Giulio Tononi

78.0k total citations · 27 hit papers
410 papers, 50.2k citations indexed

About

Giulio Tononi is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Giulio Tononi has authored 410 papers receiving a total of 50.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 345 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 120 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 63 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Giulio Tononi's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (208 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (177 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (115 papers). Giulio Tononi is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (208 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (177 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (115 papers). Giulio Tononi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Switzerland. Giulio Tononi's co-authors include Chiara Cirelli, Marcello Massimini, Reto Huber, Olaf Sporns, Fabio Ferrarelli, Mélanie Boly, Christof Koch, Gerald M. Edelman, Brady A. Riedner and Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Giulio Tononi

403 papers receiving 48.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Human Connectome: A S... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2005 2005 2014 2004 2005 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. The Human Connectome: A Structural Description of the Human Brain
    2005 2.2k citations Giulio Tononi et al. profile →
  2. Sleep function and synaptic homeostasis
    2005 1.5k citations Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli profile →
  3. 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 →
  4. Local sleep and learning
    2004 1.3k citations Marcello Massimini, Giulio Tononi et al. profile →
  5. Breakdown of Cortical Effective Connectivity During Sleep
    2005 1.1k citations Marcello Massimini, Fabio Ferrarelli et al. profile →
  6. An information integration theory of consciousness
    2004 951 citations Giulio Tononi profile →
  7. Correlates of Sleep and Waking in Drosophila melanogaster
    2000 921 citations Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi et al. profile →
  8. Neural correlates of consciousness: progress and problems
    2016 886 citations Marcello Massimini, Mélanie Boly et al. profile →
  9. Integrated information theory: from consciousness to its physical substrate
    2016 866 citations Giulio Tononi, Mélanie Boly et al. profile →
  10. The Sleep Slow Oscillation as a Traveling Wave
    2004 859 citations Marcello Massimini, Fabio Ferrarelli et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  11. Consciousness and Anesthesia
    2008 832 citations Giulio Tononi et al. profile →
  12. Sleep and synaptic homeostasis: a hypothesis
    2003 804 citations Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli profile →
  13. Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto
    2008 769 citations Giulio Tononi profile →
  14. A Theoretically Based Index of Consciousness Independent of Sensory Processing and Behavior
    2013 721 citations Adenauer G. Casali, Olivia Gosseries et al. profile →
  15. Regional Slow Waves and Spindles in Human Sleep
    2011 682 citations Yuval Nir, Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy et al. profile →
  16. Local sleep in awake rats
    2011 601 citations Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Umberto Olcese et al. profile →
  17. 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 →
  18. From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0
    2014 577 citations Larissa Albantakis, Giulio Tononi et al. profile →
  19. Diaschisis: past, present, future
    2014 532 citations Giulio Tononi et al. Brain profile →
  20. Cortical Firing and Sleep Homeostasis
    2009 525 citations Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, Umberto Olcese et al. profile →
  21. Complexity and coherency: integrating information in the brain
    1998 503 citations Giulio Tononi profile →
  22. Rethinking segregation and integration: contributions of whole-brain modelling
    2015 408 citations Giulio Tononi, Mélanie Boly et al. profile →
  23. Consciousness: here, there and everywhere?
    2015 402 citations Giulio Tononi et al. profile →
  24. Ultrastructural evidence for synaptic scaling across the wake/sleep cycle
    2017 389 citations Luisa de Vivo, Michele Bellesi et al. profile →
  25. The neural correlates of dreaming
    2017 371 citations Francesca Siclari, Giulio Bernardi et al. profile →
  26. Are the Neural Correlates of Consciousness in the Front or in the Back of the Cerebral Cortex? Clinical and Neuroimaging Evidence
    2017 338 citations Mélanie Boly, Marcello Massimini et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  27. Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: Formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms
    2023 100 citations Larissa Albantakis, Graham Findlay et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Giulio Tononi 40.0k 12.3k 10.1k 8.5k 3.4k 410 50.2k
Edmund T. Rolls 43.5k 1.1× 15.4k 1.3× 9.4k 0.9× 3.6k 0.4× 2.4k 0.7× 573 64.4k
Jan Born 29.7k 0.7× 8.7k 0.7× 15.6k 1.5× 9.6k 1.1× 2.6k 0.8× 759 50.3k
Robert W. McCarley 30.1k 0.8× 9.6k 0.8× 7.3k 0.7× 7.2k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 498 42.8k
Joseph E. LeDoux 45.9k 1.1× 29.5k 2.4× 9.3k 0.9× 2.2k 0.3× 4.5k 1.3× 399 70.9k
Gary Aston‐Jones 20.6k 0.5× 16.5k 1.3× 5.8k 0.6× 8.9k 1.1× 2.1k 0.6× 250 36.4k
Pierre Maquet 17.3k 0.4× 3.3k 0.3× 5.8k 0.6× 2.8k 0.3× 1.1k 0.3× 356 23.6k
Mircea Steriade 32.7k 0.8× 23.9k 1.9× 3.3k 0.3× 3.9k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 283 39.6k
Joseph L. Price 19.9k 0.5× 14.7k 1.2× 3.6k 0.4× 2.1k 0.3× 4.5k 1.3× 179 41.9k
Scott L. Rauch 26.4k 0.7× 6.7k 0.5× 11.5k 1.1× 637 0.1× 2.3k 0.7× 348 46.6k
Peter T. Fox 51.7k 1.3× 5.0k 0.4× 11.7k 1.2× 1.5k 0.2× 6.0k 1.8× 591 74.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giulio Tononi

