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Ronald Dubner

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
117
Citations
55868
World Ranking
419
National Ranking
249

Medicine

D-Index
117
Citations
55868
World Ranking
4184
National Ranking
2294

Ronald Dubner 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 Ronald Dubner sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 355 publications — 88th percentile

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

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

Ronald Dubner 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 Ronald Dubner sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 117 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Ronald Dubner was affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as Physiology, Complementary and Manual Therapy, Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covered several main topics, including:

  • Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Shoulder Injury and Treatment
  • Laser Applications in Dentistry and Medicine
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments

Throughout their career, Ronald Dubner published extensively, with notable recent papers such as:

  • Painful Temporomandibular Disorder: Decade of Discovery from OPPERA Studies, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Identification of clusters of individuals relevant to temporomandibular disorders and other chronic pain conditions: the OPPERA study, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Signs and Symptoms of First-Onset TMD and Sociodemographic Predictors of Its Development: The OPPERA Prospective Cohort Study, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Potential Psychosocial Risk Factors for Chronic TMD: Descriptive Data and Empirically Identified Domains from the OPPERA Case-Control Study, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Orofacial Pain Prospective Evaluation and Risk Assessment Study - The OPPERA Study, 2020, UNC Libraries

Ronald Dubner frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Gary D. Slade
  • Richard Ohrbach
  • Roger B. Fillingim
  • Joel D. Greenspan
  • William Maixner

The researcher's publications were predominantly found in the UNC Libraries venue, where they had 19 documented publications. Their work contributed significantly to understanding chronic pain, especially temporomandibular disorders and related conditions.

Best Publications

  • A new and sensitive method for measuring thermal nociception in cutaneous hyperalgesia.

    K. Hargreaves;R. Dubner;F. Brown;C. Flores

  • A novel behavioral model of neuropathic pain disorders produced in rats by partial sciatic nerve injury

    Zeʼev Seltzer;Ronald Dubner;Yoram Shir

  • Pain measurement: an overview

    C. R. Chapman;K. L. Casey;R. Dubner;K. M. Foley

  • Effects of Desipramine, Amitriptyline and Fluoxetine on Pain in Diabetic Neuropathy

    M. B. Max;S. A. Lynch;J. Muir;S. E. Shoaf

  • Interactions between the immune and nervous systems in pain

    Ke Ren;Ronald Dubner

  • Activity-dependent neuronal plasticity following tissue injury and inflammation

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  • Amitriptyline relieves diabetic neuropathy pain in patients with normal or depressed mood

    M. B. Max;M. Culnane;S. C. Schafer;Richard Harvey Gracely

  • Response Properties and Receptive Fields of Cells in an Anatomically Defined Region of the Superior Temporal Sulcus in the Monkey

    R. Dubner;S.M. Zeki

  • Spinal and Trigeminal Mechanisms of Nociception

    R Dubner;G J Bennett

  • The Neural Basis of Oral and Facial Function

    Ronald Dubner;Barry J. Sessle;Arthur T. Storey

  • Peripheral suppression of first pain and central summation of second pain evoked by noxious heat pulses

    Donald D. Price;James W. Hu;Ronald Dubner;Richard H. Gracely

  • Ratio scales of sensory and affective verbal pain descriptors

    Richard H. Gracely;Patricia McGrath;Ronald Dubner

  • Painful Temporomandibular Disorder Decade of Discovery from OPPERA Studies

    G.D. Slade;R. Ohrbach;J.D. Greenspan;R.B. Fillingim

  • Towards a mechanism-based classification of pain?

    Clifford J. Woolf;Gary J. Bennett;Michael Doherty;Ronald Dubner

  • Glial–Cytokine–Neuronal Interactions Underlying the Mechanisms of Persistent Pain

    Wei Guo;Hu Wang;Mineo Watanabe;Kohei Shimizu

  • The effects of a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist, MK-801, on behavioral hyperalgesia and dorsal horn neuronal activity in rats with unilateral inflammation.

    Ke Ren;Janice L.K. Hylden;Gene M. Williams;M. A. Ruda

  • Descending modulation in persistent pain: an update.

    Ke Ren;Ronald Dubner

  • Psychological Factors Associated With Development of TMD: The OPPERA Prospective Cohort Study

    Roger B. Fillingim;Richard Ohrbach;Joel D. Greenspan;Charles Knott

  • Neurons that subserve the sensory-discriminative aspects of pain.

    Donald D. Price;Ronald Dubner

  • Orofacial Pain Prospective Evaluation and Risk Assessment Study – The OPPERA Study

    William Maixner;Luda Diatchenko;Ronald Dubner;Roger B. Fillingim

  • Expansion of receptive fields of spinal lamina I projection neurons in rats with unilateral adjuvant-induced inflammation: the contribution of dorsal horn mechanisms.

    Janice L.K. Hylden;Richard L. Nahin;Richard J. Traub;Ronald Dubner

  • Amitriptyline, but Not Lorazepam, Relieves Postherpetic Neuralgia

    M. Max;S. Schafer;M. Culnane;B. Smoller

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard H. Gracely
Richard H. Gracely University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gary J. Bennett
Gary J. Bennett McGill University
Kenneth M. Hargreaves
Kenneth M. Hargreaves The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
William Maixner
William Maixner Duke University
Barry J. Sessle
Barry J. Sessle University of Toronto
Michael J. Iadarola
Michael J. Iadarola National Institutes of Health
Donald D. Price
Donald D. Price University of Florida
Gary H. Duncan
Gary H. Duncan University of Montreal
Richard J. Traub
Richard J. Traub University of Maryland, Baltimore
M. Catherine Bushnell
M. Catherine Bushnell National Institutes of Health

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Best Scientists Citing Ronald Dubner

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Donald D. Price

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Publications: 94

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Frank Porreca

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Tony L. Yaksh

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Publications: 83

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Barry J. Sessle

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Publications: 69

Ke Ren

Ke Ren

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Publications: 69

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Antti Pertovaara

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Boston Children's Hospital

Publications: 68

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Allan I. Basbaum

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Publications: 67

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Publications: 63

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Publications: 63

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Publications: 61

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