Robert C. Malenka

Also affiliated with Stanford University

NeuroscienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Indexed papers

3in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Why this DataRank?

An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 3 indexed papers attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Papers

Driven by 26 papers. Top paper: “Role of ampa receptor endocytosis in synaptic plasticity”.

Role of ampa receptor endocytosis in synaptic plasticity

Nature Reviews Neuroscience(2001)10.1038/35072500

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13.9DataRank · unranked

436 citations

Eric C. Beattie, Mark von Zastrow, Robert C. Malenka, Reed C. Carroll

Synaptic scaling mediated by glial TNF-α

Nature(2006)10.1038/nature04671

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10.8DataRank · unranked

1685 citations

Robert C. Malenka, David Stellwagen

Pilot study of responsive nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation for loss-of-control eating

Nature Medicine(2022)10.1038/s41591-022-01941-w

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2.2DataRank · unranked

95 citations

Camarin E. Rolle, Daniel A. N. Barbosa, Tricia Cunningham, Austin Y. Feng, Noriah D. Johnson +12 more

Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin

Nature(2024)10.1038/s41586-024-08412-x

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0.883DataRank · unranked

45 citations

Matthew B. Pomrenze, Michaela Y. Guo, Gavin Touponse, Allen P. F. Chen, Brandon S. Bentzley +3 more

Endocytosis in the axon initial segment maintains neuronal polarity

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-05074-5

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0.637DataRank · unranked

69 citations

Takeshi Uenaka, Vivek Belapurkar, Rui Lu, Shouqiang Cheng, Joseph S. Pak +8 more

Interactions between drebrin and Ras regulate dendritic spine plasticity

European Journal of Neuroscience(2008)10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06269.x

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0.617DataRank · unranked

60 citations

Heike Brinkhaus, Robert C. Malenka, Andrew Matus, Virginie Biou

UNRAVELing the synergistic effects of psilocybin and environment on brain-wide immediate early gene expression in mice

Neuropsychopharmacology(2023)10.1038/s41386-023-01613-4

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0.587DataRank · unranked

49 citations

Austen B. Casey, Daniel A. N. Barbosa, Xue Zhang, Tuuli M. Hietamies, Grecia Ramirez-Ovalle +6 more

DIPG-21. ELECTRICAL INTEGRATION OF GLIOMA INTO NEURAL CIRCUITRY

Neuro-Oncology(2019)10.1093/neuonc/noz036.042

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0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Wade Morishita, Anna Geraghty, Dana Silverbush, Marlene Arzt, Lydia Tam +14 more

Input-specific modulation of murine nucleus accumbens differentially regulates hedonic feeding

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-021-22430-7

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0DataRank · unranked

65 citations

Jessica J. Walsh, Boris D. Heifets, Paul Hoerbelt, Sophie Neuner, Gordon Sun +5 more

Neural circuits regulating prosocial behaviors

Neuropsychopharmacology(2022)10.1038/s41386-022-01348-8

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0DataRank · unranked

67 citations

Daniel J. Christoffel, Robert C. Malenka, Jessica J. Walsh

Somatodendritic Release of Cholecystokinin Potentiates GABAergic Synapses Onto Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Cells

Biological Psychiatry(2022)10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.06.011

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0DataRank · unranked

28 citations

Matthew B. Pomrenze, Claire Manning, Caroline Casper, Annie L. Wolfden, Robert C. Malenka +2 more

Myelin plasticity in ventral tegmental area is required for opioid reward

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.09.01.506263

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0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Matthew B. Pomrenze, Karen Malacon, Isabelle J. Chau, Kathryn R. Taylor, Lijun Ni +4 more

Striatal dopamine integrates cost, benefit and motivation

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.09.20.508777

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0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Gavin Touponse, Allan Wang, Amber K. Osterman, Amei Shank, Alexandra Groome +6 more

Somatodendritic release of cholecystokinin potentiates GABAergic synapses onto ventral tegmental area dopamine cells

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.01.14.476405

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Matthew B. Pomrenze, Caroline Casper, Annie M. Wolfden, Robert C. Malenka, Julie A. Kauer +1 more

Orbitofrontal cortex control of striatum leads economic decision-making

Nature Neuroscience(2023)10.1038/s41593-023-01409-1

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0DataRank · unranked

58 citations

Melissa Hernandez, Charu Ramakrishnan, Ailey Crow, Robert C. Malenka, Karl Deisseroth +1 more

Dissecting neural mechanisms of prosocial behaviors

Current Opinion in Neurobiology(2020)10.1016/j.conb.2020.11.006

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0DataRank · unranked

26 citations

Daniel J. Christoffel, Xiaoting Wu, Matthew B. Pomrenze, Robert C. Malenka, Jessica J. Walsh

Striatal dopamine integrates cost, benefit, and motivation

Neuron(2023)10.1016/j.neuron.2023.10.038

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0DataRank · unranked

43 citations

Gavin Touponse, Allan Wang, Amber K. Osterman, Amei Shank, Alexandra Groome +6 more

Striatal integration of inverse dopamine and serotonin signals gates learning

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.06.14.544997

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Matthew B. Pomrenze, Michaela Y. Guo, Brandon S. Bentzley, Neir Eshel, Robert C. Malenka +1 more

Loss of the neural-specific BAF subunit ACTL6B relieves repression of early response genes and causes recessive autism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2020)10.1073/pnas.1908238117

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0DataRank · unranked

68 citations

Lu Wang, A. Krokhotin, Jessica J. Walsh, Hongjie Li, Hirotaka Shoji +24 more

5-HT 2C receptors in the nucleus accumbens constrain the rewarding effects of MDMA

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.10.20.619256

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Sam Vaillancourt, Juliana S. Salgado, Kendall B. Raymond, Pierre Llorach, Gavin Touponse +7 more

5-HT2C receptors in the nucleus accumbens constrain the rewarding effects of MDMA

Molecular Psychiatry(2025)10.1038/s41380-025-03128-4

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0DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Sam Vaillancourt, Juliana S. Salgado, Kendall B. Raymond, Pierre Llorach, Hiroaki Sacai +10 more

Ketamine Evokes Acute Behavioral Effects Via μ Opioid Receptor–Expressing Neurons of the Central Amygdala

Biological Psychiatry(2025)10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.04.020

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0DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Sam Vaillancourt, Pierre Llorach, Daniel Ryskamp Rijsketic, Austen B. Casey, Nicholas Gregory +7 more

Opponent regulation of striatal output pathways by dopamine and serotonin

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.04.17.649431

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0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Michaela Y. Guo, Wade Morishita, Matthew B. Pomrenze, Neir Eshel, Robert C. Malenka +1 more

Psilocybin has no immediate or persistent analgesic effect in acute and chronic mouse pain models

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.07.06.663398

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Tyler E. Girard, Akila Ram, Austen B. Casey, Robert C. Malenka, Vivianne L. Tawfik +2 more

CNSC-36. PSILOCYBIN INDUCES SUSTAINED GLIOMA GROWTH THROUGH SEROTONERGIC AND TRKB PATHWAYS

Neuro-Oncology(2025)10.1093/neuonc/noaf201.0244

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Belgin Yalçın, Rebecca Mancusi, Abigail Rogers, Kiarash Shamardani, Pamelyn J. Woo +11 more

A Molecular Calcium Integrator Reveals a Striatal Cell Type Driving Aversion

Cell(2020)10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.015

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0DataRank · unranked

105 citations

Mateo I. Sánchez, Paul Hoerbelt, Lief E. Fenno, Robert C. Malenka, Karl Deisseroth +2 more