Hellmuth Obrig

11.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
144 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Hellmuth Obrig is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hellmuth Obrig has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 68 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 61 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hellmuth Obrig's work include Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (72 papers), Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring (39 papers) and Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (28 papers). Hellmuth Obrig is often cited by papers focused on Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (72 papers), Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring (39 papers) and Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (28 papers). Hellmuth Obrig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Hellmuth Obrig's co-authors include Arno Villringer, Jens Steinbrink, R. Wenzel, Ulrich Dirnagl, Matthias Kohl, Stefan Koch, Heidrun Wabnitz, H. Rinneberg, Kâmil Uludaǧ and Isabell Wartenburger and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Hellmuth Obrig

134 papers receiving 8.2k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hellmuth Obrig Germany	48	5.1k	3.9k	3.6k	1.2k	571	144	8.3k
Theodore J. Huppert United States	39	3.8k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	332 0.6×	118	6.3k
Ilias Tachtsidis United Kingdom	40	4.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	206 0.4×	217	6.4k
Yoko Hoshi Japan	32	3.2k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	264 0.5×	118	5.1k
Gary Strangman United States	26	3.1k 0.6×	1.7k 0.4×	2.2k 0.6×	885 0.7×	217 0.4×	65	4.8k
Maria Angela Franceschini United States	53	8.3k 1.7×	2.4k 0.6×	6.5k 1.8×	1.2k 1.0×	179 0.3×	166	10.6k
Atsushi Maki Japan	31	2.8k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	665 0.5×	212 0.4×	99	4.2k
Ann‐Christine Ehlis Germany	53	2.7k 0.5×	5.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.3×	1.8k 1.5×	1.6k 2.9×	231	9.1k
Chaozhe Zhu China	42	4.2k 0.8×	8.2k 2.1×	479 0.1×	759 0.6×	1.3k 2.3×	92	10.5k
Solomon Diamond United States	22	2.0k 0.4×	1.4k 0.4×	1.4k 0.4×	558 0.5×	157 0.3×	65	3.4k
Guang H. Yue United States	45	695 0.1×	2.6k 0.7×	2.3k 0.6×	398 0.3×	130 0.2×	184	6.0k

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Bella, Simone Dalla, et al.. (2024). Inhibitory control and working memory predict rhythm production abilities in patients with neurocognitive deficits. Neuropsychologia. 204. 109009–109009. 2 indexed citations

Männel, Claudia, et al.. (2024). Perceptual anchoring: Children with dyslexia benefit less than controls from contextual repetitions in speech processing. Clinical Neurophysiology. 166. 117–128.

Obrig, Hellmuth, et al.. (2022). Web-based language production experiments: Semantic interference assessment is robust for spoken and typed response modalities. Behavior Research Methods. 55(1). 236–262. 7 indexed citations

Rahman, Rasha Abdel, et al.. (2021). Semantic Interference through Multiple Distractors in Picture Naming in People with Aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 33(8). 1612–1633. 3 indexed citations

Rahman, Rasha Abdel, et al.. (2020). A novel multi-word paradigm for investigating semantic context effects in language production. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0230439–e0230439. 3 indexed citations

Bella, Simone Dalla, Charles-Étienne Benoit, Nicolas Farrugia, et al.. (2017). Gait improvement via rhythmic stimulation in Parkinson’s disease is linked to rhythmic skills. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 42005–42005. 123 indexed citations

Dukart, Juergen, Robert Perneczky, Stefan Förster, et al.. (2013). Reference Cluster Normalization Improves Detection of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration by Means of FDG-PET. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e55415–e55415. 44 indexed citations

Piper, Sophie K., Stefan Koch, Jan Mehnert, et al.. (2013). A wearable multi-channel fNIRS system for brain imaging in freely moving subjects. NeuroImage. 85. 64–71. 336 indexed citations

Obrig, Hellmuth. (2013). NIRS in clinical neurology — a ‘promising’ tool?. NeuroImage. 85. 535–546. 188 indexed citations

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Obrig, Hellmuth. (2010). From acoustic segmentation to language processing: evidence from optical imaging. PubMed. 2. 51 indexed citations

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Telkemeyer, Silke, Sonja Rossi, Stefan Koch, et al.. (2009). Sensitivity of Newborn Auditory Cortex to the Temporal Structure of Sounds. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(47). 14726–14733. 187 indexed citations

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Mehnert, Jan, Daniel S. Margulies, Christoph Schmitz, et al.. (2009). Resting-State Networks Revealed with Whole-head Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. NeuroImage. 47. S163–S163. 1 indexed citations

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Steinbrink, Jens, Adam Liebert, Heidrun Wabnitz, et al.. (2008). Towards Noninvasive Molecular Fluorescence Imaging of the Human Brain. Neurodegenerative Diseases. 5(5). 296–303. 36 indexed citations

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Dresler, Martin, Renate Wehrle, Saskia B.J. Koch, et al.. (2008). Dream imaging - how to read the sleeping brain. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 17. 92–92. 3 indexed citations

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Obrig, Hellmuth, et al.. (2007). The oxygenation response to functional stimulation: Is there a physiological meaning to the lag between parameters?. NeuroImage. 36(1). 100–107. 43 indexed citations

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Obrig, Hellmuth, et al.. (2003). Are VEP Correlated Fast Optical Signals Detectable in the Human Adult by Non-Invasive Nearinfrared Spectroscopy (NIRS)?. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 530. 421–431. 21 indexed citations

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Cannestra, Andrew F., Isabell Wartenburger, Hellmuth Obrig, Arno Villringer, & Arthur W. Toga. (2003). Functional assessment of Broca’s area using near infrared spectroscopy in humans. Neuroreport. 14(15). 1961–1965. 53 indexed citations

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Kohl‐Bareis, Matthias, et al.. (2001). <title>Noninvasive cerebral blood flow monitoring by a dye bolus method:separation of extra- and intracerebral absorption changes by frequency-domain spectroscopy</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4250. 296–300. 2 indexed citations

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Obrig, Hellmuth, Markus Neufang, R. Wenzel, et al.. (2000). Spontaneous Low Frequency Oscillations of Cerebral Hemodynamics and Metabolism in Human Adults. NeuroImage. 12(6). 623–639. 498 indexed citations

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Kohl‐Bareis, Matthias, Christian H. Nolte, Hauke R. Heekeren, et al.. (1998). <title>Changes in cytochrome-oxidase oxidation in the occipital cortex during visual simulation: improvement in sensitivity by the determination of the wavelength dependence of the differential pathlength</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3194. 18–27. 9 indexed citations

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