2026 Dan H. Sanes: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	61	3733	3412	1709	1539	192	10722

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Research.com Recognitions

2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1988 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Dan H. Sanes is affiliated with New York University in the United States and specializes in neuroscience with a primary focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including developmental biology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sensory systems.

The scientist has contributed to several main topics within their field, including:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Neuroscience and music perception
Animal vocal communication and behavior
Hearing loss and rehabilitation
Hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, genetics
Primate behavior and ecology
Infant health and development

Some of the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Dan H. Sanes include:

"SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking," 2022, published in Nature Methods
"Parietal Cortex Is Required for the Integration of Acoustic Evidence," 2020, published in Current Biology
"Publisher Correction: SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking," 2022, published in Nature Methods
"Temporal Encoding is Required for Categorization, But Not Discrimination," 2020, published in Cerebral Cortex
"Auditory processing remains sensitive to environmental experience during adolescence in a rodent model," 2022, published in Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors include:

Justin D. Yao
Catalin Mitelut
Ralph E. Peterson
Marielisa Diez Castro
Nihaad Paraouty

Dan H. Sanes has published extensively in several venues, with multiple contributions in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Nature Methods
Nature Communications
Scientific Reports

Awards include recognition as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010 and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1988.

Best Publications

A viral strategy for targeting and manipulating interneurons across vertebrate species

Jordane Dimidschstein;Jordane Dimidschstein;Qian Chen;Robin Tremblay;Stephanie L. Rogers

558
Citations
A Developmental Shift from GABAergic to Glycinergic Transmission in the Central Auditory System

Vibhakar C. Kotak;Sailaja Korada;Ilisa R. Schwartz;Dan H. Sanes;Dan H. Sanes

350
Citations
Hearing Loss Raises Excitability in the Auditory Cortex

Vibhakar C. Kotak;Sho Fujisawa;Fanyee Anja Lee;Omkar Karthikeyan

333
Citations
In vivo auditory brain mapping in mice with Mn-enhanced MRI

Xin Yu;Youssef Zaim Wadghiri;Dan H Sanes;Daniel H Turnbull

332
Citations
Transformation of temporal properties between auditory midbrain and cortex in the awake Mongolian gerbil.

Maria Ter-Mikaelian;Dan H. Sanes;Malcolm N. Semple

257
Citations
An in vitro analysis of sound localization mechanisms in the gerbil lateral superior olive

Dan H. Sanes

256
Citations
The ontogeny of inhibition and excitation in the gerbil lateral superior olive

DH Sanes;EW Rubel

227
Citations
Activity-dependent refinement of inhibitory connections

Dan H. Sanes;Catherine Takács

206
Citations
Development and specificity of inhibitory terminal arborizations in the central nervous system.

Dan H. Sanes;Veronica Siverls

197
Citations
The effect of bilateral deafness on excitatory and inhibitory synaptic strength in the inferior colliculus.

Carmen Vale;Dan H. Sanes;Dan H. Sanes

190
Citations
Synaptic inhibition influences the temporal coding properties of medial superior olivary neurons: an in vitro study.

Benedikt Grothe;Dan H. Sanes

179
Citations
The sharpening of frequency tuning curves requires patterned activity during development in the mouse, Mus musculus

DH Sanes;M Constantine-Paton

178
Citations
Bilateral inhibition by glycinergic afferents in the medial superior olive

Benedikt Grothe;Dan H. Sanes

168
Citations
The development of synaptic function and integration in the central auditory system

DH Sanes

166
Citations
Quantitative distribution of the glycine receptor in the auditory brain stem of the gerbil.

DH Sanes;WA Geary;GF Wooten;EW Rubel

155
Citations
Hearing Loss Prevents the Maturation of GABAergic Transmission in the Auditory Cortex

Vibhakar C. Kotak;Anne E. Takesian;Dan H. Sanes;Dan H. Sanes

154
Citations
Tuning up the developing auditory CNS

Dan H Sanes;Shaowen Bao

150
Citations
Conductive hearing loss disrupts synaptic and spike adaptation in developing auditory cortex.

Han Xu;Vibhakar C. Kotak;Dan H. Sanes

149
Citations
Evidence for an alteration of the tonotopic map in the gerbil cochlea during development.

Dan H. Sanes;Michael Merickel;Edwin W Rubel

148
Citations
The influence of inhibitory afferents on the development of postsynaptic dendritic arbors.

Dan H. Sanes;Scott Markowitz;Joseph Bernstein;Jesse Wardlow

144
Citations