James Knierim

13.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
89 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

James Knierim is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Sensory Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, James Knierim has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 68 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 14 papers in Sensory Systems. Recurrent topics in James Knierim's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (79 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (66 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (18 papers). James Knierim is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (79 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (66 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (18 papers). James Knierim collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. James Knierim's co-authors include David C. Van Essen, Sachin S. Deshmukh, Joshua P. Neunuebel, Geeta Rao, D. Yoganarasimha, Inah Lee, Bruce L. McNaughton, Eric L. Hargreaves, Francesco Savelli and Cheng Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James Knierim

86 papers receiving 8.6k 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.

Neuronal responses to static texture patterns in area V1 of the alert macaque monkey

1992 815 citations James Knierim, David C. Van Essen profile →
Deciphering The Hippocampal Polyglot: the Hippocampus as a Path Integration System

1996 667 citations James Knierim et al. profile →
Integrating time from experience in the lateral entorhinal cortex

2018 288 citations Cheng Wang, James Knierim et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Knierim United States	45	7.7k	5.6k	928	877	665	89	8.8k
Marianne Fyhn Norway	26	6.6k 0.9×	5.5k 1.0×	676 0.7×	634 0.7×	379 0.6×	44	8.3k
Stefan Leutgeb United States	37	6.6k 0.8×	5.2k 0.9×	501 0.5×	949 1.1×	688 1.0×	58	7.6k
Torkel Hafting Norway	19	5.9k 0.8×	4.9k 0.9×	591 0.6×	552 0.6×	336 0.5×	33	7.2k
Seralynne D. Vann United Kingdom	44	6.0k 0.8×	3.7k 0.7×	479 0.5×	626 0.7×	476 0.7×	98	7.5k
Matthew L. Shapiro United States	40	4.9k 0.6×	4.1k 0.7×	398 0.4×	725 0.8×	503 0.8×	79	6.1k
Bruno Poucet France	48	5.1k 0.7×	3.6k 0.7×	999 1.1×	592 0.7×	292 0.4×	145	6.6k
Alessandro Treves Italy	45	8.8k 1.1×	5.3k 0.9×	631 0.7×	670 0.8×	589 0.9×	143	10.0k
Emma R. Wood United Kingdom	32	4.1k 0.5×	3.2k 0.6×	420 0.5×	772 0.9×	382 0.6×	76	5.6k
Matthew A. Wilson United States	41	13.5k 1.7×	10.8k 1.9×	633 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	691 1.0×	91	15.4k
Mark Good United Kingdom	41	4.0k 0.5×	3.5k 0.6×	497 0.5×	745 0.8×	437 0.7×	127	6.5k

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Chen, Xiaojing, et al.. (2025). Impaired spatial coding of the hippocampus in a dentate gyrus hypoplasia mouse model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(5). e2416214122–e2416214122.

Madhav, Manu S., et al.. (2025). Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells. Nature Neuroscience. 28(10). 2106–2117. 1 indexed citations

Johnson, Jeremy L., et al.. (2025). Landmark vector cells in the absence of visual input. iScience. 28(12). 113960–113960. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Cheng, et al.. (2024). Multiplexing of temporal and spatial information in the lateral entorhinal cortex. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10533–10533. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Cheng, Heekyung Lee, Geeta Rao, et al.. (2023). Superficial‐layer versus deep‐layer lateral entorhinal cortex: Coding of allocentric space, egocentric space, speed, boundaries, and corners. Hippocampus. 33(5). 448–464. 9 indexed citations

Chen, Yuxi, et al.. (2023). Object‐place‐context learning impairment correlates with spatial learning impairment in agedLong–Evansrats. Hippocampus. 34(2). 88–99. 4 indexed citations

Kim, Sang Hoon, Douglas GoodSmith, Guo‐li Ming, et al.. (2023). Global remapping in granule cells and mossy cells of the mouse dentate gyrus. Cell Reports. 42(4). 112334–112334. 8 indexed citations

Madhav, Manu S., et al.. (2021). The Dome: A virtual reality apparatus for freely locomoting rodents. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 368. 109336–109336. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Cheng, Xiaojing Chen, Sachin S. Deshmukh, et al.. (2018). Egocentric coding of external items in the lateral entorhinal cortex. Science. 362(6417). 945–949. 172 indexed citations

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Neunuebel, Joshua P. & James Knierim. (2014). CA3 Retrieves Coherent Representations from Degraded Input: Direct Evidence for CA3 Pattern Completion and Dentate Gyrus Pattern Separation. Neuron. 81(2). 416–427. 308 indexed citations

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Monaco, Joseph D., Geeta Rao, Eric D. Roth, & James Knierim. (2014). Attentive scanning behavior drives one-trial potentiation of hippocampal place fields. Nature Neuroscience. 17(5). 725–731. 107 indexed citations

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Neunuebel, Joshua P., D. Yoganarasimha, Geeta Rao, & James Knierim. (2013). Conflicts between Local and Global Spatial Frameworks Dissociate Neural Representations of the Lateral and Medial Entorhinal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(22). 9246–9258. 95 indexed citations

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Neunuebel, Joshua P. & James Knierim. (2012). Spatial Firing Correlates of Physiologically Distinct Cell Types of the Rat Dentate Gyrus. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(11). 3848–3858. 123 indexed citations

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Knierim, James. (2009). Imagining the Possibilities: Ripples, Routes, and Reactivation. Neuron. 63(4). 421–423. 2 indexed citations

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Knierim, James, et al.. (2007). The relationship between the field-shifting phenomenon and representational coherence of place cells in CA1 and CA3 in a cue-altered environment. Learning & Memory. 14(11). 807–815. 20 indexed citations

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Hargreaves, Eric L., D. Yoganarasimha, & James Knierim. (2007). Cohesiveness of spatial and directional representations recorded from neural ensembles in the anterior thalamus, parasubiculum, medial entorhinal cortex, and hippocampus. Hippocampus. 17(9). 826–841. 52 indexed citations

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Guzowski, John F., James Knierim, & Edvard I Moser. (2004). Ensemble Dynamics of Hippocampal Regions CA3 and CA1. Neuron. 44(4). 581–584. 252 indexed citations

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Lee, Inah, D. Yoganarasimha, Geeta Rao, & James Knierim. (2004). Comparison of population coherence of place cells in hippocampal subfields CA1 and CA3. Nature. 430(6998). 456–459. 324 indexed citations

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Knierim, James. (2000). LTP Takes Route in the Hippocampus. Neuron. 25(3). 504–506. 4 indexed citations

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Essen, David C. Van, D.J. Felleman, Edgar A. DeYoe, Jaime F. Olavarría, & James Knierim. (1990). Modular and Hierarchical Organization of Extrastriate Visual Cortex in the Macaque Monkey. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 55(0). 679–696. 188 indexed citations

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