Els van der Helm

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Els van der Helm is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Els van der Helm has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Els van der Helm's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (9 papers), Sleep and related disorders (7 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (3 papers). Els van der Helm is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (9 papers), Sleep and related disorders (7 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (3 papers). Els van der Helm collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Japan. Els van der Helm's co-authors include Matthew P. Walker, Jared Saletin, Vikram R. Rao, Justin D. Yao, Shubir Dutt, Masaki Nishida, Menno M. Schoonheim, Eus J.W. Van Someren and Ysbrand D. van der Werf and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Bulletin and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Els van der Helm

10 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Overnight therapy? The role of sleep in emotional brain processing.

2009 702 citations Matthew P. Walker, Els van der Helm Psychological Bulletin profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Els van der Helm United States	9	1.1k	1.1k	275	175	99	10	1.5k
Jennifer C. Kanady United States	15	988 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	279 1.0×	192 1.1×	119 1.2×	24	1.5k
Katja Valli Finland	24	1.1k 1.0×	725 0.7×	158 0.6×	130 0.7×	68 0.7×	68	1.4k
Wolfram Regen Germany	16	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	478 1.7×	188 1.1×	64 0.6×	22	1.8k
Ruth M. Benca United States	7	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	441 1.6×	130 0.7×	106 1.1×	8	1.6k
Mark Blagrove United Kingdom	24	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	140 0.5×	187 1.1×	51 0.5×	77	1.6k
Inge Strauch Switzerland	13	1.4k 1.2×	946 0.9×	407 1.5×	132 0.8×	183 1.8×	17	1.8k
Antonio Zadra Canada	30	2.2k 1.9×	2.0k 1.8×	539 2.0×	408 2.3×	59 0.6×	84	2.6k
Ross Levin United States	20	1.4k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	183 0.7×	385 2.2×	27 0.3×	52	1.8k
Anjali Desai United States	11	707 0.6×	507 0.5×	68 0.2×	180 1.0×	303 3.1×	13	1.2k
Véronique Daneault Canada	14	385 0.3×	371 0.3×	299 1.1×	413 2.4×	86 0.9×	29	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Els van der Helm

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Fields of papers citing papers by Els van der Helm

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Els van der Helm. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Els van der Helm. The network helps show where Els van der Helm may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Els van der Helm

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Els van der Helm. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Els van der Helm based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Els van der Helm. Els van der Helm is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Helm, Els van der, et al.. (2016). There's a Proven Link Between Effective Leadership and Getting Enough Sleep. 2–5. 4 indexed citations

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Saletin, Jared, Els van der Helm, & Matthew P. Walker. (2013). Structural brain correlates of human sleep oscillations. NeuroImage. 83. 658–668. 70 indexed citations

3.

Helm, Els van der & Matthew P. Walker. (2012). Sleep and Affective Brain Regulation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 6(11). 773–791. 20 indexed citations

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Helm, Els van der, Justin D. Yao, Shubir Dutt, et al.. (2011). REM Sleep Depotentiates Amygdala Activity to Previous Emotional Experiences. Current Biology. 21(23). 2029–2032. 262 indexed citations

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Helm, Els van der & Matthew P. Walker. (2011). Sleep and Emotional Memory Processing. Sleep Medicine Clinics. 6(1). 31–43. 51 indexed citations

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Helm, Els van der, et al.. (2011). Sleep-Dependent Facilitation of Episodic Memory Details. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e27421–e27421. 112 indexed citations

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Helm, Els van der, et al.. (2010). Sleep Deprivation Impairs the Accurate Recognition of Human Emotions. SLEEP. 33(3). 335–342. 230 indexed citations

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Helm, Els van der & Matthew P. Walker. (2010). The role of sleep in emotional brain regulation.. 9 indexed citations

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Walker, Matthew P. & Els van der Helm. (2009). Overnight therapy? The role of sleep in emotional brain processing.. Psychological Bulletin. 135(5). 731–748. 702 indexed citations breakdown →

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Werf, Ysbrand D. van der, et al.. (2009). Learning by observation requires an early sleep window. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(45). 18926–18930. 46 indexed citations

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