Ahmad Alhourani

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 728 citations indexed

About

Ahmad Alhourani is a scholar working on Neurology, Surgery and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ahmad Alhourani has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 728 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Neurology, 15 papers in Surgery and 14 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ahmad Alhourani's work include Neurological disorders and treatments (16 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (8 papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (5 papers). Ahmad Alhourani is often cited by papers focused on Neurological disorders and treatments (16 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (8 papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (5 papers). Ahmad Alhourani collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bulgaria and Canada. Ahmad Alhourani's co-authors include Beatrice Ugiliweneza, Mayur Sharma, Dengzhi Wang, Maxwell Boakye, Doniel Drazin, Nicholas Dietz, Miriam Nuño, R. Mark Richardson, Thomas A. Wozny and Witold Lipski and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, NeuroImage and Brain.

In The Last Decade

Ahmad Alhourani

34 papers receiving 721 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) for Spine Surgery: A Systematic Review

2019 211 citations Nicholas Dietz, Mayur Sharma et al. World Neurosurgery profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ahmad Alhourani United States	14	306	263	196	174	139	39	728
Hari H. Dash India	17	323 1.1×	352 1.3×	54 0.3×	121 0.7×	108 0.8×	58	870
Joshua P. Prager United States	18	502 1.6×	149 0.6×	76 0.4×	63 0.4×	285 2.1×	26	1.2k
John Paul G. Kolcun United States	13	510 1.7×	156 0.6×	54 0.3×	79 0.5×	340 2.4×	50	772
Ramsis F. Ghaly United States	15	371 1.2×	218 0.8×	42 0.2×	47 0.3×	176 1.3×	49	701
Xavier Paqueron France	20	664 2.2×	51 0.2×	114 0.6×	50 0.3×	115 0.8×	39	1.1k
Kathryn K. Lauer United States	15	126 0.4×	101 0.4×	271 1.4×	93 0.5×	24 0.2×	32	614
Stefan Braune Germany	10	113 0.4×	104 0.4×	54 0.3×	69 0.4×	78 0.6×	19	447
Teena Shetty United States	15	446 1.5×	119 0.5×	62 0.3×	27 0.2×	130 0.9×	31	787
Eldad Hadar United States	13	119 0.4×	81 0.3×	223 1.1×	162 0.9×	114 0.8×	29	697
Michael F. Shriver United States	10	488 1.6×	121 0.5×	160 0.8×	166 1.0×	399 2.9×	13	833

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Alhourani, Ahmad, et al.. (2025). Trends in Thalamic Stereoelectroencephalography Utilization During Phase II Monitoring in North America: A Survey. Operative Neurosurgery. 30(2). 219–223. 1 indexed citations

Wylie, Scott A., Ahmad Alhourani, Ajmal Zemmar, et al.. (2025). Theta and beta power in the subthalamic nucleus respond to conflict across subregion and hemisphere. Brain Communications. 7(1). fcaf021–fcaf021.

Alhourani, Ahmad, et al.. (2025). Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Bilateral Centromedian Nucleus Neuromodulation for Multifocal and Generalized Epilepsy. Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface.

Alhourani, Ahmad, et al.. (2024). Coagulopathy in Penetrating Ballistic Cranial Trauma: A 7-Year Experience. Neurosurgery. 95(5). 1186–1190.

Harvin, John A., Hansen Deng, David O. Okonkwo, et al.. (2024). Absence of July effect on trauma outcomes at the start of the academic medical calendar. Trauma. 27(1). 33–38.

Alhourani, Ahmad, et al.. (2022). Developing Predictor Models of Postoperative Verbal Fluency After Deep Brain Stimulation Using Preoperative Neuropsychological Assessment. Neurosurgery. 91(2). 256–262. 3 indexed citations

Dietz, Nicholas, Mayur Sharma, Ahmad Alhourani, et al.. (2021). Preoperative and Postoperative Opioid Dependence in Patients Undergoing Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion for Degenerative Spinal Disorders. Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A Central European Neurosurgery. 82(3). 232–240. 4 indexed citations

Bush, Alan, Anna Chrabaszcz, Ahmad Alhourani, et al.. (2021). Articulatory Gain Predicts Motor Cortex and Subthalamic Nucleus Activity During Speech. Cerebral Cortex. 32(7). 1337–1349. 6 indexed citations

Alhourani, Ahmad, Zaid Aljuboori, Mehran Yusuf, et al.. (2019). Management trends for anaplastic meningioma with adjuvant radiotherapy and predictors of long-term survival. Neurosurgical FOCUS. 46(6). E4–E4. 8 indexed citations

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Sharma, Mayur, Nicholas Dietz, Ahmad Alhourani, et al.. (2019). Insights into complication rates, reoperation rates, and healthcare utilization associated with use of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein–2 in patients with spine infections. Neurosurgical FOCUS. 46(1). E8–E8. 13 indexed citations

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Dietz, Nicholas, Mayur Sharma, Ahmad Alhourani, et al.. (2019). Outcomes of decompression and fusion for treatment of spinal infection. Neurosurgical FOCUS. 46(1). E7–E7. 25 indexed citations

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Dietz, Nicholas, Mayur Sharma, Shawn W Adams, et al.. (2019). Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) for Spine Surgery: A Systematic Review. World Neurosurgery. 130. 415–426. 211 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alhourani, Ahmad, Kenneth N. Fish, Thomas A. Wozny, et al.. (2019). GABA bouton subpopulations in the human dentate gyrus are differentially altered in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Journal of Neurophysiology. 123(1). 392–406. 17 indexed citations

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Farber, Harrison W., Michael M. McDowell, Ahmad Alhourani, Nitin Agarwal, & Robert M. Friedlander. (2018). Duraplasty Type as a Predictor of Meningitis and Shunting After Chiari I Decompression. World Neurosurgery. 118. e778–e783. 15 indexed citations

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McDowell, Michael M., et al.. (2017). Cost-Effectiveness of Postoperative Ketamine in Chiari Decompression. World Neurosurgery. 110. e599–e604. 6 indexed citations

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Wozny, Thomas A., Witold Lipski, Ahmad Alhourani, et al.. (2017). Effects of hippocampal low-frequency stimulation in idiopathic non-human primate epilepsy assessed via a remote-sensing-enabled neurostimulator. Experimental Neurology. 294. 68–77. 15 indexed citations

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Alhourani, Ahmad, Thomas A. Wozny, Sudhir Pathak, et al.. (2016). Magnetoencephalography-based identification of functional connectivity network disruption following mild traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neurophysiology. 116(4). 1840–1847. 23 indexed citations

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Alhourani, Ahmad, Witold Lipski, & R. Mark Richardson. (2015). Therapeutic Cortical-Cortical Coupling in Parkinson Disease. Neurosurgery. 76(2). N13–N14. 1 indexed citations

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Kondylis, Efstathios, Michael J. Randazzo, Ahmad Alhourani, et al.. (2015). High frequency activation data used to validate localization of cortical electrodes during surgery for deep brain stimulation. Data in Brief. 6. 204–207. 2 indexed citations

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Randazzo, Michael J., Efstathios Kondylis, Ahmad Alhourani, et al.. (2015). Three-dimensional localization of cortical electrodes in deep brain stimulation surgery from intraoperative fluoroscopy. NeuroImage. 125. 515–521. 34 indexed citations

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