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 Susumu Tonegawa sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 411 publications — 92nd percentile
92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Susumu Tonegawa sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 169 D-Index — 99th percentile
99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.
Susumu Tonegawa is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Neurology, and Artificial Intelligence.
The scientist's research areas cover diverse topics such as Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neural dynamics and brain function, Uterine Myomas and Treatments, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research.
Tonegawa has published extensively, with frequent publication venues including:
Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Tonegawa include:
Frequent collaborators throughout their career have included Dheeraj S. Roy, Jared Martin, Daigo Takeuchi, Ikuo Konishi, and Xiangyu Zhang.
Award recognitions include the Nobel Prize awarded in 1987 for discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity. Other notable awards are the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1987), Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1986), Robert Koch Prize (1986), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984), Canada Gairdner International Award (1983), Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University (1982), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006), and Distinguished Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists (2019).
Susumu Tonegawa
Peter Mombaerts;John Iacomini;Randall Scott Johnson;Karl Herrup
Joe Z Tsien;Patricio T Huerta;Susumu Tonegawa
Xu Liu;Steve Ramirez;Petti T. Pang;Corey B. Puryear
Alcino J. Silva;Alcino J. Silva;Charles F. Stevens;Charles F. Stevens;Susumu Tonegawa;Susumu Tonegawa;Yanyan Wang;Yanyan Wang
Stephen D. Gillies;Sherie L. Morrison;Vernon T. Oi;Susumu Tonegawa
Alcino J. Silva;Richard Paylor;Jeanne M. Wehner;Susumu Tonegawa;Susumu Tonegawa
Kenneth D. Poss;Susumu Tonegawa
Joe Z Tsien;Dong Feng Chen;David Gerber;Cindy Tom
Z. Josh Huang;Alfredo Kirkwood;Tommaso Pizzorusso;Vittorio Porciatti
Peter Mombaerts;Alan R. Clarke;Michael A. Rudnicki;John Iacomini
Kazu Nakazawa;Michael C. Quirk;Raymond A. Chitwood;Masahiko Watanabe
Kenneth D. Poss;Susumu Tonegawa
Jie Shen;Roderick T Bronson;Dong Feng Chen;Weiming Xia
Raymond J Kelleher;Raymond J Kelleher;Arvind Govindarajan;Hae-Yoon Jung;Hyejin Kang
Steve Ramirez;Xu Liu;Xu Liu;Pei-Ann Lin;Junghyup Suh
Thomas J. McHugh;Matthew W. Jones;Matthew W. Jones;Jennifer J. Quinn;Jennifer J. Quinn;Nina Balthasar;Nina Balthasar
Werner Haas;Pablo Pereira;Susumu Tonegawa
Takashi Kitamura;Sachie K. Ogawa;Dheeraj S. Roy;Teruhiro Okuyama
Peter Mombaerts;Emiko Mizoguchi;Michael J. Grusby;Laurie H. Glimcher
G Matthyssens;N Hozumi;S Tonegawa
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