2026 Alan C. Spector: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	56	4585	4213	2070	1871	198	9278

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Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alan C. Spector is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, neuroscience, and nursing. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including nutrition and dietetics, physiology, sensory systems, surgery, and the endocrine and autonomic systems.

Significant topics in their research include biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, olfactory and sensory function studies, diet and metabolism studies, regulation of appetite and obesity, bariatric surgery and outcomes, advanced chemical sensor technologies, and obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Among their recent publications are:

Food Intake Following Gastric Bypass Surgery: Patients Eat Less but Do Not Eat Differently (2022, Journal of Nutrition)
The elusive cephalic phase insulin response: triggers, mechanisms, and functions (2022, Physiological Reviews)
Electrophysiological responses to sugars and amino acids in the nucleus of the solitary tract of type 1 taste receptor double-knockout mice (2020, Journal of Neurophysiology)
NIH Workshop Report: sensory nutrition and disease (2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
What Should I Eat and Why? The Environmental, Genetic, and Behavioral Determinants of Food Choice: Summary from a Pennington Scientific Symposium (2020, Obesity)

Their frequent co-authors include Ginger D. Blonde, Carel W. le Roux, Ruth Price, Marco Bueter, and Daniela Alceste, reflecting collaborative research efforts across multiple studies.

Alan C. Spector has published frequently in journals such as Nutrients, Physiology & Behavior, American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, eNeuro, and Frontiers in Nutrition.

They were awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011, highlighting recognition from the wider scientific community.

Best Publications

The bad taste of medicines: overview of basic research on bitter taste.

Julie A. Mennella;Alan C. Spector;Danielle R. Reed;Susan E. Coldwell

334
Citations
Gastric bypass reduces fat intake and preference

Carel W Le Roux;Marco Bueter;Marco Bueter;Nadine Theis;Malin Werling

275
Citations
Analytical issues in the evaluation of food deprivation and sucrose concentration effects on the microstructure of licking behavior in the rat.

Alan C. Spector;Perrin A. Klumpp;Joel M. Kaplan

257
Citations
Mammalian taste perception

Paul A.S. Breslin;Alan C. Spector

244
Citations
A high-throughput screening procedure for identifying mice with aberrant taste and oromotor function.

John I. Glendinning;Jodi Gresack;Alan C. Spector

214
Citations
Alterations of sucrose preference after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

M Bueter;A D Miras;H Chichger;W Fenske

209
Citations
The representation of taste quality in the mammalian nervous system.

Alan C. Spector;Susan P. Travers

197
Citations
Gastric bypass surgery for obesity decreases the reward value of a sweet-fat stimulus as assessed in a progressive ratio task

Alexander D Miras;Robert N Jackson;Sabrina N Jackson;Anthony P Goldstone

187
Citations
Taste reactivity as a dependent measure of the rapid formation of conditioned taste aversion: a tool for the neural analysis of taste-visceral associations.

Alan C. Spector;Paul Breslin;Harvey J. Grill

180
Citations
Parabrachial gustatory lesions impair taste aversion learning in rats.

Alan C. Spector;Ralph Norgren;Harvey J. Grill

179
Citations
Linking gustatory neurobiology to behavior in vertebrates.

A.C. Spector

149
Citations
Amiloride Disrupts NaCl versus KCl Discrimination Performance: Implications for Salt Taste Coding in Rats

Alan C. Spector;Nick A. Guagliardo;Steven J. St. John

145
Citations
Salt taste discrimination after bilateral section of the chorda tympani or glossopharyngeal nerves

A. C. Spector;H. J. Grill

144
Citations
A quantitative comparison of taste reactivity behaviors to sucrose before and after lithium chloride pairings: a unidimensional account of palatability.

Paul A. S. Breslin;Alan C. Spector;Harvey J. Grill

139
Citations
Food selection and taste changes in humans after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery: A direct-measures approach

Clare M. Mathes;Alan C. Spector

136
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Rats fail to discriminate quinine from denatonium: implications for the neural coding of bitter-tasting compounds.

Alan C. Spector;Stacy L. Kopka

134
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Linking peripheral taste processes to behavior.

Alan C Spector;John I Glendinning

124
Citations
Gustatory function in the parabrachial nuclei: implications from lesion studies in rats.

Alan C. Spector

121
Citations
Role of taste in the microstructure of quinine ingestion by rats.

Alan C. Spector;Steven J. St. John

118
Citations
Taste reactivity as a dependent measure of the rapid formation of conditioned taste aversion: A tool for the neural analysis of taste-visceral associations.

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117
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A detailed analysis of sucrose drinking in the rat

Alan C. Spector;James C. Smith

114
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Glossopharyngeal nerve transection eliminates quinine-stimulated fos-like immunoreactivity in the nucleus of the solitary tract: implications for a functional topography of gustatory nerve input in rats.

Camille T. King;Susan P. Travers;Neil E. Rowland;Mircea Garcea

114
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