Jan Born

71.1k total citations · 15 hit papers
759 papers, 50.3k citations indexed

About

Jan Born is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Born has authored 759 papers receiving a total of 50.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 354 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 162 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 147 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Jan Born's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (290 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (139 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (122 papers). Jan Born is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (290 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (139 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (122 papers). Jan Born collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Jan Born's co-authors include Susanne Diekelmann, Matthias Mölle, Björn Rasch, Steffen Gais, Horst L. Fehm, Tanja Lange, Manfred Hallschmid, Lisa Marshall, Ines Wilhelm and Werner Plihal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Jan Born

744 papers receiving 49.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The memory function of sleep

2010 2.6k citations Jan Born et al. profile →
About Sleep's Role in Memory

2013 1.8k citations Jan Born et al. Physiological Reviews profile →
Boosting slow oscillations during sleep potentiates memory

2006 1.3k citations Matthias Mölle, Jan Born et al. profile →
Sniffing neuropeptides: a transnasal approach to the human brain

2002 1.1k citations Jan Born, Horst L. Fehm et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Odor Cues During Slow-Wave Sleep Prompt Declarative Memory Consolidation

2007 820 citations Jan Born et al. profile →
Effects of Early and Late Nocturnal Sleep on Declarative and Procedural Memory

1997 722 citations Werner Plihal, Jan Born Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience profile →
Sleep and immune function

2011 676 citations Jan Born et al. profile →
Sleep inspires insight

2004 646 citations Jan Born et al. profile →
Mechanisms of systems memory consolidation during sleep

2019 628 citations Jens G. Klinzing, Niels Niethard et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Learning-Dependent Increases in Sleep Spindle Density

2002 615 citations Matthias Mölle, Jan Born et al. profile →
Auditory Closed-Loop Stimulation of the Sleep Slow Oscillation Enhances Memory

2013 587 citations Hong‐Viet V. Ngo, Jan Born et al. profile →
The parallel genetic algorithm as function optimizer

1991 459 citations Heinz Mühlenbein, Jan Born et al. profile →
The Consolidation and Transformation of Memory

2015 454 citations Jan Born et al. profile →
Thalamic Spindles Promote Memory Formation during Sleep through Triple Phase-Locking of Cortical, Thalamic, and Hippocampal Rhythms

2017 353 citations Hong‐Viet V. Ngo, Jan Born et al. profile →
Sleep—A brain-state serving systems memory consolidation

2023 123 citations Marion Inostroza, Niels Niethard et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Born

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Closed-loop transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation of sleep slow oscillations 2025 ·Brain stimulation ·(unknown), (unknown), Hong‐Viet V. Ngo, Nils B. Kroemer, Sara C. Mednick, Pascal Fries, Jan Born	0
2	The effect of fasting on human memory consolidation 2025 ·Neurobiology of Learning and Memory ·Xuefeng Yang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Karsten Rauss, Manfred Hallschmid, Jan Born, (unknown)	1
3	Sleep’s contribution to memory formation 2025 ·Physiological Reviews ·(unknown), (unknown), Jan Born	1
4	Regulation of peripheral glucose levels during human sleep 2025 ·SLEEP ·(unknown), (unknown), Niels Niethard, Manfred Hallschmid, Jan Born, Karsten Rauss	2
5	Long-term memory formation for voices during sleep in three-month-old infants 2024 ·Neurobiology of Learning and Memory ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Katharina Zinke, Manuela Friedrich, Jan Born	1
6	Sleep consolidates stimulus–response learning 2023 ·Learning & Memory ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Qing Yang, Florian Waszak, Jan Born, Karsten Rauss	2
7	Two distinct ways to form long-term object recognition memory during sleep and wakefulness 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Carlos N. Oyanedel, Niels Niethard, Jan Born, Marion Inostroza	17
8	Memory for nonadjacent dependencies in the first year of life and its relation to sleep 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Manuela Friedrich, Matthias Mölle, Jan Born, Angela D. Friederici	9
9	Consolidation of Reward Memory during Sleep Does Not Require Dopaminergic Activation 2020 ·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andreas Peter, Jan Born, Gordon B. Feld	11
10	Susceptibility to auditory closed-loop stimulation of sleep slow oscillations changes with age 2020 ·SLEEP ·Jules Schneider, Penelope A. Lewis, (unknown), Jan Born, Hong‐Viet V. Ngo	45
11	Temporal associations between sleep slow oscillations, spindles and ripples 2020 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Carlos N. Oyanedel, (unknown), Niels Niethard, Marion Inostroza, Jan Born	45
12	Mechanisms of systems memory consolidation during sleep breakdown → 2019 ·Nature Neuroscience ·Jens G. Klinzing, Niels Niethard, Jan Born	628
13	Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor: A Novel Endocrine Defensive Response to Hypoglycemia 2002 ·The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ·(unknown), Jan Philipp Bewersdorf, Bernd Fruehwald‐Schultes, Werner Kern, Wolfgang Jelkmann, Jan Born, Horst L. Fehm, Achim Peters	44
14	Hypoglycemia, But Not Insulin, Acutely Decreases LH and T Secretion in Men 2001 ·The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ·Kerstin M. Oltmanns, Bernd Fruehwald‐Schultes, Werner Kern, Jan Born, Horst L. Fehm, (unknown)	38
15	Supraphysiological Hyperinsulinemia Acutely Increases Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Secretory Activity in Humans 1999 ·The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ·Bernd Fruehwald‐Schultes, W. Kern, (unknown), Peter Wellhoener, W. Kerner, Jan Born, Horst L. Fehm, (unknown)	59
16	Protective Effect of Insulin against Hypoglycemia-Associated Counterregulatory Failure 1999 ·The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ·Bernd Fruehwald‐Schultes, Werner Kern, (unknown), Peter Wellhoener, W. Kerner, Jan Born, Horst L. Fehm, Achim Peters	30
17	Sensory processing during early and late nocturnal sleep 1996 ·Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology ·Werner Plihal, S. Weaver, Matthias Mölle, Horst L. Fehm, Jan Born	13
18	The Parallel Genetic Algorithm as Function Optimizer. 1991 ·Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) ·Heinz Mühlenbein, (unknown), Jan Born	140
19	Neurophysin II - but not neurophysin I - concentrations are higher in lumbar than in ventricular cerebrospinal fluid in neurological patients 1982 ·Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) ·Jan Born, Vincent Geenen, Jean‐Jacques Legros	4
20	IRRADIATION HYPOPHYSECTOMY AND RELATED STUDIES USING 340-MEV PROTONS AND 190-MEV DEUTERONS 1955 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Cornelius A. Tobias, John E. Roberts, John H. Lawrence, B. V. A. Low‐Beer, Hal O. Anger, Jan Born, (unknown), Charles Huggins	12

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