Christian Keysers

218 total papers · 29.4k total citations
132 papers, 17.5k citations indexed

About

Christian Keysers is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Keysers has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 17.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 83 papers in Social Psychology and 22 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christian Keysers's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (66 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (26 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (26 papers). Christian Keysers is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (66 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (26 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (26 papers). Christian Keysers collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Italy and Germany. Christian Keysers's co-authors include Valeria Gazzola, Vittorio Gallese, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Bruno Wicker, Leonardo Fogassi, David I. Perrett, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Maria Alessandra Umiltà, Mbemba Jabbi and Jane Plailly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christian Keysers

131 papers receiving 16.7k citations

Hit Papers

Both of Us Disgusted in M... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2003 2004 2002 2001 2012 500 1000 1.5k
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula
    2003 1.5k citations Bruno Wicker, Christian Keysers et al. Neuron profile →
  2. A unifying view of the basis of social cognition
    2004 1.4k citations Vittorio Gallese, Christian Keysers et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
  3. Hearing Sounds, Understanding Actions: Action Representation in Mirror Neurons
    2002 1.1k citations Christian Keysers, Maria Alessandra Umiltà et al. Science profile →
  4. I Know What You Are Doing
    2001 823 citations Maria Alessandra Umiltà, Vittorio Gallese et al. Neuron profile →
  5. Brain-to-brain coupling: a mechanism for creating and sharing a social world
    2012 626 citations Uri Hasson, Asif A. Ghazanfar et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
  6. Somatosensation in social perception
    2010 621 citations Christian Keysers, Jon H. Kaas et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
  7. A Touching Sight
    2004 572 citations Christian Keysers, Bruno Wicker et al. Neuron profile →
  8. Empathy and the Somatotopic Auditory Mirror System in Humans
    2006 522 citations Valeria Gazzola, Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh et al. Current Biology profile →
  9. The anthropomorphic brain: The mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions
    2007 511 citations Valeria Gazzola, Giacomo Rizzolatti et al. NeuroImage profile →
  10. The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data
    2008 510 citations Valeria Gazzola, Christian Keysers Cerebral Cortex profile →
  11. Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence
    2020 405 citations Christian Keysers, Valeria Gazzola et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  12. Measuring shared responses across subjects using intersubject correlation
    2019 231 citations Samuel A. Nastase, Valeria Gazzola et al. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Christian Keysers 12.1k 10.7k 4.0k 2.6k 2.4k 132 17.5k
Giacomo Rizzolatti 17.2k 1.4× 12.2k 1.1× 4.2k 1.0× 2.3k 0.9× 4.0k 1.6× 184 22.7k
Marco Iacoboni 14.7k 1.2× 12.1k 1.1× 4.8k 1.2× 3.4k 1.3× 4.4k 1.8× 187 22.1k
Salvatore Maria Aglioti 11.6k 1.0× 8.4k 0.8× 2.7k 0.7× 2.6k 1.0× 2.5k 1.0× 319 17.0k
Alex Martin 21.8k 1.8× 6.2k 0.6× 5.8k 1.4× 3.1k 1.2× 3.7k 1.5× 194 26.6k
Marcel Braß 12.5k 1.0× 7.5k 0.7× 2.7k 0.7× 2.0k 0.8× 3.1k 1.3× 260 15.6k
Rebecca Saxe 11.7k 1.0× 6.5k 0.6× 3.1k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 3.6k 1.5× 180 16.1k
Michael Coles 27.3k 2.3× 4.1k 0.4× 6.4k 1.6× 2.5k 1.0× 3.2k 1.3× 142 31.5k
Bernhard Hommel 20.8k 1.7× 10.0k 0.9× 6.6k 1.6× 1.3k 0.5× 4.4k 1.8× 463 27.2k
Simone Shamay‐Tsoory 5.5k 0.5× 5.6k 0.5× 3.7k 0.9× 2.7k 1.0× 1.2k 0.5× 192 11.8k
Olaf Blanke 11.4k 0.9× 6.6k 0.6× 2.6k 0.7× 4.3k 1.6× 1.0k 0.4× 360 18.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Keysers

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