Stephen I. Ryu

14.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
92 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Stephen I. Ryu is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen I. Ryu has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 papers in Molecular Biology and 23 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Stephen I. Ryu's work include EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (30 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (26 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (19 papers). Stephen I. Ryu is often cited by papers focused on EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (30 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (26 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (19 papers). Stephen I. Ryu collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and United Kingdom. Stephen I. Ryu's co-authors include Krishna V. Shenoy, Matthew T. Kaufman, Mark M. Churchland, John P. Cunningham, Xuemin Wang, Paul Nuyujukian, Byron M. Yu, Justin Foster, Jonathan C. Kao and Gopal Santhanam and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Stephen I. Ryu

92 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Neural population dynamics during reaching

2012 933 citations Mark M. Churchland, John P. Cunningham et al. Nature profile →
Cortical activity in the null space: permitting preparation without movement

2014 451 citations Matthew T. Kaufman, Mark M. Churchland et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Neural constraints on learning

2014 399 citations Matthew D. Golub, Stephen I. Ryu et al. Nature profile →
Inferring single-trial neural population dynamics using sequential auto-encoders

2018 306 citations Chethan Pandarinath, Daniel J. O’Shea et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen I. Ryu United States	44	4.5k	2.1k	1.5k	1.2k	844	92	7.6k
Gábor Szabó Hungary	49	1.6k 0.4×	3.8k 1.8×	3.9k 2.6×	1.2k 1.0×	378 0.4×	279	9.8k
Wickliffe C. Abraham New Zealand	63	6.1k 1.4×	9.3k 4.4×	4.0k 2.6×	83 0.1×	245 0.3×	194	13.8k
John G. R. Jefferys United Kingdom	60	9.0k 2.0×	11.0k 5.2×	4.5k 3.0×	117 0.1×	937 1.1×	181	16.3k
Dietmar Schmitz Germany	57	4.2k 0.9×	7.1k 3.4×	3.5k 2.3×	199 0.2×	180 0.2×	219	10.2k
Xue Han United States	36	1.8k 0.4×	3.2k 1.5×	1.3k 0.8×	231 0.2×	997 1.2×	160	6.0k
Stephen W. Kuffler United States	43	3.2k 0.7×	7.2k 3.4×	5.0k 3.3×	371 0.3×	744 0.9×	53	11.0k
Carl C.H. Petersen Switzerland	54	8.4k 1.9×	8.3k 4.0×	2.0k 1.3×	130 0.1×	321 0.4×	122	11.9k
Alfredo Kirkwood United States	46	4.3k 1.0×	6.4k 3.1×	3.1k 2.1×	129 0.1×	126 0.1×	99	9.8k
Tsai‐Wen Chen United States	18	2.6k 0.6×	4.3k 2.1×	2.3k 1.5×	167 0.1×	567 0.7×	23	7.1k
Woong Sun South Korea	45	621 0.1×	2.1k 1.0×	3.8k 2.5×	331 0.3×	613 0.7×	340	8.0k

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Ganesh, Irisappan, Tengfang Ling, Sam Cherian, et al.. (2025). Foliar-applied methanol promotes root growth and rubber production in Taraxacum kok-saghyz. Industrial Crops and Products. 231. 121185–121185. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Xulu, Daniel J. O’Shea, Matthew D. Golub, et al.. (2022). Cortical preparatory activity indexes learned motor memories. Nature. 602(7896). 274–279. 44 indexed citations

Peixoto, Diogo, Roozbeh Kiani, Jonathan C. Kao, et al.. (2021). Decoding and perturbing decision states in real time. Nature. 591(7851). 604–609. 52 indexed citations

O’Shea, Daniel J., Paul Kalanithi, Emily Ferenczi, et al.. (2018). Development of an optogenetic toolkit for neural circuit dissection in squirrel monkeys. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 6775–6775. 22 indexed citations

