Alfons Schnitzler

37.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
513 papers, 21.5k citations indexed

About

Alfons Schnitzler is a scholar working on Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alfons Schnitzler has authored 513 papers receiving a total of 21.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 225 papers in Neurology, 218 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 126 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alfons Schnitzler's work include Neurological disorders and treatments (179 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (128 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (85 papers). Alfons Schnitzler is often cited by papers focused on Neurological disorders and treatments (179 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (128 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (85 papers). Alfons Schnitzler collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United Kingdom. Alfons Schnitzler's co-authors include Joachim Groß, Lars Timmermann, Hans‐Joachim Freund, Markus Ploner, Riitta Salmelin, Bettina Pollok, Frank Schmitz, Lars Wojtecki, Jens Volkmann and Markus Butz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alfons Schnitzler

484 papers receiving 21.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Dynamic imaging of coherent sources: Studying neural interactions in the human brain

2001 1.4k citations Alfons Schnitzler et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Detection ofn:mPhase Locking from Noisy Data: Application to Magnetoencephalography

1998 1.1k citations Jens Volkmann, Alfons Schnitzler et al. profile →
Normal and pathological oscillatory communication in the brain

2005 909 citations Alfons Schnitzler, Joachim Groß profile →
Neuropsychological and psychiatric changes after deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease: a randomised, multicentre study

2008 471 citations Jens Volkmann, Alfons Schnitzler et al. profile →
Separating Neural Oscillations from Aperiodic 1/f Activity: Challenges and Recommendations

2022 122 citations Alfons Schnitzler, Esther Florin et al. profile →
Hepatic encephalopathy

2022 109 citations Dieter Häussinger, Radha K. Dhiman et al. Nature Reviews Disease Primers profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Alfons Schnitzler

