2026 Stephen D. Roper: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	65	3138	2867	1464	1317	160	13894

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Neuroscience

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Overview

Stephen D. Roper is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States, with a research focus spanning multiple scientific fields. Their work intersects nursing, neuroscience, and engineering, reflecting interdisciplinary expertise applied primarily to sensory and biomedical domains.

The scientist has contributed to research in various subfields including nutrition and dietetics, biomedical engineering, sensory systems, physiology, and molecular biology. Their scholarly output addresses main topics such as biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, advanced chemical sensor technologies, olfactory and sensory function studies, ion channel regulation and function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, thermal regulation in medicine, and anesthesia and neurotoxicity research.

Frequent collaborators include Isabella R. Fleites, Kevin Morales, Nirupa Chaudhari, and Eugene R. Delay. These partnerships have yielded multiple publications across different study areas.

Stephen D. Roper's recent papers include the following:

Chemical and electrical synaptic interactions among taste bud cells (2021) published in Current Opinion in Physiology
Encoding Taste: From Receptors to Perception (2021) published in Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
Editorial overview: Taste: from peripheral receptors to perception (2021) published in Current Opinion in Physiology
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Hunger enhances food-odour attraction through a neuropeptide Y spotlight (2021) published in Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
Taste: Cellular Basis (2020) published in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

The scientist's work frequently appears in journals such as Current Opinion in Physiology, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

The cell biology of taste

Nirupa Chaudhari;Stephen D. Roper

1040
Citations
A metabotropic glutamate receptor variant functions as a taste receptor.

Nirupa Chaudhari;Ana Marie Landin;Stephen D. Roper

756
Citations
The role of pannexin 1 hemichannels in ATP release and cell–cell communication in mouse taste buds

Yi Jen Huang;Yutaka Maruyama;Gennady Dvoryanchikov;Elizabeth Pereira

608
Citations
Taste buds: cells, signals and synapses

Stephen D. Roper;Nirupa Chaudhari

539
Citations
Signal transduction and information processing in mammalian taste buds.

Stephen D. Roper

390
Citations
ATP release through connexin hemichannels and gap junction transfer of second messengers propagate Ca2+ signals across the inner ear

Fabio Anselmi;Victor H. Hernandez;Giulia Crispino;Anke Seydel

377
Citations
Separate Populations of Receptor Cells and Presynaptic Cells in Mouse Taste Buds

Richard A. DeFazio;Gennady Dvoryanchikov;Yutaka Maruyama;Joung Woul Kim

346
Citations
Alpha cells secrete acetylcholine as a non-neuronal paracrine signal priming beta cell function in humans

Rayner Rodriguez-Diaz;Rayner Rodriguez-Diaz;Robin Dando;M. Caroline Jacques-Silva;Alberto Fachado

339
Citations
The taste of monosodium glutamate: membrane receptors in taste buds.

Nirupa Chaudhari;Hui Yang;Cynthia Lamp;Eugene Delay

337
Citations
Breadth of Tuning and Taste Coding in Mammalian Taste Buds

Seth M. Tomchik;Stephanie Berg;Joung Woul Kim;Nirupa Chaudhari

292
Citations
Presynaptic (Type III) cells in mouse taste buds sense sour (acid) taste

Yijen A. Huang;Yutaka Maruyama;Robert Stimac;Stephen D. Roper

257
Citations
Mouse taste buds use serotonin as a neurotransmitter

Yi Jen Huang;Yutaka Maruyama;Kuo Shyan Lu;Kuo Shyan Lu;Elizabeth Pereira

252
Citations
The Cell Biology of Vertebrate Taste Receptors

Stephen D. Roper

246
Citations
Proton currents through amiloride-sensitive Na channels in hamster taste cells. Role in acid transduction.

Timothy A. Gilbertson;Patrick Avenet;Sue C. Kinnamon;Stephen D. Roper

245
Citations
An optimized method for in situ hybridization with signal amplification that allows the detection of rare mRNAs.

Hui Yang;Ina B. Wanner;Stephen D. Roper;Nirupa Chaudhari

242
Citations
Taste receptors for umami: the case for multiple receptors

Nirupa Chaudhari;Elizabeth Pereira;Stephen D Roper

240
Citations
Taste Receptor Cells That Discriminate Between Bitter Stimuli

Alejandro Caicedo;Stephen D. Roper

222
Citations
Taste buds as peripheral chemosensory processors.

Stephen D. Roper

217
Citations
Ultrastructure of mouse vallate taste buds: II. Cell types and cell lineage.

R J Delay;J C Kinnamon;S D Roper

213
Citations
Ultrastructure of mouse vallate taste buds. I. Taste cells and their associated synapses

John C. Kinnamon;Barbara J. Taylor;Rona J. Delay;Stephen D. Roper

213
Citations
Proton currents through amiloride-sensitive Na+ channels in isolated hamster taste cells: Enhancement by vasopressin and CAMP

Timothy A. Gilbertson;Timothy A. Gilbertson;Stephen D. Roper;Stephen D. Roper;Sue C. Kinnamon;Sue C. Kinnamon

211
Citations