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Robert H. Edwards 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 Robert H. Edwards sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 252 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert H. Edwards 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 Robert H. Edwards sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 108 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Robert H. Edwards is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research interests are predominantly in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Neurology, Cell Biology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics including Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Cellular transport and secretion, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, mechanisms and treatments related to Parkinson's Disease, Neurological disorders and treatments, Ion channel regulation and function, and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Recent publications demonstrate the scope and focus of their research. Notable papers include:

  • Alpha-synuclein research: defining strategic moves in the battle against Parkinson's disease, 2021, npj Parkinson s Disease
  • Ion transport and regulation in a synaptic vesicle glutamate transporter, 2020, Science
  • A dual role for α-synuclein in facilitation and depression of dopamine release from substantia nigra neurons in vivo, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Membrane Interactions of Synuclein: Physiology and Pathology, 2021, Annual Review of Pathology Mechanisms of Disease
  • The mechanism and regulation of vesicular glutamate transport: Coordination with the synaptic vesicle cycle, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes

Frequent coauthors working alongside Robert H. Edwards include Jacob Eriksen, Fei Li, Robert M. Stroud, Hongfei Xu, and Shweta Jain, indicating collaborative research efforts across several publications.

The scientist's research has been published repeatedly in key venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • npj Parkinson s Disease
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Biophysical Journal

This publication record reflects a consistent engagement with a range of respected journals in neuroscience and molecular biology.

Best Publications

  • Cloning of a delta opioid receptor by functional expression

    Christopher J. Evans;Duane E. Keith;Heather Morrison;Karin Magendzo

  • The Expression of Vesicular Glutamate Transporters Defines Two Classes of Excitatory Synapse

    Robert T Fremeau;Matthew D Troyer;Ingrid Pahner;Gro Owren Nygaard

  • Increased Expression of α-Synuclein Reduces Neurotransmitter Release by Inhibiting Synaptic Vesicle Reclustering after Endocytosis

    Venu M. Nemani;Wei Lu;Victoria Berge;Ken Nakamura

  • Uptake of glutamate into synaptic vesicles by an inorganic phosphate transporter.

    Elizabeth E. Bellocchio;Richard J. Reimer;Robert T. Fremeau;Robert H. Edwards

  • Identification and characterization of the vesicular GABA transporter

    Steven L. McIntire;Richard J. Reimer;Kim Schuske;Robert H. Edwards

  • The function of α-synuclein.

    Jacob T. Bendor;Todd P. Logan;Robert H. Edwards

  • VGLUTs define subsets of excitatory neurons and suggest novel roles for glutamate

    Robert T. Fremeau;Susan M. Voglmaier;Rebecca P. Seal;Robert H. Edwards

  • bcl-2 inhibits death of central neural cells induced by multiple agents.

    Li-Tao Zhong;Theodore Sarafian;Darci J. Kane;Andrew C. Charles

  • A cDNA that suppresses MPP+ toxicity encodes a vesicular amine transporter.

    Yongjian Liu;Doris Peter;Ali Roghani;Shimon Schuldiner

  • Direct Membrane Association Drives Mitochondrial Fission by the Parkinson Disease-associated Protein α-Synuclein

    Ken Nakamura;Venu M. Nemani;Farnaz Azarbal;Gaia Skibinski

  • The Vesicular GABA Transporter, VGAT, Localizes to Synaptic Vesicles in Sets of Glycinergic as Well as GABAergic Neurons

    Farrukh A. Chaudhry;Richard J. Reimer;Elizabeth E. Bellocchio;Niels C. Danbolt

  • Lipid Rafts Mediate the Synaptic Localization of α-Synuclein

    Doris L. Fortin;Matthew D. Troyer;Ken Nakamura;Shin-ichiro Kubo

  • The identification of vesicular glutamate transporter 3 suggests novel modes of signaling by glutamate.

    Robert T. Fremeau;Jonathon Burman;Tayyaba Qureshi;Cindy H. Tran

  • Interplay between Cytosolic Dopamine, Calcium, and α-Synuclein Causes Selective Death of Substantia Nigra Neurons

    Eugene V. Mosharov;Kristin E. Larsen;Ellen Kanter;Kester A. Phillips

  • Dopaminergic terminals in the nucleus accumbens but not the dorsal striatum corelease glutamate.

    Garret D. Stuber;Thomas S. Hnasko;Jonathan P. Britt;Robert H. Edwards

  • Vesicular glutamate transporters 1 and 2 target to functionally distinct synaptic release sites.

    Robert T. Fremeau;Kaiwen Kam;Tayyaba Qureshi;Juliette Johnson

  • Neuromelanin biosynthesis is driven by excess cytosolic catecholamines not accumulated by synaptic vesicles.

    David Sulzer;Johanna Bogulavsky;Kristin E. Larsen;Gerald Behr

  • Injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity requires C-low threshold mechanoreceptors

    Rebecca P. Seal;Xingmei Wang;Yabo Guan;Srinivasa N. Raja

  • α-Synuclein Overexpression in PC12 and Chromaffin Cells Impairs Catecholamine Release by Interfering with a Late Step in Exocytosis

    Kristin E. Larsen;Yvonne Schmitz;Matthew D. Troyer;Eugene Mosharov

  • Cloning of the cellular receptor for amphotropic murine retroviruses reveals homology to that for gibbon ape leukemia virus.

    D G Miller;R H Edwards;A D Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

David Sulzer
David Sulzer Columbia University
Rebecca P. Seal
Rebecca P. Seal University of Pittsburgh
David R. Copenhagen
David R. Copenhagen University of California, San Francisco
Thomas S. Hnasko
Thomas S. Hnasko University of California, San Diego
Jon Storm-Mathisen
Jon Storm-Mathisen University of Oslo
Roger A. Nicoll
Roger A. Nicoll University of California, San Francisco
William J. Rutter
William J. Rutter University of California, San Francisco
Louis J. Ptáček
Louis J. Ptáček University of California, San Francisco
Wolfgang Härtig
Wolfgang Härtig Leipzig University
Virginia M. Pickel
Virginia M. Pickel Cornell University

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