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Richard G. M. Morris 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 G. M. Morris sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 238 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard G. M. Morris 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 G. M. Morris sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 90 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1994 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Richard G. M. Morris is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a body of work spanning 40 publications in this main field of study.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, social psychology, molecular biology, and genetics. Their research topics include memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neural dynamics and brain function, sleep and wakefulness research, zebrafish biomedical research applications, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Richard G. M. Morris are:

  • Patrick A. Spooner
  • Dorothy Tse
  • Rufus Mitchell-Heggs
  • Kapil Saxena
  • Tomonori Takeuchi

Richard G. M. Morris has published regularly in several venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Trends in Neurosciences
  • Hippocampus
  • European Journal of Neuroscience

Notable recent papers include:

  • Brain and cognitive changes in patients with long COVID compared with infection-recovered control subjects, 2024, Brain
  • Sleep deprivation and hippocampal ripple disruption after one-session learning eliminate memory expression the next day, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Memory recall: New behavioral protocols for examining distinct forms of context specific recall in animals, 2022, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Brain region networks for the assimilation of new associative memory into a schema, 2022, Molecular Brain
  • Neuronal signature of spatial decision-making during navigation by freely moving rats by using calcium imaging, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Throughout their career, Richard G. M. Morris has been recognized with several awards, such as being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1994, a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 1997, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Developments of a water-maze procedure for studying spatial learning in the rat

    Richard Morris

  • Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions.

    R. G. M. Morris;P. Garrud;J. N. P. Rawlins;J. O'Keefe

  • Selective impairment of learning and blockade of long-term potentiation by an N -methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, AP5

    R. G. M. Morris;E. Anderson;G. S. Lynch;M. Baudry

  • Spatial Localization Does Not Require the Presence of Local Cues

    Richard G.M. Morris

  • Synaptic plasticity and memory: an evaluation of the hypothesis

    S. J. Martin;P. D. Grimwood;R. G. M. Morris

  • Synaptic tagging and long-term potentiation

    Uwe Frey;Richard G. M. Morris

  • The Hippocampus Book

    Per Andersen

  • Hippocampal synaptic enhancement and information storage within a distributed memory system

    B.L. McNaughton;R.G.M. Morris

  • Schemas and memory consolidation

    Dorothy Tse;Rosamund F. Langston;Masaki Kakeyama;Ingrid Bethus

  • Enhanced long-term potentiation and impaired learning in mice with mutant postsynaptic density-95 protein

    Martine Migaud;Paul Charlesworth;Maureen Dempster;Lorna C. Webster

  • Spatial learning with a minislab in the dorsal hippocampus

    May-Britt Moser;Edvard I. Moser;Elma Forrest;Per Andersen

  • Synaptic plasticity and learning: selective impairment of learning rats and blockade of long-term potentiation in vivo by the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist AP5.

    R. G. M. Morris

  • Making memories last: the synaptic tagging and capture hypothesis

    Roger L. Redondo;Richard G. M. Morris

  • A learning deficit related to age and β-amyloid plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    Guiquan Chen;Karen S Chen;Jane H Knox;Jennifer Inglis

  • Locus coeruleus and dopaminergic consolidation of everyday memory

    Tomonori Takeuchi;Adrian Duszkiewicz;Alex Sonneborn;Patrick A. Spooner

  • Ibotenate lesions of hippocampus and/or subiculum: Dissociating components of allocentric spatial learning.

    R. G. M. Morris;F. Schenk;F. Tweedie;L. E. Jarrard

  • Distinct components of spatial learning revealed by prior training and NMDA receptor blockade.

    D. M. Bannerman;M. A. Good;M. A. Good;S. P. Butcher;M. Ramsay

  • Synaptic tagging: implications for late maintenance of hippocampal long-term potentiation

    Uwe Frey;Richard G.M. Morris

  • Hippocampal representation in place learning

    Howard Eichenbaum;Caroline Stewart;R. G. M. Morris

  • The synaptic plasticity and memory hypothesis: encoding, storage and persistence.

    Tomonori Takeuchi;Adrian J. Duszkiewicz;Richard G. M. Morris

  • Delay-dependent impairment of a matching-to-place task with chronic and intrahippocampal infusion of the NMDA-antagonist D-AP5.

    R.J. Steele;R.G.M. Morris

  • Hippocampal-Neocortical Interactions in Memory Formation, Consolidation, and Reconsolidation

    Szu-Han Wang;Richard G.M. Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillén Fernández
Guillén Fernández Radboud University
Tim V. P. Bliss
Tim V. P. Bliss The Francis Crick Institute
Menno P. Witter
Menno P. Witter Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Graham L. Collingridge
Graham L. Collingridge Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Mark Andrew Good
Mark Andrew Good Cardiff University
David M. Bannerman
David M. Bannerman University of Oxford
Edvard I. Moser
Edvard I. Moser Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Gernot Riedel
Gernot Riedel University of Aberdeen
Yadin Dudai
Yadin Dudai Weizmann Institute of Science
Joyce L.W. Yau
Joyce L.W. Yau University of Edinburgh

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