2026 David A. Robinson: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	59	3929	1781	102	21661

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Neuroscience

3929

1781

102

21661

Overview

David A. Robinson was affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work covered several key subfields, including soil science, ecology, cognitive neuroscience, global and planetary change, and environmental engineering. Research topics frequently addressed by Robinson involved soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil erosion and sediment transport, vestibular and auditory disorders, visual perception and processing mechanisms, soil and unsaturated flow, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and glaucoma and retinal disorders.

Robinson authored numerous publications across a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues were:

Progress in Brain Research (21 publications)
European Journal of Soil Science (8 publications)
The Science of The Total Environment (6 publications)
Geoderma (4 publications)
Earth-Science Reviews (3 publications)

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by David A. Robinson included:

Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Global phosphorus shortage will be aggravated by soil erosion (2020), published in Nature Communications
Soil textural heterogeneity impacts bacterial but not fungal diversity (2020), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Embracing the dynamic nature of soil structure: A paradigm illuminating the role of life in critical zones of the Anthropocene (2021), published in Earth-Science Reviews
Policy implications of multiple concurrent soil erosion processes in European farmland (2022), published in Nature Sustainability

David A. Robinson collaborated frequently with a number of researchers in their field. Notable co-authors included:

Bridget A. Emmett
Inma Lebron
Fiona M. Seaton
Pasquale Borrelli
Panos Panagos

The scope of Robinson's scientific inquiry integrated aspects of both biological and environmental sciences. Their work showed particular emphasis on understanding soil processes and their broader ecological and environmental impacts, as well as components of cognitive neuroscience related to sensory and perceptual systems.

Best Publications

Eye movements evoked by collicular stimulation in the alert monkey

D.A. Robinson

1837
Citations
THE MECHANICS OF HUMAN SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT.

D. A. Robinson

1258
Citations
Adaptive gain control of vestibuloocular reflex by the cerebellum.

Unknown

846
Citations
Cerebellar-dependent adaptive control of primate saccadic system

L. M. Optican;D. A. Robinson

833
Citations
Oculomotor unit behavior in the monkey.

D A Robinson

794
Citations
Loss of the neural integrator of the oculomotor system from brain stem lesions in monkey.

S. C. Cannon;D. A. Robinson

777
Citations
A quantitative analysis of generation of saccadic eye movements by burst neurons.

J. A.M. Van Gisbergen;D. A. Robinson;S. Gielen

727
Citations
Eye movements evoked by stimulation of frontal eye fields.

Unknown

699
Citations
The use of control systems analysis in the neurophysiology of eye movements.

Unknown

632
Citations
Role of abducens neurons in vestibuloocular reflex

A A Skavenski;D A Robinson

546
Citations
Models of the saccadic eye movement control system.

David A. Robinson

533
Citations
OCULAR MOTOR ABNORMALITIES IN HEREDITARY CEREBELLAR ATAXIA

David S. Zee;Robert D. Yee;David G. Cogan;David A. Robinson

442
Citations
A model of the smooth pursuit eye movement system

Unknown

418
Citations
A hypothetical explanation of saccadic oscillations.

David S. Zee;David S. Zee;David A. Robinson

374
Citations
Slow saccades in spinocerebellar degeneration.

David S. Zee;Lance M. Optican;Jay D. Cook;David A. Robinson

356
Citations
The upper limit of human smooth pursuit velocity.

Craig H. Meyer;Adrian G. Lasker;David A. Robinson

335
Citations
Eye Movement Control in Primates

David A. Robinson

334
Citations
Eye movements evoked by cerebellar stimulation in the alert monkey.

Unknown

328
Citations
Adaptation of the human vestibuloocular reflex to magnifying lenses.

Gabriel M. Gauthier;Gabriel M. Gauthier;David A. Robinson;David A. Robinson

326
Citations
The use of matrices in analyzing the three-dimensional behavior of the vestibulo-ocular reflex

D. A. Robinson

307
Citations
The Mechanism of Downbeat Nystagmus

David S. Zee;Alvin R. Friendlich;David A. Robinson

281
Citations
A proposed neural network for the integrator of the oculomotor system

Stephen C. Cannon;David A. Robinson;Shihab Shamma

270
Citations
An improved neural-network model for the neural integrator of the oculomotor system: More realistic neuron behavior

Stephen C. Cannon;David A. Robinson

260
Citations
The oculomotor control system: A review

D.A. Robinson

202
Citations
Abducens unit behavior in the monkey during vergence movements.

E.L. Keller;D.A. Robinson

195
Citations
Optokinetic responses in labyrinthine-defective human beings.

David S. Zee;Robert D. Yee;David A. Robinson

184
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Zee Johns Hopkins University

Lance M. Optican National Institutes of Health

Philip S. Holzman Harvard University

Richard Leigh National Institutes of Health

Louis F. Dell'Osso Case Western Reserve University

Shihab A. Shamma University of Maryland, College Park

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