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90
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35817
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1100
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Charan Ranganath 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 Charan Ranganath sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 248 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Charan Ranganath 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 Charan Ranganath sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 90 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% 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

  • 2013 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Charan Ranganath is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with specialization in cognitive neuroscience and related subfields.

The main fields of study that characterize their work are:

  • Neuroscience

The subfields of study explored include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Neurology

Ranganath's research topics cover various aspects of brain function and behavior, including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of Ranganath's work, such as:

  • Map Making: Constructing, Combining, and Inferring on Abstract Cognitive Maps (2020, Neuron)
  • Structured Event Memory: A neuro-symbolic model of event cognition (2020, Psychological Review)
  • Intrinsic connectivity reveals functionally distinct cortico-hippocampal networks in the human brain (2021, PLoS Biology)
  • Aging alters neural activity at event boundaries in the hippocampus and Posterior Medial network (2020, Nature Communications)
  • The hippocampus constructs narrative memories across distant events (2021, Current Biology)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ranganath include:

  • Xiaonan L. Liu
  • Randall C. O'Reilly
  • Yicong Zheng
  • Zachariah M. Reagh
  • Alexander J. Barnett

The academic venues where Ranganath has been published most often are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Neuron

In recognition of their work, Ranganath was awarded the Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2013.

Best Publications

  • The Medial Temporal Lobe and Recognition Memory

    H. Eichenbaum;A. P. Yonelinas;C. Ranganath

  • Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour

    Charan Ranganath;Maureen Ritchey

  • Imaging recollection and familiarity in the medial temporal lobe: a three-component model

    Rachel A. Diana;Andrew P. Yonelinas;Charan Ranganath

  • Neural mechanisms for detecting and remembering novel events

    Charan Ranganath;Gregor Rainer

  • States of Curiosity Modulate Hippocampus-Dependent Learning via the Dopaminergic Circuit

    Matthias J. Gruber;Bernard D. Gelman;Charan Ranganath

  • Dissociable correlates of recollection and familiarity within the medial temporal lobes.

    Charan Ranganath;Andrew P. Yonelinas;Michael X Cohen;Christine J. Dy

  • Viewpoints: how the hippocampus contributes to memory, navigation and cognition

    John Lisman;György Buzsáki;Howard Eichenbaum;Lynn Nadel

  • Prefrontal Cortex and Long-Term Memory Encoding: An Integrative Review of Findings from Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging

    Robert S. Blumenfeld;Charan Ranganath

  • Reward expectation modulates feedback-related negativity and EEG spectra

    Michael X. Cohen;Christian Erich Elger;Charan Ranganath

  • Frontal EEG Alpha Asymmetry, Depression, and Cognitive Functioning

    Ian H. Gotlib;Charan Ranganath;J. Peter Rosenfeld

  • Prefrontal activity associated with working memory and episodic long-term memory

    Charan Ranganath;Marcia K Johnson;Mark D’Esposito

  • Frontal midline theta oscillations during working memory maintenance and episodic encoding and retrieval.

    Liang Tien Hsieh;Charan Ranganath

  • A unified framework for the functional organization of the medial temporal lobes and the phenomenology of episodic memory.

    Charan Ranganath

  • Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Promotes Long-Term Memory Formation through Its Role in Working Memory Organization

    Robert S. Blumenfeld;Charan Ranganath

  • Medial Temporal Lobe Activity Associated with Active Maintenance of Novel Information

    Charan Ranganath;Mark D'Esposito

  • Inferior Temporal, Prefrontal, and Hippocampal Contributions to Visual Working Memory Maintenance and Associative Memory Retrieval

    Charan Ranganath;Michael X. Cohen;Cathrine Dam;Mark D'Esposito

  • Doubts about double dissociations between short- and long-term memory.

    Charan Ranganath;Robert S. Blumenfeld

  • The Eyes Have It: Hippocampal Activity Predicts Expression of Memory in Eye Movements

    Deborah E. Hannula;Charan Ranganath

  • A contextual binding theory of episodic memory: systems consolidation reconsidered

    Andrew P Yonelinas;Charan Ranganath;Arne D Ekstrom;Brian J Wiltgen

  • Hippocampal activity patterns carry information about objects in temporal context

    Liang Tien Hsieh;Matthias J. Gruber;Lucas J. Jenkins;Charan Ranganath

  • Reinforcement Learning Signals Predict Future Decisions

    Michael X Cohen;Charan Ranganath

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew P. Yonelinas
Andrew P. Yonelinas University of California, Davis
Cameron S. Carter
Cameron S. Carter University of California, Irvine
J. Daniel Ragland
J. Daniel Ragland University of California, Davis
Michael X Cohen
Michael X Cohen Radboud University
Arne D. Ekstrom
Arne D. Ekstrom University of Arizona
Marjorie Solomon
Marjorie Solomon University of California, Davis
Mark D'Esposito
Mark D'Esposito University of California, Berkeley
Frank Rösler
Frank Rösler Universität Hamburg
Ken A. Paller
Ken A. Paller Northwestern University
Nikolai Axmacher
Nikolai Axmacher Ruhr University Bochum

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