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All Works

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Cirelli, Chiara & Giulio Tononi. (2024). The Many Unknowns of Partial Sensory Disconnection during Sleep: A Review of the Literature. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 9–9. 3 indexed citations
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Marshall, William, Matteo Grasso, Alireza Zaeemzadeh, et al.. (2023). System Integrated Information. Entropy. 25(2). 334–334. 7 indexed citations
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Cavelli, Matías, et al.. (2023). Sleep/wake changes in perturbational complexity in rats and mice. iScience. 26(3). 106186–106186. 20 indexed citations
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Cirelli, Chiara, et al.. (2022). Sleep and wake in a model of the thalamocortical system with Martinotti cells. European Journal of Neuroscience. 59(4). 703–736. 4 indexed citations
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Lee, Minji, Leandro Sanz, Alice Barra, et al.. (2022). Quantifying arousal and awareness in altered states of consciousness using interpretable deep learning. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1064–1064. 74 indexed citations
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Boly, Mélanie, Emily Allen, Yihan Wu, et al.. (2022). Multiple traces and altered signal-to-noise in systems consolidation: Evidence from the 7T fMRI Natural Scenes Dataset. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(44). e2123426119–e2123426119. 3 indexed citations
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Juan, Elsa, Urszula Górska, Václav Křemen, et al.. (2022). Distinct signatures of loss of consciousness in focal impaired awareness versus tonic-clonic seizures. Brain. 146(1). 109–123. 9 indexed citations
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Cavelli, Matías, et al.. (2022). Increase in NREM sleep slow waves following injections of sodium oxybate in the mouse cerebral cortex and the role of somatostatin‐positive interneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. 59(4). 502–525. 8 indexed citations
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Nagai, Hirotaka, Luisa de Vivo, William Marshall, Giulio Tononi, & Chiara Cirelli. (2021). Effects of Severe Sleep Disruption on the Synaptic Ultrastructure of Young Mice. eNeuro. 8(4). ENEURO.0077–21.2021. 13 indexed citations
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Miyamoto, Daisuke, William Marshall, Giulio Tononi, & Chiara Cirelli. (2021). Net decrease in spine-surface GluA1-containing AMPA receptors after post-learning sleep in the adult mouse cortex. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2881–2881. 40 indexed citations
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Findlay, Graham, Giulio Tononi, & Chiara Cirelli. (2020). The evolving view of replay and its functions in wake and sleep. SLEEP Advances. 1(1). zpab002–zpab002. 36 indexed citations
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Bernardi, Giulio, Monica Betta, Jacinthe Cataldi, et al.. (2019). Visual imagery and visual perception induce similar changes in occipital slow waves of sleep. Journal of Neurophysiology. 121(6). 2140–2152. 20 indexed citations
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Vivo, Luisa de, Hirotaka Nagai, William Marshall, et al.. (2019). Evidence for sleep-dependent synaptic renormalization in mouse pups. SLEEP. 42(11). 23 indexed citations
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Tononi, Giulio & Chiara Cirelli. (2019). Sleep and synaptic down‐selection. European Journal of Neuroscience. 51(1). 413–421. 131 indexed citations
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Funk, Chadd M., Brady A. Riedner, Olivia Gosseries, et al.. (2018). Evoked Alpha Power is Reduced in Disconnected Consciousness During Sleep and Anesthesia. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16664–16664. 26 indexed citations
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D’Agostino, Armando, Anna Castelnovo, Simone Cavallotti, et al.. (2018). Sleep endophenotypes of schizophrenia: slow waves and sleep spindles in unaffected first-degree relatives. Schizophrenia. 4(1). 2–2. 48 indexed citations
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Rodriguez, Alexander V., Chadd M. Funk, Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy, et al.. (2016). Why Does Sleep Slow-Wave Activity Increase After Extended Wake? Assessing the Effects of Increased Cortical Firing During Wake and Sleep. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(49). 12436–12447. 58 indexed citations
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Vyazovskiy, Vladyslav V., et al.. (2010). Sleep homeostasis in the rat is preserved during chronic sleep restriction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(36). 15939–15944. 117 indexed citations
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Ferrarelli, Fabio, Marcello Massimini, Simone Sarasso, et al.. (2010). Breakdown in cortical effective connectivity during midazolam-induced loss of consciousness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(6). 2681–2686. 393 indexed citations

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