Rick Wassing

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Rick Wassing is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Rick Wassing has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 9 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Rick Wassing's work include Sleep and related disorders (24 papers), Sleep and Wakefulness Research (21 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (9 papers). Rick Wassing is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and related disorders (24 papers), Sleep and Wakefulness Research (21 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (9 papers). Rick Wassing collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Australia and United States. Rick Wassing's co-authors include Eus J.W. Van Someren, Jennifer R. Ramautar, Diederick Stoffers, Jeroen S. Benjamins, Frans Schalkwijk, Tessa F. Blanken, Oti Lakbila‐Kamal, Kim Dekker, Yishul Wei and Jeanne Leerssen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physiological Reviews and Nature reviews. Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Rick Wassing

31 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Insomnia disorder: State of the science and challenges for the future

2022 186 citations Dieter Riemann, Fee Benz et al. Journal of Sleep Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rick Wassing Netherlands	17	915	874	385	99	73	32	1.2k
Katja Valli Finland	24	725 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	158 0.4×	130 1.3×	64 0.9×	68	1.4k
Lukas B. Krone United Kingdom	10	483 0.5×	572 0.7×	209 0.5×	98 1.0×	58 0.8×	22	947
Ruth L F Leong Singapore	16	595 0.7×	549 0.6×	114 0.3×	79 0.8×	98 1.3×	35	912
Anna S. Urrila Finland	16	427 0.5×	340 0.4×	194 0.5×	65 0.7×	85 1.2×	32	707
Kathleen L. Benson United States	19	812 0.9×	852 1.0×	263 0.7×	90 0.9×	78 1.1×	33	1.2k
Adam Krause United States	5	483 0.5×	542 0.6×	180 0.5×	58 0.6×	95 1.3×	6	889
Yuki Motomura Japan	13	445 0.5×	341 0.4×	155 0.4×	82 0.8×	63 0.9×	33	731
Scott Coussens Australia	13	493 0.5×	441 0.5×	138 0.4×	58 0.6×	69 0.9×	34	818
Michael H. Wiegand Germany	19	792 0.9×	875 1.0×	411 1.1×	105 1.1×	59 0.8×	43	1.4k
Kristine A. Wilckens United States	13	430 0.5×	466 0.5×	138 0.4×	32 0.3×	102 1.4×	26	682

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rick Wassing

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Suraev, Anastasia, Iain S. McGregor, Danielle McCartney, et al.. (2025). Acute Effects of Oral Cannabinoids on Sleep and High‐Density EEG in Insomnia: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial. Journal of Sleep Research. 35(1). e70124–e70124. 1 indexed citations

Phillips, Craig L., et al.. (2025). Moderately strong intraclass correlations between actigraphic and polysomnographic total sleep time and sleep efficiency in older adults with sleep disturbance. Sleep And Breathing. 29(2). 161–161.

Chen, Peng, Kai Wang, Rick Wassing, et al.. (2025). Neural correlates of insomnia with depression and anxiety from a neuroimaging perspective: A systematic review. Sleep Medicine Reviews. 81. 102093–102093. 5 indexed citations

Adelhöfer, Nico, Alejandra Alonso, Luciana Besedovsky, et al.. (2025). Hacking the functions of sleep: noninvasive approaches to stimulate sleep neurophysiology. Physiological Reviews. 106(2). 675–749. 1 indexed citations

Poe, Gina R., et al.. (2024). Overnight neuronal plasticity and adaptation to emotional distress. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 25(4). 253–271. 28 indexed citations

Blanken, Tessa F., Siemon C. de Lange, Jeanne Leerssen, et al.. (2024). Insomnia Subtypes Have Differentiating Deviations in Brain Structural Connectivity. Biological Psychiatry. 97(3). 302–312. 10 indexed citations

Gordon, Christopher J., Camilla M. Hoyos, Rick Wassing, et al.. (2023). Heart rate variability during slow wave sleep is linked to functional connectivity in the central autonomic network. Brain Communications. 5(3). fcad129–fcad129. 10 indexed citations

Schalkwijk, Frans, et al.. (2023). From childhood trauma to hyperarousal in adults: The mediating effect of maladaptive shame coping and insomnia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 17. 990581–990581. 3 indexed citations

Cox, Roy, Lara Rösler, Frederik D. Weber, et al.. (2023). The first‐night effect and the consistency of short sleep in insomnia disorder. Journal of Sleep Research. 33(1). e13897–e13897. 6 indexed citations

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Aarab, Ghizlane, Yishul Wei, Tessa F. Blanken, et al.. (2023). Associations between signs of sleep bruxism and insomnia: A polysomnographic study. Journal of Sleep Research. 32(4). e13827–e13827. 9 indexed citations

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Riemann, Dieter, Fee Benz, Raphael J. Dressle, et al.. (2022). Insomnia disorder: State of the science and challenges for the future. Journal of Sleep Research. 31(4). e13604–e13604. 186 indexed citations breakdown →

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D’Rozario, A, Nicole Lovato, Rick Wassing, et al.. (2021). Insomnia subtypes characterised by objective sleep duration and NREM spectral power and the effect of acute sleep restriction: an exploratory analysis. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 18 indexed citations

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Wei, Yishul, et al.. (2019). Brain structural connectivity network alterations in insomnia disorder reveal a central role of the right angular gyrus. NeuroImage Clinical. 24. 102019–102019. 20 indexed citations

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Marshall, Nathaniel S., Roo Killick, Tea Lallukka, et al.. (2019). Magnesium supplementation for the treatment of restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder: A systematic review. Sleep Medicine Reviews. 48. 101218–101218. 20 indexed citations

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Wassing, Rick, Oti Lakbila‐Kamal, Jennifer R. Ramautar, et al.. (2019). Restless REM Sleep Impedes Overnight Amygdala Adaptation. Current Biology. 29(14). 2351–2358.e4. 116 indexed citations

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Blanken, Tessa F., Jeroen S. Benjamins, Denny Borsboom, et al.. (2019). Insomnia disorder subtypes derived from life history and traits of affect and personality. The Lancet Psychiatry. 6(2). 151–163. 129 indexed citations

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Christensen, Julie Anja Engelhard, Rick Wassing, Yishul Wei, et al.. (2019). Data-Driven Analysis of EEG Reveals Concomitant Superficial Sleep During Deep Sleep in Insomnia Disorder. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13. 598–598. 26 indexed citations

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Schalkwijk, Frans, Eus J.W. Van Someren, & Rick Wassing. (2018). A clinical interpretation of shame regulation in maladaptive perfectionism. Personality and Individual Differences. 138. 19–23. 5 indexed citations

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Colombo, Michele, Jennifer R. Ramautar, Yishul Wei, et al.. (2016). Wake High-Density Electroencephalographic Spatiospectral Signatures of Insomnia. SLEEP. 39(5). 1015–1027. 55 indexed citations

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Benjamins, Jeroen S., Filippo Migliorati, Kim Dekker, et al.. (2016). Insomnia heterogeneity: Characteristics to consider for data-driven multivariate subtyping. Sleep Medicine Reviews. 36. 71–81. 121 indexed citations

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