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Eric R. Kandel 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 Eric R. Kandel sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 681 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eric R. Kandel 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 Eric R. Kandel sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 222 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2000 - Nobel Prize for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
  • 1997 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
  • 1989 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Neurosciences
  • 1988 - US President's National Medal of Science "For discovering the first cellular and molecular mechanisms contributing to simple learning and memory.", Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.
  • 1988 - Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award
  • 1988 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1987 - Canada Gairdner International Award
  • 1983 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
  • 1981 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society
  • 1978 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1976 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1974 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Eric R. Kandel is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Neurology.

The main topics addressed in their work are Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, and RNA Research and Splicing.

Some recent papers authored by Kandel include:

  • 3D neuronal mitochondrial morphology in axons, dendrites, and somata of the aging mouse hippocampus (2021) - Cell Reports
  • A direct lateral entorhinal cortex to hippocampal CA2 circuit conveys social information required for social memory (2022) - Neuron
  • Cannabinoid exposure in rat adolescence reprograms the initial behavioral, molecular, and epigenetic response to cocaine (2020) - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Enkephalin release from VIP interneurons in the hippocampal CA2/3a region mediates heterosynaptic plasticity and social memory (2021) - Molecular Psychiatry
  • A fast, aqueous, reversible three-day tissue clearing method for adult and embryonic mouse brain and whole body (2021) - Cell Reports Methods

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kandel are:

  • Christopher A. de Solis
  • Arun Asok
  • Celia Durkin
  • Daphna Shohamy
  • Stylianos Kosmidis

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Vision
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Learning & Memory

Eric R. Kandel has been recognized with several awards such as the Nobel Prize in 2000 for discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system. Other honors include the US President's National Medal of Science in 1988, the Canada Gairdner International Award in 1987, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1983, and membership in several academies like the National Academy of Sciences (1974) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1976).

Additional distinctions include being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Inventors.

Best Publications

  • Principles of Neural Science

    Eric R. Kandel;James H. Schwartz;Thomas M. Jessell

  • The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage: A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses

    Eric R. Kandel

  • Control of memory formation through regulated expression of a CaMKII transgene

    Mark Mayford;Mary Elizabeth Bach;Yan You Huang;Lei Wang

  • Molecular Biology of Learning: Modulation of Transmitter Release.

    Eric R. Kandel;James H. Schwartz

  • Cognitive Neuroscience and the Study of Memory

    Brenda Milner;Larry R Squire;Eric R Kandel

  • Resolving Emotional Conflict: A Role for the Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Modulating Activity in the Amygdala

    Amit Etkin;Tobias Egner;Daniel M. Peraza;Eric R. Kandel

  • Subregion- and Cell Type–Restricted Gene Knockout in Mouse Brain

    Joe Z Tsien;Dong Feng Chen;David Gerber;Cindy Tom

  • A New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry

    Eric R. Kandel

  • Genetic Demonstration of a Role for PKA in the Late Phase of LTP and in Hippocampus-Based Long-Term Memory

    Ted Abel;Peter V Nguyen;Mark Barad;Thomas A.S Deuel

  • Recombinant BDNF Rescues Deficits in Basal Synaptic Transmission and Hippocampal LTP in BDNF Knockout Mice

    Susan L Patterson;Ted Abel;Thomas A.S Deuel;Kelsey C Martin

  • Effects of cAMP simulate a late stage of LTP in hippocampal CA1 neurons

    U Frey;YY Huang;ER Kandel

  • The long and the short of long–term memory—a molecular framework

    Philip Goelet;Vincent F. Castellucci;Samuel Schacher;Eric R. Kandel

  • Impaired Long-Term Potentiation, Spatial Learning, and Hippocampal Development in fyn Mutant Mice

    Seth G. N. Grant;Thomas J. O'Dell;Kevin A. Karl;Paul L. Stein

  • The Molecular and Systems Biology of Memory

    Eric R. Kandel;Yadin Dudai;Mark R. Mayford

  • Memory: From Mind to Molecules

    Larry Ryan Squire;Eric Richard Kandel

  • Ablation of hippocampal neurogenesis impairs contextual fear conditioning and synaptic plasticity in the dentate gyrus

    Michael D. Saxe;Fortunato Battaglia;Jing Wen Wang;Gael Malleret

  • Tests of the roles of two diffusible substances in long-term potentiation: evidence for nitric oxide as a possible early retrograde messenger.

    Thomas J. O'dell;Robert D. Hawkins;Eric R. Kandel;Ottavio Arancio

  • MORPHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF IDENTIFIED NEURONS IN THE ABDOMINAL GANGLION OF APLYSIA CALIFORNICA

    Wesley T. Frazier;Eric R. Kandel;Irving Kupfermann;Rafiq Waziri

  • STRUCTURAL CHANGES ACCOMPANYING MEMORY STORAGE

    Craig H. Bailey;Eric R. Kandel

  • A critical period for macromolecular synthesis in long-term heterosynaptic facilitation in Aplysia

    PG Montarolo;P Goelet;VF Castellucci;J Morgan

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Hawkins
Robert D. Hawkins Columbia University
Vincent F. Castellucci
Vincent F. Castellucci University of Montreal
Craig H. Bailey
Craig H. Bailey Columbia University
Thomas J. Carew
Thomas J. Carew New York University
James H. Schwartz
James H. Schwartz Columbia University
Mark Mayford
Mark Mayford University of California, San Diego
Samuel Schacher
Samuel Schacher Columbia University
Kelsey C. Martin
Kelsey C. Martin University of California, Los Angeles
Bong-Kiun Kaang
Bong-Kiun Kaang Seoul National University
Peter D. Balsam
Peter D. Balsam Columbia University

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