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Gordon M. Shepherd

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
118
Citations
50224
World Ranking
408
National Ranking
242

Gordon M. Shepherd 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 Gordon M. Shepherd sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 483 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gordon M. Shepherd 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 Gordon M. Shepherd sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 118 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Gordon M. Shepherd was affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine in the United States. Their research contributions were primarily in the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on several subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Sensory Systems, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The scope of their work covered diverse topics related to neural dynamics and brain function, neural engineering, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neuropharmacology, sensory function studies, insect physiology, and muscle activation studies.

Notable recent publications by Shepherd included:

  • Untangling the cortico-thalamo-cortical loop: cellular pieces of a knotty circuit puzzle (2021) in Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • Cortico-Thalamo-Cortical Circuits of Mouse Forelimb S1 Are Organized Primarily as Recurrent Loops (2020) in Journal of Neuroscience
  • Circuit organization of the excitatory sensorimotor loop through hand/forelimb S1 and M1 (2021) in eLife
  • Multiscale model of primary motor cortex circuits predicts in vivo cell-type-specific, behavioral state-dependent dynamics (2023) in Cell Reports
  • Manual dexterity of mice during food-handling involves the thumb and a set of fast basic movements (2020) in PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators included John M. Barrett, Megan E. Martin, Naoki Yamawaki, Martinna G. Raineri Tapies, and Salvador Durá-Bernal.

Shepherd published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, eLife, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature reviews. Neuroscience.

The scientist received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007 and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.

Best Publications

  • The synaptic organization of the brain

    Gordon M. Shepherd

  • The synaptic organization of the brain : an introduction

    Gordon M. Shepherd

  • Transient and Persistent Dendritic Spines in the Neocortex In Vivo

    Anthony J.G.D. Holtmaat;Joshua T. Trachtenberg;Linda Wilbrecht;Gordon M. Shepherd

  • Mechanisms of olfactory discrimination : Converging evidence for common principles across phyla

    John G. Hildebrand;Gordon M. Shepherd

  • The neocortical circuit: themes and variations

    Kenneth D Harris;Gordon M G Shepherd

  • Corticostriatal connectivity and its role in disease

    Gordon M. G. Shepherd

  • New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons

    Javier DeFelipe;Pedro L. López-Cruz;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Concha Bielza

  • Olfactory bulb

    John S. Kauer;Joel White;Gordon M. Shepherd

  • Theoretical reconstruction of field potentials and dendrodendritic synaptic interactions in olfactory bulb.

    W Rall;G M Shepherd

  • Synaptic organization of the mammalian olfactory bulb

    G. M. Shepherd

  • Dendrodendritic synaptic pathway for inhibition in the olfactory bulb

    Wilfrid Rall;G.M. Shepherd;T.S. Reese;M.W. Brightman

  • Smell images and the flavour system in the human brain

    Gordon M. Shepherd

  • Tip-link integrity and mechanical transduction in vertebrate hair cells

    John A. Assad;Gordon M.G. Shepherd;David P. Corey;David P. Corey

  • Three-Dimensional Structure and Composition of CA3→CA1 Axons in Rat Hippocampal Slices: Implications for Presynaptic Connectivity and Compartmentalization

    Gordon M. G. Shepherd;Kristen M. Harris;Kristen M. Harris

  • Functional organization of rat olfactory bulb analysed by the 2-deoxyglucose method.

    William B. Stewart;John S. Kauer;Gordon M. Shepherd

  • Foundations of the neuron doctrine

    Gordon M. Shepherd

  • Emerging rules for the distributions of active dendritic conductances

    Michele Migliore;Gordon M. Shepherd

  • ModelDB: A Database to Support Computational Neuroscience.

    Michael L. Hines;Thomas M. Morse;Michele Migliore;Nicholas T. Carnevale

  • Neurochemistry of the vertebrate olfactory bulb

    N. Halász;N. Halász;G.M. Shepherd

  • Organization of cortical and thalamic input to pyramidal neurons in mouse motor cortex

    Bryan M. Hooks;Tianyi Mao;Diego A. Gutnisky;Naoki Yamawaki

  • Forward and Backward Propagation of Dendritic Impulses and Their Synaptic Control in Mitral Cells

    Wei R. Chen;Jens Midtgaard;Jens Midtgaard;Gordon M. Shepherd;Gordon M. Shepherd

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele Migliore
Michele Migliore National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Perry L. Miller
Perry L. Miller Yale University
Charles A. Greer
Charles A. Greer Yale University
Michael L. Hines
Michael L. Hines Yale University
Prakash M. Nadkarni
Prakash M. Nadkarni Yale University
John S. Kauer
John S. Kauer Tufts University
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Stuart Firestein
Stuart Firestein Columbia University
Frank Zufall
Frank Zufall Saarland University
Kensaku Mori
Kensaku Mori University of Tokyo

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