2026 Robert K. S. Wong: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	66	3013	2754	1397	1257	124	15425

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Overview

Robert K. S. Wong is affiliated with SUNY Downstate Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience, with particular contributions to subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, notably:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Epilepsy research and treatment

Robert K. S. Wong has contributed to publications in diverse academic venues such as:

eNeuro
Brain Communications
Epilepsia
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The Journal of Physiology

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Wong include:

Neuronal Network Excitability in Alzheimer's Disease: The Puzzle of Similar versus Divergent Roles of Amyloid β and Tau (2021), published in eNeuro
Fast ripples reflect increased excitability that primes epileptiform spikes (2023), published in Brain Communications
Pathological neurons generate ripples at the UP-DOWN transition disrupting information transfer (2023), published in Epilepsia
Fast ripples reflect increased excitability that primes epileptiform spikes (2023), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
In Memoriam: Richard Miles: Neuroscience network has lost a key synapse (2024), published in The Journal of Physiology

Their frequent coauthors include:

Shennan A. Weiss
Itzhak Fried
Jerome Engel
Michael R. Sperling
Yuval Nir

Best Publications

A model of a CA3 hippocampal pyramidal neuron incorporating voltage-clamp data on intrinsic conductances.

R. D. Traub;R. K. S. Wong;R. Miles;H. Michelson

921
Citations
Cellular mechanism of neuronal synchronization in epilepsy

Roger D. Traub;Robert K. S. Wong

700
Citations
Intradendritic recordings from hippocampal neurons.

R. K. S. Wong;D. A. Prince;A. I. Basbaum

588
Citations
Excitatory synaptic interactions between CA3 neurones in the guinea-pig hippocampus.

R Miles;R K Wong

561
Citations
Isolation of neurons suitable for patch-clamping from adult mammalian central nervous systems.

Alan R. Kay;Robert K.S. Wong

480
Citations
Participation of calcium spikes during intrinsic burst firing in hippocampal neurons.

R.K.S. Wong;D.A. Prince

470
Citations
Single neurones can initiate synchronized population discharge in the hippocampus

Richard Miles;Robert K. S. Wong

451
Citations
Afterpotential generation in hippocampal pyramidal cells.

R K Wong;D A Prince

413
Citations
Inhibitory control of local excitatory circuits in the guinea-pig hippocampus.

R Miles;R K Wong

394
Citations
Model of the origin of rhythmic population oscillations in the hippocampal slice.

Roger D. Traub;Richard Miles;Robert K. S. Wong

374
Citations
Synchronized burst discharge in disinhibited hippocampal slice. I. Initiation in CA2-CA3 region.

R. K. Wong;R. D. Traub

368
Citations
Sustained dendritic gradients of Ca2+ induced by excitatory amino acids in CA1 hippocampal neurons

John A. Connor;Wytse J. Wadman;Philip E. Hockberger;Robert K. S. Wong

367
Citations
GABAA receptor function is regulated by phosphorylation in acutely dissociated guinea-pig hippocampal neurones.

Qiang Xiao Chen;A. Stelzer;A. R. Kay;R. K. Wong

356
Citations
GABAA-receptor function in hippocampal cells is maintained by phosphorylation factors

Armin Stelzer;Alan R. Kay;Robert K. S. Wong

355
Citations
Dendritic mechanisms underlying penicillin-induced epileptiform activity.

R. K. S. Wong;D. A. Prince

339
Citations
Excitatory synaptic responses mediated by GABAA receptors in the hippocampus.

Hillary B. Michelson;Robert K. S. Wong

310
Citations
Lovastatin corrects excess protein synthesis and prevents epileptogenesis in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome.

Emily K. Osterweil;Shih-Chieh Chuang;Alexander A. Chubykin;Michael Sidorov

271
Citations
Spread of synchronous firing in longitudinal slices from the CA3 region of the hippocampus

R Miles;R. D Traub;R. K. S Wong

259
Citations
Synchronized afterdischarges in the hippocampus: contribution of local synaptic interactions.

R. Miles;R.K.S. Wong;R.D. Traub

257
Citations
Unitary inhibitory synaptic potentials in the guinea-pig hippocampus in vitro.

R Miles;R K Wong

238
Citations