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Horacio Vanegas 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 Horacio Vanegas sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 91 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Horacio Vanegas 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 Horacio Vanegas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% 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, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Horacio Vanegas is affiliated with the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas in Venezuela. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a specific emphasis on Physiology.

The main topics covered in their work relate to Pain Mechanisms and Treatments. This area of study is reflected in their published research output.

Vanegas has contributed to scientific literature in the journal Gaceta Médica de Caracas, which is also among their frequent publication venues. There is one recorded publication in this venue:

  • Architecture and operation of a neuronal circuit that modulates pain (2020, Gaceta Médica de Caracas)

The researcher does not appear to have frequent co-authors listed, indicating a focus on individual contributions or collaborations not documented in the available data.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Vanegas was awarded the title of Fellow by The World Academy of Sciences in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Descending control of persistent pain: inhibitory or facilitatory?

    Horacio Vanegas;Hans-Georg Schaible

  • Prostaglandins and cycloxygenases in the spinal cord

    Horacio Vanegas;Hans-Georg Schaible

  • Comparative neurology of the optic tectum

    Horacio Vanegas;Centro Latino Americano de Ciencias Biológicas

  • Effects of antagonists to high-threshold calcium channels upon spinal mechanisms of pain, hyperalgesia and allodynia.

    Horacio Vanegas;Hans-Georg Schaible

  • Evidence that disinhibition of brain stem neurones contributes to morphine analgesia

    H. L. Fields;H. Vanegas;H. Vanegas;I. D. Hentall;G. Zorman

  • Joint pain

    Hans-Georg Schaible;Frank Richter;Andrea Ebersberger;Michael K. Boettger

  • Spinal endocannabinoids and CB1 receptors mediate C-fiber-induced heterosynaptic pain sensitization.

    Alejandro J. Pernía-Andrade;Ako Kato;Ako Kato;Robert Witschi;Robert Witschi;Rita Nyilas

  • Morphological aspects of the teleostean visual system: A review

    Horacio Vanegas;Hironobu Ito;Hironobu Ito

  • The projection from the lateral geniculate nucleus onto the visual cortex in the cat. A quantitative study with horseradish-peroxidase.

    Horstmar Hollaänder;Horacio Vanegas

  • The optic tectum of a perciform teleost I. General configuration and cytoarchitecture

    Horacio Vanegas;Miguel Laufer;José Amat

  • Tail-flick related activity in medullospinal neurons

    Horacio Vanegas;Nicholas M. Barbaro;Howard L. Fields

  • Early stages of uptake and transport of horseradish-peroxidase by cortical structures, and its use for the study of local neurons and their processes.

    Horacio Vanegas;Horstmar Holländer;Hansjürgen Distel

  • NEURAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN A CAT'S ATTACK ON A RAT

    J.P. Flynn;H. Vanegas;W. Foote;S. Edwards

  • Erratum to “Prostaglandins and cyclooxygenases in the spinal cord” [Progress in Neurobiology 64 (2001) 327–363]

    Horacio Vanegas;Hans-Georg Schaible

  • Projections of the optic tectum in two teleost species.

    Sven O. E. Ebbesson;Sven O. E. Ebbesson;Horacio Vanegas;Horacio Vanegas

  • Spinal antinociceptive effects of cyclooxygenase inhibition during inflammation: Involvement of prostaglandins and endocannabinoids

    Alejandro Telleria-Diaz;Martin Schmidt;Stefan Kreusch;Anne-Kathrin Neubert

  • Effects of N- and L-type calcium channel antagonists on the responses of nociceptive spinal cord neurons to mechanical stimulation of the normal and the inflamed knee joint

    V. Neugebauer;H. Vanegas;J. Nebe;P. Rumenapp

  • Cytoarchitecture and ultrastructure of nucleus prethalamicus, with special reference to degenerating afferents from optic tectum and telencephalon, in a teleost (Holocentrus ascensionis)

    Hironobu Ito;Horacio Vanegas

  • Spinal Prostaglandins Are Involved in the Development But Not the Maintenance of Inflammation-Induced Spinal Hyperexcitability

    Enrique Vasquez;Karl-Jürgen Bär;Andrea Ebersberger;Barbara Klein

  • Telencephalic projections in two teleost species.

    Horacio Vanegas;Horacio Vanegas;Sven O. E. Ebbesson;Sven O. E. Ebbesson

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Georg Schaible
Hans-Georg Schaible Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Howard L. Fields
Howard L. Fields University of California, San Francisco
Nicholas M. Barbaro
Nicholas M. Barbaro The University of Texas at Austin
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer University of Zurich
Claudia Sommer
Claudia Sommer University of Würzburg
Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
István Katona
István Katona Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Volker Neugebauer
Volker Neugebauer The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Wolf Singer
Wolf Singer Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
Tamás F. Freund
Tamás F. Freund Institute of Experimental Medicine

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