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Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith

Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith

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Neuroscience

D-Index
55
Citations
8283
World Ranking
4807
National Ranking
133

Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith 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 Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 193 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith 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 Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia and focuses their research on fields including Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans the subfields of Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology with a specific emphasis on understanding mechanisms related to pain and neurophysiological processes.

Their main research topics include:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Ion channel regulation and function

Llewellyn-Smith has contributed to the scientific literature with papers published in venues such as eLife and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Notable recent papers include:

  • Contribution of dorsal horn CGRP-expressing interneurons to mechanical sensitivity, 2021, eLife
  • Dorsal horn CGRP-expressing interneurons contribute to nerve injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their research explores the role of dorsal horn CGRP-expressing interneurons in mechanical sensitivity and nerve injury-induced hypersensitivity, addressing cellular mechanisms involved in pain perception.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Line S. Löken
  • Marilyn Steyert
  • Allan I. Basbaum
  • João Braz
  • Alexander Etlin

Publication venues where Llewellyn-Smith appears regularly are:

  • eLife
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Projections of substance P-containing neurons within the guinea-pig small intestine.

    M. Costa;M. Costa;J.B. Furness;J.B. Furness;I.J. Llewellyn-Smith;I.J. Llewellyn-Smith;A.C. Cuello;A.C. Cuello

  • Subgroups of hindbrain catecholamine neurons are selectively activated by 2-deoxy-d-glucose induced metabolic challenge

    Sue Ritter;Ida Llewellyn-Smith;Thu T Dinh

  • Innocuous, not noxious, input activates PKCgamma interneurons of the spinal dorsal horn via myelinated afferent fibers.

    Simona Neumann;Joao M. Braz;Kate Skinner;Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith

  • Neurochemically similar myenteric and submucous neurons directly traced to the mucosa of the small intestine.

    J. B. Furness;M. Costa;I. L. Gibbins;I. J. Llewellyn-Smith

  • Ultrastructural localization of nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity in guinea-pig enteric neurons.

    Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith;Zan Min Song;Marcello Costa;David S. Bredt

  • Preproglucagon neurons project widely to autonomic control areas in the mouse brain.

    Ida J Llewellyn-Smith;Frank Reimann;Fiona M Gribble;Stefan Trapp

  • Ultrastructural localization of P2X3 receptors in rat sensory neurons.

    I J Llewellyn-Smith;G Burnstock

  • 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

  • Complete penetration of antibodies into vibratome sections after glutaraldehyde fixation and ethanol treatment: light and electron microscopy for neuropeptides.

    I J Llewellyn-Smith;J B Minson

  • The tungstate-stabilized tetramethylbenzidine reaction for light and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry and for revealing biocytin-filled neurons.

    Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith;Paul Pilowsky;Jane B. Minson

  • Oxytocin enhances cranial visceral afferent synaptic transmission to the solitary tract nucleus

    James H. Peters;Stuart J. McDougall;Daniel O. Kellett;David Jordan

  • Substance P-containing nerves in the human small intestine. Distribution, ultrastructure, and characterization of the immunoreactive peptide.

    I.J. Llewellyn-Smith;J.B. Furness;R. Murphy;P.E. O'Brien

  • Evidence for an excitatory amino acid pathway in the brainstem and for its involvement in cardiovascular control

    Peter Somogyi;Jane B. Minson;David A Morilak;Ida Llewellyn-Smith

  • Changes in synaptic inputs to sympathetic preganglionic neurons after spinal cord injury.

    Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith;Lynne C. Weaver

  • Changes in immunoreactivity for growth associated protein-43 suggest reorganization of synapses on spinal sympathetic neurons after cord transection

    L.C Weaver;A.K Cassam;A.V Krassioukov;I.J Llewellyn-Smith

  • Glutamate-immunoreactive synapses on retrogradely-labelled sympathetic preganglionic neurons in rat thoracic spinal cord.

    I.J. Llewellyn-Smith;K.D. Phend;J.B. Minson;P.M. Pilowsky

  • Serotonin immunoreactive boutons make synapses with feline phrenic motoneurons

    P. M. Pilowsky;D. De Castro;I. Llewellyn-Smith;J. Lipski

  • Light and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry of the same nerves from whole mount preparations.

    Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith;Marcello Costa;John B. Furness

  • Glutamate in spinally projecting neurons of the rostral ventral medulla.

    Jane Minson;Paul Pilowsky;Ida Llewellyn-Smith;Takeshi Kaneko

  • Central regulation of autonomic functions

    Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith;Anthony J. M. Verberne

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane B Minson
Jane B Minson Flinders University
Paul M. Pilowsky
Paul M. Pilowsky University of Sydney
John Chalmers
John Chalmers University of New South Wales
John B. Furness
John B. Furness Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Marcello Costa
Marcello Costa Flinders University
Allan I. Basbaum
Allan I. Basbaum University of California, San Francisco
Fiona M. Gribble
Fiona M. Gribble University of Cambridge
Lynne C. Weaver
Lynne C. Weaver University of Western Ontario
Frank Reimann
Frank Reimann University of Cambridge
Ian L. Gibbins
Ian L. Gibbins Flinders University

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