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Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
162
Citations
106998
World Ranking
94
National Ranking
55

Medicine

D-Index
162
Citations
107393
World Ranking
709
National Ranking
402

Neuroscience

D-Index
162
Citations
107866
World Ranking
104
National Ranking
66

Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic 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 Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 324 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic 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 Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 162 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2002 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
  • 1996 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society For seminal contributions to the current understanding of prefrontal cortex and its role in working memory and for effectively applying insights from basic biological sciences to mental health
  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1992 - Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award
  • 1991 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1990 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1982 - W. Alden Spencer Award, College of Physicians and Surgeons

Overview

Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic was affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research career focused extensively on the prefrontal cortex and its role in cognition, particularly working memory.

Throughout their career, Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic received several awards recognizing contributions to neuroscience and psychology. These included the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience awarded by the Society for Neuroscience in 2002, the Karl Spencer Lashley Award from The American Philosophical Society in 1996 with a citation noting seminal contributions to the understanding of the prefrontal cortex and applications to mental health, and membership in both the National Academy of Medicine (1994) and the National Academy of Sciences (1990).

Additional recognitions included the Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award in 1992, the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology in 1991, and the W. Alden Spencer Award from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1982.

There are no listed recent papers, frequent co-authors, or publication venues associated with Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic in the data. Likewise, there is no available information on book publications, main fields or subfields of study, or specific main topics of work beyond the noted focus on the prefrontal cortex and working memory.

Best Publications

  • Circuitry of Primate Prefrontal Cortex and Regulation of Behavior by Representational Memory

    Patricia S. Goldman‐Rakic

  • Mnemonic coding of visual space in the monkey's dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

    Shintaro Funahashi;Charles J. Bruce;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Cellular basis of working memory

    P.S Goldman-Rakic

  • Preface: Cerebral Cortex Has Come of Age

    Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic;Pasko Rakic

  • Modulation of memory fields by dopamine D1 receptors in prefrontal cortex.

    Graham V. Williams;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Topography of cognition: parallel distributed networks in primate association cortex.

    Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Dissociation of Object and Spatial Processing Domains in Primate Prefrontal Cortex

    Fraser A. W. Wilson;Séamas P. Ó. Scalaidhe;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • D1 Dopamine Receptors in Prefrontal Cortex: Involvement in Working Memory

    Toshiyuki Sawaguchi;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

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

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

  • The prefrontal landscape: implications of functional architecture for understanding human mentation and the central executive

    Goldman-Rakic Ps

  • Dual streams of auditory afferents target multiple domains in the primate prefrontal cortex.

    L. M. Romanski;B. Tian;J. Fritz;M. Mishkin

  • Posterior parietal cortex in rhesus monkey: II. Evidence for segregated corticocortical networks linking sensory and limbic areas with the frontal lobe

    Carmen Cavada;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Working memory dysfunction in schizophrenia.

    Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Longitudinal topography and interdigitation of corticostriatal projections in the rhesus monkey

    LD Selemon;PS Goldman-Rakic

  • Synaptic Mechanisms and Network Dynamics Underlying Spatial Working Memory in a Cortical Network Model

    Albert Compte;Nicolas Brunel;Nicolas Brunel;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic;Xiao Jing Wang

  • Common cortical and subcortical targets of the dorsolateral prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices in the rhesus monkey: evidence for a distributed neural network subserving spatially guided behavior

    LD Selemon;PS Goldman-Rakic

  • Development of Cortical Circuitry and Cognitive Function.

    Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • D1 receptors in prefrontal cells and circuits

    P.S Goldman-Rakic;E.C Muly;G.V Williams

  • Posterior parietal cortex in rhesus monkey: I. Parcellation of areas based on distinctive limbic and sensory corticocortical connections.

    Carmen Cavada;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Regional and cellular fractionation of working memory

    Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Abnormally high neuronal density in the schizophrenic cortex. A morphometric analysis of prefrontal area 9 and occipital area 17.

    Lynn D. Selemon;Grazyna Rajkowska;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael S. Lidow
Michael S. Lidow University of Maryland, Baltimore
Pasko Rakic
Pasko Rakic Yale University
Amy F.T. Arnsten
Amy F.T. Arnsten Yale University
John C. Gore
John C. Gore Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Michael L. Schwartz
Michael L. Schwartz Yale University
C. J. Bruce
C. J. Bruce Yale University
Robert Levenson
Robert Levenson Pennsylvania State University
Christos Constantinidis
Christos Constantinidis Vanderbilt University
Gregory McCarthy
Gregory McCarthy Yale University
Grazyna Rajkowska
Grazyna Rajkowska University of Mississippi Medical Center

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