Josef Kessler

12.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
171 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Josef Kessler is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Josef Kessler has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 66 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 30 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Josef Kessler's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (48 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (25 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (24 papers). Josef Kessler is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (48 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (25 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (24 papers). Josef Kessler collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Czechia and Switzerland. Josef Kessler's co-authors include Elke Kalbe, Hans J. Markowitsch, Matthias Brand, Alexander Thiel, Karl Herholz, Wolf‐Dieter Heiss, Gereon R. Fink, Wolf–Dieter Heiss, Pasquale Calabrese and R. Mielke and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Josef Kessler

165 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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 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.

Cerebral Representation of One’s Own Past: Neural Networks Involved in Autobiographical Memory

1996 654 citations Gereon R. Fink, Hans J. Markowitsch et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Introducing MASC: A Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition

2006 618 citations Elke Kalbe, Matthias Brand et al. profile →
DemTect: a new, sensitive cognitive screening test to support the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and early dementia

2004 551 citations Elke Kalbe, Josef Kessler et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Josef Kessler	4.8k	2.5k	1.3k	1.2k	1.0k	171	8.9k
Paul J. Eslinger	5.3k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	590 0.5×	838 0.8×	169	10.3k
Lisa Cipolotti	6.3k 1.3×	3.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	992 0.8×	637 0.6×	194	11.6k
Karen F. Berman	7.6k 1.6×	4.0k 1.6×	994 0.8×	772 0.6×	927 0.9×	193	14.5k
Dominic ffytche	5.4k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	822 0.7×	677 0.7×	130	9.1k
Annalena Venneri	4.0k 0.8×	3.0k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	797 0.7×	470 0.5×	253	7.8k
Barry Gordon	5.2k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	995 0.8×	864 0.7×	611 0.6×	166	8.0k
Elke Kalbe	3.3k 0.7×	3.4k 1.4×	2.6k 2.0×	760 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	246	9.1k
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo	4.8k 1.0×	3.2k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	731 0.6×	345 0.3×	242	9.1k
Daniela Perani	5.9k 1.2×	3.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	406 0.4×	167	10.0k
Dean C. Delis	6.1k 1.3×	5.3k 2.1×	1.2k 1.0×	673 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	189	14.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kessler, Josef, et al.. (2025). Alters- und Bildungsnormen für das Kölner Neuropsychologische Screening für Schlaganfallpatienten (KöpSS). Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie. 36(2). 93–99.

Liu, Annie, et al.. (2025). Weathering the Pain: Ambient Temperature’s Role in Chronic Pain Syndromes. Current Pain and Headache Reports. 29(1). 31–31.

Jost, Stefanie T., Jan Niklas Petry‐Schmelzer, Till A. Dembek, et al.. (2024). Validation Study of the Parkinson’s Disease Stigma Questionnaire (PDStigmaQuest). Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 14(7). 1469–1480. 1 indexed citations

Voracek, Martin, et al.. (2023). The Influence of Age, Gender and Education on Neuropsychological Test Scores: Updated Clinical Norms for Five Widely Used Cognitive Assessments. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(16). 5170–5170. 8 indexed citations

Kalbe, Elke, et al.. (2023). O-DEM: ein neues kognitives Screening bei Schwerhörigkeit. HNO. 71(9). 599–606. 2 indexed citations

Jost, Stefanie T., Juan Carlos Baldermann, Jan Niklas Petry‐Schmelzer, et al.. (2023). Parkinson’s Disease Stigma Questionnaire (PDStigmaQuest): Development and Pilot Study of a Questionnaire for Stigma in Patients with Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 13(5). 829–839. 2 indexed citations

Steffen, Julia, Hannah Jergas, Jan Niklas Petry‐Schmelzer, et al.. (2020). Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation in Essential Tremor Plus Is as Effective as in Essential Tremor. Brain Sciences. 10(12). 970–970. 12 indexed citations

Kalbe, Elke, et al.. (2020). Concordance of Mini-Mental State Examination, Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Parkinson Neuropsychometric Dementia Assessment in the classification of cognitive performance in Parkinson's disease. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 412. 116735–116735. 19 indexed citations

Becker, Jutta, Gereon R. Fink, Josef Kessler, et al.. (2015). Cognitive training with and without additional physical activity in healthy older adults: cognitive effects, neurobiological mechanisms, and prediction of training success. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 7. 187–187. 70 indexed citations

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Ameli, Mitra, et al.. (2011). Arbitrary visuo-motor mapping during object manipulation in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: A pilot study. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 113(6). 453–458. 9 indexed citations

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Kalbe, Elke, et al.. (2011). French translation and normation of the Parkinson neuropsychometric dementia assessment (PANDA). Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 310(1-2). 189–193. 5 indexed citations

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Kalbe, Elke, Alexander T. Sack, Dennis A. Nowak, et al.. (2009). Dissociating cognitive from affective theory of mind: A TMS study. Cortex. 46(6). 769–780. 295 indexed citations

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Winhuisen, Lutz, Alexander Thiel, Josef Kessler, et al.. (2005). Role of the Contralateral Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Recovery of Language Function in Poststroke Aphasia. Stroke. 36(8). 1759–1763. 247 indexed citations

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Markowitsch, Hans J., et al.. (2000). Right Amygdalar and Temporofrontal Activation During Autobiographic, But Not During Fictitious Memory Retrieval. Behavioural Neurology. 12(4). 181–190. 95 indexed citations

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Kessler, Josef, et al.. (1999). Degenerative prefrontal damage in a young adult: Static and dynamic imaging and Neuropsychological Correlates. Neurocase. 5(2). 173–179. 2 indexed citations

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Markowitsch, Hans J., et al.. (1999). Autobiographical memory activates the right amygdala and temporo-frontal link - a pet study. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. 59(3). 3 indexed citations

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Markowitsch, Hans J., Alexander Thiel, Josef Kessler, Hans-Martin von Stockhausen, & Wolf‐Dieter Heiss. (1997). Ecphorizing semi-conscious information via the right temporopolar cortex-a pet study. Neurocase. 3(6). 445–449. 29 indexed citations

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Kessler, Josef, et al.. (1997). Massive and persistent anterograde amnesia in the absence of detectable brain damage: Anterograde psychogenic amnesia or gross reduction in sustained effort?. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 19(4). 604–614. 23 indexed citations

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Fink, Gereon R., et al.. (1996). Cerebral Representation of One’s Own Past: Neural Networks Involved in Autobiographical Memory. Journal of Neuroscience. 16(13). 4275–4282. 654 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pawlik, G., G. Pawlik, Gereon R. Fink, et al.. (1994). PET and functional testing in temporal lobe epilepsy. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 89(S152). 150–156. 7 indexed citations

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