Yehezkel Ben‐Ari

671 total papers · 54.1k total citations
499 papers, 43.9k citations indexed

About

Yehezkel Ben‐Ari is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Yehezkel Ben‐Ari has authored 499 papers receiving a total of 43.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 405 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 210 papers in Molecular Biology and 157 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Yehezkel Ben‐Ari's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (377 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (89 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (83 papers). Yehezkel Ben‐Ari is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (377 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (89 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (83 papers). Yehezkel Ben‐Ari collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Tunisia. Yehezkel Ben‐Ari's co-authors include Alfonso Represa, Jean‐Luc Gaïarsa, Roustem Khazipov, Enrico Cherubini, Ilgam Khalilov, E. Tremblay, Laurent Aniksztejn, Christiane Charriaut‐Marlangue, Rosa Cossart and Roman Tyzio and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yehezkel Ben‐Ari

495 papers receiving 42.9k citations

Hit Papers

Excitatory actions of gab... 1981 2026 1996 2011 2002 1985 1989 2007 1991 500 1000 1.5k
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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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Excitatory actions of gaba during development: the nature of the nurture
    2002 1.8k citations Yehezkel Ben‐Ari Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
  2. Limbic seizure and brain damage produced by kainic acid: Mechanisms and relevance to human temporal lobe epilepsy
    1985 1.5k citations Yehezkel Ben‐Ari Neuroscience profile →
  3. Giant synaptic potentials in immature rat CA3 hippocampal neurones.
    1989 1.0k citations Yehezkel Ben‐Ari, Enrico Cherubini et al. The Journal of Physiology profile →
  4. GABA: A Pioneer Transmitter That Excites Immature Neurons and Generates Primitive Oscillations
    2007 947 citations Yehezkel Ben‐Ari, Jean‐Luc Gaïarsa et al. Physiological Reviews profile →
  5. GABA: an excitatory transmitter in early postnatal life
    1991 916 citations Enrico Cherubini, Jean‐Luc Gaïarsa et al. Trends in Neurosciences profile →
  6. GABAA, NMDA and AMPA receptors: a developmentally regulated 'ménage à trois'
    1997 669 citations Yehezkel Ben‐Ari Trends in Neurosciences profile →
  7. Electrographic, clinical and pathological alterations following systemic administration of kainic acid, bicuculline or pentetrazole: Metabolic mapping using the deoxyglucose method with special reference to the pathology of epilepsy
    1981 584 citations Yehezkel Ben‐Ari, E. Tremblay et al. Neuroscience profile →
  8. Kainate, a double agent that generates seizures: two decades of progress
    2000 541 citations Yehezkel Ben‐Ari, Rosa Cossart Trends in Neurosciences profile →
  9. Oxytocin-Mediated GABA Inhibition During Delivery Attenuates Autism Pathogenesis in Rodent Offspring
    2014 436 citations Roman Tyzio, Romain Nardou et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Yehezkel Ben‐Ari 32.5k 16.8k 13.1k 6.4k 6.0k 499 43.9k
Joseph T. Coyle 25.2k 0.8× 18.9k 1.1× 7.2k 0.5× 2.4k 0.4× 3.7k 0.6× 423 44.4k
Ronald S. Duman 28.9k 0.9× 13.8k 0.8× 8.5k 0.6× 12.2k 1.9× 4.7k 0.8× 364 61.4k
Floyd E. Bloom 28.1k 0.9× 17.7k 1.1× 13.5k 1.0× 2.4k 0.4× 3.2k 0.5× 470 52.5k
René Hen 23.6k 0.7× 14.5k 0.9× 10.5k 0.8× 12.7k 2.0× 2.6k 0.4× 326 49.0k
Gary Lynch 30.5k 0.9× 15.2k 0.9× 15.7k 1.2× 5.4k 0.8× 1.4k 0.2× 529 43.4k
Miklós Palkovits 33.4k 1.0× 17.1k 1.0× 10.9k 0.8× 3.0k 0.5× 2.5k 0.4× 693 62.4k
Robert C. Malenka 49.1k 1.5× 27.6k 1.6× 22.7k 1.7× 4.3k 0.7× 1.9k 0.3× 263 67.6k
Masahiko Watanabe 24.8k 0.8× 17.7k 1.1× 7.2k 0.6× 4.0k 0.6× 1.2k 0.2× 671 40.2k
Jean‐Marc Fritschy 19.8k 0.6× 11.3k 0.7× 6.2k 0.5× 2.5k 0.4× 2.0k 0.3× 291 26.8k
John W. Olney 17.9k 0.6× 11.8k 0.7× 3.2k 0.2× 9.0k 1.4× 3.1k 0.5× 262 36.1k

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