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

5 papers align trajectories

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.

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 Ulf Ziemann, Joseph Claßen et al. Brain stimulation profile →

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Claßen

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Effect of Cardiac Arrest Center Protocol Implementation on Survival After Nontraumatic Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest 2025 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·Georg Stachel, (unknown), (unknown), Gerrit Eichner, Karsten Lenk, Dominik Michalski, Joseph Claßen, Sirak Petros, Sebastian N. Stehr, (unknown), A. Gries	0
2	Postural imbalance without visual input is associated with specific neuropsychological deficits in older adults – results from the LIFE-adult study 2024 ·Frontiers in Neurology ·Eva Grill, Andreas Zwergal, Dorothee Saur, Julian Klingbeil, Christopher Fricke, Florian Schöberl, (unknown), (unknown), Steffi G. Riedel‐Heller, Joseph Claßen	1
3	Motor learning is modulated by dopamine availability in the sensorimotor putamen 2024 ·Brain Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Michael Rullmann, Swen Hesse, Osama Sabri, Max Wawrzyniak, Joseph Claßen, Christopher Fricke, Jost‐Julian Rumpf	3
4	Strukturen zur neurologischen Versorgung in Deutschland 2023 ·Peter Berlit, Julian Bösel, Joseph Claßen, Martin Glas, Susanne Knake, Darius G. Nabavi, Stefan Schwab, Helge Topka, Lars Timmermann	0
5	Stroke survivors’ preferences on assessing patient-reported outcome measures 2023 ·Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes ·(unknown), Daniela Geisler, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Christian Voigt, (unknown), Thomas Neumuth, Joseph Claßen, Markus Wagner, Dominik Michalski	3
6	Motor learning is independent of effects of subthalamic deep brain stimulation on motor execution 2023 ·Brain Communications ·(unknown), Christopher Fricke, (unknown), Max Wawrzyniak, Elinor Tzvi, Dirk Winkler, Joseph Claßen, Jost‐Julian Rumpf	4
7	Cross-frequency phase-amplitude coupling in repetitive movements in patients with Parkinson’s disease 2022 ·Journal of Neurophysiology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Christopher Fricke, Jost‐Julian Rumpf, Thomas R. Knösche, Joseph Claßen	10
8	Interplay of tau and functional network connectivity in progressive supranuclear palsy: a [18F]PI-2620 PET/MRI study 2022 ·European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging ·Gayanè Aghakhanyan, Michael Rullmann, Jost‐Julian Rumpf, Matthias L. Schroeter, Cordula Scherlach, Marianne Patt, Matthias Brendel, Norman Koglin, Andrew Stephens, Joseph Claßen, Karl‐Titus Hoffmann, Osama Sabri, Henryk Barthel	8
9	Motor sequence learning in patients with ideomotor apraxia: Effects of long-term training 2021 ·Neuropsychologia ·(unknown), (unknown), Avi Karni, (unknown), Julien Doyon, Bradley R. King, Joseph Claßen, Jost‐Julian Rumpf, Giovanni Buccino, Antonello Pellicano, Juliane Klann, Ferdinand Binkofski	1
10	Spatiotemporal features of β-γ phase-amplitude coupling in Parkinson’s disease derived from scalp EEG 2020 ·Brain ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Richard Gast, Christopher Fricke, Jost‐Julian Rumpf, Vadim V. Nikulin, Thomas R. Knösche, Joseph Claßen	45
11	Motor Performance But Neither Motor Learning Nor Motor Consolidation Are Impaired in Chronic Cerebellar Stroke Patients 2020 ·The Cerebellum ·(unknown), Christopher Fricke, Anika Stockert, Joseph Claßen, Jost‐Julian Rumpf	7
12	Treatment of established status epilepticus in the elderly - a study protocol for a prospective multicenter double-blind comparative effectiveness trial (ToSEE) 2020 ·BMC Neurology ·(unknown), (unknown), Meinhard Mende, (unknown), Felix Rosenow, Hajo M. Hamer, Joseph Claßen	10
13	Assessing blink reflex circuits by three different afferent routes in Parkinson’s disease 2019 ·Clinical Neurophysiology ·David Weise, (unknown), Johann Pelz, Jost‐Julian Rumpf, Christopher Fricke, Joseph Claßen	5
14	Compromised tDCS-induced facilitation of motor consolidation in patients with multiple sclerosis 2018 ·Journal of Neurology ·Jost‐Julian Rumpf, (unknown), Muriel Stoppe, Christopher Fricke, David Weise, Florian Then Bergh, Joseph Claßen	16
15	Consensus Paper: Probing Homeostatic Plasticity of Human Cortex With Non-invasive Transcranial Brain Stimulation 2015 ·Brain stimulation ·Anke Ninija Karabanov, Ulf Ziemann, Masashi Hamada, Mark S. George, Angelo Quartarone, Joseph Claßen, Marcello Massimini, John C. Rothwell, Hartwig R. Siebner	106
16	Lying obliquely--a clinical sign of cognitive impairment: cross sectional observational study 2009 ·BMJ ·Peter Kraft, (unknown), Matthias J. Wieser, Jeffrey Jennings, Joseph Claßen	1
17	To: The chemokine receptor CCR5 deletion mutation is associated with MS in HLA-DR4-positive Russians 2003 ·Neurology ·Stuart R. Snider, Franz H. Messerli, (unknown), Kirn R. Kessler, Alfons Schnitzler, Joseph Claßen, Reiner Benecke, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
18	A Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Rule Governing Plasticity in the Human Motor Cortex 2003 ·Journal of Neurophysiology ·Alexander Wolters, Friedhelm Sandbrink, A. Schlottmann, E. Kunesch, Katja Stefan, Leonardo G. Cohen, Reiner Benecke, Joseph Claßen	466
19	Stimulation of peripheral nerves using a novel magnetic coil 1999 ·Muscle & Nerve ·Ferdinand Binkofski, Joseph Claßen, R. Benecke	15
20	Die testikuläre intraepitheliale Neoplasie (TIN) : Indikation zur Strahlentherapie ? 1998 ·Strahlentherapie und Onkologie ·Joseph Claßen, K.‐P. Dieckmann, V. Loy, M. Bamberg	4

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