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Dan H. Sanes 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 Dan H. Sanes sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 192 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dan H. Sanes 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 Dan H. Sanes sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 61 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hearing Loss Raises Excitability in the Auditory Cortex

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Dan H. Sanes

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

    DH Sanes;EW Rubel

  • Activity-dependent refinement of inhibitory connections

    Dan H. Sanes;Catherine Takács

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

    Dan H. Sanes;Veronica Siverls

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

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

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

    Benedikt Grothe;Dan H. Sanes

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

    DH Sanes;M Constantine-Paton

  • Bilateral inhibition by glycinergic afferents in the medial superior olive

    Benedikt Grothe;Dan H. Sanes

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

    DH Sanes

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

    DH Sanes;WA Geary;GF Wooten;EW Rubel

  • Hearing Loss Prevents the Maturation of GABAergic Transmission in the Auditory Cortex

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

  • Tuning up the developing auditory CNS

    Dan H Sanes;Shaowen Bao

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

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

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

    Dan H. Sanes;Michael Merickel;Edwin W Rubel

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Reh
Thomas A. Reh University of Washington
William A. Harris
William A. Harris University of Cambridge
Malcolm N. Semple
Malcolm N. Semple New York University
John Rinzel
John Rinzel New York University
Gord Fishell
Gord Fishell Harvard Medical School
Edwin W. Rubel
Edwin W. Rubel University of Washington
David R. Moore
David R. Moore Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Chiye Aoki
Chiye Aoki New York University
David Poeppel
David Poeppel New York University

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