Igor Timofeev

14.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
128 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Igor Timofeev is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Igor Timofeev has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 111 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 14 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Igor Timofeev's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (97 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (81 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (49 papers). Igor Timofeev is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (97 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (81 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (49 papers). Igor Timofeev collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Igor Timofeev's co-authors include Mircea Steriade, François Grenier, Sylvain Chauvette, Maxim Bazhenov, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Diego Contreras, Maxim Volgushev, Josée Seigneur, Florin Amzica and Maksim Bazhenov and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Igor Timofeev

126 papers receiving 9.6k citations

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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.

Natural Waking and Sleep States: A View From Inside Neocortical Neurons

2001 937 citations Mircea Steriade, Igor Timofeev et al. Journal of Neurophysiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Igor Timofeev Canada	53	8.4k	6.4k	910	788	718	128	9.8k
Florin Amzica Canada	41	7.3k 0.9×	5.2k 0.8×	676 0.7×	697 0.9×	724 1.0×	63	8.9k
Denis Paré United States	66	13.1k 1.6×	10.9k 1.7×	493 0.5×	1.9k 2.4×	1.0k 1.4×	163	16.8k
Miles A. Whittington United Kingdom	70	12.7k 1.5×	11.6k 1.8×	805 0.9×	3.8k 4.8×	264 0.4×	178	17.1k
Juergen Fell Germany	44	7.8k 0.9×	2.5k 0.4×	550 0.6×	248 0.3×	174 0.2×	129	8.9k
Maxim Bazhenov United States	41	3.3k 0.4×	3.2k 0.5×	305 0.3×	494 0.6×	237 0.3×	126	4.9k
Jozsef Csicsvari United States	41	9.8k 1.2×	9.0k 1.4×	236 0.3×	659 0.8×	224 0.3×	59	11.4k
Martin Deschênes Canada	55	7.0k 0.8×	6.8k 1.1×	261 0.3×	1.3k 1.6×	700 1.0×	118	9.4k
Ranulfo Romo Mexico	57	10.7k 1.3×	4.1k 0.6×	290 0.3×	906 1.1×	130 0.2×	154	12.8k
Hajime Hirase Japan	45	6.7k 0.8×	7.4k 1.2×	268 0.3×	1.3k 1.7×	341 0.5×	94	10.0k
Roger D. Traub United States	69	13.9k 1.7×	13.2k 2.1×	1.1k 1.2×	3.6k 4.5×	243 0.3×	165	17.8k

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Proulx, Émilie, et al.. (2025). The reuniens nucleus of the thalamus facilitates hippocampo-cortical dialogue during sleep. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

Halász, Péter, Igor Timofeev, & Anna Szűcs. (2023). Derailment of Sleep Homeostatic Plasticity Affects the Most Plastic Brain Systems and Carries the Risk of Epilepsy. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience. 22(5). 111–111. 2 indexed citations

Bernard, Christophe, Birgit Frauscher, Jennifer N. Gelinas, & Igor Timofeev. (2023). Sleep, oscillations, and epilepsy. Epilepsia. 64(S3). S3–S12. 14 indexed citations

Lemieux, Maxime, et al.. (2014). The Impact of Cortical Deafferentation on the Neocortical Slow Oscillation. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(16). 5689–5703. 130 indexed citations

Timofeev, Igor, et al.. (2014). Neocortical Focus. International review of neurobiology. 114. 9–33. 5 indexed citations

Grand, László, et al.. (2012). Long-term synchronized electrophysiological and behavioral wireless monitoring of freely moving animals. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 212(2). 237–241. 10 indexed citations

Timofeev, Igor. (2011). Neuronal plasticity and thalamocortical sleep and waking oscillations. Progress in brain research. 193. 121–144. 32 indexed citations

Chauvette, Sylvain, Maxim Volgushev, & Igor Timofeev. (2010). Origin of Active States in Local Neocortical Networks during Slow Sleep Oscillation. Cerebral Cortex. 20(11). 2660–2674. 191 indexed citations

Zomorrodi, Reza, Alex S. Ferecskó, Krisztina Kovács, H. Kröger, & Igor Timofeev. (2010). Analysis of morphological features of thalamocortical neurons from the ventroposterolateral nucleus of the cat. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 518(17). 3541–3556. 8 indexed citations

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Avramescu, Sinziana, Dragos A. Nita, & Igor Timofeev. (2009). Neocortical Post-Traumatic Epileptogenesis Is Associated with Loss of GABAergic Neurons. Journal of Neurotrauma. 26(5). 799–812. 34 indexed citations

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Nita, Dragos A., Youssouf Cissé, Flavio Frӧhlich, & Igor Timofeev. (2008). Cortical and thalamic components of neocortical kindling-induced epileptogenesis in behaving cats. Experimental Neurology. 211(2). 518–528. 9 indexed citations

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Nita, Dragos A., Youssouf Cissé, & Igor Timofeev. (2008). State-dependent slow outlasting activities following neocortical kindling in cats. Experimental Neurology. 211(2). 456–468. 9 indexed citations

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Bazhenov, Maxim, Nikolai F. Rulkov, & Igor Timofeev. (2008). Effect of Synaptic Connectivity on Long-Range Synchronization of Fast Cortical Oscillations. Journal of Neurophysiology. 100(3). 1562–1575. 56 indexed citations

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Nita, Dragos A., Youssouf Cissé, & Igor Timofeev. (2007). EPSP depression following neocortical seizures in cat. Epilepsia. 49(4). 705–709. 6 indexed citations

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Rudolph, Michelle, Martin Pospischil, Igor Timofeev, & Alain Destexhe. (2007). Inhibition Determines Membrane Potential Dynamics and Controls Action Potential Generation in Awake and Sleeping Cat Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(20). 5280–5290. 182 indexed citations

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Timofeev, Igor. (2006). Mircea Steriade (1924–2006). Neuroscience. 142(4). 917–920. 1 indexed citations

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Houweling, Arthur R., Maxim Bazhenov, Igor Timofeev, Mircea Steriade, & Terrence J. Sejnowski. (2004). Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity Can Explain Post-traumatic Epileptogenesis in Chronically Isolated Neocortex. Cerebral Cortex. 15(6). 834–845. 124 indexed citations

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Steriade, Mircea, Florin Amzica, & Igor Timofeev. (2003). Bases cellulaires des transitions de l’état de sommeil aux paroxysmes épileptiformes. médecine/sciences. 19(10). 999–1002. 1 indexed citations

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Timofeev, Igor, Maxim Bazhenov, Terrence J. Sejnowski, & Mircea Steriade. (2002). Cortical hyperpolarization-activated depolarizing current takes part in the generation of focal paroxysmal activities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(14). 9533–9537. 69 indexed citations

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Timofeev, Igor & Mircea Steriade. (1997). Fast (mainly 30–100 Hz) oscillations in the cat cerebellothalamic pathway and their synchronization with cortical potentials. The Journal of Physiology. 504(1). 153–168. 93 indexed citations

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