Roberto Toro

21.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Roberto Toro is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Toro has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 20 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Roberto Toro's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (24 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (21 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (14 papers). Roberto Toro is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (24 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (21 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (14 papers). Roberto Toro collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. Roberto Toro's co-authors include Peter T. Fox, Christian F. Beckmann, Nicola Filippini, Angela R. Laird, P. Mickle Fox, David C. Glahn, Stephen M. Smith, Karla L. Miller, Kate E. Watkins and Clare E. Mackay and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Toro

74 papers receiving 7.3k citations

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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.

Correspondence of the brain's functional architecture during activation and rest

2009 4.0k citations Roberto Toro, Christian F. Beckmann et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roberto Toro France	31	5.7k	2.1k	878	807	682	76	7.4k
Katie L. McMahon Australia	48	4.4k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	749 0.9×	916 1.1×	439 0.6×	285	7.2k
Aaron Alexander‐Bloch United States	32	4.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	761 0.9×	883 1.1×	357 0.5×	83	5.8k
Anderson M. Winkler United States	35	5.1k 0.9×	3.1k 1.5×	1.5k 1.8×	1.2k 1.5×	493 0.7×	112	9.0k
Greig I. de Zubicaray Australia	50	5.2k 0.9×	3.0k 1.5×	1.6k 1.8×	923 1.1×	526 0.8×	259	8.4k
Mark A. Eckert United States	45	4.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	777 0.9×	888 1.1×	469 0.7×	112	7.5k
Ronald A. Yeo United States	45	3.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	448 0.7×	127	7.0k
Tobias Kaufmann Norway	50	3.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	835 1.0×	912 1.1×	461 0.7×	169	7.1k
Armin Raznahan United States	42	4.9k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.3×	1.4k 2.0×	133	8.4k
Lisa T. Eyler United States	47	4.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	2.4k 2.8×	958 1.2×	785 1.2×	198	7.7k
Neeltje E.M. van Haren Netherlands	42	3.5k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	2.7k 3.0×	802 1.0×	733 1.1×	155	6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Toro

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Choi, Gary P. T., et al.. (2025). Morphogenesis and morphometry of brain folding patterns across species.

Messé, Arnaud, Florian Pieper, Edgar Galindo‐Leon, et al.. (2023). Structural basis of envelope and phase intrinsic coupling modes in the cerebral cortex. NeuroImage. 276. 120212–120212. 2 indexed citations

Toro, Roberto, et al.. (2023). Phylogenetic comparative analysis of the cerebello-cerebral system in 34 species highlights primate-general expansion of cerebellar crura I-II. Communications Biology. 6(1). 1188–1188. 3 indexed citations

Heuer, Katja, Nicolas Traut, Alexandra A. de Sousa, et al.. (2023). Diversity and evolution of cerebellar folding in mammals. eLife. 12. 11 indexed citations

Loth, Eva, Jumana Ahmad, Chris Chatham, et al.. (2021). The meaning of significant mean group differences for biomarker discovery. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(11). e1009477–e1009477. 26 indexed citations

Peyre, Hugo, Katarzyna Jednoróg, Stefan Heim, et al.. (2020). Neuroanatomy of dyslexia: An allometric approach. European Journal of Neuroscience. 52(6). 3595–3609. 4 indexed citations

Heuer, Katja & Roberto Toro. (2020). Reorient: A Web tool for reorienting and cropping MRI data.. The Journal of Open Source Software. 5(55). 2670–2670.

Messé, Arnaud, Leigh‐Anne Dell, Katja Heuer, et al.. (2019). Comparison between diffusion MRI tractography and histological tract-tracing of cortico-cortical structural connectivity in the ferret brain. Network Neuroscience. 3(4). 1038–1050. 32 indexed citations

Warrier, Varun, Roberto Toro, Hyejung Won, et al.. (2019). Social and non-social autism symptoms and trait domains are genetically dissociable. Communications Biology. 2(1). 328–328. 55 indexed citations

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Heuer, Katja & Roberto Toro. (2019). Role of mechanical morphogenesis in the development and evolution of the neocortex. Physics of Life Reviews. 31. 233–239. 22 indexed citations

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Heuer, Katja, Ömer Faruk Gülban, Pierre‐Louis Bazin, et al.. (2019). Evolution of neocortical folding: A phylogenetic comparative analysis of MRI from 34 primate species. Cortex. 118. 275–291. 42 indexed citations

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Toro, Roberto, Rembrandt Bakker, Thierry Delzescaux, Alan C. Evans, & Paul Tiesinga. (2018). FIIND: Ferret Interactive Integrated Neurodevelopment Atlas. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1 indexed citations

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Trejo, Miguel, et al.. (2018). Mechanical morphogenesis and the development of neocortical organisation. Cortex. 118. 315–326. 24 indexed citations

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Cauvet, Élodie, Roberto Toro, Ralf Kuja‐Halkola, et al.. (2018). Sex Differences Along the Autism Continuum: A Twin Study of Brain Structure. Cerebral Cortex. 29(3). 1342–1350. 37 indexed citations

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Warrier, Varun, Katrina L. Grasby, Florina Uzefovsky, et al.. (2017). Genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy: heritability, and correlates with sex, neuropsychiatric conditions and cognition. Molecular Psychiatry. 23(6). 1402–1409. 100 indexed citations

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Traut, Nicolas, Anita Beggiato, Thomas Bourgeron, et al.. (2017). Cerebellar Volume in Autism: Literature Meta-analysis and Analysis of the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange Cohort. Biological Psychiatry. 83(7). 579–588. 47 indexed citations

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Kepa, Agnieszka, Susanne Erk, Deepak P. Srivastava, et al.. (2017). Associations of the Intellectual Disability Gene MYT1L with Helix–Loop–Helix Gene Expression, Hippocampus Volume and Hippocampus Activation During Memory Retrieval. Neuropsychopharmacology. 42(13). 2516–2526. 19 indexed citations

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Lévy‐Leduc, Céline, et al.. (2015). Improving heritability estimation by a variable selection approach in\n sparse high dimensional linear mixed models. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Lefebvre, Aline, Anita Beggiato, Thomas Bourgeron, & Roberto Toro. (2015). Neuroanatomical Diversity of Corpus Callosum and Brain Volume in Autism: Meta-analysis, Analysis of the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange Project, and Simulation. Biological Psychiatry. 78(2). 126–134. 78 indexed citations

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Kramer, Michael S., Gabriel Leonard, Michel Perron, et al.. (2012). Breastfeeding and brain structure in adolescence. International Journal of Epidemiology. 42(1). 150–159. 63 indexed citations

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