2026 Eric R. Kandel: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	221	135	124	93	85	704	168728
Neuroscience	222	14	10	9	5	681	170763
Biology and Biochemistry	219	21	20	18	17	666	166763

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

14470
Citations
The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage: A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses

Eric R. Kandel

5739
Citations
Control of memory formation through regulated expression of a CaMKII transgene

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

2419
Citations
Molecular Biology of Learning: Modulation of Transmitter Release.

Eric R. Kandel;James H. Schwartz

1944
Citations
Cognitive Neuroscience and the Study of Memory

Brenda Milner;Larry R Squire;Eric R Kandel

1942
Citations
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

1740
Citations
Subregion- and Cell Type–Restricted Gene Knockout in Mouse Brain

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

1599
Citations
A New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry

Eric R. Kandel

1580
Citations
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

1567
Citations
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

1540
Citations
Effects of cAMP simulate a late stage of LTP in hippocampal CA1 neurons

U Frey;YY Huang;ER Kandel

1518
Citations
The long and the short of long–term memory—a molecular framework

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

1435
Citations
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

1416
Citations
The Molecular and Systems Biology of Memory

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

1318
Citations
Memory: From Mind to Molecules

Larry Ryan Squire;Eric Richard Kandel

1253
Citations
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

1227
Citations
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

1222
Citations
MORPHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF IDENTIFIED NEURONS IN THE ABDOMINAL GANGLION OF APLYSIA CALIFORNICA

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

1206
Citations
STRUCTURAL CHANGES ACCOMPANYING MEMORY STORAGE

Craig H. Bailey;Eric R. Kandel

1202
Citations
A critical period for macromolecular synthesis in long-term heterosynaptic facilitation in Aplysia

PG Montarolo;P Goelet;VF Castellucci;J Morgan

1154
Citations