Alex Harscher

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Alex Harscher is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Harscher has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alex Harscher's work include Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (9 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (6 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (5 papers). Alex Harscher is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (9 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (6 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (5 papers). Alex Harscher collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Hungary and Benin. Alex Harscher's co-authors include Steffen Kibbel, Hannes Lichte, Alfred Stett, Robert Wilke, Heval Benav, Udo Greppmaier, Barbara Wilhelm, Dorothea Besch, Florian Gekeler and Ákos Kusnyerik and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

In The Last Decade

Alex Harscher

14 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Subretinal electronic chips allow blind patients to read ... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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. Subretinal electronic chips allow blind patients to read letters and combine them to words
    2010 626 citations Eberhart Zrenner, Karl Ulrich Bartz‐Schmidt et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alex Harscher Germany 10 840 557 301 211 104 14 1.0k
Herc P. Neves Belgium 19 628 0.7× 686 1.2× 394 1.3× 182 0.9× 17 0.2× 57 1.6k
Michael P. Marsh United States 13 249 0.3× 177 0.3× 117 0.4× 129 0.6× 73 0.7× 20 718
Paolo Livi Switzerland 10 462 0.6× 377 0.7× 270 0.9× 79 0.4× 5 0.0× 19 727
S. Weisenburger Germany 12 161 0.2× 60 0.1× 91 0.3× 160 0.8× 98 0.9× 28 752
Herschel M. Marchman United States 8 100 0.1× 151 0.3× 69 0.2× 146 0.7× 245 2.4× 28 642
Georgios Varnavides United States 13 153 0.2× 142 0.3× 38 0.1× 54 0.3× 20 0.2× 30 990
Abhishek A. Sharma United States 20 196 0.2× 691 1.2× 77 0.3× 110 0.5× 9 0.1× 46 973
Weijian Zong China 14 285 0.3× 225 0.4× 206 0.7× 171 0.8× 24 0.2× 22 1.0k
Daniel Keppeler Germany 11 336 0.4× 89 0.2× 218 0.7× 54 0.3× 12 0.1× 16 537
Eirini Papagiakoumou France 23 1.3k 1.5× 146 0.3× 612 2.0× 259 1.2× 39 0.4× 42 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Harscher

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Harscher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Harscher

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Harscher. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Harscher based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alex Harscher. Alex Harscher is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Harscher, Alex, et al.. (2011). A new system for the treatment of retinal degeneration. Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering. 56(5). 277–282. 1 indexed citations
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Wilke, Robert, Veit‐Peter Gabel, Helmut Sachs, et al.. (2011). Spatial Resolution and Perception of Patterns Mediated by a Subretinal 16-Electrode Array in Patients Blinded by Hereditary Retinal Dystrophies. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 52(8). 5995–5995. 118 indexed citations
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Wilke, Robert, Udo Greppmaier, Alex Harscher, Heval Benav, & Eberhart Zrenner. (2010). Factors Affecting Perceptual Thersholds of Subretinal Electric Stimulation in Blind Volunteers. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 51(13). 2026–2026. 7 indexed citations
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Benav, Heval, Karl Ulrich Bartz‐Schmidt, Dorothea Besch, et al.. (2010). Restoration of useful vision up to letter recognition capabilities using subretinal microphotodiodes. PubMed. 50. 5919–5922. 28 indexed citations
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Zrenner, Eberhart, Karl Ulrich Bartz‐Schmidt, Heval Benav, et al.. (2010). Subretinal electronic chips allow blind patients to read letters and combine them to words. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 278(1711). 1489–1497. 626 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zrenner, E., Robert Wilke, Karl Ulrich Bartz‐Schmidt, et al.. (2009). Electronic subretinal implants allow blind retinitis pigmentosa patients to read letters and recognize the direction of fine stripe patterns. Acta Ophthalmologica. 87(s244). 0–0. 10 indexed citations
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Zrenner, Eberhart, Robert Wilke, Karl Ulrich Bartz‐Schmidt, et al.. (2009). Subretinal Microelectrode Arrays Allow Blind Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients to Recognize Letters and Combine them to Words. 11 indexed citations
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Rothermel, Albrecht, et al.. (2009). A CMOS Chip With Active Pixel Array and Specific Test Features for Subretinal Implantation. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 44(1). 290–300. 73 indexed citations
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Simon, Paul, Hannes Lichte, Petr Formánek, et al.. (2007). Electron holography of biological samples. Micron. 39(3). 229–256. 35 indexed citations
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Harscher, Alex, Hannes Lichte, & Joachim Mayer. (1997). Interference experiments with energy filtered electrons. Ultramicroscopy. 69(3). 201–209. 33 indexed citations
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Harscher, Alex & Hannes Lichte. (1996). Experimental study of amplitude and phase detection limits in electron holography. Ultramicroscopy. 64(1-4). 57–66. 58 indexed citations
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Harscher, Alex, et al.. (1995). Interpretable resolution of 0.2 nm at 100 kV using electron holography. Ultramicroscopy. 58(1). 79–86. 7 indexed citations

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