Leonhard Waschke

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 611 citations indexed

About

Leonhard Waschke is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonhard Waschke has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 611 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 1 paper in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 1 paper in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Leonhard Waschke's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (5 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (4 papers). Leonhard Waschke is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (5 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (4 papers). Leonhard Waschke collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Leonhard Waschke's co-authors include Jonas Obleser, Douglas D. Garrett, Niels A Kloosterman, Malte Wöstmann, Sarah Tune, Bradley Voytek, Thomas Donoghue, Lorenz Fiedler, Bernhard Spitzer and Christopher Summerfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Leonhard Waschke

10 papers receiving 611 citations

Hit Papers

Behavior needs neural variability 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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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.

  1. Behavior needs neural variability
    2021 166 citations Leonhard Waschke, Niels A Kloosterman et al. Neuron profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leonhard Waschke Germany 8 525 83 55 29 28 10 611
Aurelio Cortese Japan 12 451 0.9× 33 0.4× 70 1.3× 30 1.0× 36 1.3× 28 544
Márk Molnár Hungary 17 638 1.2× 71 0.9× 100 1.8× 21 0.7× 40 1.4× 31 737
Matthias Guggenmos Germany 15 566 1.1× 89 1.1× 157 2.9× 20 0.7× 15 0.5× 27 776
Xiaochuan Pan China 15 428 0.8× 176 2.1× 47 0.9× 22 0.8× 13 0.5× 37 573
Kinjan Parikh United States 3 385 0.7× 45 0.5× 76 1.4× 12 0.4× 20 0.7× 4 454
Verónica Mäki-Marttunen Norway 11 246 0.5× 55 0.7× 41 0.7× 33 1.1× 21 0.8× 22 359
Chantal Roggeman Belgium 12 479 0.9× 62 0.7× 98 1.8× 34 1.2× 27 1.0× 14 728
Francesco Di Gregorio Italy 12 354 0.7× 37 0.4× 61 1.1× 10 0.3× 31 1.1× 28 495
Ben M. Crittenden United Kingdom 7 576 1.1× 102 1.2× 96 1.7× 26 0.9× 17 0.6× 8 688
Briana L. Kennedy Australia 12 320 0.6× 34 0.4× 91 1.7× 18 0.6× 15 0.5× 30 408

Countries citing papers authored by Leonhard Waschke

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leonhard Waschke

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leonhard Waschke

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Waschke, Leonhard, et al.. (2025). Single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Nature Communications. 16(1). 236–236. 4 indexed citations
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Krohn, Stephan, et al.. (2023). A spatiotemporal complexity architecture of human brain activity. Science Advances. 9(5). eabq3851–eabq3851. 33 indexed citations
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Månsson, Kristoffer, Leonhard Waschke, Amirhossein Manzouri, et al.. (2021). Moment-to-Moment Brain Signal Variability Reliably Predicts Psychiatric Treatment Outcome. Biological Psychiatry. 91(7). 658–666. 33 indexed citations
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Waschke, Leonhard, Niels A Kloosterman, Jonas Obleser, & Douglas D. Garrett. (2021). Behavior needs neural variability. Neuron. 109(5). 751–766. 166 indexed citations breakdown →
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Waschke, Leonhard, Thomas Donoghue, Lorenz Fiedler, et al.. (2021). Modality-specific tracking of attention and sensory statistics in the human electrophysiological spectral exponent. eLife. 10. 127 indexed citations
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Waschke, Leonhard, Sarah Tune, & Jonas Obleser. (2019). Local cortical desynchronization and pupil-linked arousal differentially shape brain states for optimal sensory performance. eLife. 8. 75 indexed citations
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Wöstmann, Malte, Leonhard Waschke, & Jonas Obleser. (2018). Prestimulus neural alpha power predicts confidence in discriminating identical auditory stimuli. European Journal of Neuroscience. 49(1). 94–105. 43 indexed citations
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Spitzer, Bernhard, Leonhard Waschke, & Christopher Summerfield. (2017). Selective overweighting of larger magnitudes during noisy numerical comparison. Nature Human Behaviour. 1(8). 145–145. 47 indexed citations
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Waschke, Leonhard, Malte Wöstmann, & Jonas Obleser. (2017). States and traits of neural irregularity in the age-varying human brain. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 17381–17381. 76 indexed citations

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