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Colin S. Pittendrigh

Colin S. Pittendrigh

Stanford University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
46
Citations
19022
World Ranking
6560
National Ranking
2846

Colin S. Pittendrigh 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 Colin S. Pittendrigh sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 60 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Colin S. Pittendrigh 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 Colin S. Pittendrigh sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% 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

  • 1963 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1959 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1958 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Colin S. Pittendrigh was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to research in biological rhythms, as evidenced by their recent publication titled Pittendrigh Remembered in 2023, which appeared in the Journal of Biological Rhythms.

The scientist collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Gene D. Block
  • Fred C. Davis
  • Carl Hirschie Johnson
  • William J. Schwartz
  • Fred W. Turek

Their publications were mainly featured in the Journal of Biological Rhythms. This indicates a focus on circadian biology and related areas of chronobiology.

Colin S. Pittendrigh received multiple recognitions: they became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1958, were named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1959, and were inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1963.

Their documented research contributions and collaborations highlight a concentration on topics within biological rhythms, but specific fields and subfields of study were not detailed.

Best Publications

  • A Functional Analysis of Circadian Pacemakers in Nocturnal Rodents. I. The Stability and Lability of Spontaneous Frequency

    Serge Daan;Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • TEMPORAL ORGANIZATION: Reflections of a Darwinian Clock -Watcher

    Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • The Entrainment of Circadian Oscillations by Light and Their Role as Photoperiodic Clocks

    Colin S. Pittendrigh;Dorothea H. Minis

  • A functional analysis of circadian pacemakers in nocturnal rodents

    Unknown

  • A functional analysis of circadian pacemakers in nocturnal rodents

    Unknown

  • Circadian Systems: Entrainment

    Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • A Functional analysis of circadian pacemakers in nocturnal rodents

    Unknown

  • Circadian Surfaces and the Diversity of Possible Roles of Circadian Organization in Photoperiodic Induction

    Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • Circadian Systems: Longevity as a Function of Circadian Resonance in Drosophila melanogaster

    Colin S. Pittendrigh;Dorothea H. Minis

  • Circadian oscillations in rodents : A systematic increase of their frequency with age

    Colin S. Pittendrigh;Serge Daan

  • Reciprocal Behaviour Associated with Altered Homeostasis and Photosensitivity of Drosophila Clock Mutants

    Ronald J. Konopka;Colin Pittendrigh;Dominic Orr

  • Circadian Systems: General Perspective

    Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • An effect of castration and testosterone replacement on a circadian pacemaker in mice (Mus musculus)

    Serge Daan;David Damassa;Colin S. Pittendrigh;Erla R. Smith

  • Temperature compensation of the circadian oscillation in drosophila pseudoobscura and its entrainment by temperature cycles.

    William F. Zimmerman;William F. Zimmerman;Colin S. Pittendrigh;Colin S. Pittendrigh;Theodosius Pavlidis;Theodosius Pavlidis

  • Central nervous system control of circadian rhythmicity in the cockroach: III. The optic lobes, locus of the driving oscillation?

    Junko Nishiitsutsuji-Uwo;Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • Circadian systems. I. The driving oscillation and its assay in Drosophila pseudoobscura.

    Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • V. An Oscillator Model for Biological Clocks

    Colin S. Pittendrigh;Victor G. Bruce

  • Central nervous system control of circadian rhythmicity in the cockroach

    Junko Nishiitsutsuji-Uwo;Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • The Amplitude of Circadian Oscillations: Temperature Dependence, Latitudinal Clines, and the Photoperiodic Time Measurement

    Unknown

  • Circadian Locomotor Rhythms of Rodents in the Arctic

    Richard H. Swade;Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • Mutual entrainment of bilaterally distributed circadian pacemaker.

    Terry L. Page;Patricia C. Caldarola;Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • Circadian Oscillation Controlling Hatching: Its Ontogeny during Embryogenesis of a Moth

    Dorothea H. Minis;Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • Circadian Systems, V. The Driving Oscillation and the Temporal Sequence of Development

    Colin S. Pittendrigh;Steven D. Skopik

  • Latitudinal clines in the properties of a circadian pacemaker.

    Colin S. Pittendrigh;Tsuguhiko Takamura

  • An effect of heavy water on the phase and period of the circadian rhythm in euglena

    Victor G. Bruce;Colin S. Pittendrigh

  • A functional analysis of circadian pacemakers in nocturnal rodents

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

William C. Dement
William C. Dement Stanford University

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