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Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Vanderbilt University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
51
Citations
20131
World Ranking
5427
National Ranking
2413

Suzana Herculano-Houzel 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 Suzana Herculano-Houzel sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 121 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Suzana Herculano-Houzel 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 Suzana Herculano-Houzel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Suzana Herculano-Houzel is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and focuses their research primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Neurology, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's research topics include Neural dynamics and brain function, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

Recent publications contributing to these areas include the following papers:

  • "Similar Microglial Cell Densities across Brain Structures and Mammalian Species: Implications for Brain Tissue Function," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "High associative neuron numbers could drive cognitive performance in corvid species," 2022, The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • "Birds do have a brain cortex-and think," 2020, Science
  • "From a Demand-Based to a Supply-Limited Framework of Brain Metabolism," 2022, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • "Neurovascular coupling is optimized to compensate for the increase in proton production from nonoxidative glycolysis and glycogenolysis during brain activation and maintain homeostasis of pH, pCO2, and pO2," 2023, Journal of Neurochemistry

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Paul R. Manger
  • Douglas L. Rothman
  • Chet C. Sherwood
  • Jon H. Kaas
  • Onur Güntürkün

They have published notably in a range of journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Neuroscience

This record reflects a comprehensive engagement with multidisciplinary aspects of neuroscience, ranging from cellular-level studies to broader ecological and behavioral contexts, as well as contributions to the understanding of brain metabolism and neurovascular mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled‐up primate brain

    Frederico A.C. Azevedo;Ludmila R.B. Carvalho;Lea T. Grinberg;José Marcelo Farfel

  • The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-up Primate Brain

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • The search for true numbers of neurons and glial cells in the human brain: A review of 150 years of cell counting.

    Christopher S. von Bartheld;Jami Bahney;Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of Marsupials: Not as “Primitive” as Expected

    Sandra E Dos Santos;Jairo Porfirio;Felipe B da Cunha;Paul R Manger

  • The glia/neuron ratio: how it varies uniformly across brain structures and species and what that means for brain physiology and evolution.

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • Isotropic Fractionator: A Simple, Rapid Method for the Quantification of Total Cell and Neuron Numbers in the Brain

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel;Roberto Lent

  • Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain.

    Seweryn Olkowicz;Martin Kocourek;Radek K. Lučan;Michal Porteš

  • Cellular scaling rules for rodent brains

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel;Bruno Mota;Roberto Lent

  • Changing numbers of neuronal and non-neuronal cells underlie postnatal brain growth in the rat.

    Fabiana Bandeira;Roberto Lent;Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • Cellular scaling rules for primate brains

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel;Christine E. Collins;Peiyan Wong;Jon H. Kaas

  • Scaling of Brain Metabolism with a Fixed Energy Budget per Neuron: Implications for Neuronal Activity, Plasticity and Evolution

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • Precisely Synchronized Oscillatory Firing Patterns Require Electroencephalographic Activation

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel;Matthias H. J. Munk;Sergio Neuenschwander;Wolf Singer

  • Coordinated scaling of cortical and cerebellar numbers of neurons.

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons

    Bruno Mota;Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • Mammalian Brains Are Made of These: A Dataset of the Numbers and Densities of Neuronal and Nonneuronal Cells in the Brain of Glires, Primates, Scandentia, Eulipotyphlans, Afrotherians and Artiodactyls, and Their Relationship with Body Mass.

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel;Kenneth Catania;Paul R. Manger;Jon H. Kaas

  • A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

    Rafael Yuste;Michael Hawrylycz;Nadia Aalling;Argel Aguilar-Valles

  • Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution

    Karina Fonseca-Azevedo;Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel;Christine E. Collins;Peiyan Wong;Jon H. Kaas

  • Numbers of neurons as biological correlates of cognitive capability

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • Do You Know Your Brain? A Survey on Public Neuroscience Literacy at the Closing of the Decade of the Brain

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon H. Kaas
Jon H. Kaas Vanderbilt University
Paul R. Manger
Paul R. Manger University of the Witwatersrand
Roberto Lent
Roberto Lent Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Kenneth C. Catania
Kenneth C. Catania Vanderbilt University
Charles Watson
Charles Watson Curtin University
Chet C. Sherwood
Chet C. Sherwood George Washington University
Nigel C. Bennett
Nigel C. Bennett University of Pretoria
Lea T. Grinberg
Lea T. Grinberg University of California, San Francisco
George Paxinos
George Paxinos Neuroscience Research Australia
Stephen C. Noctor
Stephen C. Noctor University of California, Davis

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