Thilo Hinterberger

12.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Thilo Hinterberger is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thilo Hinterberger has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 21 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thilo Hinterberger's work include EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (64 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (26 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (21 papers). Thilo Hinterberger is often cited by papers focused on EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (64 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (26 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (21 papers). Thilo Hinterberger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and United States. Thilo Hinterberger's co-authors include Niels Birbaumer, Gerwin Schalk, Jonathan R. Wolpaw, Dennis J. McFarland, Andrea Kübler, Nicola Neumann, Michael Schröder, Jochen Kaiser, Stefan Schmidt and Boris Kotchoubey and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Thilo Hinterberger

116 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

BCI2000: A General-Purpose Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) System

2004 2.1k citations Dennis J. McFarland, Thilo Hinterberger et al. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thilo Hinterberger Germany	36	6.2k	2.8k	1.0k	1.0k	900	119	7.4k
Marco Congedo France	37	6.9k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.5×	98	7.9k
Tonio Ball Germany	37	5.3k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	840 0.8×	592 0.6×	594 0.7×	94	6.1k
Andrea Kübler Germany	69	11.7k 1.9×	6.1k 2.2×	1.8k 1.7×	2.6k 2.5×	621 0.7×	238	15.1k
Febo Cincotti Italy	57	7.8k 1.3×	2.0k 0.7×	621 0.6×	741 0.7×	474 0.5×	249	9.0k
Chang‐Hwan Im South Korea	37	3.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	608 0.6×	613 0.6×	288 0.3×	266	5.5k
Michael Tangermann Germany	27	6.1k 1.0×	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	1.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	83	6.7k
Dezhong Yao China	47	5.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	537 0.5×	367 0.4×	960 1.1×	295	7.0k
Jochen Kaiser Germany	47	6.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.6×	318 0.3×	320 0.3×	216 0.2×	164	7.8k
Sebastian Halder Germany	34	4.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	627 0.6×	963 0.9×	240 0.3×	68	4.9k
Boris Kotchoubey Germany	40	3.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	360 0.3×	386 0.4×	169 0.2×	127	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thilo Hinterberger

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Walter, Nike, Thomas Loew, Thilo Hinterberger, et al.. (2025). Mental health implications of fracture-related infections. Bone and Joint Research. 14(2). 136–142. 1 indexed citations

Walter, Nike, Thomas Loew, Thilo Hinterberger, Volker Alt, & Markus Rupp. (2024). Managing more than bones: the psychological impact of a recurrent fracture-related infection. Bone & Joint Open. 5(8). 621–627. 2 indexed citations

Walter, Nike, et al.. (2024). Waning waves of mood: The declining trend of hospitalized patients with affective disorders in Germany. Journal of Affective Disorders. 356. 162–166.

Jöbges, Michael, et al.. (2023). Attention deficits and depressive symptoms improve differentially after rehabilitation of post-COVID condition – A prospective cohort study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 175. 111540–111540. 13 indexed citations

Walter, Nike & Thilo Hinterberger. (2022). Self-organized criticality as a framework for consciousness: A review study. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 911620–911620. 13 indexed citations

Walter, Nike, Maximilian Kerschbaum, Christian Pfeifer, et al.. (2021). Long-term patient-related quality of life after successfully treated aseptic non-unions of the long bones. Injury. 52(7). 1880–1885. 9 indexed citations

Hinterberger, Thilo, et al.. (2017). Reviewing the Effectiveness of Music Interventions in Treating Depression. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 1109–1109. 118 indexed citations

Hinterberger, Thilo, et al.. (2015). Does a Healing Procedure Referring to Theta Rhythms Also Generate Theta Rhythms in the Brain?. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 22(1). 66–74. 4 indexed citations

Schmidt, Stefan, et al.. (2015). Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as Treatment for Chronic Back Pain - an Observational Study with Assessment of Thalamocortical Dysrhythmia. Complementary Medicine Research. 22(5). 298–303. 17 indexed citations

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Hinterberger, Thilo, Stephanie Schmidt, Tsutomu Kamei, & Harald Walach. (2014). Decreased electrophysiological activity represents the conscious state of emptiness in meditation. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 99–99. 86 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Stefan, et al.. (2012). Pain Ratings, Psychological Functioning and Quantitative EEG in a Controlled Study of Chronic Back Pain Patients. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e31138–e31138. 66 indexed citations

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Hinterberger, Thilo. (2010). The Sensorium: A Multimodal Neurofeedback Environment. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction. 2011. 1–10. 22 indexed citations

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Hinterberger, Thilo, Guido Widman, Thomas Navin Lal, et al.. (2008). Voluntary brain regulation and communication with electrocorticogram signals. Epilepsy & Behavior. 13(2). 300–306. 30 indexed citations

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Sejnowski, Terrence J., Guido Dornhege, José del R. Millán, et al.. (2007). Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing (Neural Information Processing). The MIT Press eBooks. 24 indexed citations

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Hinterberger, Thilo, et al.. (2005). A Device for the Detection of Cognitive Brain Functions in Completely Paralyzed or Unresponsive Patients. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 52(2). 211–220. 33 indexed citations

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Hinterberger, Thilo, et al.. (2004). Neural mechanisms underlying control of a Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI): Simultaneous recording of bold-response and EEG. Psychophysiology. 1 indexed citations

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Hinterberger, Thilo, Gerold Baier, Jürgen Mellinger, & Niels Birbaumer. (2004). Auditory feedback of human EEG for direct brain-computer communication. SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology). 9 indexed citations

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Hinterberger, Thilo, Nicola Neumann, Mirko Pham, et al.. (2004). A multimodal brain-based feedback and communication system. Experimental Brain Research. 154(4). 521–526. 122 indexed citations

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Hinterberger, Thilo, Andrea Kübler, Jochen Kaiser, Nicola Neumann, & Niels Birbaumer. (2003). A brain–computer interface (BCI) for the locked-in: comparison of different EEG classifications for the thought translation device. Clinical Neurophysiology. 114(3). 416–425. 120 indexed citations

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Kübler, Andrea, Boris Kotchoubey, N. Ghanayim, et al.. (1998). A thought translation device for brain computer communication. Studia Psychologica. 40. 17–30. 4 indexed citations

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