Alexander Walther

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Alexander Walther is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Walther has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alexander Walther's work include Climate variability and models (15 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (7 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (6 papers). Alexander Walther is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (15 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (7 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (6 papers). Alexander Walther collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and Germany. Alexander Walther's co-authors include Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Hamed Nili, Hans W. Linderholm, Cai Wingfield, William D. Marslen‐Wilson, Li Su, Deliang Chen, Arjen Alink, Benjamin Kilian and Naveed Ejaz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Walther

31 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

A Toolbox for Representational Similarity Analysis

2014 539 citations Hamed Nili, Cai Wingfield et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →
Natural variation in a homolog of Antirrhinum CENTRORADIALIS contributed to spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in cultivated barley

2012 356 citations Jordi Comadran, Benjamin Kilian et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Walther Sweden	21	900	692	653	481	287	32	2.5k
John H. Graham United States	32	150 0.2×	217 0.3×	725 1.1×	39 0.1×	642 2.2×	95	3.3k
Roberto Molowny‐Horas Spain	26	87 0.1×	472 0.7×	459 0.7×	203 0.4×	347 1.2×	64	2.4k
Makoto Kato Japan	28	194 0.2×	180 0.3×	485 0.7×	63 0.1×	348 1.2×	131	2.6k
J. E. D. Fox United Kingdom	25	699 0.8×	268 0.4×	258 0.4×	54 0.1×	55 0.2×	93	2.4k
J. T. Enright United States	32	773 0.9×	361 0.5×	155 0.2×	19 0.0×	92 0.3×	67	2.6k
Álvaro Moreno Spain	23	562 0.6×	60 0.1×	222 0.3×	44 0.1×	150 0.5×	67	1.8k
Nicholas E. Myers United Kingdom	28	1.6k 1.7×	431 0.6×	42 0.1×	79 0.2×	19 0.1×	57	2.5k
David N. Fisher United Kingdom	18	84 0.1×	353 0.5×	131 0.2×	63 0.1×	375 1.3×	49	2.2k
Luke M. Evans United States	19	59 0.1×	160 0.2×	384 0.6×	42 0.1×	650 2.3×	50	1.7k
Shiming Tang China	22	542 0.6×	55 0.1×	98 0.2×	30 0.1×	133 0.5×	65	1.5k

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Storrs, Katherine R., Tim C. Kietzmann, Alexander Walther, Johannes Mehrer, & Nikolaus Kriegeskorte. (2021). Diverse Deep Neural Networks All Predict Human Inferior Temporal Cortex Well, After Training and Fitting. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 33(10). 1–21. 63 indexed citations

Nili, Hamed, Alexander Walther, Arjen Alink, & Nikolaus Kriegeskorte. (2020). Inferring exemplar discriminability in brain representations. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0232551–e0232551. 21 indexed citations

Alink, Arjen, et al.. (2017). Local opposite orientation preferences in V1: fMRI sensitivity to fine-grained pattern information. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 7128–7128. 6 indexed citations

Walther, Alexander, Hamed Nili, Naveed Ejaz, et al.. (2015). Reliability of dissimilarity measures for multi-voxel pattern analysis. NeuroImage. 137. 188–200. 315 indexed citations

Nili, Hamed, Cai Wingfield, Alexander Walther, et al.. (2014). A Toolbox for Representational Similarity Analysis. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(4). e1003553–e1003553. 539 indexed citations breakdown →

Pasam, Raj, Rajiv Sharma, Alexander Walther, et al.. (2014). Genetic Diversity and Population Structure in a Legacy Collection of Spring Barley Landraces Adapted to a Wide Range of Climates. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e116164–e116164. 50 indexed citations

Chen, Deliang, Alexander Walther, Anders Moberg, et al.. (2014). European Trend Atlas of Extreme Temperature and Precipitation Records. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 18 indexed citations

Keilwagen, Jens, Benjamin Kilian, Hakan Özkan, et al.. (2014). Separating the wheat from the chaff – a strategy to utilize plant genetic resources from ex situ genebanks. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 5231–5231. 38 indexed citations

Alink, Arjen, et al.. (2013). fMRI orientation decoding in V1 does not require global maps or globally coherent orientation stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 493–493. 51 indexed citations

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Lindberg, Fredrik, et al.. (2012). The Potential Peatland Extent and Carbon Sink in Sweden, as Related to the Peatland / Ice Age Hypothesis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 15 indexed citations

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Walther, Alexander & Jasper J.F. van den Bosch. (2012). FOSE: a framework for open science evaluation. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 6. 32–32. 12 indexed citations

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Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus, et al.. (2012). An emerging consensus for open evaluation: 18 visions for the future of scientific publishing. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 6. 94–94. 27 indexed citations

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Comadran, Jordi, Benjamin Kilian, Joanne Russell, et al.. (2012). Natural variation in a homolog of Antirrhinum CENTRORADIALIS contributed to spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in cultivated barley. Nature Genetics. 44(12). 1388–1392. 356 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jeong, Jee‐Hoon, Alexander Walther, Grigory Nikulin, Deliang Chen, & Colin Jones. (2011). Diurnal cycle of precipitation amount and frequency in Sweden: observation versus model simulation. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 4 indexed citations

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Walther, Alexander, et al.. (2009). Spatio-temporal characteristics of the diurnal precipitation cycle over Sweden and the linkage to large-scale circulation. EGUGA. 11692. 1 indexed citations

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Linderholm, Hans W., Chris K. Folland, & Alexander Walther. (2009). A multicentury perspective on the summer North Atlantic Oscillation (SNAO) and drought in the eastern Atlantic Region. Journal of Quaternary Science. 24(5). 415–425. 35 indexed citations

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Jones, P. D., et al.. (2007). Long-term changes in extreme temperatures and precipitation in Spain. 3(3). 331–342. 30 indexed citations

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Kilian, Benjamin, Hakan Özkan, Alexander Walther, et al.. (2007). Molecular Diversity at 18 Loci in 321 Wild and 92 Domesticate Lines Reveal No Reduction of Nucleotide Diversity during Triticum monococcum (Einkorn) Domestication: Implications for the Origin of Agriculture. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(12). 2657–2668. 139 indexed citations

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Linderholm, Hans W., Alexander Walther, & Deliang Chen. (2007). Twentieth-century trends in the thermal growing season in the Greater Baltic Area. Climatic Change. 87(3-4). 405–419. 107 indexed citations

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Walther, Alexander & Hans W. Linderholm. (2006). A comparison of growing season indices for the Greater Baltic Area. International Journal of Biometeorology. 51(2). 107–118. 79 indexed citations

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