Göran Westling

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Göran Westling is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Göran Westling has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 3 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Göran Westling's work include Muscle activation and electromyography studies (5 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (5 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (4 papers). Göran Westling is often cited by papers focused on Muscle activation and electromyography studies (5 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (5 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (4 papers). Göran Westling collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and United Kingdom. Göran Westling's co-authors include Roland S. Johansson, J. Randall Flanagan, H. Henrik Ehrsson, Hans Forssberg, Tomas Jonsson, Anders Fagergren, Anna Nordström, Peter Nordström, Jonas Johansson and Lars Nyberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, NeuroImage and Brain.

In The Last Decade

Göran Westling

14 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Eye–Hand Coordination in Object Manipulation

2001 653 citations Roland S. Johansson, Göran Westling et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Göran Westling Sweden	12	1.2k	413	328	207	180	14	1.7k
Elizabeth A. Franz New Zealand	29	1.6k 1.4×	544 1.3×	293 0.9×	228 1.1×	175 1.0×	92	2.4k
Lauren E. Sergio Canada	29	1.9k 1.7×	451 1.1×	615 1.9×	290 1.4×	75 0.4×	81	2.6k
Joseph F. X. DeSouza Canada	24	2.3k 1.9×	590 1.4×	138 0.4×	238 1.1×	94 0.5×	62	2.7k
Matthew Heath Canada	29	2.3k 2.0×	511 1.2×	413 1.3×	77 0.4×	115 0.6×	153	2.8k
Denis Mottet France	25	879 0.8×	225 0.5×	688 2.1×	126 0.6×	205 1.1×	85	2.1k
Eugene Tunik United States	28	1.8k 1.6×	752 1.8×	469 1.4×	492 2.4×	255 1.4×	78	2.8k
Robert Forget Canada	33	1.2k 1.0×	313 0.8×	691 2.1×	318 1.5×	105 0.6×	62	2.6k
John S. Butler Ireland	29	1.8k 1.5×	229 0.6×	124 0.4×	262 1.3×	81 0.5×	83	2.7k
Corina Schuster‐Amft Switzerland	21	651 0.6×	258 0.6×	437 1.3×	181 0.9×	140 0.8×	76	2.1k
Sook‐Lei Liew United States	22	747 0.6×	343 0.8×	191 0.6×	351 1.7×	177 1.0×	57	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Göran Westling

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14 of 14 papers shown

Levi, Richard, et al.. (2020). Preserved somatosensory conduction in complete spinal cord injury: Discomplete SCI. Clinical Neurophysiology. 131(5). 1059–1067. 18 indexed citations

Blomstedt, Patric, et al.. (2019). Deep brain stimulation in the caudal zona incerta modulates the sensorimotor cerebello-cerebral circuit in essential tremor. NeuroImage. 209. 116511–116511. 22 indexed citations

Johansson, Jonas, Ewa Jarocka, Göran Westling, Anna Nordström, & Peter Nordström. (2019). Predicting incident falls: Relationship between postural sway and limits of stability in older adults. Human Movement Science. 66. 117–123. 40 indexed citations

Chen, Nutan, Göran Westling, Benoni B. Edin, & Patrick van der Smagt. (2019). Estimating Fingertip Forces, Torques, and Local Curvatures from Fingernail Images. Robotica. 38(7). 1242–1262. 7 indexed citations

Johansson, Jonas, Anna Nordström, Yngve Gustafson, Göran Westling, & Peter Nordström. (2017). Increased postural sway during quiet stance as a risk factor for prospective falls in community-dwelling elderly individuals. Age and Ageing. 46(6). 964–970. 130 indexed citations

Bayer, Justin, et al.. (2013). Computing grip force and torque from finger nail images using Gaussian processes. mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich). 4034–4039. 5 indexed citations

Lindgren, Lenita, Göran Westling, Christine Brulin, et al.. (2011). Pleasant human touch is represented in pregenual anterior cingulate cortex. NeuroImage. 59(4). 3427–3432. 112 indexed citations

Birznieks, Ingvars, Vaughan G. Macefield, Göran Westling, & Roland S. Johansson. (2009). Slowly Adapting Mechanoreceptors in the Borders of the Human Fingernail Encode Fingertip Forces. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(29). 9370–9379. 55 indexed citations

Johansson, Roland S., et al.. (2006). How a Lateralized Brain Supports Symmetrical Bimanual Tasks. PLoS Biology. 4(6). e158–e158. 59 indexed citations

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McGlone, Francis, Edward F. Kelly, Mats Trulsson, et al.. (2002). Functional neuroimaging studies of human somatosensory cortex. Behavioural Brain Research. 135(1-2). 147–158. 81 indexed citations

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Trulsson, Mats, Susan Francis, Edward F. Kelly, et al.. (2001). Cortical Responses to Single Mechanoreceptive Afferent Microstimulation Revealed with fMRI. NeuroImage. 13(4). 613–622. 31 indexed citations

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Johansson, Roland S., et al.. (2001). Eye–Hand Coordination in Object Manipulation. Journal of Neuroscience. 21(17). 6917–6932. 653 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ehrsson, H. Henrik, Anders Fagergren, Tomas Jonsson, et al.. (2000). Cortical Activity in Precision- Versus Power-Grip Tasks: An fMRI Study. Journal of Neurophysiology. 83(1). 528–536. 493 indexed citations

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Thomas, Christine K. & Göran Westling. (1995). Tactile unit properties after human cervical spinal cord injury. Brain. 118(6). 1547–1556. 23 indexed citations

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