Raphaël Vallat

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Raphaël Vallat is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Raphaël Vallat has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 3 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Raphaël Vallat's work include Sleep and related disorders (19 papers), Sleep and Wakefulness Research (19 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (4 papers). Raphaël Vallat is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and related disorders (19 papers), Sleep and Wakefulness Research (19 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (4 papers). Raphaël Vallat collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Raphaël Vallat's co-authors include Matthew P. Walker, Perrine Ruby, Eti Ben Simon, Christopher M. Barnes, Alain Nicolas, David Meunier, Vyoma D. Shah, Jean‐Baptiste Eichenlaub, Tarek Lajnef and Karim Jerbi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Raphaël Vallat

26 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Pingouin: statistics in Python 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2021 250 500 750
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. Pingouin: statistics in Python
    2018 931 citations Raphaël Vallat The Journal of Open Source Software profile →
  2. An open-source, high-performance tool for automated sleep staging
    2021 159 citations Raphaël Vallat, Matthew P. Walker profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Raphaël Vallat United States 17 878 571 137 129 121 27 1.7k
Martin Weygandt Germany 17 521 0.6× 278 0.5× 72 0.5× 95 0.7× 172 1.4× 44 1.5k
Arto C. Nirkko Switzerland 23 752 0.9× 184 0.3× 94 0.7× 141 1.1× 325 2.7× 58 1.9k
Haoqi Sun United States 22 980 1.1× 343 0.6× 106 0.8× 385 3.0× 51 0.4× 100 1.7k
Philipp G. Sämann Germany 31 1.7k 1.9× 667 1.2× 144 1.1× 140 1.1× 600 5.0× 71 3.0k
Ki‐Young Jung South Korea 33 1.1k 1.3× 334 0.6× 221 1.6× 233 1.8× 119 1.0× 184 3.6k
Matthew Brown United States 27 1.1k 1.2× 148 0.3× 81 0.6× 144 1.1× 161 1.3× 54 2.2k
Rui Yan China 24 761 0.9× 448 0.8× 87 0.6× 94 0.7× 397 3.3× 131 1.7k
Jussi Virkkala Finland 27 840 1.0× 789 1.4× 242 1.8× 314 2.4× 36 0.3× 81 2.3k
Jianfeng Feng China 25 639 0.7× 384 0.7× 77 0.6× 371 2.9× 189 1.6× 122 2.2k
Xiang Wang China 27 566 0.6× 390 0.7× 28 0.2× 126 1.0× 184 1.5× 114 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Raphaël Vallat

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Fields of papers citing papers by Raphaël Vallat

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raphaël Vallat

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Willoughby, Adrian R., Raphaël Vallat, Ju Lynn Ong, & Michael W.L. Chee. (2025). Insights about travel-related sleep disruption from 1.5 million nights of data. SLEEP. 48(7). 1 indexed citations
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Zavecz, Zsófia, Vyoma D. Shah, Raphaël Vallat, et al.. (2023). NREM sleep as a novel protective cognitive reserve factor in the face of Alzheimer's disease pathology. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 156–156. 36 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël, Vyoma D. Shah, & Matthew P. Walker. (2023). Coordinated human sleeping brainwaves map peripheral body glucose homeostasis. Cell Reports Medicine. 4(7). 101100–101100. 15 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël, Başak Türker, Alain Nicolas, & Perrine Ruby. (2022). High Dream Recall Frequency is Associated with Increased Creativity and Default Mode Network Connectivity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8 indexed citations
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Simon, Eti Ben, et al.. (2022). Sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies. PLoS Biology. 20(8). e3001733–e3001733. 22 indexed citations
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Krause, Adam, Raphaël Vallat, Eti Ben Simon, & Matthew P. Walker. (2022). Sleep Loss Influences the Interconnected Brain-Body Regulation of Cardiovascular Function in Humans. Psychosomatic Medicine. 85(1). 34–41. 6 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël, Sarah Berry, Neli Tsereteli, et al.. (2022). How people wake up is associated with previous night’s sleep together with physical activity and food intake. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7116–7116. 7 indexed citations
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Tsereteli, Neli, Raphaël Vallat, Juan Fernández‐Tajes, et al.. (2021). Impact of insufficient sleep on dysregulated blood glucose control under standardised meal conditions. Diabetologia. 65(2). 356–365. 39 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël, et al.. (2021). Sleep parameters improvement in PTSD soldiers after symptoms remission. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 8873–8873. 6 indexed citations
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Simon, Eti Ben, Raphaël Vallat, Christopher M. Barnes, & Matthew P. Walker. (2020). Sleep Loss and the Socio-Emotional Brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 24(6). 435–450. 150 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël, Vyoma D. Shah, Susan Redline, Peter Attia, & Matthew P. Walker. (2020). Broken sleep predicts hardened blood vessels. PLoS Biology. 18(6). e3000726–e3000726. 35 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël, Alain Nicolas, & Perrine Ruby. (2020). Brain functional connectivity upon awakening from sleep predicts interindividual differences in dream recall frequency. SLEEP. 43(12). 18 indexed citations
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Plailly, Jane, et al.. (2019). Incorporation of fragmented visuo-olfactory episodic memory into dreams and its association with memory performance. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 15687–15687. 23 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël & Perrine Ruby. (2019). Is It a Good Idea to Cultivate Lucid Dreaming?. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 2585–2585. 20 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël, David Meunier, Alain Nicolas, & Perrine Ruby. (2018). Hard to wake up? The cerebral correlates of sleep inertia assessed using combined behavioral, EEG and fMRI measures. NeuroImage. 184. 266–278. 56 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël, Jean‐Baptiste Eichenlaub, Alain Nicolas, & Perrine Ruby. (2018). Dream Recall Frequency Is Associated With Medial Prefrontal Cortex White-Matter Density. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 1856–1856. 19 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël. (2018). Pingouin: statistics in Python. The Journal of Open Source Software. 3(31). 1026–1026. 931 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vallat, Raphaël, et al.. (2017). Characteristics of the memory sources of dreams: A new version of the content-matching paradigm to take mundane and remote memories into account. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0185262–e0185262. 39 indexed citations
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Vallat, Raphaël, Tarek Lajnef, Jean‐Baptiste Eichenlaub, et al.. (2017). Increased Evoked Potentials to Arousing Auditory Stimuli during Sleep: Implication for the Understanding of Dream Recall. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 11. 132–132. 33 indexed citations
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Combrisson, Etienne, Raphaël Vallat, Jean‐Baptiste Eichenlaub, et al.. (2017). Sleep: An Open-Source Python Software for Visualization, Analysis, and Staging of Sleep Data. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 11. 60–60. 28 indexed citations

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