2026 Pasko Rakic: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	158	119	106	80	70	428	101824

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
2008 - Kavli Prize, The Kavli Foundation for discoveries on the developmental and functional logic of neuronal circuits
2002 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2000 - Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award
1999 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1986 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society For his seminal contributions to the field of developmental neurobiology through research on the development of the central nervous system
1985 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Pasko Rakic is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant contributions spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Within these areas, their work includes subfields such as molecular biology, developmental neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Rakic's research addresses several main topics, including neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, memory and neural mechanisms, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and mitochondrial function and pathology.

Among their recent papers are:

Development of prefrontal cortex, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
Transcriptomic taxonomy and neurogenic trajectories of adult human, macaque, and pig hippocampal and entorhinal cells, 2021, Neuron
Age-related calcium dysregulation linked with tau pathology and impaired cognition in non-human primates, 2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
Muscarinic M1 Receptors Modulate Working Memory Performance and Activity via KCNQ Potassium Channels in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex, 2020, Neuron

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Rakic include Alvaro Duque, Jon I. Arellano, Yury M. Morozov, Nenad Šestan, and Shaojie Ma.

Rakic's work has been published in a variety of venues, with many contributions in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron, Cerebral Cortex, and Science.

Over the course of their career, Rakic has received multiple awards and recognitions. These include:

Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2016)
Member of Academia Europaea (2014)
Kavli Prize from The Kavli Foundation (2008) for discoveries on the developmental and functional logic of neuronal circuits
Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience (2002)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2000)
Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award (2000)
Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (1999)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
Karl Spencer Lashley Award from The American Philosophical Society (1986) for seminal contributions to developmental neurobiology through research on central nervous system development
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1985)

Best Publications

Specification of cerebral cortical areas

Pasko Rakic

3826
Citations
Preface: Cerebral Cortex Has Come of Age

Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic;Pasko Rakic

3086
Citations
Mode of cell migration to the superficial layers of fetal monkey neocortex.

Pasko Rakic

2547
Citations
Decreased apoptosis in the brain and premature lethality in CPP32-deficient mice

Keisuke Kuida;Timothy S. Zheng;Songqing Na;Chia-Yi Kuan

2390
Citations
Reduced Apoptosis and Cytochrome c-Mediated Caspase Activation in Mice Lacking Caspase 9

Keisuke Kuida;Tarik F Haydar;Chia-Yi Kuan;Yong Gu

2067
Citations
Evolution of the neocortex: a perspective from developmental biology

Pasko Rakic

1746
Citations
Neuron‐glia relationship during granule cell migration in developing cerebellar cortex. A Golgi and electonmicroscopic study in Macacus rhesus

Pasko Rakic

1628
Citations
Absence of excitotoxicity-induced apoptosis in the hippocampus of mice lacking the Jnk3 gene

D D Yang;C Y Kuan;A J Whitmarsh;A J Whitmarsh;M Rincón

1584
Citations
Neuronal migration, with special reference to developing human brain: a review.

Richard L. Sidman;Richard L. Sidman;Pasko Rakic;Pasko Rakic

1541
Citations
Extraordinary neoteny of synaptic spines in the human prefrontal cortex

Zdravko Petanjek;Miloš Judaš;Goran Šimić;Mladen Roko Rašin;Mladen Roko Rašin

1539
Citations
Concurrent overproduction of synapses in diverse regions of the primate cerebral cortex.

Pasko Rakic;Jean-Pierre Bourgeois;Maryellen F. Eckenhoff;Nada Zecevic

1452
Citations
Neurons in Rhesus Monkey Visual Cortex: Systematic Relation between Time of Origin and Eventual Disposition

Pasko Rakic

1409
Citations
Modulation of neuronal migration by NMDA receptors

Hitoshi Komuro;Pasko Rakic

1286
Citations
A small step for the cell, a giant leap for mankind: a hypothesis of neocortical expansion during evolution

Pasko Rakic

1269
Citations
Development of the human cerebral cortex: Boulder Committee revisited

Irina Bystron;Colin Blakemore;Pasko Rakic

1119
Citations
The Jnk1 and Jnk2 protein kinases are required for regional specific apoptosis during early brain development.

Chia-Yi Kuan;Derek D. Yang;Deborah R.Samanta Roy;Roger J. Davis

1115
Citations
Developmental history of the transient subplate zone in the visual and somatosensory cortex of the macaque monkey and human brain

Ivica Kostovic;Pasko Rakic

1068
Citations
Continuation of neurogenesis in the hippocampus of the adult macaque monkey

David R. Kornack;Pasko Rakic

1037
Citations
Prenatal Development of the Visual System in Rhesus Monkey

Rakic P

1016
Citations
Microarray analysis of microRNA expression in the developing mammalian brain

Eric A Miska;Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra;Matthew Townsend;Matthew Townsend;Akira Yoshii

1004
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