Lionel Barnett

5.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
32 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Lionel Barnett is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lionel Barnett has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 8 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Lionel Barnett's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (19 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (13 papers) and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (4 papers). Lionel Barnett is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (19 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (13 papers) and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (4 papers). Lionel Barnett collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Lionel Barnett's co-authors include Anil K. Seth, Adam B. Barrett, Terry Bossomaier, Michael Harré, Joseph T. Lizier, Seth Bullock, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, Robin Carhart‐Harris and Simone Sarasso and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Neuroscience and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Lionel Barnett

30 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Granger Causality and Transfer Entropy Are Equivalent for Gaussian Variables

2009 740 citations Lionel Barnett, Adam B. Barrett et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
The MVGC multivariate Granger causality toolbox: A new approach to Granger-causal inference

2013 681 citations Lionel Barnett, Anil K. Seth Journal of Neuroscience Methods profile →
Granger Causality Analysis in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

2015 563 citations Anil K. Seth, Adam B. Barrett et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lionel Barnett United Kingdom	19	2.0k	484	481	450	314	32	3.5k
Sebastiano Stramaglia Italy	28	1.7k 0.8×	405 0.8×	330 0.7×	404 0.9×	123 0.4×	143	3.0k
Adam B. Barrett United Kingdom	27	2.6k 1.3×	353 0.7×	348 0.7×	361 0.8×	394 1.3×	46	4.5k
Joseph T. Lizier Australia	35	1.8k 0.9×	924 1.9×	422 0.9×	678 1.5×	275 0.9×	90	3.8k
Milan Paluš Czechia	35	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 2.4×	1.1k 2.3×	483 1.1×	320 1.0×	95	4.4k
Steven B. Lowen United States	31	1.2k 0.6×	744 1.5×	508 1.1×	213 0.5×	426 1.4×	68	3.1k
Daniele Marinazzo Belgium	41	3.9k 1.9×	477 1.0×	383 0.8×	484 1.1×	346 1.1×	171	5.6k
Viola Priesemann Germany	25	1.9k 1.0×	402 0.8×	329 0.7×	288 0.6×	585 1.9×	70	3.2k
Klaus Linkenkaer‐Hansen Netherlands	35	4.8k 2.4×	441 0.9×	486 1.0×	249 0.6×	748 2.4×	73	5.6k
Björn Schelter Germany	24	2.1k 1.0×	193 0.4×	205 0.4×	233 0.5×	421 1.3×	60	2.8k
Michael Wibral Germany	41	5.2k 2.6×	495 1.0×	446 0.9×	480 1.1×	1.2k 3.7×	97	6.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lionel Barnett

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All Works

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Novelli, Leonardo, Lionel Barnett, Anil K. Seth, & Adeel Razi. (2025). Minimum‐Phase Property of the Hemodynamic Response Function, and Implications for Granger Causality in fMRI. Human Brain Mapping. 46(10). e70285–e70285.

Barnett, Lionel, et al.. (2025). Capturing the emergent dynamical structure in biophysical neural models. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(5). e1012572–e1012572.

Barnett, Lionel & Anil K. Seth. (2023). Dynamical independence: Discovering emergent macroscopic processes in complex dynamical systems. Physical review. E. 108(1). 14304–14304. 11 indexed citations

Brown, Joshua M., Terry Bossomaier, & Lionel Barnett. (2022). Information flow in first-order potts model phase transition. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 15145–15145. 1 indexed citations

Barnett, Lionel, Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, Robin Carhart‐Harris, & Anil K. Seth. (2019). Decreased directed functional connectivity in the psychedelic state. NeuroImage. 209. 116462–116462. 51 indexed citations

Bossomaier, Terry, et al.. (2018). Information flow around stock market collapse. Accounting and Finance. 58(S1). 45–58. 12 indexed citations

Barnett, Lionel & Anil K. Seth. (2017). Detectability of Granger causality for subsampled continuous-time neurophysiological processes. Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex). 48 indexed citations

Schartner, Michael, Andrea Pigorini, Steve A. Gibbs, et al.. (2017). Global and local complexity of intracranial EEG decreases during NREM sleep. Neuroscience of Consciousness. niw022–niw022. 92 indexed citations

Barnett, Lionel & Anil K. Seth. (2015). Granger causality for state-space models. Physical Review E. 91(4). 40101–40101. 122 indexed citations

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Barrett, Adam B. & Lionel Barnett. (2013). Granger causality is designed to measure effect, not mechanism. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 7. 6–6. 50 indexed citations

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Barnett, Lionel & Anil K. Seth. (2013). The MVGC multivariate Granger causality toolbox: A new approach to Granger-causal inference. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 223. 50–68. 681 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barnett, Lionel, Joseph T. Lizier, Michael Harré, Anil K. Seth, & Terry Bossomaier. (2013). Information Flow in a Kinetic Ising Model Peaks in the Disordered Phase. Physical Review Letters. 111(17). 74 indexed citations

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Barnett, Lionel & Anil K. Seth. (2011). Behaviour of Granger causality under filtering: Theoretical invariance and practical application. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 201(2). 404–419. 131 indexed citations

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Barnett, Lionel, Christopher L. Buckley, & Seth Bullock. (2011). Neural complexity: A graph theoretic interpretation. Physical Review E. 83(4). 41906–41906. 7 indexed citations

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Barrett, Adam B., Lionel Barnett, & Anil K. Seth. (2010). Multivariate Granger causality and generalized variance. Physical Review E. 81(4). 41907–41907. 173 indexed citations

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Buckley, Christopher L., Seth Bullock, & Lionel Barnett. (2010). Spatially embedded dynamics and complexity. Complexity. 16(2). 29–34. 2 indexed citations

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Bullock, Seth, Lionel Barnett, & Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. (2010). Spatial embedding and the structure of complex networks. Complexity. 16(2). 20–28. 16 indexed citations

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Barnett, Lionel, Adam B. Barrett, & Anil K. Seth. (2009). Granger Causality and Transfer Entropy Are Equivalent for Gaussian Variables. Physical Review Letters. 103(23). 238701–238701. 740 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barnett, Lionel, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, & Seth Bullock. (2007). Spatially embedded random networks. Physical Review E. 76(5). 56115–56115. 49 indexed citations

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Barnett, Lionel. (1998). Ruggedness and neutrality—the NKp family of fitness landscapes. 18–27. 66 indexed citations

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