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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.

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38 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.

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.

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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.

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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