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D-Index
59
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21661
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3929
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David A. Robinson 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 David A. Robinson sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 102 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David A. Robinson 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 David A. Robinson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

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

  • THE MECHANICS OF HUMAN SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT.

    D. A. Robinson

  • Adaptive gain control of vestibuloocular reflex by the cerebellum.

    Unknown

  • Cerebellar-dependent adaptive control of primate saccadic system

    L. M. Optican;D. A. Robinson

  • Oculomotor unit behavior in the monkey.

    D A Robinson

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

    S. C. Cannon;D. A. Robinson

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

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

  • Eye movements evoked by stimulation of frontal eye fields.

    Unknown

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

    Unknown

  • Role of abducens neurons in vestibuloocular reflex

    A A Skavenski;D A Robinson

  • Models of the saccadic eye movement control system.

    David A. Robinson

  • OCULAR MOTOR ABNORMALITIES IN HEREDITARY CEREBELLAR ATAXIA

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

  • A model of the smooth pursuit eye movement system

    Unknown

  • A hypothetical explanation of saccadic oscillations.

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

  • Slow saccades in spinocerebellar degeneration.

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

  • The upper limit of human smooth pursuit velocity.

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

  • Eye Movement Control in Primates

    David A. Robinson

  • Eye movements evoked by cerebellar stimulation in the alert monkey.

    Unknown

  • Adaptation of the human vestibuloocular reflex to magnifying lenses.

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

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

    D. A. Robinson

  • The Mechanism of Downbeat Nystagmus

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

  • A proposed neural network for the integrator of the oculomotor system

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

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

    Stephen C. Cannon;David A. Robinson

  • The oculomotor control system: A review

    D.A. Robinson

  • Abducens unit behavior in the monkey during vergence movements.

    E.L. Keller;D.A. Robinson

  • Optokinetic responses in labyrinthine-defective human beings.

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

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Zee
David S. Zee Johns Hopkins University
Stephen C. Cannon
Stephen C. Cannon University of California, Los Angeles
Lance M. Optican
Lance M. Optican National Institutes of Health
Philip S. Holzman
Philip S. Holzman Harvard University
Richard Leigh
Richard Leigh National Institutes of Health
Louis F. Dell'Osso
Louis F. Dell'Osso Case Western Reserve University
Shihab A. Shamma
Shihab A. Shamma University of Maryland, College Park
Craig H. Meyer
Craig H. Meyer University of Virginia

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