Peter Dayan: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Peter Dayan's h-index is 131 (389 i10-index, 126,806+ total citations across 917+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of September 2026. Peter Dayan is affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.
Peter Dayan is a researcher affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, specializing in various fields. Their work has been cited 126,806 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in United States.
Peter Dayan's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 917 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 131
- i10-Index
- 389
- Total Citations
- 126,806
- Citing Countries
- 47
As of September 2026.
Peter Dayan has an h-index of 131 and 126,806 total citations across 917 publications, with research cited by institutions in 47 countries.
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The researcher established a foundational framework linking dopamine signaling to reinforcement learning mechanisms, significantly advancing the computational understanding of human decision-making and exploratory behavior.
The researcher established a computational framework for population codes, extending it to model uncertainty-based neural competition and dopamine-mediated control of behavioral vigor.
The researcher pioneered the wake-sleep algorithm for unsupervised neural networks, establishing a foundational framework for learning in neural systems that has been widely adopted and extended by the independent scientific community.
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About Peter Dayan's research
Peter Dayan is a researcher at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Their work has been cited 126,806 times across 917 publications (h-index 131), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “Q-Learning” (1992), has accumulated 22,442 citations. Other influential works include “A neural substrate of prediction and reward” (1997) with 12,968 citations and “Theoretical neuroscience: computational and mathematical modeling of neural systems” (2005) with 8,179 citations.
Citations of Peter Dayan's research come primarily from United States, China and United Kingdom, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
