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Neuroscience

D-Index
129
Citations
55378
World Ranking
293
National Ranking
38

Peter Somogyi 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 Peter Somogyi sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 247 publications — 74th percentile

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

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

Peter Somogyi 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 Peter Somogyi sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 129 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - The Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation For their wide-ranging, technically and conceptually brilliant research on the functional organization of neuronal circuits in the cerebral cortex, especially in the hippo¬campus, a region that is crucial for certain forms of memory
  • 2009 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2006 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Neurosciences
  • 2000 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Peter Somogyi is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with notable contributions to subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Physiology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, and Thyroid Disorders and Treatments.

Somogyi has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication sites include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Brain Structure and Function
  • European Journal of Neuroscience

They have collaborated frequently with colleagues such as Tim J. Viney, Barbara Sárkány, Gábor Tamás, Istvan Paul Lukacs, and Emily Hunter.

Significant recent publications by Peter Somogyi include:

  • "Thyroid complications of SARS and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)", 2021, Endocrine Journal
  • "Spread of pathological human Tau from neurons to oligodendrocytes and loss of high-firing pyramidal neurons in aging mice", 2022, Cell Reports
  • "A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types", 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Tonic GABAAReceptor-Mediated Currents of Human Cortical GABAergic Interneurons Vary Amongst Cell Types", 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Differential effects of group III metabotropic glutamate receptors on spontaneous inhibitory synaptic currents in spine-innervating double bouquet and parvalbumin-expressing dendrite-targeting GABAergic interneurons in human neocortex", 2022, Cerebral Cortex

Awards and recognitions received by Somogyi include:

  • The Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation, 2011, for research on neuronal circuits in the cerebral cortex, especially the hippocampus
  • Membership of Academia Europaea, 2009
  • Membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2006, in Neurosciences
  • Fellowship of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2000
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

  • Neuronal diversity and temporal dynamics: the unity of hippocampal circuit operations.

    Thomas Klausberger;Thomas Klausberger;Peter Somogyi

  • Synchronization of neuronal activity in hippocampus by individual GABAergic interneurons

    S. R. Cobb;E. H. Buhl;K. Halasy;K. Halasy;O. Paulsen

  • Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Lidia Alonso-Nanclares;Stewart A. Anderson;German Barrionuevo

  • Brain-state- and cell-type-specific firing of hippocampal interneurons in vivo

    Thomas Klausberger;Peter J. Magill;László F. Márton;J. David B. Roberts

  • Glutamatergic synapses on oligodendrocyte precursor cells in the hippocampus.

    D E Bergles;J D Roberts;P Somogyi;C E Jahr

  • Defined types of cortical interneurone structure space and spike timing in the hippocampus

    Peter Somogyi;Thomas Klausberger;Thomas Klausberger

  • The metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluRlα) is concentrated at perisynaptic membrane of neuronal subpopulations as detected by immunogold reaction

    Agnes Baude;Zoltan Nusser;J.David B. Roberts;Eileen Mulvihill

  • Salient features of synaptic organisation in the cerebral cortex

    Peter Somogyi;Gábor Tamás;Rafael Lujan;Eberhard H. Buhl

  • Segregation of Different GABAA Receptors to Synaptic and Extrasynaptic Membranes of Cerebellar Granule Cells

    Zoltan Nusser;Werner Sieghart;Peter Somogyi

  • Perisynaptic Location of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors mGluR1 and mGluR5 on Dendrites and Dendritic Spines in the Rat Hippocampus

    R. Lujan;Z. Nusser;J. D. B. Roberts;R. Shigemoto;R. Shigemoto

  • Cell Type and Pathway Dependence of Synaptic AMPA Receptor Number and Variability in the Hippocampus

    Zoltan Nusser;Rafael Lujan;Gregor Laube;J.David B Roberts

  • The hippocampal CA3 network: An in vivo intracellular labeling study

    X G Li;P Somogyi;A Ylinen;A Ylinen;G Buzsáki

  • Diverse sources of hippocampal unitary inhibitory postsynaptic potentials and the number of synaptic release sites

    Eberhard H. Buhl;Katalin Halasy;Peter Somogyi

  • Target-cell-specific facilitation and depression in neocortical circuits.

    Alex Reyes;Rafael Lujan;Rafael Lujan;Andrej Rozov;Nail Burnashev

  • Proximally Targeted GABAergic Synapses and Gap Junctions Synchronize Cortical Interneurons

    Gábor Tamás;Gábor Tamás;Eberhard H. Buhl;Eberhard H. Buhl;Andrea Lörincz;Andrea Lörincz;Peter Somogyi

  • Different populations of GABAergic neurons in the visual cortex and hippocampus of cat contain somatostatin- or cholecystokinin- immunoreactive material

    Somogyi P;Hodgson Aj;Smith Ad;Nunzi Mg

  • Monosynaptic cortical input and local axon collaterals of identified striatonigral neurons. A light and electron microscopic study using the golgi‐peroxidase transport‐degeneration procedure

    P. Somogyi;P. Somogyi;J. P. Bolam;J. P. Bolam;A. D. Smith;A. D. Smith

  • A specific ‘axo-axonal’ interneuron in the visual cortex of the rat

    P. Somogyi

  • A note on the use of picric acid-paraformaldehyde-glutaraldehyde fixative for correlated light and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry

    P. Somogyi;P. Somogyi;H. Takagi;H. Takagi

  • Synaptic connections of morphologically identified and physiologically characterized large basket cells in the striate cortex of cat.

    P. Somogyi;P. Somogyi;Z.F. Kisvárday;K.A.C. Martin;D. Whitteridge

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Klausberger
Thomas Klausberger Medical University of Vienna
Gábor Tamás
Gábor Tamás University of Szeged
Zoltan Nusser
Zoltan Nusser Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Anthony D. Smith
Anthony D. Smith London School of Economics and Political Science
Zoltán F. Kisvárday
Zoltán F. Kisvárday University of Debrecen
Ryuichi Shigemoto
Ryuichi Shigemoto Institute of Science and Technology Austria
György Buzsáki
György Buzsáki New York University
Rafael Luján
Rafael Luján University of Castilla-La Mancha
Marco Capogna
Marco Capogna Aarhus University
Werner Sieghart
Werner Sieghart Medical University of Vienna

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