K. Stefan

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

K. Stefan is a scholar working on Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Stefan has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Neurology, 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 3 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in K. Stefan's work include Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (6 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (4 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (3 papers). K. Stefan is often cited by papers focused on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (6 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (4 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (3 papers). K. Stefan collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. K. Stefan's co-authors include Joseph Claßen, Leonardo G. Cohen, Pablo Celnik, E. Kunesch, R. Benecke, Mark Hallett, Robert Chen, Joachim Liepert, Etienne Olivier and Armin Biller and has published in prestigious journals such as Brain, Neurology and Cerebral Cortex.

In The Last Decade

K. Stefan

8 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Induction of plasticity in the human motor cortex by paired associative stimulation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. Stefan Germany	8	1.2k	761	468	272	259	8	1.5k
H. Devanne France	19	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	745 1.6×	252 0.9×	178 0.7×	40	1.8k
R. Gentner Germany	14	734 0.6×	864 1.1×	510 1.1×	183 0.7×	216 0.8×	22	1.4k
M. C. Ridding United Kingdom	8	1.0k 0.8×	549 0.7×	496 1.1×	441 1.6×	216 0.8×	10	1.5k
Joachim Liepert Germany	17	914 0.8×	894 1.2×	500 1.1×	277 1.0×	184 0.7×	26	1.7k
Zaneb Yaseen United States	11	721 0.6×	657 0.9×	453 1.0×	179 0.7×	190 0.7×	18	1.4k
Sandra Beck Germany	16	850 0.7×	749 1.0×	433 0.9×	248 0.9×	150 0.6×	19	1.5k
Maryam Zoghi Australia	31	1.7k 1.4×	806 1.1×	627 1.3×	173 0.6×	165 0.6×	99	2.2k
Nguyet Dang United States	17	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	645 1.4×	380 1.4×	248 1.0×	23	2.0k
Leonardo Cohen United States	10	1.3k 1.1×	1.9k 2.4×	580 1.2×	212 0.8×	314 1.2×	11	2.6k
Katja Stefan Germany	11	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	578 1.2×	352 1.3×	357 1.4×	14	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by K. Stefan

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Fields of papers citing papers by K. Stefan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. Stefan

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Pačaiová, Hana, et al.. (2012). Positive and negative aspect in application of maintenance management philosophy. Istrazivanja i projektovanja za privredu. 10(2). 99–105. 8 indexed citations

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Zeller, Daniel, K. Stefan, Armin Biller, et al.. (2010). Functional role of ipsilateral motor areas in multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 82(5). 578–583. 23 indexed citations

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Zeller, Daniel, Armin Biller, K. Stefan, et al.. (2010). Rapid-onset central motor plasticity in multiple sclerosis. Neurology. 74(9). 728–735. 62 indexed citations

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Stefan, K., Joseph Claßen, Pablo Celnik, & Leonardo G. Cohen. (2008). Concurrent action observation modulates practice‐induced motor memory formation. European Journal of Neuroscience. 27(3). 730–738. 113 indexed citations

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Duqué, Julie, Riccardo Mazzocchio, K. Stefan, et al.. (2007). Memory Formation in the Motor Cortex Ipsilateral to a Training Hand. Cerebral Cortex. 18(6). 1395–1406. 46 indexed citations

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Claßen, Joseph, Joachim Liepert, K. Stefan, et al.. (2000). Cutaneomotor integration in humans is somatotopically organized at various levels of the nervous system and is task dependent. Experimental Brain Research. 130(1). 48–59. 119 indexed citations

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Stefan, K.. (2000). Induction of plasticity in the human motor cortex by paired associative stimulation. Brain. 123(3). 572–584. 1129 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kunesch, E., et al.. (1999). Task-dependent modulation of inhibitory actions within the primary motor cortex. Experimental Brain Research. 124(3). 321–330. 34 indexed citations

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