Sean Hill

9.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Sean Hill is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Hill has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sean Hill's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (26 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (11 papers). Sean Hill is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (26 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (11 papers). Sean Hill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Sean Hill's co-authors include Giulio Tononi, Reto Huber, Fabio Ferrarelli, Marcello Massimini, Steve K. Esser, Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Chiara Cirelli, Idan Segev and Robert Kreber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sean Hill

65 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Sleep Slow Oscillation as a Traveling Wave

2004 859 citations Marcello Massimini, Reto Huber 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
Sean Hill United States	25	2.6k	1.6k	642	424	395	68	3.8k
Sooyoung Chung South Korea	28	2.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	235 0.6×	724 1.8×	63	4.4k
Ádám Kepecs United States	38	5.0k 1.9×	3.2k 2.0×	168 0.3×	277 0.7×	1.1k 2.7×	65	6.8k
Jacob Reimer United States	19	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	91 0.1×	159 0.4×	479 1.2×	27	3.4k
Matthew Wilson United States	27	3.9k 1.5×	3.1k 1.9×	277 0.4×	370 0.9×	550 1.4×	55	5.1k
Kenneth Knoblauch France	31	3.8k 1.5×	759 0.5×	117 0.2×	401 0.9×	441 1.1×	117	4.9k
Petra E. Vértes United Kingdom	33	3.5k 1.3×	476 0.3×	179 0.3×	741 1.7×	587 1.5×	62	5.0k
Xiangmin Xu United States	33	2.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.4×	171 0.3×	77 0.2×	1.2k 3.0×	123	4.2k
C. Daniel Salzman United States	29	4.2k 1.6×	1.7k 1.1×	103 0.2×	517 1.2×	423 1.1×	41	5.0k
Nicholas A. Steinmetz United States	28	3.5k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	111 0.2×	188 0.4×	283 0.7×	47	4.0k
Adriano B. L. Tort Brazil	38	4.8k 1.8×	3.5k 2.2×	344 0.5×	183 0.4×	850 2.2×	99	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Sean Hill

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean Hill

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Hill

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

All Works

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Momi, Davide, Sara Parmigiani, Ezequiel Mikulan, et al.. (2025). Stimulation mapping and whole-brain modeling reveal gradients of excitability and recurrence in cortical networks. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3222–3222. 5 indexed citations

Hartley, Nolan D., Ryan J. Kast, Guoping Feng, et al.. (2025). Biophysical modeling of thalamic reticular nucleus subpopulations and their differential contribution to spindle dynamics. iScience. 28(9). 113393–113393. 1 indexed citations

Zomorrodi, Reza, et al.. (2025). Identifying causal neural oscillations underlying working memory. Cerebral Cortex. 35(2). 2 indexed citations

Abdi, Hervé, Colin Hawco, Aristotle N. Voineskos, et al.. (2024). Comparing the stability and reproducibility of brain-behavior relationships found using canonical correlation analysis and partial least squares within the ABCD sample. Network Neuroscience. 8(2). 576–596. 4 indexed citations

Maslej, Marta M., et al.. (2023). Out with AI, in with the psychiatrist: a preference for human-derived clinical decision support in depression care. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 210–210. 9 indexed citations

Zhukovsky, Peter, Milos Milic, Michael Wainberg, et al.. (2023). Opposing brain signatures of sleep in task-based and resting-state conditions. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7927–7927. 6 indexed citations

Harding, Rachel, Patrick Bermudez, Alexander Bernier, et al.. (2023). The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform—An open science framework for the neuroscience community. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(7). e1011230–e1011230. 4 indexed citations

Maslej, Marta M., Gillian Strudwick, Katrina Hui, et al.. (2023). Predictive care: a protocol for a computational ethnographic approach to building fair models of inpatient violence in emergency psychiatry. BMJ Open. 13(4). e069255–e069255. 2 indexed citations

Gillespie, Tom, et al.. (2022). The Neuron Phenotype Ontology: A FAIR Approach to Proposing and Classifying Neuronal Types. Neuroinformatics. 20(3). 793–809. 9 indexed citations

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O’Reilly, Christian, et al.. (2021). Rodent somatosensory thalamocortical circuitry: Neurons, synapses, and connectivity. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 126. 213–235. 16 indexed citations

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Wainberg, Michael, Samuel E. Jones, Sean Hill, et al.. (2021). Association of accelerometer-derived sleep measures with lifetime psychiatric diagnoses: A cross-sectional study of 89,205 participants from the UK Biobank. PLoS Medicine. 18(10). e1003782–e1003782. 38 indexed citations

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Eke, Damian, Amy Bernard, Jan G. Bjaalie, et al.. (2021). International data governance for neuroscience. Neuron. 110(4). 600–612. 41 indexed citations

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Fu, Rui, Nicholas Mitsakakis, Tara Elton‐Marshall, et al.. (2021). Machine learning applications in tobacco research: a scoping review. Tobacco Control. 32(1). 99–109. 32 indexed citations

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Hatch, Robert J., Christian Rössert, Samuel F. Berkovic, et al.. (2020). GABA-mediated tonic inhibition differentially modulates gain in functional subtypes of cortical interneurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(6). 3192–3202. 36 indexed citations

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Shi, Ying, Christian O’Reilly, Werner Van Geit, et al.. (2019). Experimentally-constrained biophysical models of tonic and burst firing modes in thalamocortical neurons. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(5). e1006753–e1006753. 24 indexed citations

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Shillcock, Julian C., et al.. (2016). Reconstructing the brain: from image stacks to neuron synthesis. Brain Informatics. 3(4). 205–209. 5 indexed citations

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Friston, Karl, et al.. (2015). Brain Informatics and Health: 8th International Conference, BIH 2015, London, UK, August 30 - September 2, 2015. Proceedings. UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations

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Hawrylycz, Michael, Jane Roskams, Sean Hill, et al.. (2015). BigNeuron: Large-Scale 3D Neuron Reconstruction from Optical Microscopy Images. Neuron. 87(2). 252–256. 152 indexed citations

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Amunts, Katrin, Michael Hawrylycz, David C. Van Essen, et al.. (2014). Interoperable atlases of the human brain. NeuroImage. 99. 525–532. 59 indexed citations

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Massimini, Marcello, Reto Huber, Fabio Ferrarelli, Sean Hill, & Giulio Tononi. (2004). The Sleep Slow Oscillation as a Traveling Wave. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(31). 6862–6870. 859 indexed citations breakdown →

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