Erdmut Pfeifer

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Erdmut Pfeifer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Erdmut Pfeifer has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 1 paper in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Erdmut Pfeifer's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (3 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (3 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (2 papers). Erdmut Pfeifer is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (3 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (3 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (2 papers). Erdmut Pfeifer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Canada. Erdmut Pfeifer's co-authors include A.D. Friederici, Anja Hahne, Axel Mecklinger, Angela D. Friederici, Karsten Steinhauer, Christoph S. Herrmann, Dietrich Dörner, Douglas Cheyne, Burkhard Maeß and Bertram Opitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Clinical Neurophysiology and Ergonomics.

In The Last Decade

Erdmut Pfeifer

7 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Event-related brain potentials during natural speech proc... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Event-related brain potentials during natural speech processing: effects of semantic, morphological and syntactic violations
    1993 588 citations A.D. Friederici, Erdmut Pfeifer et al. Cognitive Brain Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Erdmut Pfeifer Germany 7 1.2k 621 230 101 95 8 1.3k
Jeri J. Jaeger United States 14 961 0.8× 596 1.0× 421 1.8× 149 1.5× 134 1.4× 22 1.3k
A.D. Friederici Germany 13 1.5k 1.3× 837 1.3× 347 1.5× 104 1.0× 172 1.8× 15 1.6k
Douglas Saddy United Kingdom 15 904 0.8× 530 0.9× 176 0.8× 138 1.4× 71 0.7× 46 1.1k
Billi Randall United Kingdom 20 1.4k 1.2× 776 1.2× 286 1.2× 64 0.6× 177 1.9× 25 1.6k
Nina Kazanina United Kingdom 20 1.0k 0.9× 543 0.9× 369 1.6× 222 2.2× 46 0.5× 45 1.3k
Christian Forkstam Netherlands 15 739 0.6× 415 0.7× 138 0.6× 47 0.5× 94 1.0× 22 967
Jutta L. Mueller Germany 21 949 0.8× 835 1.3× 246 1.1× 105 1.0× 89 0.9× 51 1.2k
Katrien Segaert United Kingdom 18 1.1k 0.9× 537 0.9× 264 1.1× 149 1.5× 188 2.0× 57 1.3k
Nicolas Dumay United Kingdom 11 931 0.8× 790 1.3× 478 2.1× 62 0.6× 22 0.2× 22 1.2k
Susanne Reiterer Austria 21 740 0.6× 255 0.4× 407 1.8× 99 1.0× 121 1.3× 41 998

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erdmut Pfeifer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erdmut Pfeifer

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

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Friederici, Angela D., Karsten Steinhauer, & Erdmut Pfeifer. (2002). Brain signatures of artificial language processing: Evidence challenging the critical period hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(1). 529–534. 242 indexed citations
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Herrmann, Christoph S., Axel Mecklinger, & Erdmut Pfeifer. (1999). Gamma responses and ERPs in a visual classification task. Clinical Neurophysiology. 110(4). 636–642. 217 indexed citations
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Alter, Kai, et al.. (1999). On the relations of semantic and acoustic properties of emotions. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 2121–2125. 9 indexed citations
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Mecklinger, Axel, Burkhard Maeß, Bertram Opitz, et al.. (1998). A MEG analysis of the P300 in visual discrimination tasks. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology/Evoked Potentials Section. 108(1). 45–56. 76 indexed citations
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Herrmann, Christoph S., Erdmut Pfeifer, & Axel Mecklinger. (1998). 344 Gamma-oscillations during perception of illusory contours. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 30(1-2). 133–134.
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Mecklinger, Axel & Erdmut Pfeifer. (1996). Event-related potentials reveal topographical and temporal distinct neuronal activation patterns for spatial and object working memory. Cognitive Brain Research. 4(3). 211–224. 149 indexed citations
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Friederici, A.D., Erdmut Pfeifer, & Anja Hahne. (1993). Event-related brain potentials during natural speech processing: effects of semantic, morphological and syntactic violations. Cognitive Brain Research. 1(3). 183–192. 588 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dörner, Dietrich & Erdmut Pfeifer. (1993). Strategic thinking and stress. Ergonomics. 36(11). 1345–1360. 27 indexed citations

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