Winfried Denk

41.8k citations
126 papers · 29.5k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 68

Impact in

Papers in

    • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications 21
    • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques 47
    • Cell Image Analysis Techniques 15

Winfried Denk

126 papers receiving 28.6k citations

Hit Papers

Connectomic reconstruction of the inner plexiform layer in the mouse retina 2013 · 664 citations
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Winfried Denk
Comparison fields: 5 of 189
  • Biophysics 10.3k
  • Structural Biology 1.7k
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 9.4k
  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics 321
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 5.1k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Winfried Denk, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20243
2 201814
3 201759
4 201770
5 201522
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Connectomic reconstruction of the inner plexiform layer in the mouse retina
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2013664
7
Learning to Agglomerate Superpixel Hierarchies
201136
8
Maximin affinity learning of image segmentation
200937
9 2008250
10 2007260
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Neurons arise in the basal neuroepithelium of the early mammalian telencephalon: A major site of neurogenesis
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2004741
12 200493
13 2003487
14 2002109
15 1999296
16 1997485
17 199710
18
In vivo dendritic calcium dynamics in neocortical pyramidal neurons
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1997627
19
Dendritic spines as basic functional units of neuronal integration
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1995719
20 1994267

About Winfried Denk

Winfried Denk is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Biophysics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Surfaces, Coatings and Films and Cognitive Neuroscience, having authored 126 papers that have together received 29.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (47 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (27 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (22 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (21 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (17 papers), Retinal Development and Disorders (17 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (15 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biophysics (10.3k citations), Structural Biology (1.7k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (9.4k citations), Acoustics and Ultrasonics (321 citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (5.1k citations). Winfried Denk has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Watt W. Webb, James H. Strickler, Fritjof Helmchen, Karel Svoboda, David W. Tank, Dieter Pohl, Kevin L. Briggman, Heinz Horstmann, Moritz Helmstaedter and Rafael Yuste. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Methods, Nature Neuroscience, Nature and Neuron.

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