Yoram Burak

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Yoram Burak is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoram Burak has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yoram Burak's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (16 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (11 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers). Yoram Burak is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (16 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (11 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers). Yoram Burak collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and France. Yoram Burak's co-authors include Ila Fiete, David Andelman, Ted Brookings, Boris I. Shraiman, Haim Sompolinsky, Gil Ariel, Richard J. Gardner, May‐Britt Moser, Edvard I Moser and Nils A. Baas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yoram Burak

31 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Toroidal topology of population activity in grid cells
    2022 172 citations Richard J. Gardner, Yoram Burak et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yoram Burak Israel 21 1.1k 716 207 187 144 31 1.7k
Geoffrey D. Lewen United States 11 1.2k 1.1× 687 1.0× 357 1.7× 52 0.3× 266 1.8× 16 1.7k
B.J. Frost United States 32 1.7k 1.6× 900 1.3× 575 2.8× 48 0.3× 31 0.2× 85 3.5k
David Pfau United States 11 406 0.4× 375 0.5× 136 0.7× 28 0.1× 81 0.6× 26 1.4k
Rina Hildesheim Israel 15 2.0k 1.8× 1.8k 2.5× 367 1.8× 24 0.1× 136 0.9× 19 2.9k
Michael R. DeWeese United States 25 1.8k 1.7× 916 1.3× 158 0.8× 59 0.3× 372 2.6× 53 2.6k
James R. Cavanaugh United States 23 2.1k 1.9× 650 0.9× 484 2.3× 59 0.3× 79 0.5× 56 2.9k
Johannes D. Seelig Germany 9 471 0.4× 1.1k 1.6× 214 1.0× 15 0.1× 84 0.6× 21 1.7k
Naama Brenner Israel 19 979 0.9× 628 0.9× 514 2.5× 12 0.1× 156 1.1× 46 1.7k
Hirokazu Takahashi Japan 24 1.1k 1.0× 697 1.0× 146 0.7× 30 0.2× 488 3.4× 175 2.5k
Marco Idiart Brazil 22 1.6k 1.5× 952 1.3× 187 0.9× 16 0.1× 120 0.8× 68 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yoram Burak

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yoram Burak

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yoram Burak. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yoram Burak. The network helps show where Yoram Burak may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yoram Burak

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Silveira, Rava Azeredo da, et al.. (2025). Universal statistics of hippocampal place fields across species and dimensionalities. Neuron. 113(7). 1110–1120.e3. 2 indexed citations
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Gardner, Richard J., et al.. (2022). Grid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity is dissociated from external sensory cues. Neuron. 110(11). 1843–1856.e6. 22 indexed citations
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Joshua, Mati, et al.. (2022). Fixational drift is driven by diffusive dynamics in central neural circuitry. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1697–1697. 5 indexed citations
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Aljadeff, Johnatan, et al.. (2021). Locally ordered representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortex. Nature. 596(7872). 404–409. 57 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram, et al.. (2017). Slow diffusive dynamics in a chaotic balanced neural network. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(5). e1005505–e1005505. 4 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram, et al.. (2017). An efficient coding theory for a dynamic trajectory predicts non-uniform allocation of entorhinal grid cells to modules. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(6). e1005597–e1005597. 15 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram, et al.. (2016). Shaping Neural Circuits by High Order Synaptic Interactions. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(8). e1005056–e1005056. 26 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram. (2014). Spatial coding and attractor dynamics of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 25. 169–175. 23 indexed citations
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Ali, Farhan, et al.. (2013). The Basal Ganglia Is Necessary for Learning Spectral, but Not Temporal, Features of Birdsong. Neuron. 80(2). 494–506. 90 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram, Uri Rokni, Markus Meister, & Haim Sompolinsky. (2010). Bayesian model of dynamic image stabilization in the visual system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(45). 19525–19530. 47 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram & Boris I. Shraiman. (2009). Order and Stochastic Dynamics in Drosophila Planar Cell Polarity. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(12). e1000628–e1000628. 53 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram & Ila Fiete. (2009). Accurate Path Integration in Continuous Attractor Network Models of Grid Cells. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(2). e1000291–e1000291. 455 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram, Sam Lewallen, & Haim Sompolinsky. (2009). Stimulus-Dependent Correlations in Threshold-Crossing Spiking Neurons. Neural Computation. 21(8). 2269–2308. 27 indexed citations
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Fiete, Ila, Yoram Burak, & Ted Brookings. (2008). What Grid Cells Convey about Rat Location. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(27). 6858–6871. 169 indexed citations
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Kanduč, Matej, Martin Trulsson, Ali Naji, et al.. (2008). Weak- and strong-coupling electrostatic interactions between asymmetrically charged planar surfaces. Physical Review E. 78(6). 61105–61105. 35 indexed citations
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Welinder, Peter, Yoram Burak, & Ila Fiete. (2008). Grid cells: The position code, neural network models of activity, and the problem of learning. Hippocampus. 18(12). 1283–1300. 58 indexed citations
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Thattai, Mukund, Yoram Burak, & Boris I. Shraiman. (2007). The Origins of Specificity in Polyketide Synthase Protein Interactions. PLoS Computational Biology. 3(9). e186–e186. 39 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram & Henri Orland. (2006). Manning condensation in two dimensions. Physical Review E. 73(1). 10501–10501. 13 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram, David Andelman, & Henri Orland. (2004). Test-charge theory for the electric double layer. Physical Review E. 70(1). 16102–16102. 31 indexed citations
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Burak, Yoram, Gil Ariel, & David Andelman. (2003). Onset of DNA Aggregation in Presence of Monovalent and Multivalent Counterions. Biophysical Journal. 85(4). 2100–2110. 74 indexed citations

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