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

The memory function of sleep 1991 2026 2002 2014 2010 2013 2006 2002 2007 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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.

  1. The memory function of sleep
    2010 2.6k citations Jan Born et al. profile →
  2. About Sleep's Role in Memory
    2013 1.8k citations Jan Born et al. Physiological Reviews profile →
  3. Boosting slow oscillations during sleep potentiates memory
    2006 1.3k citations Matthias Mölle, Jan Born et al. profile →
  4. Sniffing neuropeptides: a transnasal approach to the human brain
    2002 1.1k citations Jan Born, Horst L. Fehm et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  5. Odor Cues During Slow-Wave Sleep Prompt Declarative Memory Consolidation
    2007 820 citations Jan Born et al. profile →
  6. Effects of Early and Late Nocturnal Sleep on Declarative and Procedural Memory
    1997 722 citations Werner Plihal, Jan Born Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience profile →
  7. Sleep and immune function
    2011 676 citations Jan Born et al. profile →
  8. Sleep inspires insight
    2004 646 citations Jan Born et al. profile →
  9. Mechanisms of systems memory consolidation during sleep
    2019 628 citations Jens G. Klinzing, Niels Niethard et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  10. Learning-Dependent Increases in Sleep Spindle Density
    2002 615 citations Matthias Mölle, Jan Born et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  11. Auditory Closed-Loop Stimulation of the Sleep Slow Oscillation Enhances Memory
    2013 587 citations Hong‐Viet V. Ngo, Jan Born et al. profile →
  12. The parallel genetic algorithm as function optimizer
    1991 459 citations Jan Born et al. profile →
  13. The Consolidation and Transformation of Memory
    2015 454 citations Jan Born et al. profile →
  14. 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 →
  15. Sleep—A brain-state serving systems memory consolidation
    2023 123 citations Marion Inostroza, Niels Niethard et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Jan Born 29.7k 15.6k 9.6k 8.7k 5.1k 759 50.3k
David J. Kupfer 16.4k 0.6× 19.5k 1.3× 6.2k 0.6× 4.5k 0.5× 3.3k 0.7× 759 61.9k
Clifford B. Saper 25.8k 0.9× 9.1k 0.6× 27.6k 2.9× 16.1k 1.8× 9.1k 1.8× 304 55.5k
Nora D. Volkow 27.3k 0.9× 8.0k 0.5× 6.6k 0.7× 35.1k 4.0× 9.4k 1.9× 902 91.3k
Dick F. Swaab 7.3k 0.2× 4.7k 0.3× 11.3k 1.2× 7.3k 0.8× 6.6k 1.3× 684 39.2k
Steven Williams 36.5k 1.2× 9.5k 0.6× 1.6k 0.2× 6.6k 0.8× 5.6k 1.1× 1.1k 72.3k
Edmund T. Rolls 43.5k 1.5× 9.4k 0.6× 3.6k 0.4× 15.4k 1.8× 2.7k 0.5× 573 64.4k
Robin Murray 20.7k 0.7× 7.1k 0.5× 1.2k 0.1× 9.7k 1.1× 3.0k 0.6× 1.6k 89.9k
Peter T. Fox 51.7k 1.7× 11.7k 0.7× 1.5k 0.2× 5.0k 0.6× 3.8k 0.8× 591 74.7k
Marcus E. Raichle 72.6k 2.4× 12.9k 0.8× 1.3k 0.1× 9.6k 1.1× 5.5k 1.1× 344 102.9k
Edward T. Bullmore 71.2k 2.4× 16.6k 1.1× 1.4k 0.1× 10.1k 1.2× 3.3k 0.7× 648 99.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jan Born

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Born

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jan Born. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jan Born 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 Jan Born. Jan Born is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ngo, Hong‐Viet V., et al.. (2025). Closed-loop transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation of sleep slow oscillations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 18(1). 241–241.
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Yang, Xuefeng, et al.. (2025). The effect of fasting on human memory consolidation. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 218. 108034–108034. 1 indexed citations
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Born, Jan, et al.. (2025). Sleep’s contribution to memory formation. Physiological Reviews. 106(1). 363–483. 1 indexed citations
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Zinke, Katharina, et al.. (2024). Long-term memory formation for voices during sleep in three-month-old infants. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 215. 107987–107987. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Qing, et al.. (2023). Sleep consolidates stimulus–response learning. Learning & Memory. 30(9). 175–184. 2 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Manuela, Matthias Mölle, Jan Born, & Angela D. Friederici. (2022). Memory for nonadjacent dependencies in the first year of life and its relation to sleep. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7896–7896. 9 indexed citations
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Oyanedel, Carlos N., et al.. (2022). Two distinct ways to form long-term object recognition memory during sleep and wakefulness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(34). e2203165119–e2203165119. 17 indexed citations
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Klinzing, Jens G., et al.. (2021). Auditory stimulation during sleep suppresses spike activity in benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes. Cell Reports Medicine. 2(11). 100432–100432. 12 indexed citations
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Schneider, Jules, et al.. (2020). Susceptibility to auditory closed-loop stimulation of sleep slow oscillations changes with age. SLEEP. 43(12). 45 indexed citations
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Oyanedel, Carlos N., et al.. (2020). Temporal associations between sleep slow oscillations, spindles and ripples. European Journal of Neuroscience. 52(12). 4762–4778. 45 indexed citations
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Peter, Andreas, et al.. (2020). Consolidation of Reward Memory during Sleep Does Not Require Dopaminergic Activation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 32(9). 1688–1703. 11 indexed citations
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Klinzing, Jens G., Niels Niethard, & Jan Born. (2019). Mechanisms of systems memory consolidation during sleep. Nature Neuroscience. 22(10). 1598–1610. 628 indexed citations breakdown →
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Born, Jan, et al.. (2018). Sleep Strengthens Predictive Sequence Coding. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(42). 8989–9000. 17 indexed citations
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Bewersdorf, Jan Philipp, Bernd Fruehwald‐Schultes, Werner Kern, et al.. (2002). Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor: A Novel Endocrine Defensive Response to Hypoglycemia. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 87(2). 835–840. 44 indexed citations
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Oltmanns, Kerstin M., et al.. (2001). Hypoglycemia, But Not Insulin, Acutely Decreases LH and T Secretion in Men. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 86(10). 4913–4919. 38 indexed citations
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Fruehwald‐Schultes, Bernd, W. Kern, Peter Wellhoener, et al.. (1999). Supraphysiological Hyperinsulinemia Acutely Increases Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Secretory Activity in Humans. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 84(9). 3041–3046. 59 indexed citations
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Fruehwald‐Schultes, Bernd, Werner Kern, Peter Wellhoener, et al.. (1999). Protective Effect of Insulin against Hypoglycemia-Associated Counterregulatory Failure. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 84(5). 1551–1557. 30 indexed citations
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Plihal, Werner, S. Weaver, Matthias Mölle, Horst L. Fehm, & Jan Born. (1996). Sensory processing during early and late nocturnal sleep. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 99(3). 247–256. 13 indexed citations
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Born, Jan, Vincent Geenen, & Jean‐Jacques Legros. (1982). Neurophysin II - but not neurophysin I - concentrations are higher in lumbar than in ventricular cerebrospinal fluid in neurological patients. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 4 indexed citations
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Tobias, Cornelius A., John E. Roberts, John H. Lawrence, et al.. (1955). IRRADIATION HYPOPHYSECTOMY AND RELATED STUDIES USING 340-MEV PROTONS AND 190-MEV DEUTERONS. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 12 indexed citations

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