2026 Rohini Kuner: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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

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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

1352
Citations
Central mechanisms of pathological pain

Rohini Kuner

963
Citations
Structural plasticity and reorganisation in chronic pain.

Rohini Kuner;Herta Flor

722
Citations
Role of heteromer formation in GABAB receptor function.

Rohini Kuner;Georg Köhr;Sylvia Grünewald;Gisela Eisenhardt

675
Citations
Cannabinoids mediate analgesia largely via peripheral type 1 cannabinoid receptors in nociceptors

Nitin Agarwal;Pal Pacher;Irmgard Tegeder;Fumimasa Amaya

660
Citations
Plexin-B1 directly interacts with PDZ-RhoGEF/LARG to regulate RhoA and growth cone morphology.

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

530
Citations
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

411
Citations
Cellular Circuits in the Brain and Their Modulation in Acute and Chronic Pain.

Rohini Kuner;Thomas Kuner

304
Citations
Conditional gene deletion in primary nociceptive neurons of trigeminal ganglia and dorsal root ganglia.

Nitin Agarwal;Stefan Offermanns;Rohini Kuner

274
Citations
Synaptic plasticity in pathological pain.

Ceng Luo;Thomas Kuner;Rohini Kuner

255
Citations
Plexin-B1/RhoGEF-mediated RhoA activation involves the receptor tyrosine kinase ErbB-2.

Jakub M. Swiercz;Rohini Kuner;Stefan Offermanns

243
Citations
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

240
Citations
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

229
Citations
Hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors mediate tumor-nerve interactions and bone cancer pain.

Matthias Schweizerhof;Sebastian Stösser;Martina Kurejova;Christian Njoo

212
Citations
Pain hypersensitivity mechanisms at a glance

Vijayan Gangadharan;Vijayan Gangadharan;Rohini Kuner;Rohini Kuner

201
Citations
Neuropathic pain caused by miswiring and abnormal end organ targeting

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180
Citations
Studying ongoing and spontaneous pain in rodents – challenges and opportunities

Anke Tappe-Theodor;Rohini Kuner

173
Citations
A Key Role for gp130 Expressed on Peripheral Sensory Nerves in Pathological Pain

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

170
Citations
A pathway from midcingulate cortex to posterior insula gates nociceptive hypersensitivity.

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

163
Citations
Synaptic scaffolding protein Homer1a protects against chronic inflammatory pain

Anke Tappe;Matthias Klugmann;Ceng Luo;David Hirlinger

156
Citations
A Functional Role for VEGFR1 Expressed in Peripheral Sensory Neurons in Cancer Pain

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

152
Citations
Control of neuronal branching by the death receptor CD95 (Fas/Apo-1)

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

150
Citations
Erratum: Structural plasticity and reorganisation in chronic pain

Rohini Kuner;Herta Flor

137
Citations