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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Neuroscience 69 2653 2427 231 218 190 15763

Rohini Kuner publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Rohini Kuner between 1998 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Rohini Kuner published across 28 years, from 1998 to 2025, averaging 7.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 18 publications in 2021. 7 of the 202 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1998 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 18. Peak 18 publications in 2021. 1998: 1 publication 1999: 3 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 7 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 8 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 11 publications 2014: 10 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 15 publications 2018: 7 publications 2019: 5 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 18 publications 2022: 17 publications 2023: 11 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 1 publication
1998 2025

202 publications in total across all disciplines

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Rohini Kuner: publications per year, 1998 to 2025
Year Publications
1998 1
1999 3
2000 0
2001 7
2002 3
2003 2
2004 8
2005 2
2006 7
2007 7
2008 5
2009 10
2010 5
2011 12
2012 4
2013 11
2014 10
2015 11
2016 8
2017 15
2018 7
2019 5
2020 6
2021 18
2022 17
2023 11
2024 6
2025 1
Total 202
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Rohini Kuner 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 Rohini Kuner sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 86 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 887+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 539. Most scientists, 539, have 98–107 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 188–197 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 18 scientists 48–57 publications: 79 scientists 58–67 publications: 193 scientists 68–77 publications: 323 scientists 78–87 publications: 406 scientists 88–97 publications: 452 scientists 98–107 publications: 539 scientists 108–117 publications: 505 scientists 118–127 publications: 522 scientists 128–137 publications: 469 scientists 138–147 publications: 456 scientists 148–157 publications: 459 scientists 158–167 publications: 397 scientists 168–177 publications: 383 scientists 178–187 publications: 350 scientists 188–197 publications: 302 scientists 198–207 publications: 306 scientists 208–217 publications: 262 scientists 218–227 publications: 242 scientists 228–237 publications: 220 scientists 238–247 publications: 203 scientists 248–257 publications: 174 scientists 258–267 publications: 176 scientists 268–277 publications: 175 scientists 278–287 publications: 125 scientists 288–297 publications: 116 scientists 298–307 publications: 127 scientists 308–317 publications: 128 scientists 318–327 publications: 99 scientists 328–337 publications: 89 scientists 338–347 publications: 78 scientists 348–357 publications: 96 scientists 358–367 publications: 66 scientists 368–377 publications: 59 scientists 378–387 publications: 65 scientists 388–397 publications: 54 scientists 398–407 publications: 48 scientists 408–417 publications: 49 scientists 418–427 publications: 34 scientists 428–437 publications: 31 scientists 438–447 publications: 30 scientists 448–457 publications: 31 scientists 458–467 publications: 36 scientists 468–477 publications: 40 scientists 478–487 publications: 35 scientists 488–497 publications: 30 scientists 498–507 publications: 23 scientists 508–517 publications: 26 scientists 518–527 publications: 20 scientists 528–537 publications: 23 scientists 538–547 publications: 20 scientists 548–557 publications: 20 scientists 558–567 publications: 17 scientists 568–577 publications: 14 scientists 578–587 publications: 20 scientists 588–597 publications: 20 scientists 598–607 publications: 19 scientists 608–617 publications: 18 scientists 618–627 publications: 17 scientists 628–637 publications: 11 scientists 638–647 publications: 11 scientists 648–657 publications: 11 scientists 658–667 publications: 8 scientists 668–677 publications: 7 scientists 678–687 publications: 11 scientists 688–697 publications: 10 scientists 698–707 publications: 4 scientists 708–717 publications: 6 scientists 718–727 publications: 5 scientists 728–737 publications: 5 scientists 738–747 publications: 9 scientists 748–757 publications: 9 scientists 758–767 publications: 3 scientists 768–777 publications: 7 scientists 778–787 publications: 7 scientists 788–797 publications: 6 scientists 798–807 publications: 2 scientists 808–817 publications: 2 scientists 818–827 publications: 7 scientists 828–837 publications: 0 scientists 838–847 publications: 9 scientists 848–857 publications: 3 scientists 858–867 publications: 1 scientist 868–877 publications: 3 scientists 878–886 publications: 6 scientists 887+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 887+

