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Alan Carleton

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Neuroscience

D-Index
37
Citations
7160
World Ranking
8722
National Ranking
200

Alan Carleton 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 Alan Carleton sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 77 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Alan Carleton 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 Alan Carleton sits on this spectrum.

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10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Alan Carleton is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and specializes in neuroscience with a focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, neurology, and nutrition and dietetics. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience, often addressing complex neural mechanisms and sensory functions.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of olfactory and sensory functions, neural dynamics and brain function, neurobiology and insect physiology, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, as well as memory and neural mechanisms.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • iScience
  • Science Translational Medicine

Among the recent scholarly papers authored or coauthored by Alan Carleton are:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 Receptors and Entry Genes Are Expressed in the Human Olfactory Neuroepithelium and Brain" (2020), published in iScience
  • "SARS-CoV-2 receptor and entry genes are expressed by sustentacular cells in the human olfactory neuroepithelium" (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "The claustrum-medial prefrontal cortex network controls attentional set-shifting" (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Superior Colliculus to VTA pathway controls orienting response and influences social interaction in mice" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "Dynamic perceptual feature selectivity in primary somatosensory cortex upon reversal learning" (2020), published in Nature Communications

Alan Carleton has collaborated frequently with other researchers including Iván Rodríguez, Leon Fodoulian, Madlaina Boillat, Joël Tuberosa, and Chieko Huber. These partnerships reflect sustained research activity and contributions across several neuroscience subfields.

Best Publications

  • Becoming a new neuron in the adult olfactory bulb

    Alan Carleton;Leopoldo T. Petreanu;Rusty Lansford;Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

  • Sonic hedgehog controls stem cell behavior in the postnatal and adult brain.

    Verónica Palma;Daniel A. Lim;Nadia Dahmane;Pilar Sánchez;Pilar Sánchez

  • Maintaining accuracy at the expense of speed: Stimulus similarity defines odor discrimination time in mice

    Nixon M. Abraham;Hartwig Spors;Alan Carleton;Troy W. Margrie

  • Sensory-evoked LTP driven by dendritic plateau potentials in vivo

    Frédéric Gambino;Stéphane Pagès;Vassilis Kehayas;Daniela Baptista

  • Dynamic Ensemble Odor Coding in the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb: Sensory Information at Different Timescales

    Brice Bathellier;Derek L. Buhl;Riccardo Accolla;Alan Carleton

  • Interplay between Local GABAergic Interneurons and Relay Neurons Generates γ Oscillations in the Rat Olfactory Bulb

    Samuel Lagier;Alan Carleton;Pierre-Marie Lledo

  • Long-term but not short-term plasticity at mossy fiber synapses is impaired in neural cell adhesion molecule-deficient mice

    Harold Cremer;Geneviève Chazal;Alan Carleton;Christo Goridis

  • SARS-CoV-2 Receptors and Entry Genes Are Expressed in the Human Olfactory Neuroepithelium and Brain.

    Leon Fodoulian;Joël Tuberosa;Daniel Rossier;Madlaina Boillat

  • Combined Voltage and Calcium Epifluorescence Imaging In Vitro and In Vivo Reveals Subthreshold and Suprathreshold Dynamics of Mouse Barrel Cortex

    Thomas Berger;Aren Borgdorff;Sylvain Crochet;Florian B. Neubauer

  • Differential Spatial Representation of Taste Modalities in the Rat Gustatory Cortex

    Riccardo Accolla;Brice Bathellier;Carl C. H. Petersen;Alan Carleton

  • Coding in the mammalian gustatory system

    Alan Carleton;Riccardo Accolla;Sidney A. Simon

  • Neuronal pattern separation in the olfactory bulb improves odor discrimination learning

    Olivier Gschwend;Nixon M Abraham;Samuel Lagier;Frédéric Begnaud

  • Multiple and Opposing Roles of Cholinergic Transmission in the Main Olfactory Bulb

    Pablo E. Castillo;Alan Carleton;Jean−Didier Vincent;Pierre−Marie Lledo

  • Large-scale transcriptional profiling of chemosensory neurons identifies receptor-ligand pairs in vivo

    Benoît von der Weid;Daniel Rossier;Matti Lindup;Joël Tuberosa

  • Internal body state influences topographical plasticity of sensory representations in the rat gustatory cortex

    Riccardo Accolla;Alan Carleton

  • The vomeronasal system mediates sick conspecific avoidance

    Madlaina Boillat;Ludivine Challet;Daniel Rossier;Chenda Kan

  • Context- and Output Layer-Dependent Long-Term Ensemble Plasticity in a Sensory Circuit

    Yoshiyuki Yamada;Khaleel Bhaukaurally;Tamás J. Madarász;Alexandre Pouget

  • SARS-CoV-2 receptor and entry genes are expressed by sustentacular cells in the human olfactory neuroepithelium

    Leon Fodoulian;Joel Tuberosa;Daniel Rossier;Daniel Rossier;Madlaina Boillat

  • Dense representation of natural odorants in the mouse olfactory bulb

    Roberto Vincis;Olivier Gschwend;Khaleel Bhaukaurally;Jonathan Beroud

  • bicoid-Independent Formation of Thoracic Segments in Drosophila

    Ernst A. Wimmer;Alan Carleton;Phoebe Harjes;Terry Turner

  • Long-term but not short-term plasticity at mossy fiber synapses is impaired in neural cell adhesion molecule-deficient mice (cell adhesion moleculesyfrequency facilitationypaired-pulse facilitationylong-term potentiationyexcitatory synapses)

    Harold Cremer;Alan Carleton;C Hristo Goridis;Jean-Didier Vincent

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre-Marie Lledo
Pierre-Marie Lledo Institut Pasteur
Jean-Didier Vincent
Jean-Didier Vincent Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Anthony Holtmaat
Anthony Holtmaat University of Geneva
Thierry Blu
Thierry Blu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dimitri Van De Ville
Dimitri Van De Ville École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michael Unser
Michael Unser École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Rebecca P. Seal
Rebecca P. Seal University of Pittsburgh
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla University of California, San Francisco
Camilla Bellone
Camilla Bellone University of Geneva
Carl C. H. Petersen
Carl C. H. Petersen École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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