Neil Burgess

58.0k total citations · 22 hit papers
361 papers, 38.9k citations indexed

About

Neil Burgess is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil Burgess has authored 361 papers receiving a total of 38.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 208 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 103 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 52 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Neil Burgess's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (181 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (99 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (47 papers). Neil Burgess is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (181 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (99 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (47 papers). Neil Burgess collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Neil Burgess's co-authors include John O’Keefe, Eleanor A. Maguire, Caswell Barry, Tom T. Hartley, Chris M. Bird, Christian F. Doeller, John A. King, Graham J. Hitch, Colin Lever and Francesca Cacucci and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Neil Burgess

351 papers receiving 37.6k 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.

Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth

2001 6.2k citations Neil Burgess, Emma C. Underwood et al. profile →
The Human Hippocampus and Spatial and Episodic Memory

2002 1.8k citations Neil Burgess, John O’Keefe et al. profile →
Knowing Where and Getting There: A Human Navigation Network

1998 1.0k citations Neil Burgess, Chris Frith et al. profile →
The hippocampus and memory: insights from spatial processing

2008 921 citations Neil Burgess et al. profile →
Intrusive images in psychological disorders: Characteristics, neural mechanisms, and treatment implications.

2010 820 citations Neil Burgess et al. profile →
Geometric determinants of the place fields of hippocampal neurons

1996 781 citations John O’Keefe, Neil Burgess profile →
Remembering the past and imagining the future: A neural model of spatial memory and imagery.

2007 676 citations Neil Burgess et al. profile →
The Well-Worn Route and the Path Less Traveled

2003 624 citations Tom T. Hartley, Neil Burgess et al. profile →
Memory for serial order: A network model of the phonological loop and its timing.

1999 617 citations Neil Burgess et al. profile →
Spatial memory: how egocentric and allocentric combine

2006 556 citations Neil Burgess profile →
Differential influences of environment and self-motion on place and grid cell firing

2019 517 citations John A. King, Francesca Cacucci et al. Nature Communications profile →
Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network

2010 509 citations Caswell Barry, Neil Burgess et al. profile →
An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing

2007 493 citations Neil Burgess, Caswell Barry et al. Hippocampus profile →
Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

2009 467 citations Colin Lever, John O’Keefe et al. profile →
Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells

2003 423 citations Neil Burgess, John O’Keefe et al. profile →
Attractor Dynamics in the Hippocampal Representation of the Local Environment

2005 422 citations Thomas J. Wills, Colin Lever et al. profile →
A Temporoparietal and Prefrontal Network for Retrieving the Spatial Context of Lifelike Events

2001 416 citations Neil Burgess, John O’Keefe et al. profile →
Development of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Preweanling Rats

2010 393 citations Thomas J. Wills, Francesca Cacucci et al. profile →
Dual phase and rate coding in hippocampal place cells: Theoretical significance and relationship to entorhinal grid cells

2005 379 citations John O’Keefe, Neil Burgess Hippocampus profile →
Space in the brain: how the hippocampal formation supports spatial cognition

2013 319 citations Tom T. Hartley, Colin Lever et al. profile →
The Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine: Unifying Space and Relational Memory through Generalization in the Hippocampal Formation

2020 264 citations Caswell Barry, Neil Burgess et al. profile →
How vision and movement combine in the hippocampal place code

