Christian L. Nicholas

2.6k total citations
77 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Christian L. Nicholas is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian L. Nicholas has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 37 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 29 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Christian L. Nicholas's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (37 papers), Sleep and related disorders (28 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (25 papers). Christian L. Nicholas is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (37 papers), Sleep and related disorders (28 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (25 papers). Christian L. Nicholas collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and South Africa. Christian L. Nicholas's co-authors include John Trinder, Ian M. Colrain, Fiona C. Baker, Amy S. Jordan, Nicholas B. Allen, Bei Bei, Greg Murray, Atul Malhotra, Julian P. Saboisky and David P. White and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Neurophysiology and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Christian L. Nicholas

76 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christian L. Nicholas Australia 26 973 971 670 486 173 77 1.9k
Virginie Bayon France 23 1.4k 1.5× 884 0.9× 572 0.9× 559 1.2× 95 0.5× 51 2.1k
Slobodanka Pejovic United States 16 1.4k 1.4× 958 1.0× 629 0.9× 622 1.3× 76 0.4× 26 2.0k
Terry Brown United States 7 1.4k 1.5× 1.1k 1.2× 848 1.3× 779 1.6× 94 0.5× 14 2.2k
Yuichi Kamei Japan 22 1.4k 1.5× 1.0k 1.1× 964 1.4× 315 0.6× 111 0.6× 45 2.1k
Henry J. Orff United States 21 1.2k 1.2× 1.1k 1.1× 498 0.7× 201 0.4× 162 0.9× 35 1.8k
Katherine M. Sharkey United States 30 1.5k 1.6× 887 0.9× 1.1k 1.6× 498 1.0× 236 1.4× 68 2.4k
Shingo Kitamura Japan 22 959 1.0× 584 0.6× 651 1.0× 203 0.4× 101 0.6× 58 1.5k
Mairav Cohen‐Zion United States 20 1.3k 1.3× 881 0.9× 591 0.9× 506 1.0× 265 1.5× 29 2.6k
Kazuhiko Fukuda Japan 20 1.1k 1.1× 1.0k 1.1× 440 0.7× 254 0.5× 123 0.7× 76 1.7k
Jutta Backhaus Germany 15 1.7k 1.7× 1.2k 1.2× 475 0.7× 264 0.5× 315 1.8× 22 2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian L. Nicholas

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All Works

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Kay, Amanda, et al.. (2025). The Effect of Suvorexant on Fear Extinction Recall: A Double‐Blind Randomised Controlled Pilot Trial in Healthy Individuals. Journal of Sleep Research. 34(6). e70033–e70033. 1 indexed citations
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Meaklim, Hailey, et al.. (2024). Perfect Enough to Sleep? Perfectionism and Actigraphy-Determined Markers of Insomnia. Behavioral Sleep Medicine. 22(5). 709–724. 2 indexed citations
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Dawson, Andrew, Christian L. Nicholas, Amanda Kay, et al.. (2023). Mechanisms underlying the prolonged activation of the genioglossus following arousal from sleep. SLEEP. 47(1). 2 indexed citations
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Qian, Hang, et al.. (2023). Sleep and day-to-day PTSD symptom variability: an ecological momentary assessment and actigraphy monitored study in trauma-exposed young adults. European journal of psychotraumatology. 14(2). 2202058–2202058. 11 indexed citations
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Thompson, Katherine, et al.. (2022). Potential mechanisms underlying sleep disturbance in young people with borderline personality disorder features: an exploratory study. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation. 9(1). 10–10. 5 indexed citations
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Thompson, Katherine, et al.. (2021). Subjective and objective sleep in young people with borderline personality disorder features. Journal of Sleep Research. 31(2). e13463–e13463. 9 indexed citations
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Ney, Luke J., et al.. (2021). Sleep and fear conditioning, extinction learning and extinction recall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of polysomnographic findings. Sleep Medicine Reviews. 59. 101501–101501. 28 indexed citations
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Nicholas, Christian L., et al.. (2019). Associations between sleep and verbal memory in subjective cognitive decline: A role for semantic clustering. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 166. 107086–107086. 9 indexed citations
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Sletten, Tracey L., Suzanne Ftouni, Christian L. Nicholas, et al.. (2017). Randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of a blue-enriched light intervention to improve alertness and performance in night shift workers. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 74(11). 792–801. 46 indexed citations
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Trinder, John, et al.. (2013). Motor unit activity in upper airway muscles genioglossus and tensor palatini. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology. 188(3). 362–369. 11 indexed citations
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Jordan, Amy S., Julian P. Saboisky, Christian L. Nicholas, Bei Bei, & Danny J. Eckert. (2011). Common Drive in Hypoglossal and Trigeminal Motor Neurons. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 183(9). 1280–1280. 1 indexed citations
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Colrain, Ian M., Edith V. Sullivan, Torsten Rohlfing, et al.. (2011). Independent Contributions of Cortical Gray Matter, Aging, Sex and Alcoholism to K-Complex Amplitude Evoked During Sleep. SLEEP. 34(6). 787–795. 20 indexed citations
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Yang, Joel S.C., Christian L. Nicholas, Gillian M. Nixon, et al.. (2011). EEG spectral analysis of apnoeic events confirms visual scoring in childhood sleep disordered breathing. Sleep And Breathing. 16(2). 491–497. 14 indexed citations
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Yang, Joel S.C., Christian L. Nicholas, Gillian M. Nixon, et al.. (2010). Determining Sleep Quality in Children with Sleep Disordered Breathing: EEG Spectral Analysis Compared with Conventional Polysomnography. SLEEP. 33(9). 1165–1172. 40 indexed citations
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Colrain, Ian M., et al.. (2008). The Impact of Alcoholism on Sleep Evoked Δ Frequency Responses. Biological Psychiatry. 66(2). 177–184. 31 indexed citations
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Nicholas, Christian L., et al.. (2007). Genioglossus Motor Unit Discharge Patterns During Arousal From Sleep. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 175.
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Trinder, John, et al.. (2007). Circadian versus sleep influences on cardiovascular activity. SLEEP. 30. 4 indexed citations
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Nicholas, Christian L., John Trinder, Kate Crowley, & Ian M. Colrain. (2006). The impact of slow wave sleep proximity on evoked K-complex generation. Neuroscience Letters. 404(1-2). 127–131. 20 indexed citations
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Nicholas, Christian L., et al.. (2004). Evoked K-complex Elicitation At Transitions From Stage 2 To Slow Wave Sleep And Stage 2 To REM Sleep. Internal Medicine Journal. 34(3). 1 indexed citations

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