2026 John Rinzel: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	83	1446	1314	723	641	248	24811

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Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
2019 - Mathematical Neuroscience Prize, Israel Brain Technologies (IBT)
2013 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to mathematical neuroscience and mathematical physiology, in particular the dissection of complex fast-slow dynamical systems.

Overview

John Rinzel is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Neuroscience and Computer Science, with a significant emphasis in Cognitive Neuroscience and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics as subfields. Their work also extends into Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications.

The scientist has contributed to several main topics within neuroscience and related areas, including:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Neuroscience and Music Perception
Stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
Neural Networks and Applications
Music and Audio Processing
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Rinzel's publication record includes articles in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS Computational Biology
Scientific Reports
Biological Cybernetics
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Recent papers by Rinzel highlight a range of topics from auditory perception to neural network dynamics. These include:

Dynamic models for musical rhythm perception and coordination, 2023, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Classification of bursting patterns: A tale of two ducks, 2022, PLoS Computational Biology
Action-driven remapping of hippocampal neuronal populations in jumping rats, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Buildup and bistability in auditory streaming as an evidence accumulation process with saturation, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
Stimulus-Driven and Spontaneous Dynamics in Excitatory-Inhibitory Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequence Representation, 2021, Neural Computation

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, such as:

Amitabha Bose
Klavdia Zemlianova
György Buzsáki
James Rankin
Mathieu Desroches

John Rinzel has received notable awards in the field of neuroscience, including the Mathematical Neuroscience Prize from Israel Brain Technologies in 2019, the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience also in 2019, and was named a SIAM Fellow in 2013 for contributions to mathematical neuroscience and physiological modeling, particularly regarding complex fast-slow dynamical systems.

Best Publications

Analysis of neural excitability and oscillations

John Rinzel;G. Bard Ermentrout

1452
Citations
Equations for InsP3 receptor-mediated [Ca2+](i) oscillations derived from a detailed kinetic model: A Hodgkin-Huxley like formalism

Yue-Xian Li;John Rinzel

854
Citations
Alternating and synchronous rhythms in reciprocally inhibitory model neurons

Xiao-Jing Wang;John Rinzel

688
Citations
Intrinsic and network rhythmogenesis in a reduced traub model for CA3 neurons

Paul F. Pinsky;John Rinzel's

634
Citations
Models of Respiratory Rhythm Generation in the Pre-Bötzinger Complex. I. Bursting Pacemaker Neurons

Robert J. Butera;John Rinzel;John Rinzel;Jeffrey C. Smith

622
Citations
A Formal Classification of Bursting Mechanisms in Excitable Systems

John Rinzel

594
Citations
Traveling Wave Solutions of a Nerve Conduction Equation

John Rinzel;Joseph B. Keller

562
Citations
Branch Input Resistance and Steady Attenuation for Input to One Branch of a Dendritic Neuron Model

Wilfrid Rall;John Rinzel

485
Citations
The role of dendrites in auditory coincidence detection

Hagai Agmon-Snir;Catherine E. Carr;John Rinzel;John Rinzel

484
Citations
Noise-Induced Alternations in an Attractor Network Model of Perceptual Bistability

Rubén Moreno-Bote;John Rinzel;Nava Rubin

456
Citations
Bursting oscillations in an excitable membrane model

John Rinzel

434
Citations
Models of Respiratory Rhythm Generation in the Pre-Bötzinger Complex. II. Populations of Coupled Pacemaker Neurons

Robert J. Butera;John Rinzel;John Rinzel;Jeffrey C. Smith

421
Citations
The slow passage through a Hopf bifurcation: delay, memory effects, and resonance

S. M. Baer;T. Erneux;J. Rinzel

416
Citations
INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE MODELS OF NERVE MEMBRANE RESPONSE TO OSCILLATORY INPUT.

J. P. Keener;F. C. Hoppensteadt;J. Rinzel

396
Citations
Emergence of organized bursting in clusters of pancreatic beta-cells by channel sharing.

A. Sherman;J. Rinzel;J. Keizer

391
Citations
Dissection of a model for neuronal parabolic bursting.

John Rinzel;Young Seek Lee

366
Citations
Spindle rhythmicity in the reticularis thalami nucleus: synchronization among mutually inhibitory neurons.

X.-J. Wang;J. Rinzel

358
Citations
Rhythmogenic effects of weak electrotonic coupling in neuronal models.

Arthur Sherman;John Rinzel

340
Citations
Transient Response in a Dendritic Neuron Model for Current Injected at One Branch

John Rinzel;Wilfrid Rall

339
Citations
Intrinsic and network rhythmogenesis in a reduced traub model for CA3 neurons

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338
Citations
Dynamics of spiking neurons connected by both inhibitory and electrical coupling.

Timothy J. Lewis;John Rinzel

331
Citations
Bursting, beating, and chaos in an excitable membrane model

T.R. Chay;J. Rinzel

301
Citations
Excitation dynamics: Insights from simplified membrane models

Rinzel J

295
Citations