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Sheena A. Josselyn

Sheena A. Josselyn

University of Toronto
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
67
Citations
19820
World Ranking
2851
National Ranking
164

Sheena A. Josselyn 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 Sheena A. Josselyn sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 176 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sheena A. Josselyn 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 Sheena A. Josselyn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% 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

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Sheena A. Josselyn is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada, specializing in neuroscience with a focus on cognitive and cellular molecular neuroscience. Their academic contributions span across 111 publications primarily in the field of Neuroscience.

The research topics commonly addressed in their work include:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research

Josselyn's work has been published in multiple venues with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuron
  • Current Biology
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry

They have collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Paul W. Frankland
  • Asim J. Rashid
  • Adam I. Ramsaran
  • Andrew J. Mocle
  • Alexander D. Jacob

Among recent notable publications are:

  • Memory engrams: Recalling the past and imagining the future, 2020, Science
  • A shift in the mechanisms controlling hippocampal engram formation during brain maturation, 2023, Science
  • Excitability mediates allocation of pre-configured ensembles to a hippocampal engram supporting contextual conditioned threat in mice, 2024, Neuron
  • An inhibitory hippocampal-thalamic pathway modulates remote memory retrieval, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Reflections on the past two decades of neuroscience, 2020, Nature reviews. Neuroscience

In 2018, Sheena A. Josselyn was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Memory Reconsolidation and Extinction Have Distinct Temporal and Biochemical Signatures

    Akinobu Suzuki;Sheena A. Josselyn;Sheena A. Josselyn;Paul W. Frankland;Paul W. Frankland;Shoichi Masushige

  • Memory engrams: Recalling the past and imagining the future

    Sheena A. Josselyn;Susumu Tonegawa;Susumu Tonegawa

  • Hippocampal neurogenesis regulates forgetting during adulthood and infancy.

    Katherine G Akers;Alonso Martinez-Canabal;Leonardo Restivo;Adelaide P Yiu

  • Neuronal Competition and Selection During Memory Formation

    Jin-Hee Han;Steven A. Kushner;Steven A. Kushner;Adelaide P. Yiu;Christy J. Cole

  • CREB required for the stability of new and reactivated fear memories

    Satoshi Kida;Sheena A. Josselyn;Sandra Penña De Ortiz;Jeffrey H. Kogan

  • Finding the engram.

    Sheena A. Josselyn;Stefan Köhler;Paul W. Frankland

  • Selective Erasure of a Fear Memory

    Jin-Hee Han;Steven A Kushner;Adelaide P Yiu;Hwa-Lin Liz Hsiang

  • Long-term memory is facilitated by cAMP response element-binding protein overexpression in the amygdala.

    Sheena A. Josselyn;Chanjun Shi;William A. Carlezon;William A. Carlezon;Rachael L. Neve

  • Optical controlling reveals time-dependent roles for adult-born dentate granule cells

    Yan Gu;Maithe Arruda-Carvalho;Jia Wang;Stephen R Janoschka

  • Neurons are recruited to a memory trace based on relative neuronal excitability immediately before training

    Adelaide P. Yiu;Valentina Mercaldo;Chen Yan;Blake Richards

  • Competition between engrams influences fear memory formation and recall

    Asim J Rashid;Chen Yan;Valentina Mercaldo;Hwa-Lin Liz Hsiang

  • Stimulation of Entorhinal Cortex Promotes Adult Neurogenesis and Facilitates Spatial Memory

    Scellig S. D. Stone;Cátia M. Teixeira;Loren M. DeVito;Kirill Zaslavsky

  • MAPK, CREB and zif268 are all required for the consolidation of recognition memory.

    Bruno Bozon;Áine Kelly;Sheena A. Josselyn;Alcino J. Silva

  • Disruption of Oligodendrogenesis Impairs Memory Consolidation in Adult Mice.

    Patrick E. Steadman;Frances Xia;Moriam Ahmed;Andrew J. Mocle

  • Maze training in mice induces MRI-detectable brain shape changes specific to the type of learning.

    Jason P. Lerch;Adelaide P. Yiu;Alonso Martinez-Canabal;Tetyana Pekar

  • Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Forgetting

    Paul W. Frankland;Stefan Köhler;Sheena A. Josselyn

  • Chemogenetic Interrogation of a Brain-wide Fear Memory Network in Mice

    Gisella Vetere;Justin W. Kenney;Lina M. Tran;Frances Xia

  • Upregulation of CREB-Mediated Transcription Enhances Both Short- and Long-Term Memory

    Akinobu Suzuki;Hotaka Fukushima;Takuya Mukawa;Hiroki Toyoda

  • Structural foundations of optogenetics: Determinants of channelrhodopsin ion selectivity

    Andre Berndt;Soo Yeun Lee;Jonas Wietek;Charu Ramakrishnan

  • Memory Allocation: Mechanisms and Function.

    Sheena A Josselyn;Paul W Frankland

  • CREB, synapses and memory disorders: past progress and future challenges

    Sheena A Josselyn;Peter V Nguyen

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul W. Frankland
Paul W. Frankland University of Toronto
Alcino J. Silva
Alcino J. Silva University of California, Los Angeles
Franco J. Vaccarino
Franco J. Vaccarino University of Guelph
Satoshi Kida
Satoshi Kida University of Tokyo
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
Stefan Köhler
Stefan Köhler University of Western Ontario
Jason P. Lerch
Jason P. Lerch Hospital for Sick Children
John S. Yeomans
John S. Yeomans University of Toronto
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
John G. Sled
John G. Sled University of Toronto

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