This scientist: 190 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Neuroscience scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,597 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 18
48–57 79
58–67 193
68–77 323
78–87 406
88–97 452
98–107 539
108–117 505
118–127 522
128–137 469
138–147 456
148–157 459
158–167 397
168–177 383
178–187 350
188–197 302 190
198–207 306
208–217 262
218–227 242
228–237 220
238–247 203
248–257 174
258–267 176
268–277 175
278–287 125
288–297 116
298–307 127
308–317 128
318–327 99
328–337 89
338–347 78
348–357 96
358–367 66
368–377 59
378–387 65
388–397 54
398–407 48
408–417 49
418–427 34
428–437 31
438–447 30
448–457 31
458–467 36
468–477 40
478–487 35
488–497 30
498–507 23
508–517 26
518–527 20
528–537 23
538–547 20
548–557 20
558–567 17
568–577 14
578–587 20
588–597 20
598–607 19
608–617 18
618–627 17
628–637 11
638–647 11
648–657 11
658–667 8
668–677 7
678–687 11
688–697 10
698–707 4
708–717 6
718–727 5
728–737 5
738–747 9
748–757 9
758–767 3
768–777 7
778–787 7
788–797 6
798–807 2
808–817 2
818–827 7
828–837 0
838–847 9
848–857 3
858–867 1
868–877 3
878–886 6
887+ 100
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Rohini Kuner 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 Rohini Kuner sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
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Bar chart with 68 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 163+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 512. Most scientists, 512, have 46–47 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 68–69 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 42 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 172 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 296 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 435 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 459 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 456 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 467 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 478 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 512 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 435 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 425 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 418 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 392 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 357 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 334 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 328 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 260 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 278 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 239 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 250 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 210 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 200 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 189 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 170 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 146 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 113 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 126 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 100 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 84 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 99 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 84 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 85 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 72 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 76 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 45 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 49 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 43 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 32 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 45 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 50 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 32 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 39 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 29 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 27 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 19 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 23 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 27 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 16 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 24 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 13 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 14 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 15 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 10 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 10 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 13 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 8 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 6 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 6 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 7 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 7 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 10 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162 D-Index: 8 scientists 163+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30–31 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

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Number of Neuroscience scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,597 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 42
32–33 172
34–35 296
36–37 435
38–39 459
40–41 456
42–43 467
44–45 478
46–47 512
48–49 435
50–51 425
52–53 418
54–55 392
56–57 357
58–59 334
60–61 328
62–63 260
64–65 278
66–67 239
68–69 250 69
70–71 210
72–73 200
74–75 189
76–77 170
78–79 146
80–81 113
82–83 126
84–85 100
86–87 84
88–89 99
90–91 84
92–93 85
94–95 72
96–97 76
98–99 45
100–101 49
102–103 43
104–105 32
106–107 45
108–109 50
110–111 32
112–113 39
114–115 32
116–117 29
118–119 27
120–121 19
122–123 23
124–125 27
126–127 16
128–129 24
130–131 13
132–133 21
134–135 17
136–137 14
138–139 15
140–141 10
142–143 10
144–145 13
146–147 9
148–149 8
150–151 6
152–153 6
154–155 7
156–157 7
158–159 10
160–161 4
162 8
163+ 100
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Rohini Kuner is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and specializes in medicine and neuroscience. Their research focuses primarily on pain mechanisms and treatments, alongside related areas such as botulinum toxin and neurological disorders, nerve injury and regeneration, pain management and placebo effect, ion channel regulation and function, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

The scientist's publication record includes significant contributions in prominent journals and venues with frequent appearances in Nature Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cells, Neuron, and Scientific Reports.

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Rohini Kuner are:

  • Cellular Circuits in the Brain and Their Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain, 2020, Physiological Reviews
  • Neuropathic Pain: From Mechanisms to Treatment, 2020, Physiological Reviews
  • CXCL10 and CCL21 Promote Migration of Pancreatic Cancer Cells Toward Sensory Neurons and Neural Remodeling in Tumors in Mice, Associated With Pain in Patients, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • Neocortical circuits in pain and pain relief, 2021, Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • Neuropathic pain caused by miswiring and abnormal end organ targeting, 2022, Nature

Rohini Kuner has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Linette Liqi Tan, Thomas Kuner, Zheng Gan, M.J. Oswald, and Peter P. Nawroth. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary efforts primarily in neuroscience and pain research.

Their scholarly work spans subfields such as physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and molecular biology, indicating a broad and integrative approach to biomedical research.

In addition to journal articles, Rohini Kuner has contributed to book publications, notably "Pharmacology of Immunosuppression," published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2022.

