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Shigeru Watanabe

Shigeru Watanabe

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
41
Citations
5325
World Ranking
8000
National Ranking
22

Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
5427
World Ranking
7942
National Ranking
270

Shigeru Watanabe 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 Shigeru Watanabe sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 242 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shigeru Watanabe 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 Shigeru Watanabe sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Shigeru Watanabe is affiliated with Keio University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience, agricultural and biological sciences, and psychology. Their body of research spans various subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, aquatic science, social psychology, physiology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's research covers several primary topics, including aquaculture nutrition and growth, primate behavior and ecology, reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, animal behavior and reproduction, memory and neural mechanisms, olfactory and sensory function studies, as well as stress responses and cortisol.

Frequent publication venues for Watanabe include Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Animal Cognition, Behavioural Brain Research, Fisheries Science, and Learning & Behavior.

Watanabe has collaborated with multiple coauthors over their career. Notable frequent collaborators include Youcef Bouchekioua, Aaron P. Blaisdell, Yutaka Kosaki, Takashi Kamiyama, and H. Ogata.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Watanabe demonstrate a focus on spatial learning, animal cognition, and behavioral neuroscience. These include:

  • Visual snake aversion in Octodon degus and C57BL/6 mice, 2021, Animal Cognition
  • Spatial Learning in Japanese Eels Using Extra- and Intra-Maze Cues, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Impairments in spatial learning by telencephalic lesions in Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica), 2021, Behavioural Brain Research

Other recent papers connected to Watanabe's research group or collaborators include:

  • Spatial inference without a cognitive map: the role of higher-order path integration, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Overall Efficacy and Safety of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor Luseogliflozin Versus Dipeptidyl-Peptidase 4 Inhibitors: Multicenter, Open-Label, Randomized-Controlled Trial (J-SELECT study), 2023, Diabetes Therapy

Best Publications

  • Pigeons' discrimination of paintings by Monet and Picasso.

    Shigeru Watanabe;Junko Sakamoto;Masumi Wakita

  • Contact calls: Information and social function

    Noriko Kondo;Shigeru Watanabe

  • Crows cross-modally recognize group members but not non-group members.

    Noriko Kondo;Ei Ichi Izawa;Shigeru Watanabe

  • An experimental analysis of “empathic” response: Effects of pain reactions of pigeon upon other pigeon's operant behavior.

    Shigeru Watanabe;Kunihiko Ono

  • Neural correlates of dual-task effect on belief-bias syllogistic reasoning: a near-infrared spectroscopy study.

    Takeo Tsujii;Shigeru Watanabe

  • Evaluating the roles of the inferior frontal gyrus and superior parietal lobule in deductive reasoning: An rTMS study

    Takeo Tsujii;Kaoru Sakatani;Sayako Masuda;Takekazu Akiyama

  • On the structure and function of the tectofugal visual pathway in laterally eyed birds.

    Hans-Joachim Bischof;Shigeru Watanabe

  • Functional hemispheric specialization in processing phonemic and prosodic auditory changes in neonates.

    Takeshi Arimitsu;Mariko Uchida-Ota;Tatsuhiko Yagihashi;Shozo Kojima;Shozo Kojima

  • Van Gogh, Chagall and pigeons: picture discrimination in pigeons and humans.

    Shigeru Watanabe

  • Effects of hippocampal lesions on acquisition and retention of spatial learning in zebra finches.

    Shigeru Watanabe;Hans-Joachim Bischof

  • Reinforcing effects of methamphetamine in planarians

    Taichi Kusayama;Shigeru Watanabe

  • Formation of linear dominance relationship in captive jungle crows (Corvus macrorhynchos): implications for individual recognition.

    Ei Ichi Izawa;Shigeru Watanabe

  • Neural correlates of belief-bias reasoning under time pressure: A near-infrared spectroscopy study

    Takeo Tsujii;Shigeru Watanabe

  • Animal logics: decisions in the absence of human language.

    Shigeru Watanabe;Ludwig Huber

  • Discrimination of consonance and dissonance in Java sparrows.

    S. Watanabe;M. Uozumi;N. Tanaka

  • Discrimination of Individuals in Pigeons

    Shigeru Watanabe;Yuka Ito

  • Object-picture equivalence in the pigeon: An analysis with natural concept and pseudoconcept discriminations.

    Shigeru Watanabe

  • Reinforcing property of music in Java sparrows (Padda oryzivora).

    S Watanabe;M Nemoto

  • Deficits in acquisition of spatial learning after dorsomedial telencephalon lesions in goldfish

    Kotaro Saito;Shigeru Watanabe

  • Chronic food restriction enhances memory in mice : analysis with matched drive levels

    Teruo Hashimoto;Shigeru Watanabe

  • Hippocampal activation of immediate early genes Zenk and c-Fos in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) during learning and recall of a spatial memory task.

    Uwe Mayer;Shigeru Watanabe;Hans-Joachim Bischof

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Joachim Bischof
Hans-Joachim Bischof Bielefeld University
Atsushi Iriki
Atsushi Iriki RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Kazuo Okanoya
Kazuo Okanoya University of Tokyo
Masaru Mimura
Masaru Mimura Keio University
Michael J. Ryan
Michael J. Ryan The University of Texas at Austin
Paul R. Sanberg
Paul R. Sanberg University of South Florida
Sylvia Christakos
Sylvia Christakos Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Tetsuya Suhara
Tetsuya Suhara National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Katharina Braun
Katharina Braun Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Virginia M.-Y. Lee
Virginia M.-Y. Lee University of Pennsylvania

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