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Kalanit Grill-Spector

Kalanit Grill-Spector

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Neuroscience 60 3758 3436 1721 1550 228 24139

Kalanit Grill-Spector publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Kalanit Grill-Spector between 1994 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Kalanit Grill-Spector published across 32 years, from 1994 to 2025, averaging 7.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 20 publications in 2010. 20 of the 252 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1994 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 20. Peak 20 publications in 2010. 1994: 1 publication 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 4 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 1 publication 2001: 3 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 1 publication 2008: 6 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 20 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 12 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 10 publications 2015: 13 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 16 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 19 publications 2021: 14 publications 2022: 14 publications 2023: 17 publications 2024: 13 publications 2025: 7 publications
1994 2025

252 publications in total across all disciplines

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Kalanit Grill-Spector: publications per year, 1994 to 2025
Year Publications
1994 1
1995 0
1996 0
1997 1
1998 4
1999 1
2000 1
2001 3
2002 0
2003 2
2004 6
2005 5
2006 6
2007 1
2008 6
2009 8
2010 20
2011 5
2012 12
2013 10
2014 10
2015 13
2016 10
2017 12
2018 16
2019 15
2020 19
2021 14
2022 14
2023 17
2024 13
2025 7
Total 252
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Kalanit Grill-Spector 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 Kalanit Grill-Spector sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 86 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 887+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 539. Most scientists, 539, have 98–107 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 228–237 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 18 scientists 48–57 publications: 79 scientists 58–67 publications: 193 scientists 68–77 publications: 323 scientists 78–87 publications: 406 scientists 88–97 publications: 452 scientists 98–107 publications: 539 scientists 108–117 publications: 505 scientists 118–127 publications: 522 scientists 128–137 publications: 469 scientists 138–147 publications: 456 scientists 148–157 publications: 459 scientists 158–167 publications: 397 scientists 168–177 publications: 383 scientists 178–187 publications: 350 scientists 188–197 publications: 302 scientists 198–207 publications: 306 scientists 208–217 publications: 262 scientists 218–227 publications: 242 scientists 228–237 publications: 220 scientists 238–247 publications: 203 scientists 248–257 publications: 174 scientists 258–267 publications: 176 scientists 268–277 publications: 175 scientists 278–287 publications: 125 scientists 288–297 publications: 116 scientists 298–307 publications: 127 scientists 308–317 publications: 128 scientists 318–327 publications: 99 scientists 328–337 publications: 89 scientists 338–347 publications: 78 scientists 348–357 publications: 96 scientists 358–367 publications: 66 scientists 368–377 publications: 59 scientists 378–387 publications: 65 scientists 388–397 publications: 54 scientists 398–407 publications: 48 scientists 408–417 publications: 49 scientists 418–427 publications: 34 scientists 428–437 publications: 31 scientists 438–447 publications: 30 scientists 448–457 publications: 31 scientists 458–467 publications: 36 scientists 468–477 publications: 40 scientists 478–487 publications: 35 scientists 488–497 publications: 30 scientists 498–507 publications: 23 scientists 508–517 publications: 26 scientists 518–527 publications: 20 scientists 528–537 publications: 23 scientists 538–547 publications: 20 scientists 548–557 publications: 20 scientists 558–567 publications: 17 scientists 568–577 publications: 14 scientists 578–587 publications: 20 scientists 588–597 publications: 20 scientists 598–607 publications: 19 scientists 608–617 publications: 18 scientists 618–627 publications: 17 scientists 628–637 publications: 11 scientists 638–647 publications: 11 scientists 648–657 publications: 11 scientists 658–667 publications: 8 scientists 668–677 publications: 7 scientists 678–687 publications: 11 scientists 688–697 publications: 10 scientists 698–707 publications: 4 scientists 708–717 publications: 6 scientists 718–727 publications: 5 scientists 728–737 publications: 5 scientists 738–747 publications: 9 scientists 748–757 publications: 9 scientists 758–767 publications: 3 scientists 768–777 publications: 7 scientists 778–787 publications: 7 scientists 788–797 publications: 6 scientists 798–807 publications: 2 scientists 808–817 publications: 2 scientists 818–827 publications: 7 scientists 828–837 publications: 0 scientists 838–847 publications: 9 scientists 848–857 publications: 3 scientists 858–867 publications: 1 scientist 868–877 publications: 3 scientists 878–886 publications: 6 scientists 887+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 887+

