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Daniel Kerschensteiner 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 Daniel Kerschensteiner sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 80 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniel Kerschensteiner 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 Daniel Kerschensteiner sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Daniel Kerschensteiner is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's recent publications include the following notable papers:

  • Cell-type-specific binocular vision guides predation in mice, 2021, Neuron
  • Feature Detection by Retinal Ganglion Cells, 2022, Annual Review of Vision Science
  • Efficient Coding by Midget and Parasol Ganglion Cells in the Human Retina, 2020, Neuron
  • Homeostatic Plasticity Shapes the Retinal Response to Photoreceptor Degeneration, 2020, Current Biology
  • Dendritic and parallel processing of visual threats in the retina control defensive responses, 2020, Science Advances

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jen-Chun Hsiang
  • Josh Morgan
  • Ning Shen
  • Michael J. Fitzpatrick
  • Florentina Soto

Kerschensteiner has published repeatedly in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • Nature Communications
  • Neuron
  • Current Biology
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Regarding research topics, Kerschensteiner's work engages with:

  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Glaucoma and retinal disorders
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

In 2010, Daniel Kerschensteiner was awarded a fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • The spatial structure of a nonlinear receptive field.

    Gregory W Schwartz;Haruhisa Okawa;Felice A Dunn;Josh L Morgan

  • Neurotransmission selectively regulates synapse formation in parallel circuits in vivo

    Daniel Kerschensteiner;Josh L. Morgan;Edward D. Parker;Renate M. Lewis

  • Mechanism of Block of hEag1 K+ Channels by Imipramine and Astemizole

    Rafael E. García-Ferreiro;Daniel Kerschensteiner;Felix Major;Francisco J. Monje

  • Biochemical and functional evidence for heteromeric assembly of P2X1 and P2X4 subunits.

    Annette Nicke;Daniel Kerschensteiner;Florentina Soto

  • Elevating Growth Factor Responsiveness and Axon Regeneration by Modulating Presynaptic Inputs.

    Yiling Zhang;Philip R. Williams;Philip R. Williams;Anne Jacobi;Chen Wang

  • Homeostatic plasticity in neural development.

    Nai Wen Tien;Daniel Kerschensteiner

  • Cell-type-specific binocular vision guides predation in mice

    Keith P. Johnson;Michael J. Fitzpatrick;Lei Zhao;Bing Wang

  • An excitatory amacrine cell detects object motion and provides feature-selective input to ganglion cells in the mouse retina

    Tahnbee Kim;Florentina Soto;Daniel Kerschensteiner

  • A precisely timed asynchronous pattern of ON and OFF retinal ganglion cell activity during propagation of retinal waves.

    Daniel Kerschensteiner;Rachel O.L. Wong

  • Organization of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus in the mouse.

    Daniel Kerschensteiner;William Guido

  • Dendritic mitochondria reach stable positions during circuit development

    Michelle C Faits;Chunmeng Zhang;Florentina Soto;Daniel Kerschensteiner

  • Feature Detection by Retinal Ganglion Cells

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  • Development of cell type-specific connectivity patterns of converging excitatory axons in the retina.

    Joshua L. Morgan;Florentina Soto;Rachel O.L. Wong;Daniel Kerschensteiner;Daniel Kerschensteiner

  • Target-Specific Glycinergic Transmission from VGluT3-Expressing Amacrine Cells Shapes Suppressive Contrast Responses in the Retina

    Nai-Wen Tien;Tahnbee Kim;Daniel Kerschensteiner

  • Spontaneous Activity Promotes Synapse Formation in a Cell-Type-Dependent Manner in the Developing Retina

    Florentina Soto;Xiaofeng Ma;Jacob L. Cecil;Bradly Q. Vo

  • NGL-2 regulates pathway-specific neurite growth and lamination, synapse formation, and signal transmission in the retina

    Florentina Soto;Kelly L. Watkins;Robert E. Johnson;Frank Schottler

  • Fluorescence measurements reveal stoichiometry of K + channels formed by modulatory and delayed rectifier α-subunits

    Daniel Kerschensteiner;Florentina Soto;Martin Stocker

  • Spontaneous Network Activity and Synaptic Development

    Daniel Kerschensteiner

  • Subunit Assembly and Domain Analysis of Electrically Silent K+ Channel α-Subunits of the Rat Kv9 Subfamily

    Martin Stocker;Michaela Hellwig;Daniel Kerschensteiner

  • Genetically Identified Suppressed-by-Contrast Retinal Ganglion Cells Reliably Signal Self-Generated Visual Stimuli

    Nai-Wen Tien;James T. Pearson;Charles R. Heller;Jay Demas

  • Fe65 interacts with P2X2 subunits at excitatory synapses and modulates receptor function.

    Marianela Masin;Daniel Kerschensteiner;Kerstin Dümke;Maria E. Rubio

  • Efficient Coding by Midget and Parasol Ganglion Cells in the Human Retina

    Florentina Soto;Jen-Chun Hsiang;Rithwick Rajagopal;Kisha Piggott

  • Coordinated increase in inhibitory and excitatory synapses onto retinal ganglion cells during development

    Florentina Soto;Florentina Soto;Adam Bleckert;Renate Lewis;Yunhee Kang

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel O.L. Wong
Rachel O.L. Wong University of Washington
Fred Rieke
Fred Rieke University of Washington
Hongkui Zeng
Hongkui Zeng Allen Institute for Brain Science
Chi-chung Hui
Chi-chung Hui University of Toronto
William Guido
William Guido University of Louisville
Martin Kerschensteiner
Martin Kerschensteiner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Nicholas C. Brecha
Nicholas C. Brecha University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas Misgeld
Thomas Misgeld Technical University of Munich
Peter D. Lukasiewicz
Peter D. Lukasiewicz Washington University in St. Louis
Lihong V. Wang
Lihong V. Wang California Institute of Technology

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