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Sheng He

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Neuroscience

D-Index
61
Citations
12410
World Ranking
3698
National Ranking
49

Sheng He 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 Sheng He sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 264 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sheng He 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 Sheng He sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sheng He is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to research at the intersection of neuroscience and chemistry. Their work spans multiple disciplines with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and organic chemistry.

The scientist's research topics include the following:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Radical photochemical reactions
  • Face recognition and perception
  • Retinal development and disorders
  • Catalytic C-H functionalization methods
  • Fluorine in organic chemistry

Among the notable recent publications authored or coauthored by Sheng He are:

  • Single-Cell Analysis of Human Retina Identifies Evolutionarily Conserved and Species-Specific Mechanisms Controlling Development, 2020, Developmental Cell
  • N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed radical reactions, 2020, Science China Chemistry
  • Visible-Light-Induced Selective Photolysis of Phosphonium Iodide Salts for Monofluoromethylations, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Layer-dependent multiplicative effects of spatial attention on contrast responses in human early visual cortex, 2020, Progress in Neurobiology
  • The bottom-up and top-down processing of faces in the human occipitotemporal cortex, 2020, eLife

Sheng He has frequently published in several scientific venues, with recurring contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Vision
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Organic Letters

Their collaboration network includes multiple frequent co-authors, such as:

  • Xiang-Yu Chen (18 joint works)
  • Qiang Liu (16 joint works)
  • Peng Zhang (16 joint works)
  • Zhixiang Wang (15 joint works)
  • Bei-Bei Zhang (8 joint works)

The distribution of Sheng He's main fields of study reflects a strong emphasis on neuroscience (77 publications), complemented by significant contributions in chemistry (37 publications). Subfields show focused work in cognitive neuroscience and organic chemistry, as well as engagements in molecular biology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and pharmaceutical science.

Best Publications

  • Attentional resolution and the locus of visual awareness

    Sheng He;Patrick Cavanagh;James Intriligator

  • Larger stimuli are judged to last longer.

    Bin Xuan;Daren Zhang;Sheng He;Xiangchuan Chen

  • Cortical responses to invisible objects in the human dorsal and ventral pathways.

    Fang Fang;Sheng He

  • A gender- and sexual orientation-dependent spatial attentional effect of invisible images

    Yi Jiang;Patricia Costello;Fang Fang;Miner Huang

  • Processing of Invisible Stimuli: Advantage of Upright Faces and Recognizable Words in Overcoming Interocular Suppression

    Yi Jiang;Patricia Costello;Sheng He

  • Cortical Responses to Invisible Faces: Dissociating Subsystems for Facial-Information Processing

    Yi Jiang;Sheng He

  • Patterns of Activity in the Categorical Representations of Objects

    Thomas A. Carlson;Paul Schrater;Sheng He

  • Single-Cell Analysis of Human Retina Identifies Evolutionarily Conserved and Species-Specific Mechanisms Controlling Development

    Yufeng Lu;Fion Shiau;Wenyang Yi;Suying Lu

  • Seeing the invisible: the scope and limits of unconscious processing in binocular rivalry.

    Zhicheng Lin;Sheng He

  • Binocular Rivalry Requires Visual Attention

    Peng Zhang;Keith Jamison;Stephen Engel;Bin He

  • Orientation-tuned fMRI adaptation in human visual cortex

    Fang Fang;Scott O. Murray;Daniel J. Kersten;Sheng He

  • Olfaction Modulates Visual Perception in Binocular Rivalry

    Wen Zhou;Wen Zhou;Yi Jiang;Sheng He;Denise Chen

  • Layer-specific fMRI reflects different neuronal computations at different depths in human V1.

    Cheryl A. Olman;Noam Harel;David A. Feinberg;Sheng He

  • fMRI revealed neural substrate for reversible working memory dysfunction in subclinical hypothyroidism

    De Fa Zhu;Zhao Xin Wang;Da Ren Zhang;Zhong Lin Pan

  • Orientation-selective adaptation and tilt after-effect from invisible patterns

    Sheng He;Donald I. A. MacLeod

  • Viewer-Centered Object Representation in the Human Visual System Revealed by Viewpoint Aftereffects

    Fang Fang;Sheng He

  • A functional MRI study of high-level cognition. I. The game of chess.

    Michael Atherton;Jiancheng Zhuang;William M Bart;Xiaoping Hu

  • Semantic and subword priming during binocular suppression

    Patricia Costello;Yi Jiang;Brandon Baartman;Kristine McGlennen

  • Human visual cortex responds to invisible chromatic flicker.

    Yi Jiang;Ke Zhou;Sheng He

  • Duration-Dependent fMRI Adaptation and Distributed Viewer-Centered Face Representation in Human Visual Cortex

    Fang Fang;Scott O. Murray;Sheng He

  • Close correlation between activity in brain area MT/V5 and the perception of a visual motion aftereffect.

    Sheng He;Eric R. Cohen;Xiaoping Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Xuchu Weng
Xuchu Weng South China Normal University
Stephen A. Engel
Stephen A. Engel University of Minnesota
Xiaoping Hu
Xiaoping Hu University of California, Riverside
Thomas A. Carlson
Thomas A. Carlson University of Sydney
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University
Bin He
Bin He Carnegie Mellon University
Loyal A. Goff
Loyal A. Goff Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Daniel Kersten
Daniel Kersten University of Minnesota
Yixue Li
Yixue Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University

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