This scientist: 228 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Neuroscience scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,597 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 18
48–57 79
58–67 193
68–77 323
78–87 406
88–97 452
98–107 539
108–117 505
118–127 522
128–137 469
138–147 456
148–157 459
158–167 397
168–177 383
178–187 350
188–197 302
198–207 306
208–217 262
218–227 242
228–237 220 228
238–247 203
248–257 174
258–267 176
268–277 175
278–287 125
288–297 116
298–307 127
308–317 128
318–327 99
328–337 89
338–347 78
348–357 96
358–367 66
368–377 59
378–387 65
388–397 54
398–407 48
408–417 49
418–427 34
428–437 31
438–447 30
448–457 31
458–467 36
468–477 40
478–487 35
488–497 30
498–507 23
508–517 26
518–527 20
528–537 23
538–547 20
548–557 20
558–567 17
568–577 14
578–587 20
588–597 20
598–607 19
608–617 18
618–627 17
628–637 11
638–647 11
648–657 11
658–667 8
668–677 7
678–687 11
688–697 10
698–707 4
708–717 6
718–727 5
728–737 5
738–747 9
748–757 9
758–767 3
768–777 7
778–787 7
788–797 6
798–807 2
808–817 2
818–827 7
828–837 0
838–847 9
848–857 3
858–867 1
868–877 3
878–886 6
887+ 100
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Kalanit Grill-Spector 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 Kalanit Grill-Spector sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
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Bar chart with 68 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 163+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 512. Most scientists, 512, have 46–47 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 60–61 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 42 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 172 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 296 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 435 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 459 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 456 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 467 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 478 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 512 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 435 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 425 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 418 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 392 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 357 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 334 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 328 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 260 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 278 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 239 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 250 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 210 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 200 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 189 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 170 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 146 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 113 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 126 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 100 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 84 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 99 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 84 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 85 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 72 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 76 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 45 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 49 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 43 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 32 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 45 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 50 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 32 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 39 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 29 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 27 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 19 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 23 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 27 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 16 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 24 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 13 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 14 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 15 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 10 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 10 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 13 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 8 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 6 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 6 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 7 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 7 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 10 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162 D-Index: 8 scientists 163+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30–31 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Neuroscience scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,597 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 42
32–33 172
34–35 296
36–37 435
38–39 459
40–41 456
42–43 467
44–45 478
46–47 512
48–49 435
50–51 425
52–53 418
54–55 392
56–57 357
58–59 334
60–61 328 60
62–63 260
64–65 278
66–67 239
68–69 250
70–71 210
72–73 200
74–75 189
76–77 170
78–79 146
80–81 113
82–83 126
84–85 100
86–87 84
88–89 99
90–91 84
92–93 85
94–95 72
96–97 76
98–99 45
100–101 49
102–103 43
104–105 32
106–107 45
108–109 50
110–111 32
112–113 39
114–115 32
116–117 29
118–119 27
120–121 19
122–123 23
124–125 27
126–127 16
128–129 24
130–131 13
132–133 21
134–135 17
136–137 14
138–139 15
140–141 10
142–143 10
144–145 13
146–147 9
148–149 8
150–151 6
152–153 6
154–155 7
156–157 7
158–159 10
160–161 4
162 8
163+ 100
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Kalanit Grill-Spector is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with an emphasis on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, computer vision and pattern recognition, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics of their work cover various aspects of visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, face recognition and perception, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced MRI techniques and applications, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Recent publications showcase a range of research contributions, including:

  • A Probabilistic Functional Atlas of Human Occipito-Temporal Visual Cortex (2020, Cerebral Cortex)
  • White matter myelination during early infancy is linked to spatial gradients and myelin content at birth (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Differential spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective regions are scaffolded by structural connections (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Sulcal Depth in the Medial Ventral Temporal Cortex Predicts the Location of a Place-Selective Region in Macaques, Children, and Adults (2020, Cerebral Cortex)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Mareike Grotheer, Vaidehi Natu, Dawn Finzi, Jesse Gomez, and Holly Kular. Their work has been published predominantly in key venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Vision, Cerebral Cortex, Nature Communications, and the 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.

