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Erika Polgár

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D-Index
39
Citations
5909
World Ranking
8342
National Ranking
615

Erika Polgár 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 Erika Polgár sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 77 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Erika Polgár 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 Erika Polgár sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Erika Polgár is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and actively contributes to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research focuses primarily on pain mechanisms, neurobiology, dermatology, and neuropeptide functions, integrating aspects of cellular and molecular neuroscience and physiology.

The work of this scientist spans a variety of topics, including:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Dermatology and Skin Diseases
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Urticaria and Related Conditions

Their frequent co-authors reflect a collaborative research environment and include:

  • Andrew J. Todd
  • Allen C. Dickie
  • Andrew M. Bell
  • María Gutièrrez-Mecinas
  • Masahiko Watanabe

Publication venues in which Erika Polgár regularly publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Pain
  • eLife
  • Neuroscience

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Erika Polgár include:

  • Grpr expression defines a population of superficial dorsal horn vertical cells that have a role in both itch and pain, 2022, Pain
  • Encoding of cutaneous stimuli by lamina I projection neurons, 2021, Pain
  • Neuropeptide Y-expressing dorsal horn inhibitory interneurons gate spinal pain and itch signalling, 2023, eLife
  • Characterisation of lamina I anterolateral system neurons that express Cre in a Phox2a-Cre mouse line, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Sodium-calcium exchanger-3 regulates pain "wind-up": From human psychophysics to spinal mechanisms, 2022, Neuron

This research is drawn from core subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience and physiology, supporting the overarching fields of neuroscience and medicine.

Best Publications

  • The expression of vesicular glutamate transporters VGLUT1 and VGLUT2 in neurochemically defined axonal populations in the rat spinal cord with emphasis on the dorsal horn

    A.J. Todd;D.I. Hughes;Erika Polgár;G.G. Nagy

  • Dynorphin Acts as a Neuromodulator to Inhibit Itch in the Dorsal Horn of the Spinal Cord

    Adam P. Kardon;Erika Polgár;Junichi Hachisuka;Lindsey M. Snyder

  • Selective loss of spinal GABAergic or glycinergic neurons is not necessary for development of thermal hyperalgesia in the chronic constriction injury model of neuropathic pain

    Erika Polgár;D.I. Hughes;J.S. Riddell;D.J. Maxwell

  • The types of neuron which contain protein kinase C gamma in rat spinal cord.

    E Polgár;J.H Fowler;M.M McGill;A.J Todd

  • Direct evidence of an extensive gabaergic innervation of the spinal dorsal horn by fibres descending from the rostral ventromedial medulla

    M. Antal;M. Petkó;E. Polgár;C.W. Heizmann

  • Circuit dissection of the role of somatostatin in itch and pain.

    Jing Huang;Jing Huang;Erika Polgár;Hans Jürgen Solinski;Santosh K. Mishra;Santosh K. Mishra

  • A quantitative study of neurons which express neurokinin-1 or somatostatin sst2a receptor in rat spinal dorsal horn.

    A.J Todd;R.C Spike;E Polgár

  • Calcium-binding proteins, parvalbumin- and calbindin-D 28k-immunoreactive neurons in the rat spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia: a light and electron microscopic study.

    Miklós Antal;Tamás F. Freund;Erika Polgár

  • Loss of Neurons from Laminas I-III of the Spinal Dorsal Horn Is Not Required for Development of Tactile Allodynia in the Spared Nerve Injury Model of Neuropathic Pain

    Erika Polgár;David I. Hughes;Ahmad Z. Arham;Andrew J. Todd

  • The organisation of spinoparabrachial neurons in the mouse

    Darren Cameron;Erika Polgár;Maria Gutierrez-Mecinas;Maria Gomez-Lima

  • Different populations of parvalbumin- and calbindin-D28k-immunoreactive neurons contain GABA and accumulate 3H-D-aspartate in the dorsal horn of the rat spinal cord.

    Miklos Antal;E. Polgár;J. Chalmers;J. B. Minson

  • Lack of evidence for significant neuronal loss in laminae I–III of the spinal dorsal horn of the rat in the chronic constriction injury model

    Erika Polgár;S Gray;JS Riddell;AJ Todd

  • A quantitative study of inhibitory interneurons in laminae I-III of the mouse spinal dorsal horn

    Erika Polgár;Camille Durrieux;David I. Hughes;Andrew J. Todd

  • GABAergic Neurons that Contain Neuropeptide Y Selectively Target Cells with the Neurokinin 1 Receptor in Laminae III and IV of the Rat Spinal Cord

    Erika Polgár;Safa A. S. Shehab;Christine Watt;Andrew J. Todd

  • Defining a Spinal Microcircuit that Gates Myelinated Afferent Input: Implications for Tactile Allodynia

    Kieran A. Boyle;Mark A. Gradwell;Toshiharu Yasaka;Allen C. Dickie

  • Tactile allodynia can occur in the spared nerve injury model in the rat without selective loss of GABA or GABAA receptors from synapses in laminae I–II of the ipsilateral spinal dorsal horn

    Erika Polgár;A. Todd

  • Functional differences between neurochemically defined populations of inhibitory interneurons in the rat spinal dorsal horn

    Erika Polgár;Thomas C.P. Sardella;Sheena Y.X. Tiong;Samantha Locke

  • Presynaptically Localized Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinase 1 Is a Key Determinant of Spinal Synaptic Potentiation and Pain Hypersensitivity

    Ceng Luo;Ceng Luo;Vijayan Gangadharan;Vijayan Gangadharan;Kiran Kumar Bali;Rou-Gang Xie

  • A population of large lamina I projection neurons with selective inhibitory input in rat spinal cord

    Z Puskar;Erika Polgár;AJ Todd

  • A quantitative study of neurochemically defined populations of inhibitory interneurons in the superficial dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord

    Kieran A. Boyle;Maria Gutierrez-Mecinas;Erika Polgár;Nicole Mooney

  • Dynorphin is expressed primarily by GABAergic neurons that contain galanin in the rat dorsal horn

    Thomas C P Sardella;Erika Polgár;Francesca Garzillo;Takahiro Furuta

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Todd
Andrew J. Todd University of Glasgow
Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
John S. Riddell
John S. Riddell University of Glasgow
Takahiro Furuta
Takahiro Furuta Osaka University
Takeshi Kaneko
Takeshi Kaneko Kyoto University
David J. Maxwell
David J. Maxwell University of Glasgow
Laszlo Urban
Laszlo Urban Novartis (Switzerland)
Rohini Kuner
Rohini Kuner Heidelberg University
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer University of Zurich
Claus W. Heizmann
Claus W. Heizmann University of Zurich

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