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Citations
63900
World Ranking
333
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Neil Burgess is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and focuses primarily on environmental science. Their research spans several subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, economics and econometrics, management, monitoring, policy and law, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics covered in their work include conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, land use and ecosystem services, economic and environmental valuation, wildlife ecology and conservation, forest management and policy, species distribution and climate change, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Frequent coauthors in Neil Burgess's research include Piero Visconti, Arnout van Soesbergen, James Watson, Naomi Kingston, and Samantha L. L. Hill. The concentration of collaboration indicates a network of scholars working across related environmental and conservation themes.

Their recent published papers offer insights into major topics and appear in notable journals and venues:

  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy, 2020, Nature
  • Protected Planet Report 2014, 2021, Issue Lab (Candid)
  • Importance of Indigenous Peoples' lands for the conservation of Intact Forest Landscapes, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability, 2020, Science
  • Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Neil Burgess frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Sustainability, Nature, and the Annual Review of Environment and Resources. These outlets reflect ongoing contributions to high-impact and interdisciplinary fields.

Among the distinctions received by Neil Burgess are fellowships with the Royal Society, United Kingdom, awarded in 2017, and the Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom. These honors represent recognition within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • The Human Hippocampus and Spatial and Episodic Memory

    Neil Burgess;Eleanor A Maguire;John O'Keefe

  • Knowing Where and Getting There: A Human Navigation Network

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

  • The hippocampus and memory: insights from spatial processing.

    Chris M. Bird;Neil Burgess

  • Intrusive Images in Psychological Disorders: Characteristics, Neural Mechanisms, and Treatment Implications

    Chris R. Brewin;James D. Gregory;Michelle Lipton;Neil Burgess

  • Geometric determinants of the place fields of hippocampal neurons

    John O'Keefe;Neil Burgess

  • Remembering the past and imagining the future: a neural model of spatial memory and imagery

    Patrick Byrne;Suzanna Becker;Neil Burgess

  • Memory for serial order: A network model of the phonological loop and its timing

    Neil Burgess;Graham J. Hitch

  • Spatial memory: how egocentric and allocentric combine

    Neil Burgess

  • The Well-Worn Route and the Path Less Traveled: Distinct Neural Bases of Route Following and Wayfinding in Humans

    Tom Hartley;Eleanor A. Maguire;Hugo J. Spiers;Neil Burgess

  • Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network

    Christian F. Doeller;Caswell Barry;Neil Burgess

  • Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

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

  • An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing.

    Neil Burgess;Caswell Barry;John O'Keefe

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

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

  • Development of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Preweanling Rats

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

  • Spatial cognition and the brain.

    Neil Burgess

  • Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells

    John Huxter;Neil Burgess;John O'Keefe

  • Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids

    Caswell Barry;Robin Hayman;Neil Burgess;Kathryn J Jeffery

  • Dual phase and rate coding in hippocampal place cells: theoretical significance and relationship to entorhinal grid cells.

    John O'Keefe;Neil Burgess

  • A Temporoparietal and Prefrontal Network for Retrieving the Spatial Context of Lifelike Events

    Neil Burgess;Eleanor A. Maguire;Hugo J. Spiers;John O'Keefe

  • Parallel striatal and hippocampal systems for landmarks and boundaries in spatial memory

    Christian F. Doeller;John A. King;Neil Burgess

Frequent Co-Authors

John O'Keefe
John O'Keefe University College London
Caswell Barry
Caswell Barry University College London
Christian F. Doeller
Christian F. Doeller Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Eleanor A. Maguire
Eleanor A. Maguire University College London
Hugo J. Spiers
Hugo J. Spiers University College London
Chris R. Brewin
Chris R. Brewin University College London
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem University College London
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Graham J. Hitch
Graham J. Hitch University of York

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