Kalanit Grill-Spector has also contributed to book publications, including the title Vision and Perception, published by Open Agenda Publishing eBooks in 2020.

Their contributions to the scientific community have been recognized with the award of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Repetition and the brain: neural models of stimulus-specific effects

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Richard Henson;Alex Martin

  • The lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Zoe Kourtzi;Nancy Kanwisher;Nancy Kanwisher

  • THE HUMAN VISUAL CORTEX

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Rafael Malach

  • Differential Processing of Objects under Various Viewing Conditions in the Human Lateral Occipital Complex

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Shimon Edelman;Galia Avidan

  • fMR-adaptation: a tool for studying the functional properties of human cortical neurons.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Rafael Malach

  • The fusiform face area subserves face perception, not generic within-category identification.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Nicholas Knouf;Nancy Kanwisher

  • The functional architecture of the ventral temporal cortex and its role in categorization.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Kevin S. Weiner

  • The neural basis of object perception

    Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • Visual Recognition As Soon as You Know It Is There, You Know What It Is

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Nancy Kanwisher

  • The dynamics of object-selective activation correlate with recognition performance in humans.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Talma Hendler;Rafael Malach

  • A sequence of object-processing stages revealed by fMRI in the human occipital lobe.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Talma Hendler;Shimon Edelman

  • Differential development of high-level visual cortex correlates with category-specific recognition memory

    Golijeh Golarai;Dara G Ghahremani;Dara G Ghahremani;S Whitfield-Gabrieli;S Whitfield-Gabrieli;Allan Reiss

  • Cue-invariant activation in object-related areas of the human occipital lobe.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tamar Kushnir;Shimon Edelman;Yacov Itzchak

  • Electrical Stimulation of Human Fusiform Face-Selective Regions Distorts Face Perception

    Josef Parvizi;Corentin Jacques;Corentin Jacques;Brett L. Foster;Nathan Withoft

  • Apparent thinning of human visual cortex during childhood is associated with myelination

    Vaidehi S. Natu;Vaidehi S. Natu;Jesse Gomez;Michael Barnett;Brianna Jeska

  • High-resolution imaging reveals highly selective nonface clusters in the fusiform face area

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Rory Sayres;David Ress

  • Sparsely-distributed organization of face and limb activations in human ventral temporal cortex.

    Kevin S. Weiner;Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • Global similarity and pattern separation in the human medial temporal lobe predict subsequent memory.

    Karen F. LaRocque;Mary E. Smith;Valerie A. Carr;Nathan Witthoft

  • Toward direct visualization of the internal shape representation space by fMRI

    Shimon Edelman;Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Rafael Malach

  • The Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Face Perception

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Kevin S. Weiner;Kendrick Kay;Jesse Gomez

  • The mid-fusiform sulcus: a landmark identifying both cytoarchitectonic and functional divisions of human ventral temporal cortex.

    Kevin S. Weiner;Golijeh Golarai;Julian Caspers;Miguel R. Chuapoco

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin S. Weiner
Kevin S. Weiner University of California, Berkeley
Katrin Amunts
Katrin Amunts Forschungszentrum Jülich
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Kendrick Kay
Kendrick Kay University of Minnesota
Corentin Jacques
Corentin Jacques Université Catholique de Louvain
Rafael Malach
Rafael Malach Weizmann Institute of Science
Rainer Goebel
Rainer Goebel Maastricht University
Josef Parvizi
Josef Parvizi Stanford University
Shimon Edelman
Shimon Edelman Cornell University

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