Nir Lipsman

14.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
193 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Nir Lipsman is a scholar working on Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nir Lipsman has authored 193 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Neurology, 55 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 45 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nir Lipsman's work include Neurological disorders and treatments (82 papers), Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (43 papers) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (29 papers). Nir Lipsman is often cited by papers focused on Neurological disorders and treatments (82 papers), Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (43 papers) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (29 papers). Nir Lipsman collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Brazil. Nir Lipsman's co-authors include Andrés M. Lozano, Kullervo Hynynen, Ying Meng, Yuexi Huang, Clement Hamani, Chris Heyn, Michael L. Schwartz, Isabelle Aubert, Jin Woo Chang and Allison Bethune and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Nir Lipsman

182 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

Deep brain stimulation: current challenges and future directions

2019 879 citations Andrés M. Lozano, Nir Lipsman et al. Nature Reviews Neurology profile →
Blood–brain barrier opening in Alzheimer’s disease using MR-guided focused ultrasound

2018 666 citations Nir Lipsman, Ying Meng et al. profile →
Technology of deep brain stimulation: current status and future directions

2020 517 citations Joachim K. Krauss, Nir Lipsman et al. Nature Reviews Neurology profile →
Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in Primary Brain Tumors with Non-invasive MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound: A Clinical Safety and Feasibility Study

2019 464 citations Nir Lipsman, Yuexi Huang et al. profile →
MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy for essential tremor: a proof-of-concept study

2013 425 citations Nir Lipsman, Michael L. Schwartz et al. profile →
First-in-human trial of blood–brain barrier opening in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using MR-guided focused ultrasound

2019 350 citations Agessandro Abrahão, Ying Meng et al. profile →
A Systematic Review of the Effects of Resident Duty Hour Restrictions in Surgery

2014 338 citations Nir Lipsman et al. profile →
Applications of focused ultrasound in the brain: from thermoablation to drug delivery

2020 312 citations Ying Meng, Kullervo Hynynen et al. Nature Reviews Neurology profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nir Lipsman	3.3k	2.8k	2.1k	2.1k	1.4k	193	8.6k
Jin Woo Chang	4.1k 1.3×	1.5k 0.5×	2.8k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	841 0.6×	316	8.6k
Ali R. Rezai	6.5k 2.0×	1.7k 0.6×	4.0k 1.9×	1.9k 0.9×	2.2k 1.6×	252	12.3k
Michael Forsting	5.9k 1.8×	1.1k 0.4×	909 0.4×	5.4k 2.5×	960 0.7×	656	19.0k
Claus Zimmer	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	867 0.4×	5.2k 2.5×	1.4k 1.0×	577	16.7k
Stéphane Lehéricy	4.2k 1.3×	621 0.2×	2.1k 1.0×	3.9k 1.8×	1.6k 1.2×	205	12.4k
Gerald A. Grant	2.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	993 0.5×	2.4k 1.8×	335	11.3k
Arjun Sahgal	1.2k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	1.8k 0.8×	4.0k 1.9×	411 0.3×	738	21.7k
Simon J. Graham	1.3k 0.4×	768 0.3×	677 0.3×	3.7k 1.7×	647 0.5×	216	10.2k
David J. Mikulis	5.1k 1.6×	548 0.2×	1.6k 0.7×	4.3k 2.0×	1.3k 0.9×	354	18.0k
John M. Hoffman	1.4k 0.4×	698 0.2×	1.6k 0.7×	4.4k 2.1×	844 0.6×	206	11.6k

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Davidson, Benjamin, Kristiana Xhima, Rees Cosgrove, et al.. (2025). A roadmap for focused ultrasound applications in psychiatry: Proceedings of the 2024 symposium on focused ultrasound in psychiatry (FUS-PULSE). Brain stimulation. 18(5). 1651–1662. 1 indexed citations

Pople, Christopher B., Peter Truong, Benjamin Davidson, et al.. (2025). A novel interleaved TMS-MRS approach with standard MRI hardware. Brain stimulation. 19(1). 102997–102997.

