2026 Yukiko Goda: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	50	5646	5193	178	169	100	14346

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Overview

Yukiko Goda is affiliated with RIKEN in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience with a focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience. Their research encompasses a wide array of topics within neuroscience, including neuropharmacology, optogenetics, and neuroinflammation.

The scientist's work spans the following main topics:

Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Neural dynamics and brain function
Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

Their research contributions have been published mostly in neuroscience journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include:

Trends in Neurosciences
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Molecular Psychiatry

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Yukiko Goda are:

Developmental excitation-inhibition imbalance underlying psychoses revealed by single-cell analyses of discordant twins-derived cerebral organoids, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
Astrocyte-synapse interactions and cell adhesion molecules, 2022, FEBS Journal
My Neighbour Hetero - deconstructing the mechanisms underlying heterosynaptic plasticity, 2020, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Reflections on the past two decades of neuroscience, 2020, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
Astrocyte GluN2C NMDA receptors control basal synaptic strengths of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons in the stratum radiatum, 2021, eLife

Yukiko Goda's collaboration network includes several frequent coauthors, highlighting active partnerships in their research endeavors. These recurrent collaborators are:

Thomas E. Chater
Marco Prinz
Fred Kop
Silvia Arber
Kenneth D. Harris

The scientist's main fields of study are anchored in neuroscience, particularly focusing on cellular and molecular neuroscience, with additional involvement in cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and biophysics.

Overall, the profile of Yukiko Goda represents a researcher deeply engaged in exploring complex neural mechanisms and cellular interactions in the brain through a range of experimental and analytical approaches across multiple subfields of neuroscience.

Best Publications

Synaptotagmin I: a major Ca2+ sensor for transmitter release at a central synapse.

Martin Geppert;Yukiko Goda;Robert E. Hammer;Cai Li

1873
Citations
Actin in action: the interplay between the actin cytoskeleton and synaptic efficacy

Lorenzo A. Cingolani;Yukiko Goda

987
Citations
Two components of transmitter release at a central synapse

Yukiko Goda;Charles F. Stevens

760
Citations
Modified hippocampal long-term potentiation in PKCγ-mutant mice

Asa Abeliovich;Chong Chen;Yukiko Goda;Alcino J. Silva

700
Citations
Unraveling Mechanisms of Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity

Karine Pozo;Yukiko Goda

642
Citations
The actin cytoskeleton: integrating form and function at the synapse.

Christian Dillon;Yukiko Goda

607
Citations
The small GTP-binding protein Rab3A regulates a late step in synaptic vesicle fusion

Martin Geppert;Yukiko Goda;Charles F. Stevens;Thomas C. Südhof

582
Citations
SV2A and SV2B function as redundant Ca2+ regulators in neurotransmitter release.

Roger Janz;Yukiko Goda;Martin Geppert;Markus Missler

441
Citations
Synaptophysin regulates activity-dependent synapse formation in cultured hippocampal neurons

Leila Tarsa;Yukiko Goda

438
Citations
Actin-dependent regulation of neurotransmitter release at central synapses.

Miguel Morales;Michael A Colicos;Yukiko Goda

438
Citations
Mechanisms of Synapse Assembly and Disassembly

Yukiko Goda;Graeme W Davis

405
Citations
The role of AMPA receptors in postsynaptic mechanisms of synaptic plasticity.

Thomas E. Chater;Yukiko Goda

401
Citations
Remodeling of Synaptic Actin Induced by Photoconductive Stimulation

Michael A. Colicos;Boyce E. Collins;Michael J. Sailor;Yukiko Goda

348
Citations
Constitutive sharing of recycling synaptic vesicles between presynaptic boutons

Kevin J Darcy;Kevin Staras;Lucy M Collinson;Yukiko Goda

267
Citations
Local Dendritic Activity Sets Release Probability at Hippocampal Synapses

Tiago Branco;Kevin Staras;Kevin J. Darcy;Yukiko Goda

266
Citations
Activity-Dependent Regulation of Synaptic AMPA Receptor Composition and Abundance by β3 Integrins

Lorenzo A. Cingolani;Agnes Thalhammer;Lily M.Y. Yu;Myriam Catalano

254
Citations
Properties of Synchronous and Asynchronous Release During Pulse Train Depression in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons

Donald J. Hagler;Yukiko Goda

238
Citations
Cell biology in neuroscience: the interplay between Hebbian and homeostatic synaptic plasticity

Nathalia Vitureira;Yukiko Goda

208
Citations
Integrins in synapse regulation

Yun Kyung Park;Yukiko Goda

195
Citations
A vesicle superpool spans multiple presynaptic terminals in hippocampal neurons

Kevin Staras;Tiago Branco;Jemima J. Burden;Karine Pozo

179
Citations
Local dendritic activity sets release probability at hippocampal synapses

Y Goda;K Darcy;K Staras;T Branco

0
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