2026 Matthew A. Wilson: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	69	2568	2348	1211	1088	149	39683

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Neuroscience

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149

39683

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Matthew A. Wilson is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their research focuses largely on Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, with additional work in Molecular Biology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Neurology.

Their main topics of research include:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques

Wilson has published in several frequent venues, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Neural Engineering
eLife
Critical Care Medicine
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Wilson include:

An easy-to-assemble, robust, and lightweight drive implant for chronic tetrode recordings in freely moving animals, 2020, Journal of Neural Engineering
mPFC spindle cycles organize sparse thalamic activation and recently active CA1 cells during non-REM sleep, 2020, eLife
A Closed-Loop, All-Electronic Pixel-Wise Adaptive Imaging System for High Dynamic Range Videography, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers
Wnt- and glutamate-receptors orchestrate stem cell dynamics and asymmetric cell division, 2021, eLife
ONIX: a unified open-source platform for multimodal neural recording and perturbation during naturalistic behavior, 2024, Nature Methods

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

Jonathan P. Newman
Jie Zhang
Jakob Voigts
Francisco Flores
Mark T. Harnett

Wilson has been recognized with fellowships from various scientific organizations, including:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1995

Best Publications

Reactivation of hippocampal ensemble memories during sleep.

Matthew A. Wilson;Bruce L. McNaughton

3892
Citations
Dynamics of the hippocampal ensemble code for space

Matthew A. Wilson;Bruce L. McNaughton

2935
Citations
Theta phase precession in hippocampal neuronal populations and the compression of temporal sequences.

William E. Skaggs;Bruce L. McNaughton;Matthew A. Wilson;Carol A. Barnes

2031
Citations
Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state

David J. Foster;Matthew A. Wilson

1995
Citations
Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep

Daoyun Ji;Matthew A Wilson

1953
Citations
Memory of sequential experience in the hippocampus during slow wave sleep.

Albert K. Lee;Matthew A. Wilson

1555
Citations
Temporally Structured Replay of Awake Hippocampal Ensemble Activity during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

Kenway Louie;Matthew A. Wilson

1440
Citations
Requirement for Hippocampal CA3 NMDA Receptors in Associative Memory Recall

Kazu Nakazawa;Michael C. Quirk;Raymond A. Chitwood;Masahiko Watanabe

1302
Citations
Theta rhythms coordinate hippocampal-prefrontal interactions in a spatial memory task.

Matthew W Jones;Matthew A Wilson

1276
Citations
Coordinated Interactions between Hippocampal Ripples and Cortical Spindles during Slow-Wave Sleep

Athanassios G Siapas;Matthew A Wilson

1238
Citations
Prefrontal Phase Locking to Hippocampal Theta Oscillations

Athanassios G. Siapas;Evgueniy V. Lubenov;Matthew A. Wilson

1226
Citations
Dentate Gyrus NMDA Receptors Mediate Rapid Pattern Separation in the Hippocampal Network

Thomas J. McHugh;Matthew W. Jones;Matthew W. Jones;Jennifer J. Quinn;Jennifer J. Quinn;Nina Balthasar;Nina Balthasar

1167
Citations
Hippocampal Replay of Extended Experience

Thomas J. Davidson;Fabian Kloosterman;Matthew A. Wilson

1124
Citations
Disruption of ripple-associated hippocampal activity during rest impairs spatial learning in the rat

Valérie Ego-Stengel;Matthew A. Wilson

946
Citations
Trajectory encoding in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex.

Loren M Frank;Emery N Brown;Matthew Wilson

918
Citations
Role of experience and oscillations in transforming a rate code into a temporal code

M. R. Mehta;A. K. Lee;M. A. Wilson

812
Citations
Impaired Hippocampal Representation of Space in CA1-Specific NMDAR1 Knockout Mice

Thomas J McHugh;Kenneth I Blum;Joe Z Tsien;Susumu Tonegawa

786
Citations
NMDA receptors, place cells and hippocampal spatial memory.

Kazu Nakazawa;Thomas J. McHugh;Thomas J. McHugh;Matthew A. Wilson;Susumu Tonegawa;Susumu Tonegawa

734
Citations
A Statistical Paradigm for Neural Spike Train Decoding Applied to Position Prediction from Ensemble Firing Patterns of Rat Hippocampal Place Cells

Emery N. Brown;Loren M. Frank;Dengda Tang;Michael C. Quirk

731
Citations
Experience-Dependent Asymmetric Shape of Hippocampal Receptive Fields

Mayank R. Mehta;Michael C. Quirk;Matthew A. Wilson

597
Citations
Hippocampal CA3 NMDA receptors are crucial for memory acquisition of one-time experience.

Kazu Nakazawa;Linus D Sun;Michael C Quirk;Laure Rondi-Reig

594
Citations