John O'Keefe

John O'Keefe publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John O'Keefe sits on this spectrum.

John O'Keefe D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John O'Keefe sits on this spectrum.

Research.com Recognitions

• 2020 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
• 2018 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
• 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2014 - Kavli Prize, The Kavli Foundation for the discovery of specialized brain networks for memory and cognition
• 2014 - Nobel Prize for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain
• 2008 - Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
• 2006 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
• 1992 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
• 1967 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Best Publications

• The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map

  John O'Keefe;Lynn Nadel

  16324
  Citations

• The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat

  J. O'Keefe;J. Dostrovsky

  8569
  Citations

• Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions.

  R. G. M. Morris;P. Garrud;J. N. P. Rawlins;J. O'Keefe

  7881
  Citations

• Phase relationship between hippocampal place units and the EEG theta rhythm

  John O'Keefe;Michael L. Recce

  3743
  Citations

• The Human Hippocampus and Spatial and Episodic Memory

  Neil Burgess;Eleanor A Maguire;John O'Keefe

  3085
  Citations

• Place units in the hippocampus of the freely moving rat

  John O'Keefe

  2604
  Citations

• Fully integrated silicon probes for high-density recording of neural activity

  James J Jun;Nicholas A Steinmetz;Nicholas A Steinmetz;Nicholas A Steinmetz;Joshua H Siegle;Daniel J Denman

  2302
  Citations

• Knowing Where and Getting There: A Human Navigation Network

  Eleanor A. Maguire;Neil Burgess;James G. Donnett;Richard S. J. Frackowiak

  1711
  Citations

• The Hippocampus Book

  Per Andersen

  1695
  Citations

• Geometric determinants of the place fields of hippocampal neurons

  John O'Keefe;Neil Burgess

  1486
  Citations

• Hippocampal place units in the freely moving rat: why they fire where they fire.

  J O'Keefe;D H Conway

  1399
  Citations

• The contributions of position, direction, and velocity to single unit activity in the hippocampus of freely-moving rats.

  B. L. McNaughton;C. A. Barnes;J. O'Keefe

  1257
  Citations

• Single unit activity in the rat hippocampus during a spatial memory task

  J. O'Keefe;A. Speakman

  1068
  Citations

• Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings

  Nicholas A. Steinmetz;Nicholas A. Steinmetz;Cagatay Aydin;Anna Lebedeva;Michael Okun;Michael Okun

  1016
  Citations

• Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

  Colin Lever;Stephen Burton;Ali Jeewajee;John O'Keefe

  882
  Citations

• An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing.

  Neil Burgess;Caswell Barry;John O'Keefe

  862
  Citations

• Attractor dynamics in the hippocampal representation of the local environment.

  Tom J. Wills;Colin Lever;Francesca Cacucci;Neil Burgess

  811
  Citations

• A review of the hippocampal place cells.

  John O'Keefe

  757
  Citations

• Development of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Preweanling Rats

  Tom J. Wills;Francesca Cacucci;Neil Burgess;John O'Keefe

  717
  Citations

• Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells

  John Huxter;Neil Burgess;John O'Keefe

  704
  Citations