Sofie L. Valk

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
78 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Sofie L. Valk is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofie L. Valk has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 13 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sofie L. Valk's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (58 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (31 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (18 papers). Sofie L. Valk is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (58 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (31 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (18 papers). Sofie L. Valk collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Canada and United States. Sofie L. Valk's co-authors include Boris C. Bernhardt, Seok‐Jun Hong, Michael P. Milham, Casey Paquola, Jonathan Smallwood, Adriana Di Martino, Reinder Vos de Wael, Sara Larivière, Tania Singer and Daniel S. Margulies and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Sofie L. Valk

69 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

BrainSpace: a toolbox for the analysis of macroscale gradients in neuroimaging and connectomics datasets

2020 325 citations Reinder Vos de Wael, Oualid Benkarim et al. Communications Biology profile →
Atypical functional connectome hierarchy in autism

2019 301 citations Seok‐Jun Hong, Reinder Vos de Wael et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sofie L. Valk Germany	24	1.6k	663	302	300	210	78	2.2k
Do Tromp United States	18	1.0k 0.6×	764 1.2×	295 1.0×	249 0.8×	222 1.1×	31	1.8k
Torgeir Moberget Norway	25	1.2k 0.7×	514 0.8×	323 1.1×	480 1.6×	124 0.6×	53	2.0k
Óscar Miranda-Domínguez United States	19	1.2k 0.8×	436 0.7×	255 0.8×	286 1.0×	165 0.8×	50	1.9k
Ylva Østby Norway	16	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.8×	357 1.2×	496 1.7×	204 1.0×	20	2.9k
Jason S. Nomi United States	27	2.2k 1.4×	489 0.7×	531 1.8×	510 1.7×	232 1.1×	56	2.8k
Francesco Carletti United Kingdom	12	1.9k 1.2×	744 1.1×	588 1.9×	535 1.8×	250 1.2×	18	2.6k
Hervé Lemaître France	18	833 0.5×	554 0.8×	309 1.0×	386 1.3×	196 0.9×	40	2.0k
Daan van Rooij Netherlands	17	1.5k 0.9×	390 0.6×	383 1.3×	567 1.9×	189 0.9×	49	2.0k
John R. Pruett United States	13	1.8k 1.1×	621 0.9×	323 1.1×	295 1.0×	185 0.9×	36	2.1k
Matthew D. Sacchet United States	28	1.2k 0.8×	377 0.6×	569 1.9×	300 1.0×	369 1.8×	64	2.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Franz, M., Valeria Kebets, Foivos Georgiadis, et al.. (2025). Orbitofrontal Thickness and Network Associations as Transdiagnostic Signature of Amotivation Along the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Spectrum. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 52(2).

Estevez‐Fraga, Carlos, Justine Y. Hansen, Paul Zeun, et al.. (2025). Cell-specific mechanisms drive connectivity across the time course of Huntington’s disease. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5519–5519.

Puhlmann, Lara, Pascal Vrtička, Roman Linz, et al.. (2024). Serum BDNF Increase After 9-Month Contemplative Mental Training Is Associated With Decreased Cortisol Secretion and Increased Dentate Gyrus Volume: Evidence From a Randomized Clinical Trial. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 5(2). 100414–100414. 2 indexed citations

Park, Shinwon, Koen V. Haak, Stuart Oldham, et al.. (2024). A shifting role of thalamocortical connectivity in the emergence of cortical functional organization. Nature Neuroscience. 27(8). 1609–1619. 18 indexed citations

Saberi, Amin, Casey Paquola, H. Lina Schaare, et al.. (2024). Microstructural asymmetry in the human cortex. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10124–10124. 4 indexed citations

Mckeown, Brontë, Adam Turnbull, Ting Xu, et al.. (2024). Personality traits vary in their association with brain activity across situations. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1498–1498.

Royer, Jessica, Sara Larivière, Jong Eun Lee, et al.. (2024). Comparison of different group-level templates in gradient-based multimodal connectivity analysis. Network Neuroscience. 8(4). 1009–1031. 6 indexed citations

Hong, Seok‐Jun, et al.. (2024). Whole-brain structural connectome asymmetry in autism. NeuroImage. 288. 120534–120534. 10 indexed citations

Hong, Seok‐Jun, et al.. (2023). Diverging asymmetry of intrinsic functional organization in autism. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(10). 4331–4341. 11 indexed citations

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Valk, Sofie L., Philipp Kanske, Bo‐yong Park, et al.. (2023). Functional and microstructural plasticity following social and interoceptive mental training. eLife. 12. 14 indexed citations

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Valk, Sofie L., Veronika Engert, Lara Puhlmann, et al.. (2023). Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

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Valk, Sofie L., Ting Xu, Casey Paquola, et al.. (2022). Genetic and phylogenetic uncoupling of structure and function in human transmodal cortex. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2341–2341. 59 indexed citations

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Bayrak, Şeyma, Reinder Vos de Wael, H. Lina Schaare, et al.. (2022). Heritability of hippocampal functional and microstructural organisation. NeuroImage. 264. 119656–119656. 8 indexed citations

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Hong, Seok‐Jun, Laurent Mottron, Bo‐yong Park, et al.. (2022). A convergent structure–function substrate of cognitive imbalances in autism. Cerebral Cortex. 33(5). 1566–1580. 10 indexed citations

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Park, Bo‐yong, Hyunjin Park, Filip Morys, et al.. (2021). Inter-individual body mass variations relate to fractionated functional brain hierarchies. Communications Biology. 4(1). 735–735. 24 indexed citations

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Park, Bo‐yong, Seok‐Jun Hong, Sofie L. Valk, et al.. (2021). Differences in subcortico-cortical interactions identified from connectome and microcircuit models in autism. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2225–2225. 53 indexed citations

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Wael, Reinder Vos de, Oualid Benkarim, Casey Paquola, et al.. (2020). BrainSpace: a toolbox for the analysis of macroscale gradients in neuroimaging and connectomics datasets. Communications Biology. 3(1). 103–103. 325 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hong, Seok‐Jun, Reinder Vos de Wael, Richard A. I. Bethlehem, et al.. (2019). Atypical functional connectome hierarchy in autism. Nature Communications. 10(1). 301 indexed citations breakdown →

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Valk, Sofie L., Boris C. Bernhardt, Fynn‐Mathis Trautwein, et al.. (2017). Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training. Science Advances. 3(10). e1700489–e1700489. 173 indexed citations

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Hong, Seok‐Jun, Sofie L. Valk, Adriana Di Martino, Michael P. Milham, & Boris C. Bernhardt. (2017). Multidimensional Neuroanatomical Subtyping of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cerebral Cortex. 28(10). 3578–3588. 73 indexed citations

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