2026 Adam Kepecs: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	47	6308	5804	2747	2477	94	13718

Adam Kepecs publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adam Kepecs sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 887+

This scientist: 94 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Adam Kepecs D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adam Kepecs sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Adam Kepecs is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with significant contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Other subfields include Molecular Biology, Social Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics addressed in Kepecs's work include:

Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neural dynamics and brain function
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Kepecs's recent notable publications include:

"Roadmap for the Emerging Field of Cancer Neuroscience", 2020, Cell
"Striatal dopamine mediates hallucination-like perception in mice", 2021, Science
"Behavior- and Modality-General Representation of Confidence in Orbitofrontal Cortex", 2020, Cell
"Reinforcement biases subsequent perceptual decisions when confidence is low, a widespread behavioral phenomenon", 2020, eLife
"Distinct synchronization, cortical coupling and behavioral function of two basal forebrain cholinergic neuron types", 2020, Nature Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors associated with Adam Kepecs's research include:

Torben Ott
Paul Masset
Quentin Chevy
Katharina Schmack
Marion Bosc

Kepecs's work has been published frequently in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Neuroscience
Cell
Science
eLife

In 2009, Adam Kepecs was awarded the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

Cortical interneurons that specialize in disinhibitory control

Hyun Jae Pi;Balázs Hangya;Balázs Hangya;Duda Kvitsiani;Joshua I. Sanders

1246
Citations
Interneuron cell types are fit to function

Adam Kepecs;Gordon Fishell

1214
Citations
A deep learning framework for neuroscience

Blake A Richards;Timothy P Lillicrap;Philippe Beaudoin;Yoshua Bengio;Yoshua Bengio

1032
Citations
Neural correlates, computation and behavioural impact of decision confidence

Adam Kepecs;Naoshige Uchida;Naoshige Uchida;Hatim A. Zariwala;Hatim A. Zariwala;Zachary F. Mainen;Zachary F. Mainen

1007
Citations
Demixed principal component analysis of neural population data

Dmitry Kobak;Wieland Brendel;Wieland Brendel;Christos Constantinidis;Claudia E. Feierstein

648
Citations
Confidence and certainty: distinct probabilistic quantities for different goals.

Alexandre Pouget;Jan Drugowitsch;Adam Kepecs

603
Citations
Distinct behavioural and network correlates of two interneuron types in prefrontal cortex

D. Kvitsiani;S. Ranade;B. Hangya;H. Taniguchi;H. Taniguchi

601
Citations
Central Cholinergic Neurons Are Rapidly Recruited by Reinforcement Feedback.

Balázs Hangya;Balázs Hangya;Sachin P. Ranade;Maja Lorenc;Adam Kepecs

438
Citations
The Sniff as a Unit of Olfactory Processing

Adam Kepecs;Naoshige Uchida;Zachary F. Mainen

394
Citations
A computational framework for the study of confidence in humans and animals

Adam Kepecs;Zachary F. Mainen

366
Citations
Model for a robust neural integrator

Alexei A. Koulakov;Alexei A. Koulakov;Sridhar Raghavachari;Adam Kepecs;John E. Lisman

352
Citations
Signatures of a Statistical Computation in the Human Sense of Confidence

Joshua I. Sanders;Balázs Hangya;Balázs Hangya;Adam Kepecs

352
Citations
Roadmap for the Emerging Field of Cancer Neuroscience

Michelle Monje;Jeremy C. Borniger;Nisha J. D’Silva;Benjamin Deneen

336
Citations
Basic mechanisms for graded persistent activity: discrete attractors, continuous attractors, and dynamic representations.

Carlos D Brody;Ranulfo Romo;Adam Kepecs

334
Citations
Seeing at a glance, smelling in a whiff: rapid forms of perceptual decision making.

Naoshige Uchida;Adam Kepecs;Zachary F. Mainen

287
Citations
Bursting neurons signal input slope.

Adam Kepecs;Xiao Jing Wang;John Lisman

252
Citations
Orbitofrontal Cortex Is Required for Optimal Waiting Based on Decision Confidence

Armin Lak;Gil M. Costa;Erin Romberg;Alexei A. Koulakov

249
Citations
Rapid and Precise Control of Sniffing During Olfactory Discrimination in Rats

Adam Kepecs;Naoshige Uchida;Zachary F. Mainen

247
Citations
Striatal dopamine mediates hallucination-like perception in mice

K. Schmack;M. Bosc;T. Ott;J. F. Sturgill

237
Citations
Information encoding and computation with spikes and bursts.

Adam Kepecs;John Lisman

226
Citations
Frontal cortex neuron types categorically encode single decision variables.

Junya Hirokawa;Alexander Vaughan;Paul Masset;Paul Masset;Paul Masset;Torben Ott

189
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Zachary F. Mainen Champalimaud Foundation

Naoshige Uchida Harvard University

Michal Lipson Columbia University

John E. Lisman Brandeis University

Michael S. Okun University of Florida

Susumu Tonegawa MIT

Matteo Carandini University College London

Attila I. Gulyás Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Loren M. Frank University of California, San Francisco

Quentin J. M. Huys University College London

External Links

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