2026 Sonia Garel: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	47	6330	5826	279	255	74	12106

Research.com Recognitions

Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Sonia Garel is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France and specializes in Neuroscience, contributing to a broad range of subfields including Neurology, Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology. Their research mainly addresses mechanisms underlying neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration, immune cell functions in cancer, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, neural dynamics, fetal and neonatal brain pathology, and axon guidance and neuronal signaling.

Garel has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Morgane Sonia Thion, Florent Ginhoux, Melanie Greter, Aymeric Silvin, and Cécile Bridlance. These collaborations have supported a consistent output of research covering both foundational and emerging areas in neurobiology and immunology.

Publication venues for Garel's work include:

Cell
Immunity
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Neuron
Nature Reviews. Neuroscience

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Garel highlight developments in microglia biology and brain macrophages, as well as brain morphogenesis and neurodevelopmental functions. These papers include:

"Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads" (2022, Neuron)
"Early Fate Defines Microglia and Non-parenchymal Brain Macrophage Development" (2020, Cell)
"Dual ontogeny of disease-associated microglia and disease inflammatory macrophages in aging and neurodegeneration" (2022, Immunity)
"Microglia maintain structural integrity during fetal brain morphogenesis" (2024, Cell)
"Microglial ontogeny, diversity and neurodevelopmental functions" (2020, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development)

Sonia Garel has also contributed to scientific literature with a book titled Système immunitaire et dynamique du cerveau, published by Collège de France eBooks in 2021.

Recognition of their scientific contributions includes being named a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads

Unknown

2095
Citations
A requirement for the immediate early gene Zif268 in the expression of late LTP and long-term memories.

M. Jones;Michael L. Errington;Pim J. French;A. Fine

1076
Citations
Microbiome Influences Prenatal and Adult Microglia in a Sex-Specific Manner

Morgane Sonia Thion;Donovan Low;Aymeric Silvin;Jinmiao Chen

767
Citations
Microglia modulate wiring of the embryonic forebrain.

Paola Squarzoni;Guillaume Oller;Guillaume Hoeffel;Lorena Pont-Lezica

708
Citations
Microglia and early brain development: An intimate journey

Morgane S. Thion;Florent Ginhoux;Florent Ginhoux;Sonia Garel

464
Citations
Tangential Neuronal Migration Controls Axon Guidance: A Role for Neuregulin-1 in Thalamocortical Axon Navigation

Guillermina López-Bendito;Aline Cautinat;Juan Antonio Sánchez;Franck Bielle

437
Citations
Dual ontogeny of disease-associated microglia and disease inflammatory macrophages in aging and neurodegeneration.

Unknown

422
Citations
Early Fate Defines Microglia and Non-parenchymal Brain Macrophage Development.

Sebastian G. Utz;Peter See;Wiebke Mildenberger;Morgane Sonia Thion

388
Citations
Induced-Pluripotent-Stem-Cell-Derived Primitive Macrophages Provide a Platform for Modeling Tissue-Resident Macrophage Differentiation and Function.

Kazuyuki Takata;Kazuyuki Takata;Tatsuya Kozaki;Christopher Zhe Wei Lee;Morgane Sonia Thion

375
Citations
Molecular regionalization of the neocortex is disrupted in Fgf8 hypomorphic mutants.

Sonia Garel;Kelly J. Huffman;John L. R. Rubenstein

361
Citations
Patterning of the lateral ganglionic eminence by the Gsh1 and Gsh2 homeobox genes regulates striatal and olfactory bulb histogenesis and the growth of axons through the basal ganglia.

Kyuson Yun;Sonia Garel;Seth Fischman;John L.R. Rubenstein

221
Citations
Ebf1 controls early cell differentiation in the embryonic striatum.

S. Garel;F. Marin;R. Grosschedl;P. Charnay

209
Citations
Emx1 and Emx2 cooperate to regulate cortical size, lamination, neuronal differentiation, development of cortical efferents, and thalamocortical pathfinding

Kathie M. Bishop;Sonia Garel;Yasushi Nakagawa;John L.R. Rubenstein

207
Citations
Family of Ebf/Olf-1-related genes potentially involved in neuronal differentiation and regional specification in the central nervous system

Sonia Garel;Faustino Marín;Marie-Geneviève Mattéi;Christine Vesque

201
Citations
Ebf gene function is required for coupling neuronal differentiation and cell cycle exit.

Mario Garcia-Dominguez;Christophe Poquet;Sonia Garel;Patrick Charnay

197
Citations
Transient Neuronal Populations Are Required to Guide Callosal Axons: A Role for Semaphorin 3C

Mathieu Niquille;Sonia Garel;Fanny Mann;Jean-Pierre Hornung

172
Citations
DLX5 Regulates Development of Peripheral and Central Components of the Olfactory System

Jason E. Long;Sonia Garel;Michael J. Depew;Stuart Tobet

170
Citations
Control of the migratory pathway of facial branchiomotor neurones.

S. Garel;M. Garcia-Dominguez;P. Charnay

167
Citations
Distinct functions of egr gene family members in cognitive processes.

Roseline Poirier;Hélène Cheval;Caroline Mailhes;Sonia Garel

159
Citations
Id4 regulates neural progenitor proliferation and differentiation in vivo.

Kyuson Yun;Akio Mantani;Sonia Garel;John Rubenstein

159
Citations
Dlx-Dependent and -Independent Regulation of Olfactory Bulb Interneuron Differentiation

Jason E. Long;Sonia Garel;Sonia Garel;Manuel Alvarez-Dolado;Kazuaki Yoshikawa

144
Citations
On place and time: microglia in embryonic and perinatal brain development

Morgane Sonia Thion;Sonia Garel

131
Citations
Pathfinding of corticothalamic axons relies on a rendezvous with thalamic projections.

Marie Deck;Ludmilla Lokmane;Ludmilla Lokmane;Ludmilla Lokmane;Sophie Chauvet;Caroline Mailhes;Caroline Mailhes;Caroline Mailhes

130
Citations
Intermediate targets in formation of topographic projections: inputs from the thalamocortical system

Sonia Garel;John L.R. Rubenstein

130
Citations