Topic · Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Most cited papers in Sleep and Wakefulness Research
What are the most cited papers in Sleep and Wakefulness Research?
The most cited paper in Sleep and Wakefulness Research is "A New Method for Measuring Daytime Sleepiness: The Epworth Sleepiness Scale" (Murray W. Johns, 1991), with 17,509 citations. Next come "Validation of the Insomnia Severity Index as an outcome measure for insomnia research" (8,166) and "The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat" (6,410).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,582 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A New Method for Measuring Daytime Sleepiness: The Epworth Sleepiness Scale Murray W. Johns · SLEEP | Nov 1991 | 17,509 |
| 2 | Validation of the Insomnia Severity Index as an outcome measure for insomnia research Célyne Bastien · Sleep Medicine | Jul 2001 | 8,166 |
| 3 | The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat John M. O'Keefe, Jonathan O. Dostrovsky · Brain Research | Nov 1971 | 6,410 |
| 4 | Orexins and Orexin Receptors: A Family of Hypothalamic Neuropeptides and G Protein-Coupled Receptors that Regulate Feeding Behavior Takeshi Sakurai et al. · Cell | Feb 1998 | 5,551 |
| 5 | Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain Lulu Xie, Hongyi Kang, Qiwu Xu et al. · Science | 17 Oct 2013 | 5,527 |
| 6 | EEGNet: a compact convolutional neural network for EEG-based brain–computer interfaces Vernon J Lawhern, Amelia J Solon, Nicholas R Waytowich et al. · Journal of Neural Engineering | 22 Jun 2018 | 4,722 |
| 7 | The Insomnia Severity Index: Psychometric Indicators to Detect Insomnia Cases and Evaluate Treatment Response Charles M. Morin, Geneviève Belleville, Lynda Bélanger et al. · SLEEP | May 2011 | 4,716 |
| 8 | Précis of The neuropsychology of anxiety: An enquiry into the functions of the septo-hippocampal system Jeffrey A. Gray · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Sep 1982 | 4,525 |
| 9 | Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex Torkel Hafting, Marianne Fyhn, Sturla Molden et al. · Nature | 19 Jun 2005 | 4,296 |
| 10 | The hypocretins: Hypothalamus-specific peptides with neuroexcitatory activity Luı́s de Lecea, Thomas S. Kilduff, Christelle Peyron et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 Jan 1998 | 3,912 |
| 11 | International Classification of Sleep Disorders-Third Edition Michael J. Sateia · CHEST Journal | Nov 2014 | 3,905 |
| 12 | The memory function of sleep Susanne Diekelmann, Jan Born · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 4 Jan 2010 | 3,834 |
| 13 | Epidemiology of insomnia: what we know and what we still need to learn Maurice Moyses Ohayon · Sleep Medicine Reviews | May 2002 | 3,775 |
| 14 | Phototransduction by Retinal Ganglion Cells That Set the Circadian Clock David M. Berson, Felice A. Dunn, Motoharu Takao · Science | 8 Feb 2002 | 3,689 |
| 15 | Thalamocortical Oscillations in the Sleeping and Aroused Brain Mircea Steriade, David A. McCormick, T. J. Sejnowski · Science | 29 Oct 1993 | 3,649 |
| 16 | Neurons Containing Hypocretin (Orexin) Project to Multiple Neuronal Systems Christelle Peyron, Devin K. Tighe, Anthony N. van den Pol et al. · Journal of Neuroscience | Dec 1998 | 3,495 |
| 17 | Meta-Analysis of Quantitative Sleep Parameters From Childhood to Old Age in Healthy Individuals: Developing Normative Sleep Values Across the Human Lifespan Maurice Moyses Ohayon, Mary A. Carskadon, Christian Guilleminault et al. · SLEEP | Oct 2004 | 3,386 |
| 18 | Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers Eleanor A. Maguire, David G. Gadian, Ingrid S. Johnsrude et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 14 Mar 2000 | 3,277 |
| 19 | Contributions of the Amygdala to Emotion Processing: From Animal Models to Human Behavior Elizabeth A. Phelps, Joseph E. LeDoux · Neuron | Oct 2005 | 3,256 |
| 20 | Reactivation of Hippocampal Ensemble Memories During Sleep Matthew A. Wilson, Bruce L. McNaughton · Science | 29 Jul 1994 | 3,251 |
| 21 | The Cumulative Cost of Additional Wakefulness: Dose-Response Effects on Neurobehavioral Functions and Sleep Physiology From Chronic Sleep Restriction and Total Sleep Deprivation Hans P. A. Van Dongen, Greg Maislin, Janet M. Mullington et al. · SLEEP | Mar 2003 | 3,177 |
| 22 | Subjective and Objective Sleepiness in the Active Individual Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Mats Gillberg · International Journal of Neuroscience | 1990 | 3,124 |
| 23 | Narcolepsy in orexin Knockout Mice Richard M. Chemelli, Jon Timothy Willie, Christopher M. Sinton et al. · Cell | Aug 1999 | 3,111 |
| 24 | About Sleep's Role in Memory Björn Rasch, Jan Born · Physiological Reviews | Apr 2013 | 2,894 |
