Robert Oostenveld

52.6k total citations · 15 hit papers
148 papers, 32.7k citations indexed

About

Robert Oostenveld is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Oostenveld has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 32.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 24 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 18 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Robert Oostenveld's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (88 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (71 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (53 papers). Robert Oostenveld is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (88 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (71 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (53 papers). Robert Oostenveld collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Sweden and Germany. Robert Oostenveld's co-authors include Eric Maris, Pascal Fries, Jan‐Mathijs Schoffelen, Peter Praamstra, Ole Jensen, Thilo Womelsdorf, Andreas K. Engel, Peter Hagoort, Martin Vinck and Robert Desimone and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert Oostenveld

148 papers receiving 32.3k citations

Hit Papers

FieldTrip: Open Source Software for Advanced Anal... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2010 2007 2001 2011 2007 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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. FieldTrip: Open Source Software for Advanced Analysis of MEG, EEG, and Invasive Electrophysiological Data
    2010 7.2k citations Robert Oostenveld, Pascal Fries et al. profile →
  2. Nonparametric statistical testing of EEG- and MEG-data
    2007 5.9k citations Eric Maris, Robert Oostenveld profile →
  3. The five percent electrode system for high-resolution EEG and ERP measurements
    2001 1.4k citations Robert Oostenveld, Peter Praamstra Clinical Neurophysiology profile →
  4. An improved index of phase-synchronization for electrophysiological data in the presence of volume-conduction, noise and sample-size bias
    2011 1.1k citations Robert Oostenveld et al. NeuroImage profile →
  5. Modulation of Neuronal Interactions Through Neuronal Synchronization
    2007 965 citations Jan‐Mathijs Schoffelen, Robert Oostenveld et al. profile →
  6. Visual Areas Exert Feedforward and Feedback Influences through Distinct Frequency Channels
    2014 839 citations André M. Bastos, Julien Vezoli et al. Neuron profile →
  7. Prestimulus Oscillatory Activity in the Alpha Band Predicts Visual Discrimination Ability
    2008 657 citations Jan‐Mathijs Schoffelen, Robert Oostenveld et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  8. Increased auditory cortical representation in musicians
    1998 637 citations Robert Oostenveld et al. profile →
  9. Independent EEG Sources Are Dipolar
    2012 615 citations Arnaud Delorme, Robert Oostenveld et al. profile →
  10. Attentional Stimulus Selection through Selective Synchronization between Monkey Visual Areas
    2012 523 citations Conrado A. Bosman, Jan‐Mathijs Schoffelen et al. Neuron profile →
  11. Theta and Gamma Oscillations Predict Encoding and Retrieval of Declarative Memory
    2006 513 citations Robert Oostenveld, Eric Maris et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  12. Lead-DBS v2: Towards a comprehensive pipeline for deep brain stimulation imaging
    2018 474 citations Robert Oostenveld et al. NeuroImage profile →
  13. Good practice for conducting and reporting MEG research
    2012 472 citations Joachim Groß, Sylvain Baillet et al. NeuroImage profile →
  14. EEG and MEG Data Analysis in SPM8
    2011 451 citations Vladimir Litvak, Christophe Phillips et al. profile →
  15. EEG-BIDS, an extension to the brain imaging data structure for electroencephalography
    2019 239 citations Cyril Pernet, Stefan Appelhoff et al. Scientific Data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Oostenveld Netherlands 64 28.5k 5.6k 3.7k 2.2k 2.0k 148 32.7k
Robert T. Knight United States 96 28.6k 1.0× 4.4k 0.8× 5.1k 1.4× 3.4k 1.5× 1.4k 0.7× 381 33.9k
Andreas K. Engel Germany 79 27.2k 1.0× 9.0k 1.6× 2.8k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 309 31.7k
Pascal Fries Netherlands 68 33.6k 1.2× 11.0k 2.0× 2.7k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 180 37.8k
Leslie G. Ungerleider United States 84 28.0k 1.0× 2.8k 0.5× 5.0k 1.4× 4.3k 2.0× 880 0.4× 197 32.2k
Michael M. Merzenich United States 89 22.8k 0.8× 7.3k 1.3× 3.4k 0.9× 1.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 226 31.1k
Michael Petrides Canada 85 24.1k 0.8× 3.2k 0.6× 3.8k 1.0× 3.5k 1.6× 2.2k 1.1× 239 31.0k
Scott Makeig United States 81 43.6k 1.5× 4.6k 0.8× 6.7k 1.8× 3.8k 1.7× 893 0.4× 262 50.6k
Pierre Maquet Belgium 88 17.3k 0.6× 3.3k 0.6× 5.8k 1.6× 1.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 356 23.6k
Matthew F. S. Rushworth United Kingdom 100 27.1k 1.0× 3.5k 0.6× 3.6k 1.0× 4.9k 2.3× 1.4k 0.7× 223 34.5k
Thomas Elbert Germany 96 16.5k 0.6× 2.2k 0.4× 3.2k 0.9× 2.8k 1.3× 1.4k 0.7× 519 33.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stagg, Charlotte J., Lukas Frontzkowski, Robert Oostenveld, et al.. (2025). Human cortical high‐gamma power scales with movement rate in healthy participants and stroke survivors. The Journal of Physiology. 603(4). 873–893. 1 indexed citations