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alfons Schnitzler

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alfons Schnitzler

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alfons Schnitzler. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alfons Schnitzler 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 Alfons Schnitzler. Alfons Schnitzler is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Development and application of a clinical core data set for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, dystonia or tremor: from data collection to data exchange and data sharing 2025 ·Neurological Research and Practice ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Rüdiger Pryss, Jasper Mecklenburg, (unknown), Philipp Capetian, Christian Hartmann, (unknown), Petra Ritter, Patricia Krause, Alfons Schnitzler, Jens Volkmann, Andrea A. Kühn, Peter U. Heuschmann, Kirsten Haas	1
2	Direct and Indirect Effects of Prolonged Exposure to Long Working Hours on Risk Stroke Subtypes in the CONSTANCES Cohort 2025 ·Journal of Stroke ·Marc Fadel, Grace Sembajwe, Li J, Annette Leclerc, Fernando Pico, Alfons Schnitzler, (unknown), Yves Roquelaure, Alexis Descatha	1
3	O-346 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO LONG-WORKING HOURS AND STROKE SUBTYPES IN THE CONSTANCES COHORT 2024 ·Occupational Medicine ·Marc Fadel, Grace Sembajwe, Li J, Annette Leclerc, Fernando Pico, Alfons Schnitzler, Yves Roquelaure, Alexis Descatha	0
4	A First Methodological Development and Validation of ReTap: An Open-Source UPDRS Finger Tapping Assessment Tool Based on Accelerometer-Data 2023 ·Sensors ·Jeroen Habets, Rachel K. Spooner, (unknown), Lucia K. Feldmann, (unknown), Jan Roediger, (unknown), Alfons Schnitzler, Esther Florin, Andrea A. Kühn	5
5	System Comparison for Gait and Balance Monitoring Used for the Evaluation of a Home-Based Training 2022 ·Sensors ·(unknown), (unknown), Maik Boltes, Alfons Schnitzler, Katrin Amunts, Juergen Dukart, Martina Minnerop	6
6	Hepatic encephalopathy breakdown → 2022 ·Nature Reviews Disease Primers ·Dieter Häussinger, Radha K. Dhiman, Vicente Felipo, Boris Görg, Rajiv Jalan, G. Kircheis, Manuela Merli, Sara Montagnese, Manuel Romero‐Gómez, Alfons Schnitzler, Simon D. Taylor‐Robinson, Hendrik Vilstrup	109
7	AbobotulinumtoxinA Doses in Upper and Lower Limb Spasticity: A Systematic Literature Review 2022 ·Toxins ·Alfons Schnitzler, (unknown), Andreas Freitag, Ike Iheanacho, Kyle Fahrbach, Louis Lavoie, (unknown), (unknown), David Gasq	8
8	Altered performance monitoring in Tourette Syndrome: an MEG investigation 2022 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), (unknown), Alexander Münchau, Kirsten Müller‐Vahl, Alfons Schnitzler, Christian Bellebaum, Katja Biermann‐Ruben, Valentina Niccolai	3
9	Toward therapeutic electrophysiology: beta-band suppression as a biomarker in chronic local field potential recordings 2022 ·npj Parkinson s Disease ·Lucia K. Feldmann, Roxanne Lofredi, Wolf‐Julian Neumann, Bassam Al‐Fatly, Jan Roediger, (unknown), (unknown), Timothy Denison, Assel Saryyeva, Joachim K. Krauss, Katharina Faust, Esther Florin, Alfons Schnitzler, Gerd‐Helge Schneider, Andrea A. Kühn	72
10	DBS electrode localization and rotational orientation detection using SQUID-based magnetoencephalography 2021 ·Journal of Neural Engineering ·(unknown), (unknown), Cameron C. McIntyre, Markus Butz, Alfons Schnitzler, Günther Deuschl, Michael Höft	7
11	Neuroimaging and electrophysiology meet invasive neurostimulation for causal interrogations and modulations of brain states 2020 ·NeuroImage ·Gabriel González‐Escamilla, Muthuraman Muthuraman, Dumitru Ciolac, Volker A. Coenen, Alfons Schnitzler, Sergiu Groppa	17
12	Occipital repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation does not affect multifocal visual evoked potentials 2020 ·BMC Neuroscience ·(unknown), (unknown), Ann‐Kristin Müller, Marius Ringelstein, Orhan Aktaş, Alfons Schnitzler, Hans‐Peter Hartung, Stefan Jun Groiss, Philipp Albrecht	1
13	Meningitis gone viral: description of the echovirus wave 2013 in Germany 2019 ·BMC Infectious Diseases ·Jonas Graf, Christian J. Hartmann, Helmar C. Lehmann, Carolin Otto, Ortwin Adams, Michael Karenfort, Christian Schneider, Klemens Ruprecht, Hans Martin Bosse, Sabine Diedrich, Sindy Böttcher, Alfons Schnitzler, Hans‐Peter Hartung, Orhan Aktaş, Philipp Albrecht	7
14	Ammonia‐weighted imaging by chemical exchange saturation transfer MRI at 3 T 2018 ·NMR in Biomedicine ·Helge J. Zöllner, Markus Butz, G. Kircheis, (unknown), Dieter Häussinger, Benjamin Schmitt, Alfons Schnitzler, Hans‐Jörg Wittsack	6
15	Topographic organization of the human and non-human primate subthalamic nucleus 2015 ·Brain Structure and Function ·Anneke Alkemade, Alfons Schnitzler, Birte U. Forstmann	43
16	LA TOXINE BOTULIQUE 2010 ·Le mensuel pratique et technique du kinésithérapeute ·Alfons Schnitzler, (unknown), (unknown)	1
17	Bilateral subthalamic stimulation in Parkin and PINK1 parkinsonism 2008 ·Neurology ·Elena Moro, Jens Volkmann, Inke R. König, Susen Winkler, Anja Hiller, Sharon Hassin‐Baer, Jan Herzog, Alfons Schnitzler, Katja Lohmann, Marcus O. Pinsker, Jürgen Voges, (unknown), Philip Seibler, Andrés M. Lozano, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Anthony E. Lang, Günther Deuschl, Christine Klein	50
18	Modulation of long-range neural synchrony reflects temporal limitations of visual attention in humans 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Joachim Groß, Frank Schmitz, (unknown), Klaus Kessler, Kimron L. Shapiro, Bernhard Hommel, Alfons Schnitzler	454
19	To: The chemokine receptor CCR5 deletion mutation is associated with MS in HLA-DR4-positive Russians 2003 ·Neurology ·Stuart R. Snider, Franz H. Messerli, (unknown), Kirn R. Kessler, Alfons Schnitzler, Joseph Claßen, Reiner Benecke, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
20	Topographic segregation for movement recognition in man : an fMRI study 1999 ·JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich) ·Ferdinand Binkofski, Giovanni Buccino, (unknown), (unknown), Alfons Schnitzler, (unknown), Leonardo Fogassi, Vittorio Gallese, Rüdiger J. Seitz, Karl Zilles, Giacomo Rizzolatti	2

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