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Sara C. Mednick

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
7960
World Ranking
7801
National Ranking
3350

Sara C. Mednick 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 Sara C. Mednick sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 179 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Sara C. Mednick 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 Sara C. Mednick sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Sara C. Mednick is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Neuroscience, with significant contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Physiology.

Mednick's scholarly work addresses several core topics, including:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin

The scientist has published extensively, with notable papers such as:

  • The effect of zolpidem on memory consolidation over a night of sleep, 2020, SLEEP
  • Massive online data annotation, crowdsourcing to generate high quality sleep spindle annotations from EEG data, 2020, Scientific Data
  • The role of sleep for episodic memory consolidation: Stabilizing or rescuing?, 2022, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Age-related losses in cardiac autonomic activity during a daytime nap, 2020, Psychophysiology
  • Slow oscillations promote long-range effective communication: The key for memory consolidation in a broken-down network, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors working alongside Mednick include:

  • Katharine Simon
  • Lauren N. Whitehurst
  • Negin Sattari
  • Paola Malerba
  • Pin-Chun Chen

The scientist's research has been disseminated through multiple publication venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • SLEEP
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Brain stimulation

Best Publications

  • Sleep-dependent learning: a nap is as good as a night.

    Sara Mednick;Ken Nakayama;Robert Stickgold

  • REM, not incubation, improves creativity by priming associative networks

    Denise J. Cai;Sarnoff A. Mednick;Elizabeth M. Harrison;Jennifer C. Kanady

  • The neural basis of the psychomotor vigilance task.

    Sean P. A. Drummond;Amanda Bischoff-Grethe;Amanda Bischoff-Grethe;David F. Dinges;Liat Ayalon;Liat Ayalon

  • The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration.

    Sara C. Mednick;Ken Nakayama;Jose L. Cantero;Mercedes Atienza

  • Nighttime temperature and human sleep loss in a changing climate

    Nick Obradovich;Nick Obradovich;Robyn Migliorini;Robyn Migliorini;Sara C. Mednick;James H. Fowler

  • The Critical Role of Sleep Spindles in Hippocampal-Dependent Memory: A Pharmacology Study

    Sara C Mednick;Elizabeth A McDevitt;James K Walsh;James K Walsh;Erin J Wamsley

  • An opportunistic theory of cellular and systems consolidation.

    Sara C. Mednick;Denise J. Cai;Tristan Shuman;Stephan Anagnostaras

  • Human hippocampal replay during rest prioritizes weakly learned information and predicts memory performance

    Anna C. Schapiro;Elizabeth A. McDevitt;Timothy T. Rogers;Sara C. Mednick

  • Personality and healthy sleep: the importance of conscientiousness and neuroticism.

    Katherine A. Duggan;Howard S. Friedman;Elizabeth A. McDevitt;Sara C. Mednick

  • Comparing the benefits of caffeine, naps and placebo on verbal, motor and perceptual memory.

    Sara C. Mednick;Denise J. Cai;Jennifer Kanady;Sean P.A. Drummond

  • Synaptic clustering within dendrites: an emerging theory of memory formation.

    George Kastellakis;Denise J. Cai;Sara C. Mednick;Alcino J. Silva

  • Direct comparison of two actigraphy devices with polysomnographically recorded naps in healthy young adults.

    Nicola Cellini;Matthew P. Buman;Elizabeth A. McDevitt;Ashley A. Ricker

  • Pharmacologically increasing sleep spindles enhances recognition for negative and high-arousal memories

    Erik J. Kaestner;John T. Wixted;Sara C. Mednick

  • Coupling of Thalamocortical Sleep Oscillations Are Important for Memory Consolidation in Humans

    Mohammad Niknazar;Giri P. Krishnan;Maxim Bazhenov;Sara C. Mednick

  • The Road Not Taken Creative Solutions Require Avoidance of High-Frequency Responses

    Nitin Gupta;Yoonhee Jang;Sara C. Mednick;David E. Huber

  • Actigraphic assessment of a polysomnographic-recorded nap: a validation study.

    Jennifer C. Kanady;Sean P. A. Drummond;Sean P. A. Drummond;Sean P. A. Drummond;Sara C. Mednick;Sara C. Mednick

  • Sleep Benefits Memory for Semantic Category Structure While Preserving Exemplar-Specific Information

    Anna C. Schapiro;Elizabeth A. McDevitt;Lang Chen;Kenneth A. Norman

  • REM sleep rescues learning from interference.

    Elizabeth A. McDevitt;Katherine A. Duggan;Sara C. Mednick

  • The time course and specificity of perceptual deterioration.

    Sara C. Mednick;A. Cyrus Arman;Geoffrey M. Boynton

  • Sleep and rest facilitate implicit memory in a visual search task.

    S. C. Mednick;T. Makovski;D. J. Cai;Yuhong V Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicola Cellini
Nicola Cellini University of Padua
Sean P.A. Drummond
Sean P.A. Drummond Monash University
Maxim Bazhenov
Maxim Bazhenov University of California, San Diego
Geoffrey M. Boynton
Geoffrey M. Boynton University of Washington
Fiona C. Baker
Fiona C. Baker SRI International
Timothy T. Rogers
Timothy T. Rogers University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kenneth A. Norman
Kenneth A. Norman Princeton University
Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold Harvard Medical School
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University
Michael P. Weisend
Michael P. Weisend Mind Research Network

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