2026 Sheena A. Josselyn: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	67	2851	2607	164	147	176	19820

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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

1391
Citations
Memory engrams: Recalling the past and imagining the future

Sheena A. Josselyn;Susumu Tonegawa;Susumu Tonegawa

1004
Citations
Hippocampal neurogenesis regulates forgetting during adulthood and infancy.

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

856
Citations
Neuronal Competition and Selection During Memory Formation

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

829
Citations
CREB required for the stability of new and reactivated fear memories

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

792
Citations
Finding the engram.

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

780
Citations
Selective Erasure of a Fear Memory

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

682
Citations
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

565
Citations
Optical controlling reveals time-dependent roles for adult-born dentate granule cells

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

489
Citations
Neurons are recruited to a memory trace based on relative neuronal excitability immediately before training

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

473
Citations
Competition between engrams influences fear memory formation and recall

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

443
Citations
Stimulation of Entorhinal Cortex Promotes Adult Neurogenesis and Facilitates Spatial Memory

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

434
Citations
MAPK, CREB and zif268 are all required for the consolidation of recognition memory.

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

429
Citations
Disruption of Oligodendrogenesis Impairs Memory Consolidation in Adult Mice.

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

397
Citations
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

332
Citations
Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Forgetting

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

328
Citations
Chemogenetic Interrogation of a Brain-wide Fear Memory Network in Mice

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

307
Citations
Upregulation of CREB-Mediated Transcription Enhances Both Short- and Long-Term Memory

Akinobu Suzuki;Hotaka Fukushima;Takuya Mukawa;Hiroki Toyoda

285
Citations
Structural foundations of optogenetics: Determinants of channelrhodopsin ion selectivity

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

255
Citations
Memory Allocation: Mechanisms and Function.

Sheena A Josselyn;Paul W Frankland

248
Citations
CREB, synapses and memory disorders: past progress and future challenges

Sheena A Josselyn;Peter V Nguyen

234
Citations