2026 David W. McLaughlin: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	51	1034	882	480	383	129	9402

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to dispersive waves and the analysis of behaviors of nonlinear systems.
2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

David W. McLaughlin is affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in the United States. Their research is concentrated in the field of Neuroscience, with a particular focus on subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their work covers a range of topics such as:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
Stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Frequent coauthors in McLaughlin's publications include:

Douglas Zhou
Songting Li
Zhong-qi K. Tian
Kai Chen
Simon Thiele

Common venues where McLaughlin publishes are:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Joule
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Recent papers authored or coauthored by McLaughlin include:

"Scalability and stability in CO2 reduction via tomography-guided system design," 2024, Joule
"A biochemical description of postsynaptic plasticity-with timescales ranging from milliseconds to seconds," 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Spatial Neuron Dynamics: Dendritic Integration and Beyond," 2021, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
"Causal connectivity measures for pulse-output network reconstruction: Analysis and applications," 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Ring models of binocular rivalry and fusion," 2020, Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Throughout their career, McLaughlin has received several distinctions including:

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
SIAM Fellow, 2009, recognized for contributions to dispersive waves and the analysis of behaviors of nonlinear systems
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2003
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000

Best Publications

The soliton: A new concept in applied science

A.C. Scott;F.Y.F. Chu;D.W. McLaughlin

2044
Citations
Multiphase averaging and the inverse spectral solution of the Korteweg—de Vries equation

Hermann Flaschka;M. G. Forest;D. W. McLaughlin

567
Citations
Canonically Conjugate Variables for the Korteweg-de Vries Equation and the Toda Lattice with Periodic Boundary Conditions*)

H. Flaschka;David McLaughlin

417
Citations
A One-Dimensional Model for Dispersive Wave Turbulence

A. J. Majda;D. W. McLaughlin;E. G. Tabak

340
Citations
Solitons under perturbations

J. P. Keener;D. W. McLaughlin

316
Citations
Geometry of the modulational instability III. Homoclinic orbits for the periodic sine-Gordon equation

N. Ercolani;M. G. Forest;D. W. McLaughlin

201
Citations
Path Integrals in Curved Spaces

David W. McLaughlin;L. S. Schulman

198
Citations
Focusing singularity of the cubic Schrödinger equation

DW McLaughlin;GC Papanicolaou;C Sulem;PL Sulem

197
Citations
The Semiclassical Limit of the Defocusing NLS Hierarchy

Shan Jin;C. David Levermore;David W. McLaughlin

191
Citations
Convection of Microstructure and Related Problems

D. W. McLaughlin;G. C. Papanicolaou;O. R. Pironneau

190
Citations
Spectral theory for the periodic sine‐Gordon equation: A concrete viewpoint

M. Gregory Forest;David W. McLaughlin

190
Citations
Complex Time, Contour Independent Path Integrals, and Barrier Penetration

David W. McLaughlin

186
Citations
Morse and Melnikov functions for NLS Pde's

Y. Li;David W. McLaughlin

181
Citations
A quasi-periodic route to chaos in a near-integrable pde

A R Bishop;M G Forest;D W McLaughlin;E A Overman

165
Citations
An effective kinetic representation of fluctuation-driven neuronal networks with application to simple and complex cells in visual cortex

David Cai;Louis Tao;Michael Shelley;David W. McLaughlin

154
Citations
How Simple Cells Are Made in a Nonlinear Network Model of the Visual Cortex

D. J. Wielaard;Michael Shelley;David McLaughlin;Robert Shapley

147
Citations
Dispersive wave turbulence in one dimension

David Cai;Andrew J. Majda;David W. McLaughlin;Esteban G. Tabak

145
Citations
On Davydov's alpha-helix solitons

J.M. Hyman;D.W. McLaughlin;A.C. Scott

140
Citations
New class of instabilities in passive optical cavities.

D. W. McLaughlin;J. V. Moloney;A. C. Newell

129
Citations
PERSISTENT HOMOCLINIC ORBITS FOR A PERTURBED NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION

Y. Li;David W. McLaughlin;Jalal Shatah;S. Wiggins

122
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Shapley New York University

George Papanicolaou Stanford University

Jerome V. Moloney University of Arizona

Alan C. Newell University of Arizona

Andrew J. Majda Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Jalal Shatah Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

James P. Keener University of Utah

Barbara A. Cornblatt Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

Olivier Pironneau Sorbonne University

John Rinzel New York University

External Links

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