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Martin Giurfa

Martin Giurfa

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Neuroscience

D-Index
70
Citations
16955
World Ranking
2526
National Ranking
81

Martin Giurfa 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 Martin Giurfa sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 299 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Martin Giurfa 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 Martin Giurfa sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Overview

Martin Giurfa is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France, where their research focuses extensively on insect neuroscience and behavior. Their work integrates multiple scientific disciplines, reflecting a broad and interdisciplinary approach to understanding biological and neurological processes in insects.

The primary fields of study for Martin Giurfa include Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Their research further delves into several subfields such as Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Insect Science, and Social Psychology.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects, including:

  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Martin Giurfa has contributed to the academic community through numerous publications across various scientific venues. The most frequent venues for these publications are:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • iScience
  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

They have coauthored papers with several frequent collaborators, including María Gabriela de Brito Sanchez, Marco Paoli, Aurore Avarguès-Weber, Catherine Macri, and Louise Bestea.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Martin Giurfa include:

  • "Food wanting is mediated by transient activation of dopaminergic signaling in the honey bee brain," 2022, Science
  • "Redefining Single-Trial Memories in the Honeybee," 2020, Cell Reports
  • "An insect brain organizes numbers on a left-to-right mental number line," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Pheromone components affect motivation and induce persistent modulation of associative learning and memory in honey bees," 2020, Communications Biology
  • "Peripheral taste detection in honey bees: What do taste receptors respond to?," 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience

Martin Giurfa was recognized with an award from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007, cited for contributions to Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

Best Publications

  • The concepts of ‘sameness’ and ‘difference’ in an insect

    Martin Giurfa;Shaowu Zhang;Arnim Jenett;Randolf Menzel

  • Cognitive architecture of a mini-brain: the honeybee

    Randolf Menzel;Martin Giurfa

  • Behavioral and neural analysis of associative learning in the honeybee: a taste from the magic well

    Martin Giurfa

  • Colour preferences of flower-naive honeybees

    M. Giurfa;J. Núñez;L. Chittka;R. Menzel

  • Detection of coloured stimuli by honeybees: minimum visual angles and receptor specific contrasts

    M. Giurfa;M. Giurfa;M. Vorobyev;M. Vorobyev;P. Kevan;P. Kevan;R. Menzel

  • Invertebrate learning and memory: Fifty years of olfactory conditioning of the proboscis extension response in honeybees

    Martin Giurfa;Jean-Christophe Sandoz

  • Symmetry perception in an insect

    Martin Giurfa;Birgit Eichmann;Randolf Menzel

  • Aversive Learning in Honeybees Revealed by the Olfactory Conditioning of the Sting Extension Reflex

    Vanina Vergoz;Edith Roussel;Jean-Christophe Sandoz;Martin Giurfa

  • Perceptual and Neural Olfactory Similarity in Honeybees

    Fernando Guerrieri;Marco Schubert;Jean-Christophe Sandoz;Martin Giurfa

  • Cognitive neuroethology: dissecting non-elemental learning in a honeybee brain.

    Martin Giurfa

  • Faculty Opinions recommendation of Maplike representation of celestial E-vector orientations in the brain of an insect.

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  • Revisiting olfactory classical conditioning of the proboscis extension response in honey bees: A step toward standardized procedures

    Yukihisa Matsumoto;Randolf Menzel;Jean-Christophe Sandoz;Martin Giurfa;Martin Giurfa

  • Cognition with few neurons: higher-order learning in insects.

    Martin Giurfa

  • Conditioning procedure and color discrimination in the honeybee Apis mellifera.

    Martin Giurfa

  • Discrimination of coloured stimuli by honeybees: alternative use of achromatic and chromatic signals

    Martin Giurfa;Misha Vorobyev;Robert Brandt;Britta Posner

  • Visual cognition in social insects

    Aurore Avarguès-Weber;Nina Deisig;Martin Giurfa

  • Olfactory Discrimination Ability and Odor Structure–Activity Relationships in Honeybees

    Matthias Laska;C. Giovanni Galizia;Martin Giurfa;Randolf Menzel

  • Aversive reinforcement improves visual discrimination learning in free-flying honeybees

    Aurore Avarguès-Weber;Aurore Avarguès-Weber;Aurore Avarguès-Weber;Maria G. de Brito Sanchez;Maria G. de Brito Sanchez;Martin Giurfa;Martin Giurfa;Adrian G. Dyer

  • Neural representation of olfactory mixtures in the honeybee antennal lobe

    Nina Deisig;Martin Giurfa;Harald Lachnit;Jean-Christophe Sandoz

  • Honeybee neurobiology and behavior : a tribute to Randolf Menzel

    C. Giovanni Galizia;Dorothea Eisenhardt;Martin Giurfa

  • Symmetry is in the eye of the ‘beeholder’: innate preference for bilateral symmetry in flower-naïve bumblebees

    Ivana Rodríguez;Andreas Gumbert;Natalie Hempel de Ibarra;Jan Kunze

  • Local-feature assembling in visual pattern recognition and generalization in honeybees

    Silke Stach;Julie Benard;Martin Giurfa

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Christophe Sandoz
Jean-Christophe Sandoz University of Paris-Saclay
Patrizia d'Ettorre
Patrizia d'Ettorre Paris 13 University
Randolf Menzel
Randolf Menzel Freie Universität Berlin
Adrian G. Dyer
Adrian G. Dyer RMIT University
Walter M. Farina
Walter M. Farina University of Buenos Aires
Nigel R. Franks
Nigel R. Franks University of Bristol
Lars Chittka
Lars Chittka Queen Mary University of London
Amots Dafni
Amots Dafni University of Haifa
Claudio R. Lazzari
Claudio R. Lazzari François Rabelais University
C. Giovanni Galizia
C. Giovanni Galizia University of Konstanz

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