Campos, Ana Carolina Pinheiro, Thallita Kelly Rabelo, Edward McCann, et al.. (2025). Sex differences in long-term fear and anxiety-like responses to deep brain stimulation in a preclinical model of PTSD. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 184. 198–209. 1 indexed citations

Silver, Debra L., Maureen T. Stewart, Peter Giacobbe, et al.. (2025). Glucose biomarkers and antidepressant response: A scoping review of interventions targeting major depressive disorder and metabolic dysfunction. Journal of Affective Disorders. 395(Pt A). 120606–120606.

Ong, Wee Loon, James Stewart, Arjun Sahgal, et al.. (2024). Predictors of Tumor Dynamics Over a 6-Week Course of Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy for Glioblastoma and the Effect on Survival. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 120(3). 750–759. 3 indexed citations

Cao, Xingshan, Peter Giacobbe, Jennifer S. Rabin, et al.. (2024). Antidepressant class and concurrent rTMS outcomes in major depressive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine. 75. 102760–102760. 4 indexed citations

Rodríguez‐Oroz, María, Raúl Martínez‐Fernández, Nir Lipsman, Shiro Horisawa, & Elena Moro. (2024). Bilateral Lesions in Parkinson's Disease: Gaps and Controversies. Movement Disorders. 40(2). 231–240. 1 indexed citations

Rabelo, Thallita Kelly, Ana Carolina Pinheiro Campos, Miloš R. Popović, et al.. (2024). Deep brain stimulation mitigates memory deficits in a rodent model of traumatic brain injury. Brain stimulation. 17(6). 1186–1196. 3 indexed citations

Cao, Xingshan, Peter Giacobbe, Jennifer S. Rabin, et al.. (2024). 201. Antidepressant Class and Concurrent rTMS Outcomes in Major Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Biological Psychiatry. 95(10). S182–S182.

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Bigford, Gregory E., Krista L. Lanctôt, Peter Giacobbe, et al.. (2024). Engaging Mood Brain Circuits with Psilocybin (EMBRACE): a study protocol for a randomized, placebo-controlled and delayed-start, neuroimaging trial in depression. Trials. 25(1). 441–441. 1 indexed citations

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Hamani, Clement, Benjamin Davidson, Jennifer S. Rabin, et al.. (2024). Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Focused Ultrasound Capsulotomy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 97(7). 698–706. 5 indexed citations

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Gouveia, Flavia Venetucci, Jürgen Germann, Gavin J.B. Elias, et al.. (2023). Multi-centre analysis of networks and genes modulated by hypothalamic stimulation in patients with aggressive behaviours. eLife. 12. 13 indexed citations

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Joutsa, Juho, Nir Lipsman, Andreas Horn, G. Rees Cosgrove, & Michael Fox. (2023). The return of the lesion for localization and therapy. Brain. 146(8). 3146–3155. 16 indexed citations

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Scantlebury, Nadia, Jennifer S. Rabin, Yana Yunusova, et al.. (2023). Safety of Bilateral Staged Magnetic Resonance‐Guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy for Essential Tremor. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. 10(10). 1559–1561. 16 indexed citations

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Feinstein, Anthony, et al.. (2022). Neuromodulation for the treatment of functional neurological disorder and somatic symptom disorder: a systematic review. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 93(3). 280–290. 17 indexed citations

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Ng, Enoch, et al.. (2022). Adverse childhood experiences and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation outcomes for depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. 320. 716–724. 6 indexed citations

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Cosgrove, G. Rees, Nir Lipsman, Andrés M. Lozano, et al.. (2022). Magnetic resonance imaging–guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy for essential tremor: 5-year follow-up results. Journal of neurosurgery. 138(4). 1028–1033. 46 indexed citations

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Davidson, Benjamin, Clement Hamani, Ying Meng, et al.. (2020). Examining cognitive change in magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound capsulotomy for psychiatric illness. Translational Psychiatry. 10(1). 397–397. 21 indexed citations

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Krauss, Joachim K., Nir Lipsman, Tipu Z. Aziz, et al.. (2020). Technology of deep brain stimulation: current status and future directions. Nature Reviews Neurology. 17(2). 75–87. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lipsman, Nir & Andrés M. Lozano. (2011). The most cited works in major depression: The ‘Citation classics’. Journal of Affective Disorders. 134(1-3). 39–44. 37 indexed citations

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