Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Sleep and Wakefulness Research is a research topic within Cognitive Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 45k research works in it since 1950. 19.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the intricate relationship between sleep and memory, focusing on the role of hypocretin/orexin neurons, circadian rhythms, synaptic homeostasis, and narcolepsy. It delves into the mechanisms of memory consolidation during sleep, the impact of different sleep stages on memory formation, and the neural substrates underlying these processes.
- Sleep
- Memory
- Consolidation
- Hypocretin
- Neurons
- Circadian Rhythms
- Synaptic Homeostasis
- Learning
- Orexin
- Narcolepsy
- Research works
- 45k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 9k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 19.9% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +24% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Sleep and Wakefulness Research research?
By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.3k and 1.1k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 2.3k works
- 2 China 1.1k works
- 3 Germany 414 works
- 4 Japan 367 works
- 5 France 358 works
- 6 United Kingdom 347 works
- 7 India 302 works
- 8 Italy 294 works
- 9 Canada 283 works
- 10 Australia 272 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Sleep and Wakefulness Research research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Harvard University publishes the most Sleep and Wakefulness Research research, followed by Stanford University and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 61 works
- 2 Stanford UniversityUnited States 52 works
- 3 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany 46 works
- 4 InsermFrance 40 works
- 5 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 38 works
- 6 Monash UniversityAustralia 29 works
- 7 Philipps University of MarburgGermany 29 works
- 8 University of MichiganUnited States 27 works
- 9 KRH Klinikum NordstadtGermany 26 works
- 10 University of TorontoCanada 25 works
Who are the leading researchers in Sleep and Wakefulness Research?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Sleep and Wakefulness Research include Shaun Purcell.
- 1 Shaun Purcell United States 7.2k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Sleep and Wakefulness Research research done?
The largest centres of Sleep and Wakefulness Research research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Boston (United States) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bron and Marburg.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- BronFR · 21.1 works22×
- MarburgDE · 29.0 works14×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sleep and Wakefulness Research than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Sleep and Wakefulness Research?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Bern, Tsukuba International University and Medical University of Lodz score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of BernSwitzerland | 63.3 | 19.9% | 7.6× | 25 | +179.3% |
| 2 | Tsukuba International UniversityJapan | 61.1 | 21.7% | 149.3× | 12 | +989.9% |
| 3 | Medical University of LodzPoland | 60.4 | 46.4% | 8.8× | 11 | +13.6% |
| 4 | Harvard UniversityUnited States | 57.9 | 22.8% | 6.1× | 61 | -2.8% |
| 5 | Monash UniversityAustralia | 57.5 | 24.3% | 4.5× | 29 | +157.0% |
| 6 | Flinders UniversityAustralia | 56.0 | 25.6% | 8.8× | 16 | +49.3% |
| 7 | University of OxfordUnited Kingdom | 52.2 | 31.5% | 2.3× | 23 | +126.9% |
| 8 | Semmelweis UniversityHungary | 51.8 | 23.1% | 9.5× | 14 | +3.4% |
| 9 | University of FreiburgGermany | 51.1 | 47.2% | 3.7× | 10 | +42.5% |
| 10 | Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany | 50.4 | 39.0% | 4.2× | 10 | +118.3% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Sleep and Wakefulness Research research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 24% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Sleep and Wakefulness Research.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.