Rafael Polanía

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Rafael Polanía is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael Polanía has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in Neurology and 5 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in Rafael Polanía's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (21 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (18 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (18 papers). Rafael Polanía is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (21 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (18 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (18 papers). Rafael Polanía collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Rafael Polanía's co-authors include Michael A. Nitsche, Walter Paulus, Christian C. Ruff, Marcus Grueschow, Andrea Antal, Giorgi Batsikadze, Marius Moisa, Todd A. Hare, Michael Woodford and Carsten Schmidt‐Samoa and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Rafael Polanía

45 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Studying and modifying brain function with non-invasive brain stimulation

2018 677 citations Rafael Polanía, Michael A. Nitsche et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
The Importance of Timing in Segregated Theta Phase-Coupling for Cognitive Performance

2012 425 citations Rafael Polanía, Michael A. Nitsche et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafael Polanía Switzerland	22	2.4k	1.9k	454	355	251	47	3.4k
Miriam C. Klein-Flügge United Kingdom	27	2.0k 0.8×	462 0.2×	438 1.0×	349 1.0×	236 0.9×	41	3.5k
Eran Dayan United States	21	1.7k 0.7×	728 0.4×	262 0.6×	346 1.0×	278 1.1×	50	2.7k
Borı́s Burle France	40	4.3k 1.8×	477 0.3×	186 0.4×	322 0.9×	277 1.1×	109	4.9k
Lawrence G. Appelbaum United States	33	2.4k 1.0×	442 0.2×	283 0.6×	145 0.4×	259 1.0×	107	3.8k
Veit Stuphorn United States	27	2.9k 1.2×	286 0.2×	429 0.9×	95 0.3×	238 0.9×	45	3.3k
Peter R. Murphy United Kingdom	26	2.2k 0.9×	238 0.1×	349 0.8×	278 0.8×	150 0.6×	54	2.9k
Joel L. Voss United States	41	4.1k 1.7×	738 0.4×	635 1.4×	156 0.4×	432 1.7×	109	5.4k
Vincenzo Romei Italy	35	4.5k 1.9×	1.1k 0.6×	496 1.1×	196 0.6×	264 1.1×	107	5.3k
Jan R. Wessel United States	31	2.9k 1.2×	273 0.1×	283 0.6×	86 0.2×	236 0.9×	66	3.4k
Ulrike M. Krämer Germany	34	2.0k 0.8×	394 0.2×	330 0.7×	83 0.2×	367 1.5×	102	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Rafael Polanía

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafael Polanía

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

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Bracey, Edward F., et al.. (2024). Orexin neurons mediate temptation-resistant voluntary exercise. Nature Neuroscience. 27(9). 1774–1782. 8 indexed citations

Zamorano, Francisco, et al.. (2024). Lateral prefrontal theta oscillations causally drive a computational mechanism underlying conflict expectation and adaptation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9858–9858. 2 indexed citations

Heng, Joseph, Antonino M. Cassarà, Esra Neufeld, et al.. (2024). Causal phase-dependent control of non-spatial attention in human prefrontal cortex. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(4). 743–757.

Potok, Weronika, Antonino M. Cassarà, Esra Neufeld, et al.. (2023). Modulation of Visual Contrast Sensitivity with tRNS across the Visual System, Evidence from Stimulation and Simulation. eNeuro. 10(6). ENEURO.0177–22.2023. 3 indexed citations

Zito, Giuseppe A., et al.. (2023). Self-modulation of the sense of agency via neurofeedback enhances sensory-guided behavioral control. Cerebral Cortex. 33(24). 11447–11455. 3 indexed citations

Ledergerber, Debora, et al.. (2023). Functional network dynamics between the anterior thalamus and the cortex in deep brain stimulation for epilepsy. Brain. 146(11). 4717–4735. 11 indexed citations

Ugazio, Giuseppe, Marcus Grueschow, Rafael Polanía, et al.. (2021). Neuro-computational foundations of moral preferences. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 17(3). 253–265. 5 indexed citations

Heng, Joseph, et al.. (2019). Weber’s Law: A Mechanistic Foundation after Two Centuries. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 23(11). 906–908. 6 indexed citations

Polanía, Rafael, Michael Woodford, & Christian C. Ruff. (2018). Efficient coding of subjective value. Nature Neuroscience. 22(1). 134–142. 105 indexed citations

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Zerbi, Valerio, Marius Moisa, Rafael Polanía, et al.. (2017). Concurrent tACS-fMRI Reveals Causal Influence of Power Synchronized Neural Activity on Resting State fMRI Connectivity. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(18). 4766–4777. 56 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Shinsuke, et al.. (2017). A causal account of the brain network computations underlying strategic social behavior. Nature Neuroscience. 20(8). 1142–1149. 122 indexed citations

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Polanía, Rafael, Marius Moisa, Alexander Opitz, Marcus Grueschow, & Christian C. Ruff. (2015). The precision of value-based choices depends causally on fronto-parietal phase coupling. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8090–8090. 97 indexed citations

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Beharelle, Anjali Raja, Rafael Polanía, Todd A. Hare, & Christian C. Ruff. (2015). Transcranial Stimulation over Frontopolar Cortex Elucidates the Choice Attributes and Neural Mechanisms Used to Resolve Exploration–Exploitation Trade-Offs. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(43). 14544–14556. 66 indexed citations

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Polanía, Rafael, Ian Krajbich, Marcus Grueschow, & Christian C. Ruff. (2014). Neural Oscillations and Synchronization Differentially Support Evidence Accumulation in Perceptual and Value-Based Decision Making. Neuron. 82(3). 709–720. 160 indexed citations

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Saiote, Catarina, et al.. (2013). High-Frequency TRNS Reduces BOLD Activity during Visuomotor Learning. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e59669–e59669. 38 indexed citations

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Polanía, Rafael, Walter Paulus, & Michael A. Nitsche. (2012). Reorganizing the Intrinsic Functional Architecture of the Human Primary Motor Cortex during Rest with Non-Invasive Cortical Stimulation. PLoS ONE. 7(1). e30971–e30971. 84 indexed citations

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Polanía, Rafael, Walter Paulus, & Michael A. Nitsche. (2011). Modulating cortico‐striatal and thalamo‐cortical functional connectivity with transcranial direct current stimulation. Human Brain Mapping. 33(10). 2499–2508. 315 indexed citations

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Gunka, Katrin, et al.. (2011). SPABBATS: A pathway-discovery method based on Boolean satisfiability that facilitates the characterization of suppressor mutants. BMC Systems Biology. 5(1). 5–5. 17 indexed citations

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Antal, Andrea, Rafael Polanía, Carsten Schmidt‐Samoa, Peter Dechent, & Walter Paulus. (2011). Transcranial direct current stimulation over the primary motor cortex during fMRI. NeuroImage. 55(2). 590–596. 190 indexed citations

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Polanía, Rafael, Michael A. Nitsche, & Walter Paulus. (2010). Modulating functional connectivity patterns and topological functional organization of the human brain with transcranial direct current stimulation. Human Brain Mapping. 32(8). 1236–1249. 338 indexed citations

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