Alexander Opitz

8.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
87 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Alexander Opitz is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Opitz has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 56 papers in Neurology and 18 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alexander Opitz's work include Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (56 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (33 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (20 papers). Alexander Opitz is often cited by papers focused on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (56 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (33 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (20 papers). Alexander Opitz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Alexander Opitz's co-authors include Axel Thielscher, Mirko Windhoff, William J. Tyler, Wynn Legon, Walter Paulus, Tomokazu Sato, Ivan Alekseichuk, Aaron J Barbour, Jerel Mueller and Amanda Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Opitz

75 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Transcranial focused ultrasound modulates the activity of primary somatosensory cortex in humans

2014 676 citations Alexander Opitz et al. profile →
Determinants of the electric field during transcranial direct current stimulation

2015 472 citations Alexander Opitz et al. NeuroImage profile →
Immediate neurophysiological effects of transcranial electrical stimulation

2018 373 citations Anli Liu, Mihály Vöröslakos et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Opitz United States	32	3.0k	2.7k	1.4k	1.1k	1.0k	87	5.0k
Zsigmond Tamás Kincses Hungary	33	3.0k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	678 0.5×	718 0.6×	967 0.9×	121	5.6k
Yasuo Terao Japan	41	4.3k 1.4×	3.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	609 0.5×	975 1.0×	200	6.4k
Ethan R. Buch United States	22	2.0k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	937 0.7×	291 0.3×	653 0.6×	32	4.1k
Ritsuko Hanajima Japan	43	3.9k 1.3×	2.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	519 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	181	5.8k
Marom Bikson United States	29	2.8k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	612 0.4×	219 0.2×	931 0.9×	81	3.8k
Davide Reato United States	11	2.5k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	536 0.4×	189 0.2×	937 0.9×	16	3.3k
Abhishek Datta United States	50	7.0k 2.3×	4.7k 1.7×	1.6k 1.2×	791 0.7×	1.8k 1.8×	181	9.7k
Toshiaki Furubayashi Japan	29	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	968 0.7×	303 0.3×	472 0.5×	70	3.4k
Scott Barbay United States	24	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	611 0.4×	311 0.3×	1.2k 1.2×	53	3.6k
Vahé E. Amassian United States	33	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	864 0.6×	306 0.3×	811 0.8×	56	3.6k

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Conelea, Christine A., Rayus Kuplicki, Alexander Opitz, et al.. (2025). Targeting VMPFC‐amygdala circuit with TMS in substance use disorder: A mechanistic framework. Addiction Biology. 30(1). e70011–e70011. 7 indexed citations

Aberra, Aman S., et al.. (2025). Simulation of evoked responses to transcranial magnetic stimulation using a multiscale cortical circuit model. Brain stimulation. 19(1). 102983–102983.

Rochas, Vincent, et al.. (2025). MRI-individualized, multi-electrode tACS enhances the induced electrical field strength in the targeted area of mild cognitive impairment patients. Clinical Neurophysiology. 177. 2110930–2110930.

Opitz, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Multiscale mode of primary motor cortex circuits predicts evoked response to transcranial magnetic stimulation. Brain stimulation. 18(1). 374–374.

Yachou, Yassine, Noomane Bouaziz, Dominique Januel, et al.. (2025). Transcranial direct current stimulation in patients with depression: An electric field modeling meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders. 374. 540–552. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Ting, et al.. (2024). Systematic cross-species comparison of prefrontal cortex functional networks targeted via transcranial magnetic stimulation. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 1 indexed citations

Shirinpour, Sina, et al.. (2024). Intensity- and frequency-specific effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation are explained by network dynamics. Journal of Neural Engineering. 21(2). 26024–26024. 23 indexed citations

Lehmann‐Hasemeyer, Sibylle & Alexander Opitz. (2024). Data Sources on the 19th and Early 20th Century German Capital Market: Challenges and Opportunities. German Economic Review. 25(4). 371–391.

Wischnewski, Miles, et al.. (2024). Meta-modeling the effects of anodal left prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory performance. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 4 indexed citations

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Opitz, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Individuals with psychosis receive less electric field strength during transcranial direct current stimulation compared to healthy controls. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(1). 111–111. 3 indexed citations

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Conelea, Christine A., Deanna J. Greene, Jennifer R. Alexander, et al.. (2023). The CBIT + TMS trial: study protocol for a two-phase randomized controlled trial testing neuromodulation to augment behavior therapy for youth with chronic tics. Trials. 24(1). 439–439. 5 indexed citations

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Shirinpour, Sina, Ivan Alekseichuk, Gary Linn, et al.. (2023). Predicting the phase distribution during multi-channel transcranial alternating current stimulation in silico and in vivo. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 166. 107516–107516. 3 indexed citations

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Shirinpour, Sina, Christos Galanis, Andreas Vlachos, et al.. (2021). Multi-scale modeling toolbox for single neuron and subcellular activity under Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Brain stimulation. 14(6). 1470–1482. 29 indexed citations

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Wischnewski, Miles, et al.. (2021). Identifying regions in prefrontal cortex related to working memory improvement: A novel meta-analytic method using electric field modeling. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 130. 147–161. 47 indexed citations

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Shirinpour, Sina, et al.. (2021). Evaluating transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) induced electric fields in pediatric stroke. NeuroImage Clinical. 29. 102563–102563. 18 indexed citations

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Shirinpour, Sina, et al.. (2020). Experimental evaluation of methods for real-time EEG phase-specific transcranial magnetic stimulation. Journal of Neural Engineering. 17(4). 46002–46002. 32 indexed citations

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Alekseichuk, Ivan, Arnaud Falchier, Gary Linn, et al.. (2019). Electric field dynamics in the brain during multi-electrode transcranial electric stimulation. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2573–2573. 70 indexed citations

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Liu, Anli, Mihály Vöröslakos, Greg Kronberg, et al.. (2018). Immediate neurophysiological effects of transcranial electrical stimulation. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5092–5092. 373 indexed citations breakdown →

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Opitz, Alexander, Michael Fox, R. Cameron Craddock, Stan Colcombe, & Michael P. Milham. (2015). An integrated framework for targeting functional networks via transcranial magnetic stimulation. NeuroImage. 127. 86–96. 82 indexed citations

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Polanía, Rafael, Marius Moisa, Alexander Opitz, Marcus Grueschow, & Christian C. Ruff. (2015). The precision of value-based choices depends causally on fronto-parietal phase coupling. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8090–8090. 97 indexed citations

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