Joseph Claßen

23.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
229 papers, 14.6k citations indexed

About

Joseph Claßen is a scholar working on Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Claßen has authored 229 papers receiving a total of 14.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Neurology, 86 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 66 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Joseph Claßen's work include Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (74 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (37 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (33 papers). Joseph Claßen is often cited by papers focused on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (74 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (37 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (33 papers). Joseph Claßen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Joseph Claßen's co-authors include Leonardo G. Cohen, Mark Hallett, Katja Stefan, E. Kunesch, Christian Gerloff, Pablo Celnik, Reiner Benecke, Eric M. Wassermann, R. Gentner and Steven P. Wise and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Claßen

219 papers receiving 14.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Depression of motor cortex excitability by low‐frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation

1997 1.7k citations Joseph Claßen et al. Neurology profile →
Rapid Plasticity of Human Cortical Movement Representation Induced by Practice

1998 883 citations Joseph Claßen, Leonardo G. Cohen et al. Journal of Neurophysiology profile →
Differential effects on motorcortical inhibition induced by blockade of GABA uptake in humans

1999 716 citations E. Kunesch, Reiner Benecke et al. profile →
Mechanisms of enhancement of human motor cortex excitability induced by interventional paired associative stimulation

2002 509 citations Katja Stefan, E. Kunesch et al. profile →
Consensus: Motor cortex plasticity protocols

2008 483 citations Joseph Claßen, Leonardo G. Cohen et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Joseph Claßen	9.0k	7.3k	3.3k	2.8k	2.0k	229	14.6k
Friedhelm C. Hummel	8.6k 1.0×	8.5k 1.2×	2.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	191	14.3k
Símone Rossi	7.2k 0.8×	7.7k 1.1×	1.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	275	14.8k
Pablo Celnik	8.0k 0.9×	7.2k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	127	12.5k
Brian L. Day	8.1k 0.9×	6.7k 0.9×	3.5k 1.0×	2.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	128	12.7k
Paulo S. Boggio	14.8k 1.6×	10.0k 1.4×	2.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	199	18.8k
Antonio Oliviero	8.2k 0.9×	5.7k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	3.2k 1.2×	2.6k 1.3×	209	13.4k
Roger Lemon	5.7k 0.6×	9.8k 1.3×	4.9k 1.5×	1.8k 0.6×	3.3k 1.7×	146	15.0k
Giacomo Koch	7.4k 0.8×	7.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.4×	2.9k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	348	14.5k
Michael C. Ridding	8.1k 0.9×	5.3k 0.7×	3.2k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	145	10.5k
Eric M. Wassermann	18.5k 2.0×	13.2k 1.8×	4.4k 1.3×	3.8k 1.4×	2.4k 1.2×	207	24.7k

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Stachel, Georg, Gerrit Eichner, Karsten Lenk, et al.. (2025). Effect of Cardiac Arrest Center Protocol Implementation on Survival After Nontraumatic Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(17). e038688–e038688.

Grill, Eva, Andreas Zwergal, Dorothee Saur, et al.. (2024). Postural imbalance without visual input is associated with specific neuropsychological deficits in older adults – results from the LIFE-adult study. Frontiers in Neurology. 15. 1452150–1452150. 1 indexed citations

Rullmann, Michael, Swen Hesse, Osama Sabri, et al.. (2024). Motor learning is modulated by dopamine availability in the sensorimotor putamen. Brain Communications. 6(6). fcae409–fcae409. 3 indexed citations

Berlit, Peter, Julian Bösel, Joseph Claßen, et al.. (2023). Strukturen zur neurologischen Versorgung in Deutschland. 6(5). 380–388.

Geisler, Daniela, Christian Voigt, Thomas Neumuth, et al.. (2023). Stroke survivors’ preferences on assessing patient-reported outcome measures. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes. 7(1). 124–124. 3 indexed citations

Fricke, Christopher, Max Wawrzyniak, Elinor Tzvi, et al.. (2023). Motor learning is independent of effects of subthalamic deep brain stimulation on motor execution. Brain Communications. 5(2). fcad070–fcad070. 4 indexed citations

Bozorgmehr, Farastuk, Ursula Nestle, Fabian Weykamp, et al.. (2023). 1293MO Safety and efficacy of hypo- and conventionally fractionated thoracic radiotherapy plus durvalumab in elderly or frail NSCLC stage III patients unfit for chemotherapy: Interim results from the TRADE-hypo trial. Annals of Oncology. 34. S746–S746. 2 indexed citations

Fricke, Christopher, et al.. (2022). Cross-frequency phase-amplitude coupling in repetitive movements in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neurophysiology. 127(6). 1606–1621. 10 indexed citations

Aghakhanyan, Gayanè, Michael Rullmann, Jost‐Julian Rumpf, et al.. (2022). Interplay of tau and functional network connectivity in progressive supranuclear palsy: a [18F]PI-2620 PET/MRI study. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 50(1). 103–114. 8 indexed citations

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Karni, Avi, Julien Doyon, Bradley R. King, et al.. (2021). Motor sequence learning in patients with ideomotor apraxia: Effects of long-term training. Neuropsychologia. 159. 107921–107921. 1 indexed citations

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Gast, Richard, Christopher Fricke, Jost‐Julian Rumpf, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal features of β-γ phase-amplitude coupling in Parkinson’s disease derived from scalp EEG. Brain. 144(2). 487–503. 45 indexed citations

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Fricke, Christopher, et al.. (2020). Motor Performance But Neither Motor Learning Nor Motor Consolidation Are Impaired in Chronic Cerebellar Stroke Patients. The Cerebellum. 19(2). 275–285. 7 indexed citations

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Weise, David, et al.. (2019). Assessing blink reflex circuits by three different afferent routes in Parkinson’s disease. Clinical Neurophysiology. 130(4). 582–587. 5 indexed citations

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Rumpf, Jost‐Julian, Muriel Stoppe, Christopher Fricke, et al.. (2018). Compromised tDCS-induced facilitation of motor consolidation in patients with multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology. 265(10). 2302–2311. 16 indexed citations

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Kraft, Peter, et al.. (2009). Lying obliquely--a clinical sign of cognitive impairment: cross sectional observational study. BMJ. 339(dec16 3). b5273–b5273. 1 indexed citations

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Claßen, Joseph, et al.. (2007). Non-Invasively Introduced Longterm-Potentiation of VEP Responses Without PERG Changes. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 48(13). 2343–2343. 1 indexed citations

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Snider, Stuart R., Franz H. Messerli, Kirn R. Kessler, et al.. (2003). To: The chemokine receptor CCR5 deletion mutation is associated with MS in HLA-DR4-positive Russians. Neurology. 60(3). 528–528. 1 indexed citations

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Wolters, Alexander, Friedhelm Sandbrink, A. Schlottmann, et al.. (2003). A Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Rule Governing Plasticity in the Human Motor Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 89(5). 2339–2345. 466 indexed citations

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Binkofski, Ferdinand, Joseph Claßen, & R. Benecke. (1999). Stimulation of peripheral nerves using a novel magnetic coil. Muscle & Nerve. 22(6). 751–757. 15 indexed citations

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Claßen, Joseph, K.‐P. Dieckmann, V. Loy, & M. Bamberg. (1998). Die testikuläre intraepitheliale Neoplasie (TIN) : Indikation zur Strahlentherapie ?. Strahlentherapie und Onkologie. 174(4). 173–177. 4 indexed citations

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