Aleš Holobar

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Aleš Holobar is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aleš Holobar has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 19 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Aleš Holobar's work include Muscle activation and electromyography studies (48 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (17 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (15 papers). Aleš Holobar is often cited by papers focused on Muscle activation and electromyography studies (48 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (17 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (15 papers). Aleš Holobar collaborates with scholars based in Slovenia, Japan and United States. Aleš Holobar's co-authors include Dario Farina, Damjan Zazula, Francesco Negro, Roberto Merletti, Alessandro Del Vecchio, Francesco Felici, Kohei Watanabe, Vojko Glaser, Roger M. Enoka and Francesco Casolo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Journal of Physiology.

In The Last Decade

Aleš Holobar

69 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. You are as fast as your motor neurons: speed of recruitment and maximal discharge of motor neurons determine the maximal rate of force development in humans
    2019 235 citations Alessandro Del Vecchio, Aleš Holobar et al. The Journal of Physiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aleš Holobar Slovenia 24 1.7k 1.0k 582 451 286 75 2.3k
Alberto Botter Italy 26 1.7k 1.0× 796 0.8× 524 0.9× 499 1.1× 158 0.6× 101 2.3k
Marco Gazzoni Italy 25 1.7k 1.0× 909 0.9× 520 0.9× 356 0.8× 135 0.5× 76 2.2k
Daniel W. Stashuk Canada 34 2.2k 1.3× 1.2k 1.1× 591 1.0× 264 0.6× 298 1.0× 134 3.2k
Alessandro Del Vecchio Germany 27 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 381 0.7× 777 1.7× 72 0.3× 98 2.4k
Taian Vieira Italy 25 1.8k 1.1× 843 0.8× 342 0.6× 698 1.5× 91 0.3× 113 2.4k
Aleš Holobar Slovenia 23 3.2k 1.9× 2.4k 2.2× 1.4k 2.5× 327 0.7× 177 0.6× 71 3.7k
Zeynep Erim United States 13 1.2k 0.7× 888 0.8× 366 0.6× 339 0.8× 91 0.3× 18 1.7k
Silvia Muceli United Kingdom 27 2.3k 1.3× 1.6k 1.6× 1.1k 1.9× 214 0.5× 219 0.8× 61 2.8k
Xiaogang Hu United States 30 1.9k 1.2× 1.4k 1.4× 676 1.2× 159 0.4× 136 0.5× 132 2.4k
Martin Lakie United Kingdom 28 1.7k 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 270 0.5× 804 1.8× 408 1.4× 68 3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aleš Holobar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nishikawa, Yuichi, Kohei Watanabe, Aleš Holobar, et al.. (2025). Sex Differences in Motor Unit Behavior in Patients With Parkinson's Disease. European Journal of Neuroscience. 62(1). e70191–e70191. 1 indexed citations
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Sarto, Fabio, Martino V. Franchi, Daniel W. Stashuk, et al.. (2025). Twenty-one days of bed rest alter motor unit properties and neuromuscular junction transmission in young adults. Journal of Applied Physiology. 138(6). 1411–1424. 1 indexed citations
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Ansdell, Paul, et al.. (2024). Motor unit discharge rate modulation during isometric contractions to failure is intensity‐ and modality‐dependent. The Journal of Physiology. 602(10). 2287–2314. 7 indexed citations
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Nishikawa, Yuichi, et al.. (2024). Sex differences in laterality of motor unit firing behavior of the first dorsal interosseous muscle in strength-matched healthy young males and females. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 124(7). 1979–1990. 11 indexed citations
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Nishikawa, Yuichi, Aleš Holobar, Kohei Watanabe, et al.. (2024). Immediate effect of local vibration on motor unit firing behavior and muscle strength in healthy young adult males. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 124(12). 3707–3717. 3 indexed citations
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Hirono, Tetsuya, et al.. (2024). Acute effects of caffeine or quercetin ingestion on motor unit firing pattern before and after resistance exercise. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 124(6). 1645–1658. 3 indexed citations
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Hirono, Tetsuya, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal development of muscle strength and relationship with motor unit activity and muscle morphological characteristics in youth athletes. Experimental Brain Research. 241(4). 1009–1019. 5 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Kohei, et al.. (2023). The dose–response relationship of quercetin on the motor unit firing patterns and contractile properties of muscle in men and women. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. 20(1). 2265140–2265140. 4 indexed citations
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Škarabot, Jakob, Jonathan P. Folland, Aleš Holobar, Stuart N. Baker, & Alessandro Del Vecchio. (2022). Startling stimuli increase maximal motor unit discharge rate and rate of force development in humans. Journal of Neurophysiology. 128(3). 455–469. 24 indexed citations
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Hug, François, Simon Avrillon, Alessandro Del Vecchio, et al.. (2021). Analysis of motor unit spike trains estimated from high-density surface electromyography is highly reliable across operators. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. 58. 102548–102548. 58 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Kohei, et al.. (2021). Fish Protein Ingestion Induces Neural, but Not Muscular Adaptations, Following Resistance Training in Young Adults. Frontiers in Nutrition. 8. 645747–645747. 6 indexed citations
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Nishikawa, Yuichi, Kohei Watanabe, Aleš Holobar, et al.. (2020). Identification of the laterality of motor unit behavior in female patients with parkinson's disease using high‐density surface electromyography. European Journal of Neuroscience. 53(6). 1938–1949. 10 indexed citations
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Vecchio, Alessandro Del, Aleš Holobar, Deborah Falla, et al.. (2020). Tutorial: Analysis of motor unit discharge characteristics from high-density surface EMG signals. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. 53. 102426–102426. 206 indexed citations
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Ward, Sarah, et al.. (2019). High-density electromyographic data during isometric contractions of the ankle joint in children with cerebral palsy pre and post BoNT-A treatment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 24. 103840–103840. 2 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Kohei, Aleš Holobar, Motoki Kouzaki, et al.. (2018). Effect of Resistance Training and Fish Protein Intake on Motor Unit Firing Pattern and Motor Function of Elderly. Frontiers in Physiology. 9. 1733–1733. 29 indexed citations
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Povalej, Petra, Juan Álvaro Gallego, Juan Pablo Romero, et al.. (2017). New Perspectives for Computer-Aided Discrimination of Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor. Complexity. 2017. 1–17. 14 indexed citations
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Marateb, Hamid Reza, Kevin C. McGill, Aleš Holobar, et al.. (2011). Accuracy assessment of CKC high-density surface EMG decomposition in biceps femoris muscle. Journal of Neural Engineering. 8(6). 66002–66002. 57 indexed citations
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Holobar, Aleš, et al.. (2007). Muscle force estimation using a measure of muscle activation extracted from surface EMG. Computational intelligence. 260–263.

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