Sturla Molden

6.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
9 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Sturla Molden is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sturla Molden has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 1 paper in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sturla Molden's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (7 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (6 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (4 papers). Sturla Molden is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (7 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (6 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (4 papers). Sturla Molden collaborates with scholars based in Norway and Netherlands. Sturla Molden's co-authors include May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser, Marianne Fyhn, Torkel Hafting, Menno P. Witter, Stig Hollup, James G. Donnett, Vegard Heimly Brun, Johan F. Storm and Olve Moldestad and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Sturla Molden

9 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex 2002 2026 2010 2018 2005 2004 2002 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex
    2005 2.5k citations Torkel Hafting, Marianne Fyhn et al. Nature profile →
  2. Spatial Representation in the Entorhinal Cortex
    2004 883 citations Marianne Fyhn, Sturla Molden et al. Science profile →
  3. Place Cells and Place Recognition Maintained by Direct Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuitry
    2002 458 citations Vegard Heimly Brun, Sturla Molden et al. Science profile →

Peers

Sturla Molden
Robert U. Muller United States
Sidney I. Wiener France
Colin Lever United Kingdom
Étienne Save France
William E. Skaggs United States
Francesco P. Battaglia Netherlands
Paul A. Dudchenko United Kingdom
Kathryn J. Jeffery United Kingdom
RU Muller United States
Emma R. Wood United Kingdom
Robert U. Muller United States
Sturla Molden
Citations per year, relative to Sturla Molden Sturla Molden (= 1×) peers Robert U. Muller

Countries citing papers authored by Sturla Molden

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sturla Molden

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sturla Molden

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

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Molden, Sturla, Olve Moldestad, & Johan F. Storm. (2013). Estimating Extracellular Spike Waveforms from CA1 Pyramidal Cells with Multichannel Electrodes. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e82141–e82141. 2 indexed citations
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Moldestad, Olve, et al.. (2008). Tracheotomy improves experiment success rate in mice during urethane anesthesia and stereotaxic surgery. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 176(2). 57–62. 32 indexed citations
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Hafting, Torkel, Marianne Fyhn, Sturla Molden, May‐Britt Moser, & Edvard I Moser. (2005). Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Nature. 436(7052). 801–806. 2464 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fyhn, Marianne, Sturla Molden, Menno P. Witter, Edvard I Moser, & May‐Britt Moser. (2004). Spatial Representation in the Entorhinal Cortex. Science. 305(5688). 1258–1264. 883 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fyhn, Marianne, Sturla Molden, Stig Hollup, May‐Britt Moser, & Edvard I Moser. (2002). Hippocampal Neurons Responding to First-Time Dislocation of a Target Object. Neuron. 35(3). 555–566. 148 indexed citations
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Brun, Vegard Heimly, et al.. (2002). Place Cells and Place Recognition Maintained by Direct Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuitry. Science. 296(5576). 2243–2246. 458 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hollup, Stig, Sturla Molden, James G. Donnett, May‐Britt Moser, & Edvard I Moser. (2001). Place fields of rat hippocampal pyramidal cells and spatial learning in the watermaze. European Journal of Neuroscience. 13(6). 1197–1208. 44 indexed citations
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Hollup, Stig, Sturla Molden, James G. Donnett, May‐Britt Moser, & Edvard I Moser. (2001). Accumulation of Hippocampal Place Fields at the Goal Location in an Annular Watermaze Task. Journal of Neuroscience. 21(5). 1635–1644. 307 indexed citations
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Molden, Sturla, et al.. (2000). Activity of hippocampal pyramidal cells during retrieval of spatial memory in a water-maze. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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