2026 Charan Ranganath: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	90	1100	990	570	500	248	35817

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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

3190
Citations
Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour

Charan Ranganath;Maureen Ritchey

1516
Citations
Imaging recollection and familiarity in the medial temporal lobe: a three-component model

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

1402
Citations
Neural mechanisms for detecting and remembering novel events

Charan Ranganath;Gregor Rainer

952
Citations
States of Curiosity Modulate Hippocampus-Dependent Learning via the Dopaminergic Circuit

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

882
Citations
Dissociable correlates of recollection and familiarity within the medial temporal lobes.

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

868
Citations
Viewpoints: how the hippocampus contributes to memory, navigation and cognition

John Lisman;György Buzsáki;Howard Eichenbaum;Lynn Nadel

828
Citations
Prefrontal Cortex and Long-Term Memory Encoding: An Integrative Review of Findings from Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging

Robert S. Blumenfeld;Charan Ranganath

784
Citations
Reward expectation modulates feedback-related negativity and EEG spectra

Michael X. Cohen;Christian Erich Elger;Charan Ranganath

706
Citations
Frontal EEG Alpha Asymmetry, Depression, and Cognitive Functioning

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

600
Citations
Prefrontal activity associated with working memory and episodic long-term memory

Charan Ranganath;Marcia K Johnson;Mark D’Esposito

599
Citations
Frontal midline theta oscillations during working memory maintenance and episodic encoding and retrieval.

Liang Tien Hsieh;Charan Ranganath

593
Citations
A unified framework for the functional organization of the medial temporal lobes and the phenomenology of episodic memory.

Charan Ranganath

490
Citations
Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Promotes Long-Term Memory Formation through Its Role in Working Memory Organization

Robert S. Blumenfeld;Charan Ranganath

483
Citations
Medial Temporal Lobe Activity Associated with Active Maintenance of Novel Information

Charan Ranganath;Mark D'Esposito

478
Citations
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

473
Citations
Doubts about double dissociations between short- and long-term memory.

Charan Ranganath;Robert S. Blumenfeld

468
Citations
The Eyes Have It: Hippocampal Activity Predicts Expression of Memory in Eye Movements

Deborah E. Hannula;Charan Ranganath

442
Citations
A contextual binding theory of episodic memory: systems consolidation reconsidered

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

440
Citations
Hippocampal activity patterns carry information about objects in temporal context

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

416
Citations
Reinforcement Learning Signals Predict Future Decisions

Michael X Cohen;Charan Ranganath

409
Citations