.8×	167	4.8k
Hajime Takano Japan	40	2.3k 0.6×	672 0.3×	759 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	895 0.9×	136	6.7k
Guenter W. Gross United States	32	2.7k 0.6×	886 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	650 0.5×	694 0.7×	83	3.9k
Euisik Yoon United States	45	2.2k 0.5×	3.1k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	937 0.7×	2.2k 2.3×	206	7.2k
Ken Yoshida Japan	41	2.4k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	564 0.4×	425 0.4×	250	5.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Shain

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Harris, Carolyn A., et al.. (2015). Fabrication of three-dimensional hydrogel scaffolds for modeling shunt failure by tissue obstruction in hydrocephalus. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. 12(1). 26–26. 12 indexed citations

Gage, Gregory J., Daryl R. Kipke, & William Shain. (2012). Whole Animal Perfusion Fixation for Rodents. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 128 indexed citations

Gage, Gregory J., Daryl R. Kipke, & William Shain. (2012). Whole Animal Perfusion Fixation for Rodents. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 406 indexed citations

Lewitus, Dan Y., Karen L. Smith, William Shain, & Joachim Kohn. (2011). Ultrafast resorbing polymers for use as carriers for cortical neural probes. Acta Biomaterialia. 7(6). 2483–2491. 73 indexed citations

Bjornsson, Chris S., et al.. (2009). Robust Adaptive 3-D Segmentation of Vessel Laminae From Fluorescence Confocal Microscope Images and Parallel GPU Implementation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 29(3). 583–597. 33 indexed citations

Kipke, Daryl R., William Shain, György Buzsáki, et al.. (2008). Advanced Neurotechnologies for Chronic Neural Interfaces: New Horizons and Clinical Opportunities. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(46). 11830–11838. 225 indexed citations

Jun, Sang Beom, Matthew R. Hynd, Natalie Dowell‐Mesfin, et al.. (2008). Modulation of cultured neural networks using neurotrophin release from hydrogel-coated microelectrode arrays. Journal of Neural Engineering. 5(2). 203–213. 19 indexed citations

Frampton, John P., Matthew R. Hynd, Justin C. Williams, Michael L. Shuler, & William Shain. (2007). Three-dimensional hydrogel cultures for modeling changes in tissue impedance around microfabricated neural probes. Journal of Neural Engineering. 4(4). 399–409. 30 indexed citations

Hynd, Matthew R., John P. Frampton, Natalie Dowell‐Mesfin, James N. Turner, & William Shain. (2007). Directed cell growth on protein-functionalized hydrogel surfaces. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 162(1-2). 255–263. 74 indexed citations

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Williams, Justin C., et al.. (2007). Complex impedance spectroscopy for monitoring tissue responses to inserted neural implants. Journal of Neural Engineering. 4(4). 410–423. 334 indexed citations

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Wolpaw, Jonathan R., Gerald E. Loeb, Brendan Z. Allison, et al.. (2006). BCI meeting 2005-workshop on signals and recording methods. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 14(2). 138–141. 81 indexed citations

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Szarowski, Donald H., Maja Dam Andersen, Scott T. Retterer, et al.. (2003). Brain responses to micro-machined silicon devices. Brain Research. 983(1-2). 23–35. 645 indexed citations breakdown →

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Turner, Andrea M. P., Stephen W. Turner, Lance C. Kam, et al.. (2000). Attachment of astroglial cells to microfabricated pillar arrays of different geometries. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. 51(3). 430–441. 144 indexed citations

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Turner, James N., William Shain, Donald H. Szarowski, et al.. (1999). Cerebral Astrocyte Response to Micromachined Silicon Implants. Experimental Neurology. 156(1). 33–49. 479 indexed citations

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John, Pamela M. St., Lance C. Kam, Stephen W. Turner, et al.. (1997). Preferential glial cell attachment to microcontact printed surfaces. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 75(2). 171–177. 71 indexed citations

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Martin, David L. & William Shain. (1993). ?-Adrenergic-agonist stimulated taurine release from astroglial cells is modulated by extracellular [K+] and osmolarity. Neurochemical Research. 18(4). 437–444. 21 indexed citations

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Waniewski, Robert A., David L. Martin, & William Shain. (1991). Isoproterenol selectively releases endogenous and [¹⁴C]‐labelled taurine from a single cytosolic compartment in astroglial cells. Glia. 4(1). 83–90. 10 indexed citations

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Shain, William, et al.. (1991). Neurotoxicity of polychlorinated biphenyls: Structure-activity relationship of individual congeners. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 111(1). 33–42. 212 indexed citations

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Martin, David L., Vergine Madelian, & William Shain. (1989). Spontaneous and beta‐adrenergic receptor‐mediated taurine release from astroglial cells do not require extracellular calcium. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 23(2). 191–197. 18 indexed citations

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Shain, William & David O. Carpenter. (1981). Mechanisms of Synaptic Modulation. International review of neurobiology. 22. 205–250. 11 indexed citations

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