2026 John O'Keefe: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	81	1537	1400	160	145	142	77942

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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

John O'Keefe is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and is a researcher active in the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering.

The primary research topics covered by John O'Keefe include:

Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Foot and Ankle Surgery
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
Neural dynamics and brain function
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

They have frequently published in the following venues:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics
Nature
Science
Current Biology

Recent notable publications include:

Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings, 2021, Science
Two Distinct Types of Eye-Head Coupling in Freely Moving Mice, 2020, Current Biology
Hippocampal place cells have goal-oriented vector fields during navigation, 2022, Nature
Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Do hippocampal pyramidal cells respond to nonspatial stimuli?, 2021, Physiological Reviews

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Marius Bauža
Chase Gauthier
J. Benjamin Jackson
Julija Krupic
Cristina Mazuski

John O'Keefe has received multiple awards throughout their career, including:

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

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