2026 Javier F. Medina: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	35	9121	8424	3845	3482	65	7464

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Overview

Javier F. Medina is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Additional subfields include molecular biology and biophysics.

The scientist has contributed to the study of topics such as vestibular and auditory disorders, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neuroscience and neural engineering, neurological disorders and treatments, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Recent publications by Javier F. Medina include:

"A cerebello-olivary signal for negative prediction error is sufficient to cause extinction of associative motor learning" (2020, Nature Neuroscience)
"P-sort: an open-source software for cerebellar neurophysiology" (2021, Journal of Neurophysiology)
"Action-based organization of a cerebellar module specialized for predictive control of multiple body parts" (2021, Neuron)
"Immediate and after effects of transcranial direct-current stimulation in the mouse primary somatosensory cortex" (2021, Scientific Reports)
"Deleting Mecp2 from the cerebellum rather than its neuronal subtypes causes a delay in motor learning in mice" (2021, eLife)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Javier F. Medina include:

Shogo Ohmae
Álvaro Sánchez-López
Carlos A. Sánchez-León
Javier Márquez-Ruiz
Gregory J. Wojaczynski

Key publication venues for their work consist of:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
eLife
Scientific Reports
Clinical Neurophysiology
Cell

Best Publications

Regulation of Absorption and ABC1-Mediated Efflux of Cholesterol by RXR Heterodimers

Joyce Repa;Stephen D Turley;J. M A Lobaccaro;J. Medina

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Citations
Timing Mechanisms in the Cerebellum: Testing Predictions of a Large-Scale Computer Simulation

Javier F. Medina;Keith S. Garcia;William L. Nores;Nichole M. Taylor

383
Citations
Computer simulation of cerebellar information processing.

Javier F. Medina;Michael D. Mauk

370
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Parallels between cerebellum- and amygdala-dependent conditioning.

Javier F. Medina;J. Christopher Repa;Michael D. Mauk;Joseph E. LeDoux

342
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Links from complex spikes to local plasticity and motor learning in the cerebellum of awake-behaving monkeys

Javier F Medina;Stephen G Lisberger

320
Citations
Inhibition of climbing fibres is a signal for the extinction of conditioned eyelid responses

Javier F Medina;William L Nores;Michael D Mauk

294
Citations
A Mechanism for Savings in the Cerebellum

Javier F. Medina;Keith S. Garcia;Michael D. Mauk

277
Citations
Precise control of movement kinematics by optogenetic inhibition of Purkinje cell activity.

Shane A. Heiney;Jinsook Kim;George J. Augustine;George J. Augustine;George J. Augustine;Javier F. Medina

263
Citations
Climbing fibers encode a temporal-difference prediction error during cerebellar learning in mice

Shogo Ohmae;Javier F Medina

255
Citations
Computational Principles of Supervised Learning in the Cerebellum.

Jennifer L Raymond;Javier F Medina

233
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Mechanisms of cerebellar learning suggested by eyelid conditioning

Javier F Medina;William L Nores;Tatsuya Ohyama;Michael D Mauk

233
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Cerebellar granule cells acquire a widespread predictive feedback signal during motor learning

Andrea Giovannucci;Aleksandra Badura;Aleksandra Badura;Ben Deverett;Ben Deverett;Farzaneh Najafi

227
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Cerebellar function: coordination, learning or timing?

Michael Mauk;J. F. Medina;W. L. Nores;T. Ohyama

212
Citations
Cerebellar-dependent expression of motor learning during eyeblink conditioning in head-fixed mice.

Shane A. Heiney;Margot P. Wohl;Selmaan N. Chettih;Luis I. Ruffolo

200
Citations
Learning-induced plasticity in deep cerebellar nucleus.

Tatsuya Ohyama;William L. Nores;Javier F. Medina;Javier F. Medina;Frank A. Riusech

181
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Simulations of cerebellar motor learning: Computational analysis of plasticity at the mossy fiber to deep nucleus synapse

Javier F. Medina;Michael D. Mauk

162
Citations
Chromatin remodeling inactivates activity genes and regulates neural coding

Yue Yang;Tomoko Yamada;Kelly K. Hill;Martin Hemberg

134
Citations
Variation, Signal, and Noise in Cerebellar Sensory–Motor Processing for Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements

Javier F. Medina;Stephen G. Lisberger

118
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Dynamic modulation of activity in cerebellar nuclei neurons during pavlovian eyeblink conditioning in mice.

Michiel Manuel ten Brinke;Shane Heiney;Xiaolu Wang;Martina Proietti-Onori

114
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The representation of time for motor learning.

Javier F. Medina;Megan R. Carey;Stephen G. Lisberger

108
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Correction: Corrigendum: Links from complex spikes to local plasticity and motor learning in the cerebellum of awake-behaving monkeys

Javier F Medina;Stephen G Lisberger

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