Chris Rorden

27.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
264 papers, 18.2k citations indexed

About

Chris Rorden is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Rorden has authored 264 papers receiving a total of 18.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 216 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 76 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 39 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Chris Rorden's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (93 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (65 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (61 papers). Chris Rorden is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (93 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (65 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (61 papers). Chris Rorden collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Chris Rorden's co-authors include Hans‐Otto Karnath, Matthew Brett, Leonardo Bonilha, Julius Fridriksson, John Ashburner, Masud Husain, Paul S. Morgan, Julie M. Baker, Jon Driver and Jason B. Mattingley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Chris Rorden

252 papers receiving 18.0k citations

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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.

Stereotaxic Display of Brain Lesions

2000 2.2k citations Chris Rorden et al. profile →
Improving Lesion-Symptom Mapping

2007 1.1k citations Chris Rorden, Hans‐Otto Karnath et al. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience profile →
Spatial Normalization of Brain Images with Focal Lesions Using Cost Function Masking

2001 757 citations Chris Rorden et al. profile →
The first step for neuroimaging data analysis: DICOM to NIfTI conversion

2016 576 citations Chris Rorden et al. profile →
Age-specific CT and MRI templates for spatial normalization

2012 565 citations Chris Rorden, Leonardo Bonilha et al. profile →
Using human brain lesions to infer function: a relic from a past era in the fMRI age?

2004 517 citations Chris Rorden, Hans‐Otto Karnath profile →
Lead-DBS v2: Towards a comprehensive pipeline for deep brain stimulation imaging

2018 474 citations Chris Rorden et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Rorden United States	65	13.5k	3.8k	2.7k	2.4k	1.6k	264	18.2k
Julien Doyon Canada	69	12.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	2.8k 1.2×	2.1k 1.3×	235	17.5k
Argye E. Hillis United States	69	13.2k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	3.6k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	464	19.5k
Christian Grefkes Germany	57	11.1k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	4.9k 2.1×	1.6k 1.0×	175	16.3k
Stephan P. Swinnen Belgium	78	14.7k 1.1×	2.2k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	3.8k 1.6×	915 0.6×	422	22.7k
Rüdiger J. Seitz Germany	61	8.9k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	2.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	264	15.7k
Nina F. Dronkers United States	51	11.7k 0.9×	2.3k 0.6×	4.3k 1.6×	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	116	16.2k
Stefan Sunaert Belgium	69	7.5k 0.6×	4.2k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	867 0.5×	351	15.4k
Naftali Raz United States	71	12.6k 0.9×	5.0k 1.3×	5.6k 2.1×	2.1k 0.9×	2.4k 1.5×	203	22.1k
Hans‐Otto Karnath Germany	58	10.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	226	13.2k
Christian Gaser Germany	72	11.3k 0.8×	5.0k 1.3×	4.7k 1.8×	2.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.4×	260	19.8k

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Rorden, Chris. (2025). From MRIcro to MRIcron: The evolution of neuroimaging visualization tools. Neuropsychologia. 207. 109067–109067. 4 indexed citations

Ouden, Dirk‐Bart den, Chris Rorden, Roger Newman‐Norlund, et al.. (2025). Partial least squares multimodal analysis of brain network correlates of language deficits in aphasia. Brain Communications. 7(4). fcaf246–fcaf246.

Cassarly, Christy, Alexandra Basilakos, Lisa Johnson, et al.. (2024). TEleRehabilitation foR Aphasia (TERRA) phase II trial design. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 42. 101406–101406.

Johnson, Lisa, et al.. (2024). How Can Graph Theory Inform the Dual-stream Model of Speech Processing? A Resting-state Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Stroke and Aphasia Symptomology. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 37(3). 737–766. 1 indexed citations

Li, Dongyun, et al.. (2024). Predicting individual long-term prognosis of spatial neglect based on acute stroke patient data. Brain Communications. 7(1). fcaf047–fcaf047. 1 indexed citations

Taylor, Paul A., Daniel Glen, Gang Chen, et al.. (2024). A Set of FMRI Quality Control Tools in AFNI: Systematic, in-depth, and interactive QC with afni_proc.py and more. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 1–39. 3 indexed citations

Absher, John R., Grigori Yourganov, Jan Vargas, et al.. (2024). The stroke outcome optimization project: Acute ischemic strokes from a comprehensive stroke center. Scientific Data. 11(1). 839–839. 3 indexed citations

Nørgaard, Martin, Adam G. Thomas, Gabriel González‐Escamilla, et al.. (2024). PET2BIDS: a library for converting Positron EmissionTomography data to BIDS. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(100). 6067–6067.

Wilmskoetter, Janina, Lisa Johnson, Chris Rorden, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal Progression of White Matter Hyperintensity Severity in Chronic Stroke Aphasia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(4). 100302–100302. 3 indexed citations

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Moore, Margaret Jane, Nele Demeyere, Chris Rorden, & Jason B. Mattingley. (2023). Lesion mapping in neuropsychological research: A practical and conceptual guide. Cortex. 170. 38–52. 9 indexed citations

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Basilakos, Alexandra, Grigori Yourganov, Leonardo Bonilha, et al.. (2022). Mapping the human praxis network: an investigation of white matter disconnection in limb apraxia of gesture production. Brain Communications. 4(1). fcac004–fcac004. 15 indexed citations

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Rogalsky, Corianne, Alexandra Basilakos, Chris Rorden, et al.. (2022). The Neuroanatomy of Speech Processing: A Large-scale Lesion Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 34(8). 1–21. 20 indexed citations

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Yourganov, Grigori, Brielle C. Stark, Julius Fridriksson, Leonardo Bonilha, & Chris Rorden. (2021). Effect of Stroke on Contralateral Functional Connectivity. Brain Connectivity. 11(7). 543–552. 15 indexed citations

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Bonilha, Leonardo, Argye E. Hillis, Janina Wilmskoetter, et al.. (2019). Neural structures supporting spontaneous and assisted (entrained) speech fluency. Brain. 142(12). 3951–3962. 16 indexed citations

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Baker, Julie M., Chris Rorden, & Julius Fridriksson. (2010). Using Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation to Treat Stroke Patients With Aphasia. Stroke. 41(6). 1229–1236. 394 indexed citations

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Datta, Avijit, Rhodri Cusack, Kari Hawkins, et al.. (2007). The P300 as a Marker of Waning Attention and Error Propensity. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. 2007. 1–9. 48 indexed citations

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Bonilha, Leonardo, Chris Rorden, Jonathan J. Halford, et al.. (2006). Asymmetrical extra-hippocampal grey matter loss related to hippocampal atrophy in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 78(3). 286–294. 99 indexed citations

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Manly, Tom, Avijit Datta, Joost Heutink, et al.. (2000). An electrophysiological predictor of imminent action error in humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 4 indexed citations

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Husain, Masud, Jason B. Mattingley, Chris Rorden, C. Kennard, & Jon Driver. (1998). Reaching in parietal neglect: Response to D P Carey: Action, perception, cognition and the inferior parietal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 164–166. 1 indexed citations

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Robertson, Ian H., Jason B. Mattingley, Chris Rorden, & Jon Driver. (1998). Letters to Nature: Phasic alerting of neglect patients overcomes their spatial deficit in visual awareness. UCL Discovery (University College London). 5 indexed citations

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