Joshua Jacobs

9.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Joshua Jacobs is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Jacobs has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Joshua Jacobs's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (40 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (37 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (24 papers). Joshua Jacobs is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (40 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (37 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (24 papers). Joshua Jacobs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Israel. Joshua Jacobs's co-authors include Michael J. Kahana, Itzhak Fried, Bradley Lega, Jeremy R. Manning, Michael R. Sperling, Jonathan Miller, John F. Burke, Arne D. Ekstrom, Ashwini Sharan and Andrew J. Watrous and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Jacobs

60 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Broadband Shifts in Local Field Potential Power Spectra Are Correlated with Single-Neuron Spiking in Humans

2009 673 citations Jeremy R. Manning, Joshua Jacobs et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua Jacobs United States	35	4.5k	2.0k	266	232	222	62	5.1k
Francesco P. Battaglia Netherlands	31	5.9k 1.3×	3.4k 1.7×	457 1.7×	99 0.4×	366 1.6×	80	6.8k
Kadharbatcha S. Saleem United States	27	4.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	426 1.6×	315 1.4×	259 1.2×	46	5.4k
Jeremy B. Caplan Canada	24	3.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	378 1.4×	63 0.3×	172 0.8×	80	4.5k
Shintaro Funahashi Japan	32	5.9k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	459 1.7×	214 0.9×	408 1.8×	111	6.9k
Elizabeth A. Buffalo United States	33	3.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	204 0.8×	64 0.3×	251 1.1×	61	4.3k
J Pauls Germany	8	5.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	355 1.3×	246 1.1×	338 1.5×	21	6.4k
Sidney I. Wiener France	32	4.6k 1.0×	3.5k 1.8×	246 0.9×	68 0.3×	568 2.6×	64	5.5k
Zoltán Nádasdy United States	22	5.0k 1.1×	4.0k 2.0×	203 0.8×	166 0.7×	252 1.1×	42	6.5k
Carl R. Olson United States	41	5.0k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	543 2.0×	175 0.8×	302 1.4×	84	6.0k
Chantal E. Stern United States	44	5.4k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	496 1.9×	433 1.9×	562 2.5×	104	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Joshua Jacobs

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua Jacobs

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jacobs, Joshua, et al.. (2025). Temporally resolved analyses of aperiodic features track neural dynamics during sleep. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 160–160. 1 indexed citations

Brandt, Armin, et al.. (2025). Theta-phase locking of single neurons during human spatial memory. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7402–7402. 1 indexed citations

Zabeh, Erfan, et al.. (2025). Cholinergic blockade reveals a role for human hippocampal theta in memory encoding but not retrieval. eLife.

Maidenbaum, Shachar, Václav Křemen, Kai J. Miller, et al.. (2025). Improved spatial memory for physical versus virtual navigation. Journal of Neural Engineering. 22(4). 46014–46014.

Kunz, Lukas, Bernhard P. Staresina, Peter C. Reinacher, et al.. (2024). Ripple-locked coactivity of stimulus-specific neurons and human associative memory. Nature Neuroscience. 27(3). 587–599. 18 indexed citations

Donoghue, Thomas, et al.. (2023). spiketools: a Python package for analyzing single-unitneural activity. The Journal of Open Source Software. 8(91). 5268–5268. 2 indexed citations

Qasim, Salman E., et al.. (2023). Acetylcholine modulates the temporal dynamics of human theta oscillations during memory. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5283–5283. 20 indexed citations

Umbach, Gray, et al.. (2022). Flexibility of functional neuronal assemblies supports human memory. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6162–6162. 9 indexed citations

Kunz, Lukas, Armin Brandt, Peter C. Reinacher, et al.. (2021). A neural code for egocentric spatial maps in the human medial temporal lobe. Neuron. 109(17). 2781–2796.e10. 52 indexed citations

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Umbach, Gray, Pranish A. Kantak, Joshua Jacobs, et al.. (2020). Time cells in the human hippocampus and entorhinal cortex support episodic memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(45). 28463–28474. 113 indexed citations

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Watrous, Andrew J., Jonathan Miller, Bradley Lega, et al.. (2020). The effects of direct brain stimulation in humans depend on frequency, amplitude, and white-matter proximity. Brain stimulation. 13(5). 1183–1195. 70 indexed citations

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Maidenbaum, Shachar, Jonathan Miller, Joel M. Stein, & Joshua Jacobs. (2018). Grid-like hexadirectional modulation of human entorhinal theta oscillations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(42). 10798–10803. 34 indexed citations

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Bahramisharif, Ali, Ole Jensen, Joshua Jacobs, & John Lisman. (2018). Serial representation of items during working memory maintenance at letter-selective cortical sites. PLoS Biology. 16(8). e2003805–e2003805. 79 indexed citations

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Lee, Sang Ah, Jonathan Miller, Andrew J. Watrous, et al.. (2018). Electrophysiological Signatures of Spatial Boundaries in the Human Subiculum. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(13). 3265–3272. 48 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hui & Joshua Jacobs. (2015). Traveling Theta Waves in the Human Hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(36). 12477–12487. 114 indexed citations

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Burke, John F., Maxwell B. Merkow, Joshua Jacobs, Michael J. Kahana, & Kareem A. Zaghloul. (2015). Brain computer interface to enhance episodic memory in human participants. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 1055–1055. 35 indexed citations

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Burke, John F., Ashwin G. Ramayya, Joshua Jacobs, et al.. (2014). Methods for implantation of micro-wire bundles and optimization of single/multi-unit recordings from human mesial temporal lobe. Journal of Neural Engineering. 11(2). 26013–26013. 38 indexed citations

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Miller, Jonathan, Markus Neufang, Alec Solway, et al.. (2013). Neural Activity in Human Hippocampal Formation Reveals the Spatial Context of Retrieved Memories. Science. 342(6162). 1111–1114. 235 indexed citations

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Manning, Jeremy R., Joshua Jacobs, Itzhak Fried, & Michael J. Kahana. (2009). Broadband Shifts in Local Field Potential Power Spectra Are Correlated with Single-Neuron Spiking in Humans. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(43). 13613–13620. 673 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jacobs, Joshua & Michael J. Kahana. (2009). Neural Representations of Individual Stimuli in Humans Revealed by Gamma-Band Electrocorticographic Activity. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(33). 10203–10214. 87 indexed citations

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