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Neuroscience

D-Index
88
Citations
27104
World Ranking
1215
National Ranking
620

Robert Shapley 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 Shapley sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 283 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert Shapley 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 Shapley sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 88 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Robert Shapley is a researcher affiliated with New York University in the United States, specializing primarily in neuroscience. Their work addresses various aspects of neural dynamics and visual perception. Shapley's research fields include neuroscience broadly, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Additional subfields covered in their work are social psychology, molecular biology, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

The main topics Shapley investigates revolve around visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, neurobiology and insect physiology research, as well as color perception and design. Other areas of interest include color science and applications, advanced chemical sensor technologies, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Shapley has published papers in a range of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Vision Research
  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cognitive Neurodynamics
  • eLife

The researcher's recent papers include:

  • Gamma rhythms in the visual cortex: functions and mechanisms (2021), published in Cognitive Neurodynamics
  • Distinct spatiotemporal mechanisms underlie extra-classical receptive field modulation in macaque V1 microcircuits (2020), published in eLife
  • Functional Clusters of Neurons in Layer 6 of Macaque V1 (2020), published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • Contrast response in a comprehensive network model of macaque V1 (2020), published in Journal of Vision
  • A theory of direction selectivity for macaque primary visual cortex (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shapley include:

  • Michael J. Hawken
  • Logan Chariker
  • Lai-Sang Young
  • Valerie Nunez
  • James Gordon

Throughout their career, Robert Shapley has been recognized as a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1986.

Best Publications

  • Chapter 9 Visual adaptation and retinal gain controls

    Robert Shapley;Robert Shapley;Christina Enroth-Cugell;Christina Enroth-Cugell

  • The primate retina contains two types of ganglion cells, with high and low contrast sensitivity

    Ehud Kaplan;Robert M. Shapley

  • Orientation selectivity in macaque V1: diversity and laminar dependence.

    Dario L. Ringach;Robert M. Shapley;Michael J. Hawken

  • X and Y cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus of macaque monkeys.

    E Kaplan;R M Shapley

  • Contrast's effect on spatial summation by macaque V1 neurons.

    Michael P. Sceniak;Dario L. Ringach;Michael J. Hawken;Robert Shapley

  • Dynamics of orientation tuning in macaque primary visual cortex

    Dario L. Ringach;Michael J Hawken;Robert Shapley

  • Cat and monkey retinal ganglion cells and their visual functional roles

    Robert Shapley;V. Hugh Perry

  • The effect of contrast on the transfer properties of cat retinal ganglion cells.

    R M Shapley;J D Victor

  • Quantitative analysis of retinal ganglion cell classifications.

    S Hochstein;R M Shapley

  • Linear and nonlinear spatial subunits in Y cat retinal ganglion cells.

    S Hochstein;R M Shapley

  • Macaque V1 neurons can signal illusory contours

    David H. Grosof;David H. Grosof;Robert M. Shapley;Michael J. Hawken

  • LFP Power Spectra in V1 Cortex: The Graded Effect of Stimulus Contrast

    J. Andrew Henrie;Robert Shapley

  • The spatial transformation of color in the primary visual cortex of the macaque monkey

    Elizabeth N. Johnson;Michael J. Hawken;Robert Shapley

  • Visual sensitivity and parallel retinocortical channels.

    Robert Shapley

  • Chapter 7 New views of primate retinal function

    Ehud Kaplan;Barry B. Lee;Robert M. Shapley;Robert M. Shapley

  • Color in the cortex: single- and double-opponent cells.

    Robert Shapley;Michael J. Hawken

  • Spatial Frequency Analysis in the Visual System

    Robert Shapley;Peter Lennie

  • New perspectives on the mechanisms for orientation selectivity

    Haim Sompolinsky;Robert Shapley

  • Background light and the contrast gain of primate P and M retinal ganglion cells.

    K Purpura;E Kaplan;R M Shapley

  • Temporal-frequency selectivity in monkey visual cortex.

    M. J. Hawken;R. M. Shapley;D. H. Grosof

  • Visual Spatial Characterization of Macaque V1 Neurons

    Michael P. Sceniak;Michael P. Sceniak;Michael J. Hawken;Robert Shapley

  • The primate retina contains two types of ganglion cells, with high and low contrast sensitivity (spatial vision/visual neurons/macaque monkey)

    Ehud Kaplan;Robert M. Shapley

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Hawken
Michael J. Hawken New York University
Dario L. Ringach
Dario L. Ringach University of California, Los Angeles
Ehud Kaplan
Ehud Kaplan Charles University
Jonathan D. Victor
Jonathan D. Victor Cornell University
Michael Shelley
Michael Shelley Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
David W. McLaughlin
David W. McLaughlin Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Lai Sang Young
Lai Sang Young Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Joy Hirsch
Joy Hirsch Yale University
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University
Shaul Hochstein
Shaul Hochstein Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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