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Sean P.A. Drummond

Sean P.A. Drummond

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
11847
World Ranking
4780
National Ranking
269

Neuroscience

D-Index
53
Citations
11892
World Ranking
5060
National Ranking
141

Sean P.A. Drummond publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sean P.A. Drummond sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 199 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Sean P.A. Drummond D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sean P.A. Drummond sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sean P.A. Drummond is affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to sleep, including sleep and related disorders, sleep and wakefulness research, and sleep and work-related fatigue. Further areas of investigation include circadian rhythm and melatonin, obstructive sleep apnea research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, and physical activity and health.

Sean P.A. Drummond has authored numerous recent papers, with some notable examples being:

  • Performance of seven consumer sleep-tracking devices compared with polysomnography, 2020, published in SLEEP
  • Sleep and mental health in athletes during COVID-19 lockdown, 2021, published in SLEEP
  • We know CBT-I works, now what?, 2022, published in Faculty Reviews
  • Effects of orexin receptor antagonism on human sleep architecture: A systematic review, 2020, published in Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • Improving perinatal sleep via a scalable cognitive behavioural intervention: findings from a randomised controlled trial from pregnancy to 2 years postpartum, 2021, published in Psychological Medicine

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, Elise R. Facer-Childs, Johanna M. Boardman, Bei Bei, and Luis Mascaro.

Sean P.A. Drummond's research has been published in various specialized venues, with a concentration in:

  • SLEEP Advances
  • SLEEP
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Journal of Sleep Research
  • Sleep Medicine Reviews

Best Publications

  • Altered brain response to verbal learning following sleep deprivation

    Sean P. A. Drummond;Gregory G. Brown;Gregory G. Brown;J. Christian Gillin;J. Christian Gillin;John L. Stricker

  • 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

  • Who Are the Long Sleepers? Towards an Understanding of the Mortality Relationship

    Michael A. Grandner;Sean P.A. Drummond

  • The Effects of Total Sleep Deprivation on Cerebral Responses to Cognitive Performance

    Sean P A Drummond;Gregory G Brown

  • Sleep deprivation-induced reduction in cortical functional response to serial subtraction.

    Sean Drummond;Gregory Brown;John Stricker;Richard Buxton

  • 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

  • Performance of seven consumer sleep-tracking devices compared with polysomnography.

    Evan D Chinoy;Joseph A Cuellar;Kirbie E Huwa;Jason T Jameson

  • Functional MRI of inhibitory processing in abstinent adolescent marijuana users

    Susan F. Tapert;Susan F. Tapert;Alecia D. Schweinsburg;Sean P. A. Drummond;Sean P. A. Drummond;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus

  • Effects of two nights sleep deprivation and two nights recovery sleep on response inhibition.

    Sean P. A. Drummond;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus;Susan F. Tapert

  • Increased cerebral response during a divided attention task following sleep deprivation

    Sean P. A. Drummond;J. Christian Gillin;Gregory G. Brown

  • The effects of one night of sleep deprivation on known-risk and ambiguous-risk decisions.

    Benjamin S. Mckenna;David L. Dickinson;Henry J. Orff;Henry J. Orff;Sean P. A. Drummond;Sean P. A. Drummond

  • The Sleep of Abstinent Pure Primary Alcoholic Patients: Natural Course and Relationship to Relapse

    Sean P.A. Drummond;Sean P.A. Drummond;J. Christian Gillin;Tom L. Smith;Anna DeModena

  • Increasing task difficulty facilitates the cerebral compensatory response to total sleep deprivation

    Sean P A Drummond;Sean P A Drummond;Gregory G Brown;Gregory G Brown;Jennifer S Salamat;J Christian Gillin;J Christian Gillin

  • Traumatic brain injury and sleep disturbance: a review of current research.

    Henry J. Orff;Liat Ayalon;Sean P. A. Drummond

  • Compensatory recruitment after sleep deprivation and the relationship with performance

    Sean P.A. Drummond;Sean P.A. Drummond;M.J. Meloy;M.J. Meloy;Matthew A. Yanagi;Henry J. Orff;Henry J. Orff

  • 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

  • Wearable Technologies for Developing Sleep and Circadian Biomarkers: A Summary of Workshop Discussions.

    Christopher M Depner;Philip C Cheng;Jaime K Devine;Seema Khosla

  • Neural correlates of working memory performance in primary insomnia.

    Sean Patrick Andrews Drummond;Matthew P Walker;Erin L Almklov;Manuel Campos

  • Discrepancy Between Subjective Symptomatology and Objective Neuropsychological Performance in Insomnia

    Henry J. Orff;Henry J. Orff;Sean P. A. Drummond;Sean P. A. Drummond;Sara Nowakowski;Sara Nowakowski;Michael L. Perlis

  • Treating nightmares and insomnia in posttraumatic stress disorder: A review of current evidence

    Carla M. Nappi;Sean P.A. Drummond;Joshua M.H. Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Clare Anderson
Clare Anderson University of Leicester
Gregory G. Brown
Gregory G. Brown University of California, San Diego
Bei Bei
Bei Bei Monash University
Sonya B. Norman
Sonya B. Norman University of California, San Diego
Peter J. Norton
Peter J. Norton Monash University
Sara C. Mednick
Sara C. Mednick University of California, Irvine
J. Christian Gillin
J. Christian Gillin University of California, San Diego
Victoria B. Risbrough
Victoria B. Risbrough University of California, San Diego
Daniel Hoyer
Daniel Hoyer University of Melbourne
Sonia Ancoli-Israel
Sonia Ancoli-Israel University of California, San Diego

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