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Richard C. Saunders 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 Richard C. Saunders sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 134 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Richard C. Saunders 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 Richard C. Saunders sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 61 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Richard C. Saunders is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience, with particular concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work spans several key topics within the field, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Richard C. Saunders has been published frequently in notable venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the Journal of Neuroscience, Hippocampus, Neuron, and Cerebral Cortex. The distribution of publications includes:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 4 publications
  • Journal of Neuroscience - 3 publications
  • Hippocampus - 3 publications
  • Neuron - 2 publications
  • Cerebral Cortex - 1 publication

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard C. Saunders include:

  • "An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics," 2020, Neuron
  • "Information-Limiting Correlations in Large Neural Populations," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Dimensionality, information and learning in prefrontal cortex," 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Contributions of the Monkey Inferior Temporal Areas TE and TEO to Visual Categorization," 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Theta, but Not Gamma Oscillations in Area V4 Depend on Input from Primary Visual Cortex," 2020, Current Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard C. Saunders include Mark A. G. Eldridge, Barry J. Richmond, Yuji Nagai, Naohisa Miyakawa, and Ken-ichi Inoue, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Schizophrenia is associated with elevated amphetamine-induced synaptic dopamine concentrations: Evidence from a novel positron emission tomography method

    Alan Breier;T. P. Su;R. Saunders;R. E. Carson

  • Superficial white matter fiber systems impede detection of long-range cortical connections in diffusion MR tractography

    Colin Reveley;Anil K. Seth;Carlo Pierpaoli;Afonso C. Silva

  • Prefrontal mechanisms of behavioral flexibility, emotion regulation and value updating

    Peter H Rudebeck;Richard C Saunders;Anna T Prescott;Lily S Chau

  • Blindsight depends on the lateral geniculate nucleus

    Michael C. Schmid;Sylwia W. Mrowka;Janita Turchi;Richard C. Saunders

  • Species-specific calls evoke asymmetric activity in the monkey's temporal poles

    Amy Poremba;Megan Malloy;Richard C. Saunders;Richard E. Carson

  • Functional mapping of the primate auditory system.

    Amy Poremba;Richard C. Saunders;Alison M. Crane;Michelle Cook

  • Comparison of hippocampal, amygdala, and perirhinal projections to the nucleus accumbens: combined anterograde and retrograde tracing study in the Macaque brain.

    David P. Friedman;John Patrick Aggleton;Richard C. Saunders

  • Quantification of Amphetamine-Induced Changes in [11C]Raclopride Binding with Continuous Infusion

    Richard E. Carson;Alan Breier;Andrea de Bartolomeis;Richard C. Saunders

  • Comparison of the efferents of the amygdala and the hippocampal formation in the rhesus monkey: II. Reciprocal and non-reciprocal connections.

    Richard C. Saunders;Douglas L. Rosene;Gary W. Van Hoesen

  • Effects of fornix transection upon associative memory in monkeys: role of the hippocampus in learned action

    David Gaffan;Richard C. Saunders;E. A. Gaffan;Susan Harrison

  • Monkeys with combined amygdalo-hippocampal lesions succeed in object discrimination learning despite 24-hour intertrial intervals.

    Barbara L. Malamut;Richard C. Saunders;Mortimer Mishkin

  • A comparison of the efferents of the amygdala and the hippocampal formation in the rhesus monkey: I. Convergence in the entorhinal, prorhinal, and perirhinal cortices.

    Richard C. Saunders;Douglas L. Rosene

  • In Vivo Association Between Alcohol Intoxication, Aggression, and Serotonin Transporter Availability in Nonhuman Primates

    Andreas Heinz;J. Dee Higley;Julia G. Gorey;Richard C. Saunders

  • Kinetic Modeling of [11C]Raclopride: Combined PET-Microdialysis Studies

    Christopher J. Endres;Bhaskar S. Kolachana;Richard C. Saunders;Tom Su

  • Neonatal lesions of the medial temporal lobe disrupt prefrontal cortical regulation of striatal dopamine

    Richard C. Saunders;Bhaskar S. Kolachana;Jocelyne Bachevalier;Daniel R. Weinberger

  • The effects of fornix transection and combined fornix transection, mammillary body lesions and hippocampal ablations on object-pair association memory in the rhesus monkey.

    Richard C. Saunders;Lawrence Weiskrantz

  • Specialized Representations of Value in the Orbital and Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex: Desirability versus Availability of Outcomes

    Peter H. Rudebeck;Richard C. Saunders;Dawn A. Lundgren;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the rhesus monkey brain: use for stereotactic neurosurgery

    R. C. Saunders;T. G. Aigner;J. A. Frank

  • Chemogenetic disconnection of monkey orbitofrontal and rhinal cortex reversibly disrupts reward value

    Mark A G Eldridge;Walter Lerchner;Richard C Saunders;Hiroyuki Kaneko

  • Origin and topography of fibers contributing to the fornix in macaque monkeys

    Richard C. Saunders;John Patrick Aggleton

  • In search of an auditory engram

    Jonathan Fritz;Mortimer Mishkin;Richard C. Saunders

  • Impairments of visual object transforms in monkeys.

    L. Weiskrantz;R. C. Saunders

Frequent Co-Authors

Mortimer Mishkin
Mortimer Mishkin National Institutes of Health
Guy G. Pooley
Guy G. Pooley University of Cambridge
Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger Johns Hopkins University
David A. Leopold
David A. Leopold National Institutes of Health
John Patrick Aggleton
John Patrick Aggleton Cardiff University
Bhaskar Kolachana
Bhaskar Kolachana National Institutes of Health
Steve Rawlings
Steve Rawlings University of Oxford
Barry J. Richmond
Barry J. Richmond National Institutes of Health
Alastair C. Edge
Alastair C. Edge Durham University
Anthony Lasenby
Anthony Lasenby University of Cambridge

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