2026 Alain Chédotal: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	83	1475	1340	47	41	192	21140

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Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Member of Academia Europaea
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Alain Chédotal is affiliated with the Institut de la Vision in France and has established a research profile spanning multiple disciplines, with a significant focus in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. Their publication record demonstrates engagement with core areas of medicine as well as specialized subfields of molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, genetics, and radiology.

Their research topics cover a broad spectrum within neuroscience and developmental biology, including:

Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Retinal Development and Disorders
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
Congenital heart defects research
Renal and related cancers

Chédotal has authored and co-authored numerous publications across high-impact and specialized scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature
Neuron
eLife
Nature reviews. Neuroscience

Recent notable papers featuring their research include the following:

"Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience", 2020, published in Nature reviews. Neuroscience
"Single-cell roadmap of human gonadal development", 2022, published in Nature
"A roadmap for the Human Developmental Cell Atlas", 2021, published in Nature
"A human embryonic limb cell atlas resolved in space and time", 2023, published in Nature
"Yolk sac cell atlas reveals multiorgan functions during human early development", 2023, published in Science

The scientist frequently collaborates with several colleagues, including:

Yorick Gitton
Séverine Mazaud-Guittot
Raphaël Blain
Juan Antonio Moreno-Bravo
Omer Ali Bayraktar

Alain Chédotal has been recognized with memberships in distinguished organizations such as the Academia Europaea since 2015 and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

Plexins are a large family of receptors for transmembrane, secreted, and GPI-anchored semaphorins in vertebrates.

Luca Tamagnone;Stefania Artigiani;Hang Chen;Zhigang He

1404
Citations
Neuropilin-2, a Novel Member of the Neuropilin Family, Is a High Affinity Receptor for the Semaphorins Sema E and Sema IV but Not Sema III

Hang Chen;Alain Chédotal;Zhigang He;Corey S Goodman

866
Citations
Decoding human fetal liver haematopoiesis

Dorin-Mirel Popescu;Rachel A. Botting;Emily Stephenson;Kile Green

605
Citations
Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience

Hiroki R. Ueda;Ali Ertürk;Kwanghun Chung;Viviana Gradinaru

590
Citations
Analysis of the L1-Deficient Mouse Phenotype Reveals Cross-Talk between Sema3A and L1 Signaling Pathways in Axonal Guidance

Valérie Castellani;Alain Chédotal;Melitta Schachner;Catherine Faivre-Sarrailh

511
Citations
Neuropilin-2 Regulates the Development of Select Cranial and Sensory Nerves and Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Projections

Hang Chen;Anil Bagri;Joel A Zupicich;Yimin Zou

443
Citations
Unified nomenclature for the semaphorins/collapsins [1]

J. A. Bamberg;S. Baumgartner;H. Betz;J. Bolz

420
Citations
The transmembrane semaphorin Sema4D/CD100, an inhibitor of axonal growth, is expressed on oligodendrocytes and upregulated after CNS lesion.

Moreau-Fauvarque C;Kumanogoh A;Camand E;Jaillard C

378
Citations
Tridimensional Visualization and Analysis of Early Human Development.

Morgane Belle;David Godefroy;Gérard Couly;Samuel A. Malone

360
Citations
Slit-Robo signaling.

Heike Blockus;Alain Chédotal

359
Citations
Promotion of central nervous system remyelination by induced differentiation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells.

Sha Mi;Robert H. Miller;Wei Tang;Xinhua Lee

349
Citations
Spatiotemporal expression patterns of slit and robo genes in the rat brain.

Valérie Marillat;Oliver Cases;Kim Tuyen Nguyen-Ba-Charvet;Marc Tessier-Lavigne

334
Citations
Regulation of cortical dendrite development by Slit-Robo interactions.

Kristin L. Whitford;Valérie Marillat;Elke Stein;Corey S. Goodman

331
Citations
Neogenin mediates the action of repulsive guidance molecule.

Srikanth Rajagopalan;Lutz Deitinghoff;Denise Davis;Sabine Conrad

327
Citations
RGM and its receptor neogenin regulate neuronal survival

Eiji Matsunaga;Servane Tauszig-Delamasure;Philippe P. Monnier;Bernhard K. Mueller

320
Citations
Novel roles for Slits and netrins: axon guidance cues as anticancer targets?

Patrick Mehlen;Céline Delloye-Bourgeois;Alain Chédotal

313
Citations
Slit2-Mediated Chemorepulsion and Collapse of Developing Forebrain Axons

Kim Tuyen Nguyen Ba-Charvet;Katja Brose;Valérie Marillat;Tom Kidd

312
Citations
Directional guidance of oligodendroglial migration by class 3 semaphorins and netrin-1.

Nathalie Spassky;Fernando de Castro;Barbara Le Bras;Katharina Heydon

307
Citations
Netrin-1-mediated axon outgrowth and cAMP production requires interaction with adenosine A2b receptor

Véronique Corset;Kim Tuyen Nguyen-Ba-Charvet;Christelle Forcet;Emmanuel Moyse

298
Citations
Multiple Roles for Slits in the Control of Cell Migration in the Rostral Migratory Stream

Kim T. Nguyen-Ba-Charvet;Nathalie Picard-Riera;Marc Tessier-Lavigne;Anne Baron-Van Evercooren

293
Citations