Kris Baetens

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Kris Baetens is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kris Baetens has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 30 papers in Social Psychology and 24 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Kris Baetens's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (27 papers), Vestibular and auditory disorders (18 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). Kris Baetens is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (27 papers), Vestibular and auditory disorders (18 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). Kris Baetens collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Kris Baetens's co-authors include Frank Van Overwalle, Marie Vandekerckhove, Peter Mariën, Ning Ma, Natacha Deroost, Chris Baeken, Elien Heleven, Qianying Ma, Min Pu and Naem Haihambo and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, Brain Research and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Kris Baetens

51 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and men... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 250 500 750
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.

  1. Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis
    2009 955 citations Frank Van Overwalle, Kris Baetens profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kris Baetens Belgium 17 1.5k 1.1k 465 375 299 54 2.2k
Christian Bellebaum Germany 27 2.0k 1.3× 348 0.3× 372 0.8× 434 1.2× 228 0.8× 102 2.5k
Mauro Adenzato Italy 26 1.6k 1.0× 882 0.8× 187 0.4× 517 1.4× 656 2.2× 84 2.8k
Fausto Caruana Italy 22 1.4k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 131 0.3× 416 1.1× 263 0.9× 51 1.9k
Kristin Prehn Germany 26 1.1k 0.7× 695 0.6× 332 0.7× 575 1.5× 369 1.2× 45 2.2k
Francesca Garbarini Italy 27 1.2k 0.8× 820 0.7× 189 0.4× 253 0.7× 473 1.6× 100 1.9k
Toshikatsu Fujii Japan 32 2.7k 1.8× 723 0.6× 177 0.4× 757 2.0× 560 1.9× 109 3.5k
Maureen Ritchey United States 28 3.2k 2.1× 532 0.5× 128 0.3× 628 1.7× 344 1.2× 55 4.0k
Monika Sommer Germany 22 999 0.7× 599 0.5× 139 0.3× 203 0.5× 427 1.4× 51 2.0k
Elisa Ciaramelli Italy 29 3.5k 2.3× 437 0.4× 163 0.4× 754 2.0× 384 1.3× 73 4.1k
Sarah R. Heilbronner United States 25 1.8k 1.2× 420 0.4× 112 0.2× 359 1.0× 183 0.6× 56 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Kris Baetens

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kris Baetens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kris Baetens

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baetens, Kris, et al.. (2025). Adaptation in attentional cautiousness among highly sensitive persons: Evidence from spatial cueing paradigm. Personality and Individual Differences. 237. 113042–113042.
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Li, Meijia, Min Pu, Kris Baetens, et al.. (2025). Human cerebellum and social navigation: cerebello-cerebral connectivity using dynamic causal modelling. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 20(1).
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Li, Meijia, Min Pu, Qianying Ma, et al.. (2024). One step too far: social cerebellum in norm-violating navigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 19(1). 4 indexed citations
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Li, Meijia, Naem Haihambo, Qianying Ma, et al.. (2024). Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 19(1). 4 indexed citations
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Overwalle, Frank Van, Naem Haihambo, Qianying Ma, et al.. (2024). Cerebellar non-invasive stimulation of social and emotional mentalizing: A meta-analysis. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 1 indexed citations
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Baetens, Kris, et al.. (2024). Does transcranial direct current stimulation of the primary motor cortex improve implicit motor sequence learning in Parkinson's disease?. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 102(2). e25311–e25311. 4 indexed citations
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Baetens, Kris, et al.. (2024). The cerebellum is involved in implicit motor sequence learning. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 18. 1433867–1433867. 1 indexed citations
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Schependom, Jeroen Van, Kris Baetens, Guy Nagels, Simona Olmi, & Christian Beste. (2024). Neurophysiological avenues to better conceptualizing adaptive cognition. Communications Biology. 7(1). 626–626. 6 indexed citations
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Haihambo, Naem, Meijia Li, Qianying Ma, et al.. (2024). Exciting the social butterfly: Anodal cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation modulates neural activation during predictive social mentalizing. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 24(3). 100480–100480. 6 indexed citations
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Baetens, Kris, et al.. (2023). Differential effects of conventional and high‐definition transcranial direct‐current stimulation of the motor cortex on implicit motor sequence learning. European Journal of Neuroscience. 58(10). 4181–4194. 4 indexed citations
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Overwalle, Frank Van, Peter Van Schuerbeek, Hubert Raeymaekers, et al.. (2023). The effects of stimulating the cerebellum on social sequences: A tDCS-fMRI pilot study. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 23(3). 100373–100373. 7 indexed citations
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Heleven, Elien, et al.. (2023). Mentalizing and narrative coherence in autistic adults: Cerebellar sequencing and prediction. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 146. 105045–105045. 11 indexed citations
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Haihambo, Naem, Qianying Ma, Kris Baetens, et al.. (2023). To Do or Not to Do: The cerebellum and neocortex contribute to predicting sequences of social intentions. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 23(2). 323–339. 9 indexed citations
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Ma, Qianying, Min Pu, Naem Haihambo, et al.. (2022). Effective cerebello–cerebral connectivity during implicit and explicit social belief sequence learning using dynamic causal modeling. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 18(1). 14 indexed citations
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Li, Meijia, Min Pu, Kris Baetens, et al.. (2022). Mind your step: social cerebellum in interactive navigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 18(1). 12 indexed citations
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Baetens, Kris, et al.. (2021). Implicit learning of perceptual sequences is preserved in Parkinson’s disease.. Neuropsychology. 35(7). 679–690. 4 indexed citations
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Deroost, Natacha, Kris Baetens, Jochen Vandenbossche, & Eric Kerckhofs. (2018). Anodal tDCS of the Primary Motor Cortex and Motor Sequence Learning in a Large Sample of Patients with Parkinsons Disease. Neuropsychiatry. 8(1). 12 indexed citations
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Baetens, Kris, et al.. (2014). ERP correlates of script chronology violations. Brain and Cognition. 91. 113–122. 1 indexed citations
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Baetens, Kris, et al.. (2011). N400 and LPP in spontaneous trait inferences. Brain Research. 1418. 83–92. 44 indexed citations
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Baetens, Kris. (2008). Risk assessment in small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs UEAPME´s point of view. Safety and Health at Work. 3–5. 2 indexed citations

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