Robert Stickgold

19.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
152 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Robert Stickgold is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Stickgold has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 85 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 19 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Robert Stickgold's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (122 papers), Sleep and related disorders (79 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (48 papers). Robert Stickgold is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (122 papers), Sleep and related disorders (79 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (48 papers). Robert Stickgold collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Israel. Robert Stickgold's co-authors include Matthew P. Walker, J. Allan Hobson, Edward F. Pace‐Schott, Roar Fosse, Dara S. Manoach, Erin J. Wamsley, Ken Nakayama, Sara C. Mednick, Magdalena J. Fosse and Jessica D. Payne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert Stickgold

145 papers receiving 12.4k 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.

Sleep-dependent memory consolidation

2005 1.2k citations Robert Stickgold profile →
Sleep-Dependent Learning and Memory Consolidation

2004 706 citations Robert Stickgold et al. profile →
Coupled electrophysiological, hemodynamic, and cerebrospinal fluid oscillations in human sleep

2019 683 citations Nina E. Fultz, Giorgio Bonmassar et al. Science profile →
Sleep, Learning, and Dreams: Off-line Memory Reprocessing

2001 535 citations Robert Stickgold et al. Science profile →
Visual discrimination learning requires sleep after training

2000 519 citations Robert Stickgold et al. profile →
Sleep-dependent memory triage: evolving generalization through selective processing

2013 449 citations Robert Stickgold et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Stickgold United States	56	10.0k	6.0k	2.3k	1.8k	726	152	12.9k
Philippe Peigneux Belgium	53	8.1k 0.8×	3.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	230	11.0k
Matthew P. Walker United States	67	14.2k 1.4×	9.5k 1.6×	2.5k 1.1×	2.9k 1.6×	1.7k 2.3×	136	19.8k
Luigi De Gennaro Italy	55	7.3k 0.7×	5.9k 1.0×	704 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	779 1.1×	267	11.3k
Reto Huber Switzerland	53	10.2k 1.0×	3.9k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	3.0k 1.7×	869 1.2×	192	13.8k
Pierre Maquet Belgium	88	17.3k 1.7×	5.8k 1.0×	3.3k 1.4×	2.8k 1.6×	2.6k 3.6×	356	23.6k
Kevin Murphy United Kingdom	58	8.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 1.8×	174	13.7k
Peter Achermann Switzerland	63	9.3k 0.9×	5.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	3.6k 2.0×	488 0.7×	204	13.2k
Michèle Ferrara Italy	55	6.5k 0.7×	5.3k 0.9×	612 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	768 1.1×	200	10.0k
Bernd Feige Germany	61	9.7k 1.0×	9.0k 1.5×	734 0.3×	2.9k 1.6×	1.9k 2.6×	284	15.1k
J. Allan Hobson United States	63	16.5k 1.6×	8.0k 1.3×	3.9k 1.7×	5.3k 3.0×	982 1.4×	206	21.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Stickgold

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Carr, Michelle, et al.. (2025). Targeted dream incubation and dream self-efficacy. SLEEP Advances. 6(2). zpaf013–zpaf013.

Stickgold, Robert, et al.. (2024). The lack of thematic continuity in dreams with scene and plot discontinuities. SLEEP Advances. 6(1). zpae093–zpae093.

Denis, Dan, et al.. (2024). Sleep and retrieval practice both strengthen and distort story recollection. SLEEP Advances. 5(1). zpae083–zpae083. 1 indexed citations

Maski, Kiran, Dimitrios Mylonas, Grace Wang, et al.. (2024). Impaired sleep-dependent memory consolidation in pediatric narcolepsy type 1. SLEEP. 48(2). 1 indexed citations

Baxter, Bryan, Dimitrios Mylonas, Lin Zhu, et al.. (2023). The effects of closed-loop auditory stimulation on sleep oscillatory dynamics in relation to motor procedural memory consolidation. SLEEP. 46(10). 7 indexed citations

Maes, Pattie, et al.. (2023). Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset increases post-sleep creative performance. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 7319–7319. 17 indexed citations

Cunningham, Tony J., Eric C. Fields, Dan Denis, et al.. (2022). How the 2020 US Presidential election impacted sleep and its relationship to public mood and alcohol consumption. Sleep Health. 8(6). 571–579. 6 indexed citations

Stokes, Patrick A., et al.. (2022). Transient oscillation dynamics during sleep provide a robust basis for electroencephalographic phenotyping and biomarker identification. SLEEP. 46(1). 15 indexed citations

Cunningham, Tony J., et al.. (2022). The Effect of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Sleep-dependent Emotional Memory Consolidation. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 20(2). 296–306. 9 indexed citations

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Mylonas, Dimitrios, Bengi Baran, Charmaine Demanuele, et al.. (2020). The effects of eszopiclone on sleep spindles and memory consolidation in schizophrenia: a randomized clinical trial. Neuropsychopharmacology. 45(13). 2189–2197. 44 indexed citations

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Mylonas, Dimitrios, William G. Coon, Bengi Baran, et al.. (2019). Naps reliably estimate nocturnal sleep spindle density in health and schizophrenia. Journal of Sleep Research. 29(5). e12968–e12968. 17 indexed citations

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Baran, Bengi, F. Işık Karahanoğlu, Dimitrios Mylonas, et al.. (2019). Increased Thalamocortical Connectivity in Schizophrenia Correlates With Sleep Spindle Deficits: Evidence for a Common Pathophysiology. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 4(8). 706–714. 57 indexed citations

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Murphy, Michael, Robert Stickgold, & Döst Öngür. (2019). Electroencephalogram Microstate Abnormalities in Early-Course Psychosis. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 5(1). 35–44. 53 indexed citations

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Fultz, Nina E., Giorgio Bonmassar, Kawin Setsompop, et al.. (2019). Coupled electrophysiological, hemodynamic, and cerebrospinal fluid oscillations in human sleep. Science. 366(6465). 628–631. 683 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schapiro, Anna C., et al.. (2019). The hippocampus is necessary for the consolidation of a task that does not require the hippocampus for initial learning. Hippocampus. 29(11). 1091–1100. 61 indexed citations

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Cox, Roy, Anna C. Schapiro, & Robert Stickgold. (2018). Variability and stability of large-scale cortical oscillation patterns. Network Neuroscience. 2(4). 481–512. 13 indexed citations

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Payne, Jessica D., Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Erin J. Wamsley, et al.. (2015). Napping and the selective consolidation of negative aspects of scenes.. Emotion. 15(2). 176–186. 94 indexed citations

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Sano, Akane, Rosalind W. Picard, & Robert Stickgold. (2014). Quantitative analysis of wrist electrodermal activity during sleep. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Stickgold, Robert & Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen. (2010). Actividad cerebral durante el sueño. 56–63.

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Stickgold, Robert. (2008). Sleep-Dependent Memory Processing and EMDR Action. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. 2(4). 289–299. 37 indexed citations

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