Chiara Cirelli

28.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
177 papers, 19.4k citations indexed

About

Chiara Cirelli is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Chiara Cirelli has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 19.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 100 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 62 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Chiara Cirelli's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (129 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (68 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (59 papers). Chiara Cirelli is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (129 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (68 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (59 papers). Chiara Cirelli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Chiara Cirelli's co-authors include Giulio Tononi, Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Ugo Faraguna, Yuval Nir, Michele Bellesi, Daniel Bushey, Paul J. Shaw, María Pompeiano, Ralph J. Greenspan and Reto Huber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chiara Cirelli

175 papers receiving 19.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Sleep function and synaptic homeostasis

2005 1.5k citations Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli profile →
Sleep and the Price of Plasticity: From Synaptic and Cellular Homeostasis to Memory Consolidation and Integration

2014 1.4k citations Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli profile →
Correlates of Sleep and Waking in Drosophila melanogaster

2000 921 citations Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi et al. profile →
Sleep and synaptic homeostasis: a hypothesis

2003 804 citations Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli profile →
Regional Slow Waves and Spindles in Human Sleep

2011 682 citations Yuval Nir, Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy et al. profile →
Local sleep in awake rats

2011 601 citations Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Umberto Olcese et al. profile →
Molecular and electrophysiological evidence for net synaptic potentiation in wake and depression in sleep

2008 593 citations Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Chiara Cirelli et al. profile →
Cortical Firing and Sleep Homeostasis

2009 525 citations Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Umberto Olcese et al. profile →
Ultrastructural evidence for synaptic scaling across the wake/sleep cycle

2017 389 citations Luisa de Vivo, Michele Bellesi et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Ultrastructural effects of learning and post-learning sleep on the dorsal striatum 2025 ·SLEEP ·(unknown), (unknown), Hirotaka Nagai, (unknown), William Marshall, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	0
2	The Many Unknowns of Partial Sensory Disconnection during Sleep: A Review of the Literature 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi	3
3	Cortical Tonic Inhibition Gates the Expression of Spike-and-Wave Discharges Associated with Absence Epilepsy 2024 ·Journal of Integrative Neuroscience ·(unknown), Aaron B. Nelson, Steven Petrou, Chiara Cirelli, Mathew V. Jones	2
4	Sleep/wake changes in perturbational complexity in rats and mice 2023 ·iScience ·Matías Cavelli, (unknown), Graham Findlay, (unknown), (unknown), Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	20
5	Multiple traces and altered signal-to-noise in systems consolidation: Evidence from the 7T fMRI Natural Scenes Dataset 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Mélanie Boly, Emily Allen, Yihan Wu, Thomas Naselaris, Kendrick Kay, Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi	3
6	Sleep and wake in a model of the thalamocortical system with Martinotti cells 2022 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·(unknown), (unknown), Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi	4
7	Ultrastructural effects of sleep and wake on the parallel fiber synapses of the cerebellum 2022 ·eLife ·(unknown), (unknown), William Marshall, (unknown), Kelsey M Nemec, (unknown), Luisa de Vivo, Michele Bellesi, (unknown), Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	9
8	Effects of Severe Sleep Disruption on the Synaptic Ultrastructure of Young Mice 2021 ·eNeuro ·Hirotaka Nagai, Luisa de Vivo, William Marshall, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	13
9	Identification of ultrastructural signatures of sleep and wake in the fly brain 2021 ·SLEEP ·Carlos C. Flores, (unknown), William Marshall, (unknown), (unknown), Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	6
10	The evolving view of replay and its functions in wake and sleep 2020 ·SLEEP Advances ·Graham Findlay, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	36
11	Neural fatigue due to intensive learning is reversed by a nap but not by quiet waking 2020 ·SLEEP ·Aaron B. Nelson, Serena Ricci, Elisa Tatti, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Henry Chen, William Marshall, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli, Maria Felice Ghilardi	19
12	Effects of sleep and waking on the synaptic ultrastructure 2020 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi	29
13	Visual imagery and visual perception induce similar changes in occipital slow waves of sleep 2019 ·Journal of Neurophysiology ·Giulio Bernardi, Monica Betta, Jacinthe Cataldi, Andrea Leo, José Haba‐Rubio, Raphaël Heinzer, Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi, Pietro Pietrini, Emiliano Ricciardi, Francesca Siclari	20
14	Evidence for sleep-dependent synaptic renormalization in mouse pups 2019 ·SLEEP ·Luisa de Vivo, Hirotaka Nagai, (unknown), (unknown), William Marshall, Michele Bellesi, Kelsey M Nemec, (unknown), (unknown), Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	23
15	Sleep and synaptic down‐selection 2019 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	131
16	Role of Somatostatin-Positive Cortical Interneurons in the Generation of Sleep Slow Waves 2017 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Chadd M. Funk, (unknown), Michele Bellesi, William Marshall, Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi	96
17	Why Does Sleep Slow-Wave Activity Increase After Extended Wake? Assessing the Effects of Increased Cortical Firing During Wake and Sleep 2016 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Alexander V. Rodriguez, Chadd M. Funk, Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Yuval Nir, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	58
18	Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Extended Training during Sleep Deprivation in Humans: Evidence for Local, Task-Specific Effects 2015 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Giulio Bernardi, Francesca Siclari, Xiaoqian Yu, (unknown), Michele Bellesi, Emiliano Ricciardi, Chiara Cirelli, Maria Felice Ghilardi, Pietro Pietrini, Giulio Tononi	95
19	Sleep homeostasis in the rat is preserved during chronic sleep restriction 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Umberto Olcese, Claudio L. Bassetti, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli	117
20	Electrophysiological evidence for synaptic potentiation during waking and synaptic downscaling during sleep RID B-8387-2009 2007 ·SLEEP ·(unknown), Ugo Faraguna, Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi	2

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