| 25 | Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion Anne J. Blood, Robert J. Zatorre · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 25 Sep 2001 | 2,868 |
| 26 | The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation Yi-Yuan Tang, Britta Karen Hölzel, Michael I. Posner · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 18 Mar 2015 | 2,861 |
| 27 | International Union of Pharmacology. XXVII. Classification of Cannabinoid Receptors Allyn C. Howlett, F. Barth, T.I. Bonner et al. · Pharmacological Reviews | Jun 2002 | 2,839 |
| 28 | Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms Clifford B. Saper, Thomas E. Scammell, Jun Lu · Nature | 26 Oct 2005 | 2,833 |
| 29 | Insomnia as a predictor of depression: A meta-analytic evaluation of longitudinal epidemiological studies Chiara Baglioni, Gemma Battagliese, Bernd Feige et al. · Journal of Affective Disorders | 7 Feb 2011 | 2,810 |
| 30 | The Role of Actigraphy in the Study of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Sonia Ancoli‐Israel, Roger J. Cole, Cathy Alessi et al. · SLEEP | May 2003 | 2,783 |
| 31 | The Sleep Disorder Canine Narcolepsy Is Caused by a Mutation in the Hypocretin (Orexin) Receptor 2 Gene Ling Lin, Juliette H. Faraco, Robin Guohuibin Li et al. · Cell | Aug 1999 | 2,641 |
| 32 | The locus coeruleus–noradrenergic system: modulation of behavioral state and state-dependent cognitive processes Craig W. Berridge, Barry D. Waterhouse · Brain Research Reviews | Apr 2003 | 2,611 |
| 33 | Autophagy in Human Health and Disease Augustine M.K. Choi, Stefan W. Ryter, Beth Levine · New England Journal of Medicine | 13 Feb 2013 | 2,600 |
| 34 | The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ): Psychometric Properties of A Survey Instrument for School-Aged Children Judith Owens, Anthony Spirito, Melissa McGuinn · SLEEP | Dec 2000 | 2,574 |
| 35 | A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind Matthew A. Killingsworth, Daniel T. Gilbert · Science | 11 Nov 2010 | 2,570 |
| 36 | Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Circadian Clock Mutant Mice Fred William Turek, Corinne E. Joshu, Akira Kohsaka et al. · Science | 21 Apr 2005 | 2,510 |
| 37 | Short Sleep Duration Is Associated with Reduced Leptin, Elevated Ghrelin, and Increased Body Mass Index Shahrad Taheri, Ling Lin, Diane E. Austin et al. · PLoS Medicine | 7 Dec 2004 | 2,505 |
| 38 | Regularly Occurring Periods of Eye Motility, and Concomitant Phenomena, During Sleep Eugene Aserinsky, Nathaniel Kleitman · Science | 4 Sep 1953 | 2,484 |
| 39 | Sleep and the Price of Plasticity: From Synaptic and Cellular Homeostasis to Memory Consolidation and Integration Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli · Neuron | 2014 | 2,477 |
| 40 | The Human Hippocampus and Spatial and Episodic Memory Neil Burgess, Eleanor A. Maguire, John M. O'Keefe · Neuron | Aug 2002 | 2,477 |
| 41 | International Classification of Sleep Disorders Michael J. Thorpy | 2017 | 2,475 |
| 42 | Brief Communication: Sleep Curtailment in Healthy Young Men Is Associated with Decreased Leptin Levels, Elevated Ghrelin Levels, and Increased Hunger and Appetite Karine Spiegel, Esra Tasali, Plamen D. Penev et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 7 Dec 2004 | 2,466 |
| 43 | Epidemiologic study of sleep disturbances and psychiatric disorders. An opportunity for prevention? Daniel E. Ford · JAMA | 15 Sep 1989 | 2,459 |
| 44 | National Sleep Foundation’s updated sleep duration recommendations: final report Max Hirshkowitz, Kaitlyn Whiton, Steven M. Albert et al. · Sleep Health | 31 Oct 2015 | 2,394 |
| 45 | Seasonal Affective Disorder Norman E. Rosenthal · Archives of General Psychiatry | 1984 | 2,386 |
| 46 | Pathophysiology of Sleep Apnea Jerome A. Dempsey, Sigrid Carlen Veasey, Barbara J. Morgan et al. · Physiological Reviews | 2010 | 2,244 |
| 47 | The Consensus Sleep Diary: Standardizing Prospective Sleep Self-Monitoring Colleen E. Carney, Daniel J. Buysse, Sonia Ancoli‐Israel et al. · SLEEP | 31 Jan 2012 | 2,227 |
| 48 | Sleep function and synaptic homeostasis Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli · Sleep Medicine Reviews | 23 Dec 2005 | 2,197 |
| 49 | Orexin activation counteracts decreases in nonexercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) caused by high-fat diet Patricia E. Bunney, Anastasia N. Zink, Anja Holm et al. · Physiology & Behavior | 28 Mar 2017 | 2,184 |
| 50 | Sleep duration predicts cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies Francesco Paolo Cappuccio, Daniel James Cooper, Lanfranco D’Elia et al. · European Heart Journal | 7 Feb 2011 | 2,181 |
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