Thomas Donoghue

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Donoghue is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Donoghue has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Thomas Donoghue's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (9 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (4 papers). Thomas Donoghue is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (9 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (4 papers). Thomas Donoghue collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Thomas Donoghue's co-authors include Bradley Voytek, Richard Gao, Torben Noto, Robert T. Knight, Paroma Varma, Joni D. