John O’Keefe
Impact in
- Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.01%
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.01%
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Papers in
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- Memory and Neural Mechanisms 91
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research 21
- Neural dynamics and brain function 13
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- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research 69
- Co-authors
- Lynn Nadel (9 shared papers)Neil Burgess (47 shared papers)Jonathan O. Dostrovsky (1 shared paper)Richard Morris (2 shared papers)J. N. P. Rawlins (1 shared paper)Paul Garrud (1 shared paper)Michael Recce (6 shared papers)Eleanor A. Maguire (7 shared papers)
- Journals
- Hippocampus (15 papers)Nature (7 papers)Journal of Neuroscience (5 papers)Experimental Brain Research (5 papers)Science (5 papers)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomUnited StatesCanada
In The Last Decade
John O’Keefe
106 papers receiving 37.8k citations
John O’Keefe's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 201
- Cognitive Neuroscience 31.2k
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 21.7k
- Behavioral Neuroscience 2.5k
- Sensory Systems 3.2k
- Developmental Neuroscience 2.3k
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| 1 | The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map Hit paper breakdown → | 1978 | 6918 |
| 2 | Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions Hit paper breakdown → | 1982 | 5395 |
| 3 | The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat Hit paper breakdown → | 1971 | 4323 |
| 4 | Phase relationship between hippocampal place units and the EEG theta rhythm Hit paper breakdown → | 1993 | 1935 |
| 5 | The Human Hippocampus and Spatial and Episodic Memory Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 1859 |
| 6 | Place units in the hippocampus of the freely moving rat Hit paper breakdown → | 1976 | 1354 |
| 7 | Knowing Where and Getting There: A Human Navigation Network Hit paper breakdown → | 1998 | 1093 |
| 8 | The contributions of position, direction, and velocity to single unit activity in the hippocampus of freely-moving rats Hit paper breakdown → | 1983 | 859 |
| 9 | Geometric determinants of the place fields of hippocampal neurons Hit paper breakdown → | 1996 | 853 |
| 10 | Hippocampal place units in the freely moving rat: Why they fire where they fire Hit paper breakdown → | 1978 | 773 |
| 11 | Single unit activity in the rat hippocampus during a spatial memory task Hit paper breakdown → | 1987 | 653 |
| 12 | An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 528 |
| 13 | Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 503 |
| 14 | Attractor Dynamics in the Hippocampal Representation of the Local Environment Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 468 |
| 15 | A review of the hippocampal place cells Hit paper breakdown → | 1979 | 463 |
| 16 | The stereotrode: A new technique for simultaneous isolation of several single units in the central nervous system from multiple unit records Hit paper breakdown → | 1983 | 458 |
| 17 | Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 452 |
| 18 | Development of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Preweanling Rats Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 443 |
| 19 | 2001 | 436 | |
| 20 | Dual phase and rate coding in hippocampal place cells: Theoretical significance and relationship to entorhinal grid cells Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 413 |
About John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Developmental Neuroscience and Automotive Engineering, having authored 108 papers that have together received 39.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (91 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (69 papers), Sleep and Wakefulness Research (21 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (12 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (11 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (10 papers) and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (31.2k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (21.7k citations), Behavioral Neuroscience (2.5k citations), Sensory Systems (3.2k citations) and Developmental Neuroscience (2.3k citations). John O’Keefe has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Lynn Nadel, Neil Burgess, Jonathan O. Dostrovsky, Richard Morris, J. N. P. Rawlins, Paul Garrud, Michael Recce, Eleanor A. Maguire, Colin Lever and Carol A. Barnes. Their work appears in journals such as Hippocampus, Nature, Journal of Neuroscience, Experimental Brain Research and Science.
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