Recognition for Rohini Kuner's academic contributions includes election as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Neuropathic Pain: From Mechanisms to Treatment

    Nanna Brix Finnerup;Rohini Kuner;Troels Staehelin Jensen

  • Central mechanisms of pathological pain

    Rohini Kuner

  • Structural plasticity and reorganisation in chronic pain.

    Rohini Kuner;Herta Flor

  • Role of heteromer formation in GABAB receptor function.

    Rohini Kuner;Georg Köhr;Sylvia Grünewald;Gisela Eisenhardt

  • Cannabinoids mediate analgesia largely via peripheral type 1 cannabinoid receptors in nociceptors

    Nitin Agarwal;Pal Pacher;Irmgard Tegeder;Fumimasa Amaya

  • Plexin-B1 directly interacts with PDZ-RhoGEF/LARG to regulate RhoA and growth cone morphology.

    Jakub M. Swiercz;Rohini Kuner;Jürgen Behrens;Stefan Offermanns

  • A new population of parvocellular oxytocin neurons controlling magnocellular neuron activity and inflammatory pain processing

    Marina Eliava;Meggane Melchior;H. Sophie Knobloch-Bollmann;H. Sophie Knobloch-Bollmann;Jérôme Wahis

  • Cellular Circuits in the Brain and Their Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain.

    Rohini Kuner;Thomas Kuner

  • Conditional gene deletion in primary nociceptive neurons of trigeminal ganglia and dorsal root ganglia.

    Nitin Agarwal;Stefan Offermanns;Rohini Kuner

  • Synaptic plasticity in pathological pain.

    Ceng Luo;Thomas Kuner;Rohini Kuner

  • Plexin-B1/RhoGEF-mediated RhoA activation involves the receptor tyrosine kinase ErbB-2.

    Jakub M. Swiercz;Rohini Kuner;Stefan Offermanns

  • The AMPA receptor subunits GluR-A and GluR-B reciprocally modulate spinal synaptic plasticity and inflammatory pain.

    Bettina Hartmann;Seifollah Ahmadi;Paul A. Heppenstall;Paul A. Heppenstall;Gary R. Lewin

  • The serine protease inhibitor SerpinA3N attenuates neuropathic pain by inhibiting T cell-derived leukocyte elastase

    Lucas Vicuña;David E Strochlic;Alban Latremoliere;Kiran Kumar Bali

  • Hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors mediate tumor-nerve interactions and bone cancer pain.

    Matthias Schweizerhof;Sebastian Stösser;Martina Kurejova;Christian Njoo

  • Pain hypersensitivity mechanisms at a glance

    Vijayan Gangadharan;Vijayan Gangadharan;Rohini Kuner;Rohini Kuner

  • Neuropathic pain caused by miswiring and abnormal end organ targeting

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  • Studying ongoing and spontaneous pain in rodents – challenges and opportunities

    Anke Tappe-Theodor;Rohini Kuner

  • A Key Role for gp130 Expressed on Peripheral Sensory Nerves in Pathological Pain

    Manfred Andratsch;Norbert Mair;Cristina E. Constantin;Nadja Scherbakov

  • A pathway from midcingulate cortex to posterior insula gates nociceptive hypersensitivity.

    Linette Liqi Tan;Patric Pelzer;Céline Heinl;Wannan Tang

  • Synaptic scaffolding protein Homer1a protects against chronic inflammatory pain

    Anke Tappe;Matthias Klugmann;Ceng Luo;David Hirlinger

  • A Functional Role for VEGFR1 Expressed in Peripheral Sensory Neurons in Cancer Pain

    Deepitha Selvaraj;Vijayan Gangadharan;Christoph W. Michalski;Martina Kurejova

  • Control of neuronal branching by the death receptor CD95 (Fas/Apo-1)

    C. Zuliani;S. Kleber;S. Klussmann;T. Wenger

  • Erratum: Structural plasticity and reorganisation in chronic pain

    Rohini Kuner;Herta Flor

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Offermanns
Stefan Offermanns Max Planck Society
Peter P. Nawroth
Peter P. Nawroth Heidelberg University
Gary R. Lewin
Gary R. Lewin Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer University of Zurich
Reinhard Schneider
Reinhard Schneider University of Luxembourg
Paul F. Worley
Paul F. Worley Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hellmut G. Augustin
Hellmut G. Augustin Heidelberg University
Beat Lutz
Beat Lutz Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Valery Grinevich
Valery Grinevich Heidelberg University

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