Stavisky, Sergey D., Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, et al.. (2018). Brain-machine interface cursor position only weakly affects monkey and human motor cortical activity in the absence of arm movements. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16357–16357. 6 indexed citations

Kaufman, Matthew T., Jeffrey Seely, David Sussillo, et al.. (2016). The Largest Response Component in the Motor Cortex Reflects Movement Timing but Not Movement Type. eNeuro. 3(4). ENEURO.0085–16.2016. 133 indexed citations

O’Shea, Daniel J., Eric M. Trautmann, Chandramouli Chandrasekaran, et al.. (2016). The need for calcium imaging in nonhuman primates: New motor neuroscience and brain-machine interfaces. Experimental Neurology. 287(Pt 4). 437–451. 32 indexed citations

Seely, Jeffrey, Matthew T. Kaufman, Stephen I. Ryu, et al.. (2016). Tensor Analysis Reveals Distinct Population Structure that Parallels the Different Computational Roles of Areas M1 and V1. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(11). e1005164–e1005164. 37 indexed citations

Kiani, Roozbeh, Christopher J. Cueva, John B. Reppas, et al.. (2015). Natural Grouping of Neural Responses Reveals Spatially Segregated Clusters in Prearcuate Cortex. Neuron. 85(6). 1359–1373. 61 indexed citations

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Stavisky, Sergey D., Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Stephen I. Ryu, & Krishna V. Shenoy. (2015). A high performing brain–machine interface driven by low-frequency local field potentials alone and together with spikes. Journal of Neural Engineering. 12(3). 36009–36009. 100 indexed citations

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Kaufman, Matthew T., Mark M. Churchland, Stephen I. Ryu, & Krishna V. Shenoy. (2014). Cortical activity in the null space: permitting preparation without movement. Nature Neuroscience. 17(3). 440–448. 451 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jung, Jihye, et al.. (2012). Translocation of phospholipase A2α to apoplasts is modulated by developmental stages and bacterial infection in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science. 3. 126–126. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Geliang, Stephen I. Ryu, & Xuemin Wang. (2012). Plant Phospholipases: An Overview. Methods in molecular biology. 861. 123–137. 70 indexed citations

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Yu, Byron M., John P. Cunningham, Gopal Santhanam, et al.. (2011). Dynamical segmentation of single trials from population neural data. UCL Discovery (University College London). 24. 756–764. 34 indexed citations

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Churchland, Mark M., John P. Cunningham, Matthew T. Kaufman, Stephen I. Ryu, & Krishna V. Shenoy. (2010). Cortical Preparatory Activity: Representation of Movement or First Cog in a Dynamical Machine?. Neuron. 68(3). 387–400. 317 indexed citations

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Hyun, Y., Sungwook Choi, Jihyeon Yu, et al.. (2008). Cooperation and Functional Diversification of Two Closely Related Galactolipase Genes for Jasmonate Biosynthesis. Developmental Cell. 14(2). 183–192. 133 indexed citations

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Ryu, Stephen I., Michelle Mitchell, & Daniel H. Kim. (2005). A prospective randomized study comparing a cervical carbon fiber cage to the Smith–Robinson technique with allograft and plating: up to 24 months follow-up. European Spine Journal. 15(2). 157–164. 41 indexed citations

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Yu, Byron M., Afsheen Afshar, Gopal Santhanam, et al.. (2005). Extracting Dynamical Structure Embedded in Neural Activity. UCL Discovery (University College London). 18. 1545–1552. 48 indexed citations

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Bahn, Sung Chul, et al.. (2003). Secretory Low Molecular Weight Phospholipase A ₂ Plays Important Roles in Cell Elongation and Shoot Gravitropism in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 15(9). 1990–2002. 102 indexed citations

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Ryu, Stephen I., Daniel T. Chang, Daniel H. Kim, et al.. (2001). Image-guided Hypo-fractionated Stereotactic Radiosurgery to Spinal Lesions. Neurosurgery. 49(4). 838–846. 246 indexed citations

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