John Peever

10.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

John Peever is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Peever has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 50 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 19 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in John Peever's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (52 papers), Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (35 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (19 papers). John Peever is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (52 papers), Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (35 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (19 papers). John Peever collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. John Peever's co-authors include Steven M. Albert, Max Hirshkowitz, Ramesh Sachdeva, David N. Neubauer, John H. Herman, Belinda Setters, Maurice M. Ohayon, J. Catesby Ware, Paula J. Adams Hillard and Oliviero Bruni and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

John Peever

72 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

National Sleep Foundation’s sleep time duration recommendations: methodology and results summary

2015 3.0k citations Max Hirshkowitz, Steven M. Albert et al. Sleep Health profile →
National Sleep Foundation’s updated sleep duration recommendations: final report

2015 1.6k citations Max Hirshkowitz, Steven M. Albert et al. Sleep Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Peever Canada	29	4.1k	3.3k	2.0k	1.1k	1.1k	72	7.2k
Sérgio Tufik Brazil	50	3.9k 0.9×	3.6k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	932 0.8×	2.0k 1.9×	404	9.6k
Shawn D. Youngstedt United States	45	3.8k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	2.2k 2.0×	156	6.7k
Janet Mullington United States	37	5.4k 1.3×	3.1k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	574 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	90	8.8k
Ian M. Colrain United States	50	3.7k 0.9×	4.4k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	556 0.5×	1.5k 1.4×	143	7.8k
Kathryn J. Reid United States	44	3.6k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	2.5k 1.2×	850 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	127	6.4k
Plamen D. Penev United States	27	4.0k 1.0×	2.6k 0.8×	2.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	1.8k 1.7×	47	6.4k
Fiona C. Baker United States	50	4.1k 1.0×	3.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	2.0k 1.7×	1.6k 1.5×	275	9.4k
W. Vaughn McCall United States	55	4.5k 1.1×	3.3k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	487 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	300	9.6k
Adam P. Spira United States	44	3.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	676 0.6×	1.9k 1.8×	210	7.4k
Masako Okawa Japan	46	3.8k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	350 0.3×	973 0.9×	150	7.7k

Countries citing papers authored by John Peever

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Peever

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Peever

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Stefani, Ambra, Dario Arnaldi, Isabelle Arnulf, et al.. (2025). From mechanisms to future therapy: a synopsis of isolated REM sleep behavior disorder as early synuclein-related disease. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 20(1). 19–19. 7 indexed citations

Fraigne, Jimmy J., et al.. (2023). A novel machine learning system for identifying sleep–wake states in mice. SLEEP. 46(6). 3 indexed citations

Ryan, Clodagh M., Sherri L. Katz, Indra Narang, et al.. (2023). The association between sleep quality and obstructive sleep apnea with health-related quality of life in children with obesity. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 19(11). 1877–1883. 3 indexed citations

Peever, John, et al.. (2021). Brain Circuits Underlying Narcolepsy. The Neuroscientist. 29(6). 751–766. 1 indexed citations

Fraigne, Jimmy J., et al.. (2017). GABA Cells in the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala Promote Cataplexy. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(15). 4007–4022. 32 indexed citations

Shiromani, Priyattam J. & John Peever. (2017). New neuroscience tools that are identifying the sleep-wake circuit. SLEEP. 13 indexed citations

Hirshkowitz, Max, Steven M. Albert, Cathy Alessi, et al.. (2015). National Sleep Foundation’s updated sleep duration recommendations: final report. Sleep Health. 1(4). 233–243. 1555 indexed citations breakdown →

Peever, John, et al.. (2014). Noradrenergic modulation of masseter muscle activity during natural rapid eye movement sleep requires glutamatergic signalling at the trigeminal motor nucleus. The Journal of Physiology. 592(16). 3597–3609. 9 indexed citations

Dauvilliers, Yves, et al.. (2014). Cataplexy—clinical aspects, pathophysiology and management strategy. Nature Reviews Neurology. 10(7). 386–395. 134 indexed citations

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Burgess, Christian R. & John Peever. (2013). A Noradrenergic Mechanism Functions to Couple Motor Behavior with Arousal State. Current Biology. 23(18). 1719–1725. 48 indexed citations

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Burgess, Christian R., Yo Oishi, Takatoshi Mochizuki, John Peever, & Thomas E. Scammell. (2013). Amygdala Lesions Reduce Cataplexy in Orexin Knock-Out Mice. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(23). 9734–9742. 88 indexed citations

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Duffin, James, et al.. (2010). Identification of a Novel Form of Noradrenergic-Dependent Respiratory Motor Plasticity Triggered by Vagal Feedback. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(50). 16886–16895. 24 indexed citations

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Peever, John, et al.. (2009). Sleep Loss Reduces Respiratory Motor Plasticity. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 669. 289–292. 10 indexed citations

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Kiyashchenko, Lyudmila I., Boris Y. Mileykovskiy, Nigel T. Maidment, et al.. (2002). Release of Hypocretin (Orexin) during Waking and Sleep States. Journal of Neuroscience. 22(13). 5282–5286. 259 indexed citations

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Peever, John, et al.. (2002). Respiratory pre-motor control of hypoglossal motoneurons in the rat. Neuroscience. 110(4). 711–722. 71 indexed citations

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Peever, John, Aleksandar Necakov, & James Duffin. (2001). Nucleus raphé obscurus modulates hypoglossal output of neonatal rat in vitro transverse brain stem slices. Journal of Applied Physiology. 90(1). 269–279. 29 indexed citations

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Tian, Guo-Feng, John Peever, & James Duffin. (1999). Mutual inhibition between Bötzinger-complex bulbospinal expiratory neurons detected with cross-correlation in the decerebrate rat. Experimental Brain Research. 125(4). 440–446. 20 indexed citations

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Tian, Guo-Feng, John Peever, & James Duffin. (1998). Bötzinger-complex expiratory neurons monosynaptically inhibit phrenic motoneurons in the decerebrate rat. Experimental Brain Research. 122(2). 149–156. 52 indexed citations

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Peever, John, Guo-Feng Tian, & James Duffin. (1998). Bilaterally independent respiratory rhythms in the decerebrate rat. Neuroscience Letters. 247(1). 41–44. 22 indexed citations

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Peever, John & Richard Stephenson. (1997). Day-night differences in the respiratory response to hypercapnia in awake adult rats. Respiration Physiology. 109(3). 241–248. 46 indexed citations

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