Markus Ploner

9.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Markus Ploner is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Ploner has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 46 papers in Physiology and 21 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Markus Ploner's work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (45 papers), Pain Management and Placebo Effect (28 papers) and Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (21 papers). Markus Ploner is often cited by papers focused on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (45 papers), Pain Management and Placebo Effect (28 papers) and Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (21 papers). Markus Ploner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Markus Ploner's co-authors include Alfons Schnitzler, Katja Wiech, Irene Tracey, Joachim Groß, Ulrike Bingel, Lars Timmermann, Laura Tiemann, Elisabeth S. May, Michael Lee and Hans‐Joachim Freund and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Markus Ploner

93 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Neurocognitive aspects of pain perception

2008 533 citations Katja Wiech, Markus Ploner et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil

2011 525 citations Ulrike Bingel, Vishvarani Wanigasekera et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Ploner Germany	40	4.2k	3.0k	1.1k	1.1k	991	93	6.5k
Robert C. Coghill United States	49	3.3k 0.8×	3.8k 1.3×	2.0k 1.8×	1.5k 1.4×	501 0.5×	128	7.9k
Anthony Jones United Kingdom	44	4.2k 1.0×	3.9k 1.3×	1.8k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	483 0.5×	157	8.7k
Ulrike Bingel Germany	52	6.0k 1.4×	3.8k 1.3×	1.8k 1.6×	2.3k 2.1×	425 0.4×	165	9.2k
Gary H. Duncan Canada	43	6.0k 1.4×	4.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.7×	1.4k 1.3×	590 0.6×	100	10.2k
B. Bromm Germany	40	2.6k 0.6×	3.0k 1.0×	897 0.8×	749 0.7×	610 0.6×	108	5.7k
Kenneth L. Casey United States	33	2.8k 0.7×	3.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	917 0.8×	266 0.3×	82	5.3k
Jon‐Kar Zubieta United States	52	5.1k 1.2×	3.7k 1.2×	2.3k 2.0×	2.4k 2.2×	500 0.5×	112	11.8k
Li Hu China	35	2.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	540 0.5×	516 0.5×	503 0.5×	180	4.4k
David A. Seminowicz United States	40	4.7k 1.1×	2.7k 0.9×	2.5k 2.2×	2.0k 1.9×	660 0.7×	115	9.9k
Jian Kong United States	66	6.1k 1.5×	2.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.8×	3.4k 3.1×	1.4k 1.4×	200	11.2k

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Hohn, Vanessa D., et al.. (2025). Neurofeedback and attention modulate somatosensory alpha oscillations but not pain perception. PLoS Biology. 23(1). e3002972–e3002972. 5 indexed citations

Hohn, Vanessa D., Elisabeth S. May, Laura Tiemann, et al.. (2025). Exploring electroencephalographic chronic pain biomarkers: a mega-analysis. EBioMedicine. 120. 105955–105955. 1 indexed citations

Heitmann, Henrik, et al.. (2024). Resting-state electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography in migraine–a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Journal of Headache and Pain. 25(1). 147–147. 1 indexed citations

May, Elisabeth S., Laura Tiemann, Vanessa D. Hohn, et al.. (2024). Assessing the balance between excitation and inhibition in chronic pain through the aperiodic component of EEG. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

Ploner, Markus, Alena Buyx, Jens Gempt, et al.. (2023). Reengineering neurotechnology: placing patients first. Nature Mental Health. 1(1). 5–7. 4 indexed citations

Nickel, Moritz M., Vanessa D. Hohn, Elisabeth S. May, et al.. (2023). Local brain oscillations and interregional connectivity differentially serve sensory and expectation effects on pain. Science Advances. 9(16). eadd7572–eadd7572. 12 indexed citations

Tiemann, Laura, Vanessa D. Hohn, Elisabeth S. May, et al.. (2023). DISCOVER-EEG: an open, fully automated EEG pipeline for biomarker discovery in clinical neuroscience. Scientific Data. 10(1). 613–613. 24 indexed citations

Bingel, Ulrike, Katja Wiech, Christoph Ritter, et al.. (2022). Hippocampus mediates nocebo impairment of opioid analgesia through changes in functional connectivity. European Journal of Neuroscience. 56(2). 3967–3978. 9 indexed citations

May, Elisabeth S., Son Ta Dinh, Henrik Heitmann, et al.. (2021). Dynamics of brain function in patients with chronic pain assessed by microstate analysis of resting-state electroencephalography. Pain. 162(12). 2894–2908. 26 indexed citations

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May, Elisabeth S., Vanessa D. Hohn, Moritz M. Nickel, et al.. (2021). Modulating Brain Rhythms of Pain Using Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) - A Sham-Controlled Study in Healthy Human Participants. Journal of Pain. 22(10). 1256–1272. 16 indexed citations

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Heitmann, Henrik, Moritz M. Nickel, Son Ta Dinh, et al.. (2021). Longitudinal resting-state electroencephalography in patients with chronic pain undergoing interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy. Pain. 163(9). e997–e1005. 14 indexed citations

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Nickel, Moritz M., Laura Tiemann, Vanessa D. Hohn, et al.. (2021). Temporal–spectral signaling of sensory information and expectations in the cerebral processing of pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(1). 25 indexed citations

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Dinh, Son Ta, Moritz M. Nickel, Laura Tiemann, et al.. (2019). Brain dysfunction in chronic pain patients assessed by resting-state electroencephalography. Pain. 160(12). 2751–2765. 87 indexed citations

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Nickel, Moritz M., Son Ta Dinh, Elisabeth S. May, et al.. (2019). Neural oscillations and connectivity characterizing the state of tonic experimental pain in humans. Human Brain Mapping. 41(1). 17–29. 32 indexed citations

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Ploner, Markus & Joachim Groß. (2019). Gamma Oscillations Shape Pain in Animals and Humans. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 23(6). 450–451. 3 indexed citations

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Heitmann, Henrik, Elisabeth S. May, Laura Tiemann, et al.. (2018). Motor Responses to Noxious Stimuli Shape Pain Perception in Chronic Pain Patients. eNeuro. 5(5). ENEURO.0290–18.2018. 3 indexed citations

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Tiemann, Laura, Vanessa D. Hohn, Son Ta Dinh, et al.. (2018). Distinct patterns of brain activity mediate perceptual and motor and autonomic responses to noxious stimuli. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4487–4487. 49 indexed citations

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Schulz, Enrico, Elisabeth S. May, Laura Tiemann, et al.. (2015). Prefrontal Gamma Oscillations Encode Tonic Pain in Humans. Cerebral Cortex. 25(11). 4407–4414. 184 indexed citations

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Ploner, Markus, Michael Lee, Katja Wiech, Ulrike Bingel, & Irene Tracey. (2009). Prestimulus functional connectivity determines pain perception in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(1). 355–360. 238 indexed citations

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Ploner, Markus, Jan‐Mathijs Schoffelen, Alfons Schnitzler, & Joachim Groß. (2009). Functional integration within the human pain system as revealed by Granger causality. Human Brain Mapping. 30(12). 4025–4032. 34 indexed citations

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