Till Roenneberg

27.4k total citations · 9 hit papers
187 papers, 17.7k citations indexed

About

Till Roenneberg is a scholar working on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Till Roenneberg has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 17.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, 82 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 52 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Till Roenneberg's work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (126 papers), Sleep and related disorders (74 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (46 papers). Till Roenneberg is often cited by papers focused on Circadian rhythm and melatonin (126 papers), Sleep and related disorders (74 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (46 papers). Till Roenneberg collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Till Roenneberg's co-authors include Martha Merrow, Céline Vetter, Anna Wirz‐Justice, Karla V. Allebrandt, Marc Wittmann, Myriam Juda, Thomas Kantermann, F. Foster, Marijke C. M. Gordijn and Eva C. Winnebeck and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Till Roenneberg

184 papers receiving 17.3k 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.

Life between Clocks: Daily Temporal Patterns of Human Chronotypes

2003 1.9k citations Till Roenneberg, Martha Merrow et al. profile →
Social Jetlag: Misalignment of Biological and Social Time

2006 1.9k citations Martha Merrow, Till Roenneberg et al. Chronobiology International profile →
Epidemiology of the human circadian clock

2007 1.1k citations Till Roenneberg, Myriam Juda et al. Sleep Medicine Reviews profile →
Social Jetlag and Obesity

2012 1.0k citations Till Roenneberg, Karla V. Allebrandt et al. Current Biology profile →
The Circadian Clock and Human Health

2016 662 citations Till Roenneberg, Martha Merrow Current Biology profile →
Chronotype and Social Jetlag: A (Self-) Critical Review

2019 462 citations Till Roenneberg, Luísa K. Pilz et al. profile →
Chronotypes in the US – Influence of age and sex

2017 364 citations Dorothee Fischer, Till Roenneberg et al. profile →
Recommendations for daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure to best support physiology, sleep, and wakefulness in healthy adults

2022 301 citations Timothy M. Brown, George C. Brainard et al. PLoS Biology profile →
The importance of sleep regularity: a consensus statement of the National Sleep Foundation sleep timing and variability panel

2023 92 citations Tracey L. Sletten, Matthew D. Weaver et al. Sleep Health profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Till Roenneberg

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Relaxation of social time pressure reveals tight coupling between daily sleep and eating behavior and extends the interval between last and first meal 2025 ·SLEEP ·Maria Korman, Claudia Fleischmann, (unknown), Cátia Reis, Yoko Komada, Denis Gubin, Vinod Kumar, Shingo Kitamura, Till Roenneberg	1
2	Con: sleep is a credit card, not a piggy bank 2025 ·SLEEP ·Elizabeth B. Klerman, Siobhan Banks, Till Roenneberg	1
3	Recommendations for daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure to best support physiology, sleep, and wakefulness in healthy adults breakdown → 2022 ·PLoS Biology ·Timothy M. Brown, George C. Brainard, Christian Cajochen, Charles A. Czeisler, John P. Hanifin, Steven W. Lockley, Robert J. Lucas, Mirjam Münch, John O’Hagan, Stuart N. Peirson, Luke Price, Till Roenneberg, Luc J. M. Schlangen, Debra J. Skene, Manuel Spitschan, Céline Vetter, Phyllis C. Zee, Kenneth P. Wright	301
4	Validation of the Munich Actimetry Sleep Detection Algorithm for estimating sleep–wake patterns from activity recordings 2021 ·Journal of Sleep Research ·(unknown), (unknown), Cátia Reis, Teresa Paiva, (unknown), Luísa K. Pilz, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Till Roenneberg, Eva C. Winnebeck	12
5	Adverse impact of polyphasic sleep patterns in humans: Report of the National Sleep Foundation sleep timing and variability consensus panel 2021 ·Sleep Health ·Matthew D. Weaver, Tracey L. Sletten, F. Foster, David Gozal, Elizabeth B. Klerman, Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, Till Roenneberg, Joseph S. Takahashi, Fred W. Turek, Michael V. Vitiello, Michael W. Young, Charles A. Czeisler	17
6	Social jetlag, a novel predictor for high cardiovascular risk in blue‐collar workers following permanent atypical work schedules 2021 ·Journal of Sleep Research ·(unknown), Cátia Reis, Teresa Paiva, (unknown), Paulo Nogueira, Till Roenneberg	22
7	<strong>Recommendations for Healthy Daytime, Evening, and Night-Time Indoor Light Exposure</strong> 2020 ·Preprints.org ·Timothy M. Brown, George C. Brainard, Christian Cajochen, Charles A. Czeisler, John P. Hanifin, Steven W. Lockley, Robert J. Lucas, Mirjam Münch, John O’Hagan, Stuart N. Peirson, Luke Price, Till Roenneberg, (unknown), Debra J. Skene, Manuel Spitschan, Céline Vetter, Phyllis C. Zee, Kenneth P. Wright	32
8	Chronotype and Social Jetlag - a (self-)critical review 2019 ·Preprints.org ·Till Roenneberg, Luísa K. Pilz, Giulia Zerbini, Eva C. Winnebeck	83
9	Time to rethink sleep quality: PSQI scores reflect sleep quality on workdays 2018 ·SLEEP ·Luísa K. Pilz, Lena Katharina Keller, (unknown), Till Roenneberg	119
10	Human Activity and Rest In Situ 2015 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Till Roenneberg, Lena Katharina Keller, Dorothee Fischer, (unknown), Céline Vetter, Eva C. Winnebeck	137
11	Aligning Work and Circadian Time in Shift Workers Improves Sleep and Reduces Circadian Disruption 2015 ·Current Biology ·Céline Vetter, Dorothee Fischer, (unknown), Till Roenneberg	204
12	The effect of environmental light levels on chronotype 2012 ·Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) ·Kate Porcheret, Katharina Wulff, Till Roenneberg, F. Foster	0
13	The Influence of Internal Time, Time Awake, and Sleep Duration on Cognitive Performance in Shiftworkers 2012 ·Chronobiology International ·Céline Vetter, Myriam Juda, Till Roenneberg	63
14	Blue-enriched office light competes with natural light as a zeitgeber 2011 ·Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health ·Céline Vetter, Myriam Juda, Dieter Lang, (unknown), Till Roenneberg	53
15	A circadian clock in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), G. Mazzotta, (unknown), (unknown), Till Roenneberg, Martha Merrow	53
16	Epidemiology of the human circadian clock breakdown → 2007 ·Sleep Medicine Reviews ·Till Roenneberg, (unknown), Myriam Juda, Thomas Kantermann, Karla V. Allebrandt, Marijke C. M. Gordijn, Martha Merrow	1148
17	Bright light to alleviate shift work : a field study 2006 ·Journal of Sleep Research ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Martha Merrow, Till Roenneberg	1
18	The right place at the right time: regulation of daily timing by phosphorylation 2006 ·Genes & Development ·Martha Merrow, G. Mazzotta, Zheng Chen, Till Roenneberg	33
19	Cellular Clocks: Coupled Circadian and Cell Division Cycles 2004 ·Current Biology ·Martha Merrow, Till Roenneberg	17
20	Circadian Clocks 2001 ·Cell ·Martha Merrow, Till Roenneberg	38

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