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Westner, Britta U., Daniel McCloy, Eric B. Larson, et al.. (2025). Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software. Imaging Neuroscience. 3. 2 indexed citations
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Vinding, Mikkel C., Å. Eriksson, Josefine Waldthaler, et al.. (2024). The Swedish National Facility for Magnetoencephalography Parkinson’s disease dataset. Scientific Data. 11(1). 150–150. 4 indexed citations
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Piai, Vitória, Robert Oostenveld, Jan‐Mathijs Schoffelen, & Maria Carla Piastra. (2024). The impact of CSF ‐filled cavities on scalp EEG and its implications. Psychophysiology. 61(10). e14624–e14624. 1 indexed citations
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Gramann, Klaus, Elke Warmerdam, Clint Hansen, et al.. (2024). Motion-BIDS: an extension to the brain imaging data structure to organize motion data for reproducible research. Scientific Data. 11(1). 716–716. 7 indexed citations
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Carota, Francesca, Jan‐Mathijs Schoffelen, Robert Oostenveld, & Peter Indefrey. (2023). Parallel or sequential? Decoding conceptual and phonological/phonetic information from MEG signals during language production. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 40(5-6). 298–317. 2 indexed citations
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Elam, Jennifer Stine, Matthew F. Glasser, Michael P. Harms, et al.. (2021). The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective. NeuroImage. 244. 118543–118543. 127 indexed citations
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Hong, Sungho, Jorge F. Mejías, Vincenzo Romano, et al.. (2020). Cerebellar Purkinje cells can differentially modulate coherence between sensory and motor cortex depending on region and behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(2). 38 indexed citations
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Vinding, Mikkel C., Panagiota Tsitsi, Josefine Waldthaler, et al.. (2020). Reduction of spontaneous cortical beta bursts in Parkinson’s disease is linked to symptom severity. Brain Communications. 2(1). fcaa052–fcaa052. 31 indexed citations
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Nenonen, Jukka, Matti Stenroos, Alexandre Gramfort, et al.. (2020). Comparison of beamformer implementations for MEG source localization. NeuroImage. 216. 116797–116797. 45 indexed citations
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Pernet, Cyril, Stefan Appelhoff, Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski, et al.. (2019). EEG-BIDS, an extension to the brain imaging data structure for electroencephalography. Scientific Data. 6(1). 103–103. 239 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stolk, Arjen, Sandon Griffin, Roemer van der Meij, et al.. (2018). Integrated analysis of anatomical and electrophysiological human intracranial data. Nature Protocols. 13(7). 1699–1723. 118 indexed citations
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Bastos, André M., Julien Vezoli, Conrado A. Bosman, et al.. (2014). Visual Areas Exert Feedforward and Feedback Influences through Distinct Frequency Channels. Neuron. 85(2). 390–401. 839 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lange, Joachim, Robert Oostenveld, & Pascal Fries. (2013). Reduced Occipital Alpha Power Indexes Enhanced Excitability Rather than Improved Visual Perception. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(7). 3212–3220. 152 indexed citations
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Groß, Joachim, Sylvain Baillet, Gareth R. Barnes, et al.. (2012). Good practice for conducting and reporting MEG research. NeuroImage. 65. 349–363. 472 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gerven, Marcel van, Botond Cseke, Robert Oostenveld, & Tom Heskes. (2009). Bayesian Source Localization with the Multivariate Laplace Prior. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 22. 1901–1909. 24 indexed citations
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Bastiaansen, Marcel, Robert Oostenveld, Ole Jensen, & Peter Hagoort. (2008). I see what you mean: Theta power increases are involved in the retrieval of lexical semantic information. Brain and Language. 106(1). 15–28. 185 indexed citations
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Willems, Roel M., Robert Oostenveld, & Peter Hagoort. (2008). Early decreases in alpha and gamma band power distinguish linguistic from visual information during spoken sentence comprehension. Brain Research. 1219. 78–90. 34 indexed citations
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Tuladhar, Anil M., Niels ter Huurne, Jan‐Mathijs Schoffelen, et al.. (2007). Parieto‐occipital sources account for the increase in alpha activity with working memory load. Human Brain Mapping. 28(8). 785–792. 281 indexed citations
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Oostenveld, Robert, Dick F. Stegeman, Peter Praamstra, & A. van Oosterom. (2003). Brain symmetry and topographic analysis of lateralized event-related potentials. Clinical Neurophysiology. 114(7). 1194–1202. 128 indexed citations

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