2012 235 citations John A. King, Neil Burgess et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	An update to the global Critical Habitat screening layer 2025 ·Scientific Data ·Sebastian Dunnett, (unknown), (unknown), Joseph A. Turner, Neil Burgess, (unknown), Sharon E. Brooks	0
2	A generative model of memory construction and consolidation 2024 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·(unknown), Neil Burgess	22
3	Anatomo‐functional changes in neural substrates of cognitive memory in developmental amnesia: Insights from automated and manual Magnetic Resonance Imaging examinations 2024 ·Hippocampus ·Loïc J. Chareyron, W.K. Chong, Tina Banks, Neil Burgess, Richard C. Saunders, Faraneh Vargha‐Khadem	2
4	Environment geometry alters subiculum boundary vector cell receptive fields in adulthood and early development 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Laurenz Muessig, (unknown), Tale L. Bjerknes, (unknown), Caswell Barry, Neil Burgess, Edvard I Moser, May‐Britt Moser, Francesca Cacucci, Thomas J. Wills	8
5	Entorhinal‐based path integration selectively predicts midlife risk of Alzheimer's disease 2024 ·Alzheimer s & Dementia ·(unknown), (unknown), Catarina Rua, Richard N. Henson, (unknown), Neil Burgess, Christopher T. Rodgers, Matthias Stangl, Maria‐Eleni Dounavi, (unknown), Ivan Koychev, Paresh Malhotra, Thomas Wolbers, Karen Ritchie, Craig Ritchie, John T. O’Brien, Li Su, Dennis Chan	12
6	Augmented Reality as a Potential Tool for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Pilot Study 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), K. Rudzka, Neil Burgess, Dennis Chan, Xueni Pan	2
7	Assessing mild cognitive impairment using object‐location memory in immersive virtual environments 2022 ·Hippocampus ·(unknown), David Howett, (unknown), Elizabeth Harding, Dennis Chan, Neil Burgess, John A. King	19
8	The effects of seaward distance on above and below ground carbon stocks in estuarine mangrove ecosystems 2020 ·Carbon Balance and Management ·(unknown), Aida Cuní‐Sanchez, (unknown), Deo D. Shirima, Pantaleo Munishi, Neil Burgess, Kim Calders, Rob Marchant	19
9	Identifying global centers of unsustainable commercial harvesting of species 2019 ·Science Advances ·Enrico Di Minin, Thomas M. Brooks, Tuuli Toivonen, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Vuokko Heikinheimo, James Watson, Neil Burgess, Daniel W. S. Challender, Bárbara Goettsch, (unknown), Atte Moilanen	66
10	Differentiation of mild cognitive impairment using an entorhinal cortex-based test of virtual reality navigation 2019 ·Brain ·David Howett, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Richard N. Henson, Miguel Rio, John A. King, Neil Burgess, Dennis Chan	141
11	Global screening for Critical Habitat in the terrestrial realm 2018 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), (unknown), S.C. Blyth, Leon Bennun, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Michael Hoffmann, Neil Burgess, Annabelle Cuttelod, (unknown), (unknown), John D. Pilgrim, (unknown), Emma C. Underwood, Lauren V. Weatherdon, Sharon E. Brooks	25
12	Tanzania’s second Nature Reserve: improving the conservation status of the Udzungwa Mountains? 2007 ·USC Research Bank (University of the Sunshine Coast) ·Andrew R. Marshall, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Neil Burgess, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Francesco Rovero, (unknown)	7
13	Separation of hippocampal versus striatal memory systems for locations defined by boundaries versus single landmarks 2006 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), (unknown), Neil Burgess	1
14	Abrupt shift in hippocampal place cell representation from square-like to circle-like in a morph box 2004 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Francesca Cacucci, Colin Lever, Neil Burgess, (unknown)	2
15	Effect of unilateral temporal lobectomy on topographical and episodic memory in a large-scale virtual reality town. 2000 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Neil Burgess, (unknown), (unknown), Tom T. Hartley, John O’Keefe	1
16	Squaring the circle: place fields do not "remap" between environments which differ only in shape 1999 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Colin Lever, Francesca Cacucci, Neil Burgess, (unknown)	1
17	The saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis in Vietnam – new information on distribution and habitat preferences, and conservation needs 1997 ·Oryx ·(unknown), (unknown), Neil Burgess, (unknown)	10
18	The saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis in Vietnam – new information on distribution and habitat preferences, and conservation needs 1997 ·Oryx ·(unknown), (unknown), Neil Burgess, (unknown)	5
19	Differential involvement of right hippocampus, left hippocampus and inferior parietal cortex in human spatial navigation 1997 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Neil Burgess, (unknown), Chris Frith, (unknown)	2
20	Path testing of MOS circuits 1985 ·ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) ·R.I. Damper, Neil Burgess	1

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