2026 Eugene A. Kiyatkin: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	40	8085	7464	3471	3139	169	6478

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Overview

Eugene A. Kiyatkin is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, focusing primarily on neuroscience and medicine. Within these broad areas, they have contributed significantly to subfields such as cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, toxicology, physiology, and pharmacology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main research topics, including:

Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
Veterinary Pharmacology and Anesthesia
Treatment of Major Depression
Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling

Recent publications by Eugene A. Kiyatkin include:

"Xylazine effects on opioid-induced brain hypoxia," 2023, Psychopharmacology
"In a Rat Model of Opioid Maintenance, the G Protein-Biased Mu Opioid Receptor Agonist TRV130 Decreases Relapse to Oxycodone Seeking and Taking and Prevents Oxycodone-Induced Brain Hypoxia," 2020, Biological Psychiatry
"Head-to-Head Comparison of Sedation and Somnolence Among 37 Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depression, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Delirium, and Repurposed in COVID-19, Infectious Diseases, and Oncology From the FAERS, 2004-2020," 2021, Frontiers in Pharmacology
"Combined treatment with naloxone and the alpha2 adrenoceptor antagonist atipamezole reversed brain hypoxia induced by a fentanyl-xylazine mixture in a rat model," 2023, Neuropsychopharmacology
"Basic physiological effects of ketamine-xylazine mixture as a general anesthetic preparation for rodent surgeries," 2023, Brain Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eugene A. Kiyatkin include:

Shinbe Choi
Matthew R. Irwin
Carlos M. Curay
Shruthi A. Thomas
Michael R. Noya

Key publication venues where their work appears regularly include:

Neuropharmacology
F1000Research
Psychopharmacology
Brain Research
Frontiers in Psychiatry

Best Publications

Dopaminergic modulation of glutamate-induced excitations of neurons in the neostriatum and nucleus accumbens of awake, unrestrained rats

Eugene A. Kiyatkin;George V. Rebec

310
Citations
Permeability of the blood-brain barrier depends on brain temperature.

E. A. Kiyatkin;Hari Shanker Sharma;Hari Shanker Sharma

271
Citations
Brain temperature homeostasis: physiological fluctuations and pathological shifts.

Eugene A Kiyatkin

234
Citations
Brain temperature fluctuation: a reflection of functional neural activation

Eugene A. Kiyatkin;P. Leon Brown;Roy A. Wise

200
Citations
Functional significance of mesolimbic dopamine

Eugene A. Kiyatkin

196
Citations
Respiratory depression and brain hypoxia induced by opioid drugs: Morphine, oxycodone, heroin, and fentanyl.

Eugene A. Kiyatkin

188
Citations
Electrochemical monitoring of extracellular dopamine in nucleus accumbens of rats lever-pressing for food

Eugene A. Kiyatkin;Alain Gratton

179
Citations
Brain edema and breakdown of the blood-brain barrier during methamphetamine intoxication: critical role of brain hyperthermia

Eugene A. Kiyatkin;P. Leon Brown;Hari S. Sharma

154
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Rapid morphological brain abnormalities during acute methamphetamine intoxication in the rat: an experimental study using light and electron microscopy.

Hari Shanker Sharma;Eugene A. Kiyatkin

146
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Brain hyperthermia as physiological and pathological phenomena.

Eugene A. Kiyatkin

138
Citations
Drug- and behavior-associated changes in dopamine-related electrochemical signals during intravenous heroin self-administration in rats

Eugene A. Kiyatkin;Roy A. Wise;Alain Gratton

135
Citations
Brain hyperthermia induced by MDMA (ecstasy): modulation by environmental conditions.

P. Leon Brown;Eugene A. Kiyatkin

131
Citations
Heterogeneity of ventral tegmental area neurons: single-unit recording and iontophoresis in awake, unrestrained rats.

E.A. Kiyatkin;G.V. Rebec

125
Citations
Brain temperature fluctuations during physiological and pathological conditions.

Eugene A. Kiyatkin

116
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Striatal neuronal activity and responsiveness to dopamine and glutamate after selective blockade of D1 and D2 dopamine receptors in freely moving rats.

Eugene A. Kiyatkin;George V. Rebec

115
Citations
Acute methamphetamine intoxication: brain hyperthermia, blood-brain barrier, brain edema, and morphological cell abnormalities.

Eugene A. Kiyatkin;Hari Shanker Sharma

112
Citations
Brain and body temperature homeostasis during sodium pentobarbital anesthesia with and without body warming in rats.

Eugene A. Kiyatkin;P. Leon Brown

105
Citations
Impulse activity of ventral tegmental area neurons during heroin self-administration in rats.

E.A. Kiyatkin;G.V. Rebec

105
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Fluctuations in nucleus accumbens dopamine during cocaine self-administration behavior: an in vivo electrochemical study.

E.A. Kiyatkin;E.A. Stein

103
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Brain temperature and its role in physiology and pathophysiology: Lessons from 20 years of thermorecording

Eugene A. Kiyatkin

103
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Modulation of striatal neuronal activity by glutamate and GABA: iontophoresis in awake, unrestrained rats

Eugene A Kiyatkin;George V Rebec

96
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