OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Brain Stimulation is 42. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Tuning the brakes – Modulatory role of transcranial random noise stimulation on inhibition	758133037
Disentangling EEG responses to TMS due to cortical and peripheral activations	121
Direct current stimulation boosts hebbian plasticity in vitro	98
Safety and tolerability of transcranial magnetic and direct current stimulation in children: Prospective single center evidence from 3.5 million stimulations	85
Repeated stimulation of the dorsolateral-prefrontal cortex improves executive dysfunctions and craving in drug addiction: A randomized, double-blind, parallel-group study	76
Large-scale analysis of interindividual variability in theta-burst stimulation data: Results from the ‘Big TMS Data Collaboration’	75
Electrical stimulation of cranial nerves in cognition and disease	75
Supervised transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) at home: A guide for clinical research and practice	73
Guidelines for TMS/tES clinical services and research through the COVID-19 pandemic	72
The effects of direct brain stimulation in humans depend on frequency, amplitude, and white-matter proximity	71
Transcranial direct current stimulation associated with physical-therapy in acute stroke patients - A randomized, triple blind, sham-controlled study	69
Sonication of the anterior thalamus with MRI-Guided transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) alters pain thresholds in healthy adults: A double-blind, sham-controlled study	68
Exposure to gamma tACS in Alzheimer’s disease: A randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled, crossover, pilot study	67
Modeling transcranial electrical stimulation in the aging brain	64
Ultrasonic thalamic stimulation in chronic disorders of consciousness	60
Stimulus frequency modulates brainstem response to respiratory-gated transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation	60
Clinical trials for deep brain stimulation: Current state of affairs	59
Cortical plasticity is correlated with cognitive improvement in Alzheimer’s disease patients after rTMS treatment	59
The impact of individual electrical fields and anatomical factors on the neurophysiological outcomes of tDCS: A TMS-MEP and MRI study	58
Transcranial ultrasound stimulation in humans is associated with an auditory confound that can be effectively masked	58
Targeting repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in depression: do we really know what we are stimulating and how best to do it?	57
Temporal interference stimulation targets deep brain regions by modulating neural oscillations	56
Induction of long-term potentiation-like plasticity in the primary motor cortex with repeated anodal transcranial direct current stimulation – Better effects with intensified protocols?	56
Transcranial electrical stimulation motor threshold can estimate individualized tDCS dosage from reverse-calculation electric-field modeling	55
Determination of anodal tDCS duration threshold for reversal of corticospinal excitability: An investigation for induction of counter-regulatory mechanisms	53

Histologic safety of transcranial focused ultrasound neuromodulation and magnetic resonance acoustic radiation force imaging in rhesus macaques and sheep	53
Quantitative estimation of nerve fiber engagement by vagus nerve stimulation using physiological markers	52
A visual and narrative timeline of US FDA milestones for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) devices	51
Reliability of targeting methods in TMS for depression: Beam F3 vs. 5.5 cm	51
LTP-like cortical plasticity predicts conversion to dementia in patients with memory impairment	51
Transcranial focused ultrasound, pulsed at 40 Hz, activates microglia acutely and reduces Aβ load chronically, as demonstrated in vivo	49
Transcranial random noise stimulation is more effective than transcranial direct current stimulation for enhancing working memory in healthy individuals: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence	48
Transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation with high spatial resolution	46
A novel tDCS sham approach based on model-driven controlled shunting	46
Enhancing cognitive training effects in Alzheimer’s disease: rTMS as an add-on treatment	46
Age-related differences of motor cortex plasticity in adults: A transcranial direct current stimulation study	45
Acute effects of adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s disease	45
Meta-analysis of the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on inhibitory control	44
Machine learning and individual variability in electric field characteristics predict tDCS treatment response	44
Pinging the brain with transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals cortical reactivity in time and space	44
Reproducibility of cortical response modulation induced by intermittent and continuous theta-burst stimulation of the human motor cortex	42
Sonothermogenetics for noninvasive and cell-type specific deep brain neuromodulation	42