Marcel Stimberg

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 839 citations indexed

About

Marcel Stimberg is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcel Stimberg has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 839 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Marcel Stimberg's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (12 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (6 papers). Marcel Stimberg is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (12 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (6 papers). Marcel Stimberg collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Marcel Stimberg's co-authors include Dan F. M. Goodman, Romain Brette, Victor Benichoux, Pierre Yger, Baptiste Lefebvre, Olivier Marre, Günther Zeck, Elric Esposito, Jens Duebel and Christophe Gardella and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Scientific Reports and Cerebral Cortex.

In The Last Decade

Marcel Stimberg

16 papers receiving 834 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.

  1. Brian 2, an intuitive and efficient neural simulator
    2019 389 citations Marcel Stimberg, Romain Brette et al. eLife profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marcel Stimberg France 9 615 433 417 134 56 17 839
Guillaume Hennequin United Kingdom 13 789 1.3× 377 0.9× 283 0.7× 151 1.1× 49 0.9× 25 932
Brian DePasquale United States 9 627 1.0× 303 0.7× 171 0.4× 159 1.2× 33 0.6× 14 785
Rudy Guyonneau France 7 796 1.3× 422 1.0× 586 1.4× 207 1.5× 33 0.6× 8 958
Pierre Yger France 16 650 1.1× 470 1.1× 203 0.5× 68 0.5× 92 1.6× 39 1.1k
Tobias C. Potjans Japan 8 651 1.1× 404 0.9× 261 0.6× 73 0.5× 38 0.7× 15 781
Zenas C. Chao Japan 15 775 1.3× 512 1.2× 214 0.5× 49 0.4× 49 0.9× 40 937
Rufin Van Rullen France 5 784 1.3× 329 0.8× 569 1.4× 269 2.0× 52 0.9× 6 1.0k
Fopefolu Folowosele United States 8 722 1.2× 620 1.4× 1.1k 2.6× 306 2.3× 37 0.7× 16 1.5k
Christian Tetzlaff Germany 16 553 0.9× 422 1.0× 299 0.7× 107 0.8× 79 1.4× 49 832
Eilif Müller Switzerland 17 577 0.9× 357 0.8× 187 0.4× 50 0.4× 85 1.5× 35 739

Countries citing papers authored by Marcel Stimberg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcel Stimberg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcel Stimberg

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

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Bernaerts, Yves, Michael Deistler, Pedro J. Gonçalves, et al.. (2025). Combined statistical-biophysical modeling links ion channel genes to physiology of cortical neuron types. Patterns. 6(10). 101323–101323. 1 indexed citations
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Stimberg, Marcel, et al.. (2022). Brian2CUDA: Flexible and Efficient Simulation of Spiking Neural Network Models on GPUs. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 16. 883700–883700. 10 indexed citations
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Nowotny, Thomas, James P. Turner, Fawad Ali, et al.. (2021). genn-team/genn: GeNN 4.5.1. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Stimberg, Marcel, Dan F. M. Goodman, & Thomas Nowotny. (2020). Brian2GeNN: accelerating spiking neural network simulations with graphics hardware. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 29 indexed citations
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Nowotny, Thomas, James P. Turner, Fawad Ali, et al.. (2020). genn-team/genn: GeNN 4.3.3. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Stimberg, Marcel, Romain Brette, & Dan F. M. Goodman. (2019). Brian 2, an intuitive and efficient neural simulator. eLife. 8. 389 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yger, Pierre, Elric Esposito, Baptiste Lefebvre, et al.. (2018). A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo. eLife. 7. 221 indexed citations
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Lefebvre, Baptiste, Marcel Stimberg, Olivier Marre, & Pierre Yger. (2018). Online template-matching based spike sorting for microelectrode arrays with hundreds of channels. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 12. 1 indexed citations
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Yger, Pierre, Marcel Stimberg, & Romain Brette. (2015). Fast Learning with Weak Synaptic Plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(39). 13351–13362. 19 indexed citations
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Stimberg, Marcel, Dan F. M. Goodman, Victor Benichoux, & Romain Brette. (2014). Equation-oriented specification of neural models for simulations. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 8. 6–6. 103 indexed citations
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Nowotny, Thomas, Alex Cope, Marcel Stimberg, et al.. (2014). SpineML and Brian 2.0 interfaces for using GPU enhanced Neuronal Networks (GeNN). BMC Neuroscience. 15(S1). 5 indexed citations
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Goodman, Dan F. M., Marcel Stimberg, Pierre Yger, & Romain Brette. (2014). Brian 2: neural simulations on a variety of computational hardware. BMC Neuroscience. 15(S1). 12 indexed citations
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Benichoux, Victor, Marcel Stimberg, Bertrand Fontaine, & Romain Brette. (2013). A unifying theory of ITD-based sound azimuth localization at the behavioral and neural levels. BMC Neuroscience. 14(S1). 2 indexed citations
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Stimberg, Marcel, Dan F. M. Goodman, Victor Benichoux, & Romain Brette. (2013). Brian 2 - the second coming: spiking neural network simulation in Python with code generation. BMC Neuroscience. 14(S1). 15 indexed citations
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Stimberg, Marcel, Klaus Wimmer, Robert L. Martin, et al.. (2009). The Operating Regime of Local Computations in Primary Visual Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 19(9). 2166–2180. 25 indexed citations
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Wimmer, Klaus, Marcel Stimberg, Robert L. Martin, et al.. (2008). Dependence of Orientation Tuning on Recurrent Excitation and Inhibition in a Network Model of V1. Neural Information Processing Systems. 21. 1769–1776.
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Stimberg, Marcel, Thomas Hoch, & Klaus Obermayer. (2006). The effect of background noise on the precision of pulse packet propagation in feed-forward networks. Neurocomputing. 70(10-12). 1824–1828. 5 indexed citations

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