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Loreta Medina

Loreta Medina

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
55
Citations
10362
World Ranking
4738
National Ranking
70

Loreta Medina 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 Loreta Medina sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 112 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Loreta Medina 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 Loreta Medina 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.

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

Overview

Loreta Medina is affiliated with the University of Lleida in Spain. Their research primarily falls within the field of neuroscience, with significant contributions to several related subfields including social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, and molecular biology.

Their scientific work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Animal nutrition and physiology
  • Autism spectrum disorder research

Medina has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
  • IBRO Neuroscience Reports
  • Brain Structure and Function

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Evolving Views on the Pallium", 2021, Brain Behavior and Evolution
  • "Evolution and Development of Amygdala Subdivisions: Pallial, Subpallial, and Beyond", 2022, Brain Behavior and Evolution

Other notable papers from the broader dataset, although authored by collaborators, are relevant to related research landscapes:

  • "Refocusing neuroscience: moving away from mental categories and towards complex behaviours", 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "A novel telencephalon-opto-hypothalamic morphogenetic domain coexpressing Foxg1 and Otp produces most of the glutamatergic neurons of the medial extended amygdala", 2021, The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • "Distinct Subdivisions in the Transition Between Telencephalon and Hypothalamus Produce Otp and Sim1 Cells for the Extended Amygdala in Sauropsids", 2022, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Medina frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Ester Desfilis
  • Antonio Abellán
  • Lorena Morales
  • Alessandra Pross
  • Alek H. Metwalli

Best Publications

  • Revised Nomenclature for Avian Telencephalon and Some Related Brainstem Nuclei

    Anton Reiner;David J. Perkel;Laura L. Bruce;Ann B. Butler

  • Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution

    Erich David Jarvis;Onur Güntürkün;Laura Bruce;András Csillag

  • Do birds possess homologues of mammalian primary visual, somatosensory and motor cortices?

    Loreta Medina;Anton Reiner

  • Structural and functional evolution of the basal ganglia in vertebrates

    A Reiner;L Medina;C L Veenman

  • Pathway tracing using biotinylated dextran amines.

    Anton Reiner;C.Leonardus Veenman;Loreta Medina;Yun Jiao

  • Expression of Dbx1, Neurogenin 2, Semaphorin 5A, Cadherin 8, and Emx1 distinguish ventral and lateral pallial histogenetic divisions in the developing mouse claustroamygdaloid complex.

    Loreta Medina;Isabel Legaz;Gertrudis González;Fernando De Castro

  • Distribution of choline acetyltransferase immunoreactivity in the pigeon brain

    Loreta Medina;Anton Reiner

  • Histogenetic compartments of the mouse centromedial and extended amygdala based on gene expression patterns during development.

    Margarita García-López;Antonio Abellán;Antonio Abellán;Isabel Legaz;John L.R. Rubenstein

  • Neurotransmitter Organization and Connectivity of the Basal Ganglia in Vertebrates: Implications for the Evolution of Basal Ganglia (Part 1 of 2)

    Loreta Medina;Anton Reiner

  • Brainstem motoneuron pools that are selectively resistant in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are preferentially enriched in parvalbumin: evidence from monkey brainstem for a calcium-mediated mechanism in sporadic ALS.

    Anton Reiner;Loreta Medina;Griselle Figueredo-Cardenas;Scott Anfinson

  • Expression of the genes GAD67 and Distal-less-4 in the forebrain of Xenopus laevis confirms a common pattern in tetrapods.

    Aurora Brox;Luis Puelles;Beatriz Ferreiro;Loreta Medina

  • Development and evolution of the pallium

    Loreta Medina;Antonio Abellán

  • Expression of the genes Emx1, Tbr1, and Eomes (Tbr2) in the telencephalon of Xenopus laevis confirms the existence of a ventral pallial division in all tetrapods.

    Aurora Brox;Luis Puelles;Beatriz Ferreiro;Loreta Medina

  • Refocusing neuroscience: moving away from mental categories and towards complex behaviours

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  • Distribution of choline acetyltransferase immunoreactivity in the brain of the lizard Gallotia galloti.

    Loreta Medina;Wilhelmus J. A. J. Smeets;Piet V. Hoogland;Luis Puelles

  • Combinatorial expression of Lef1, Lhx2, Lhx5, Lhx9, Lmo3, Lmo4, and Prox1 helps to identify comparable subdivisions in the developing hippocampal formation of mouse and chicken

    Antonio Abellán;Ester Desfilis;Loreta Medina

  • Field homology as a way to reconcile genetic and developmental variability with adult homology.

    Luis Puelles;Loreta Medina

  • The efferent projections of the dorsal and ventral pallidal parts of the pigeon basal ganglia, studied with biotinylated dextran amine

    L Medina;A Reiner

  • Subdivisions and derivatives of the chicken subpallium based on expression of LIM and other regulatory genes and markers of neuron subpopulations during development.

    Antonio Abellán;Loreta Medina

  • Contribution of genoarchitecture to understanding forebrain evolution and development, with particular emphasis on the amygdala.

    Loreta Medina;Munisamy Bupesh;Antonio Abellán

  • Cadherin expression by embryonic divisions and derived gray matter structures in the telencephalon of the chicken.

    Christoph Redies;Loreta Medina;Luis Puelles

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis Puelles
Luis Puelles University of Murcia
Anton Reiner
Anton Reiner University of Tennessee Health Science Center
David J. Perkel
David J. Perkel University of Washington
Georg F. Striedter
Georg F. Striedter University of California, Irvine
Claudio V. Mello
Claudio V. Mello Oregon Health & Science University
Christoph Redies
Christoph Redies Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis Rockefeller University
John L.R. Rubenstein
John L.R. Rubenstein University of California, San Francisco
George Paxinos
George Paxinos Neuroscience Research Australia
Gregory F. Ball
Gregory F. Ball University of Maryland, College Park

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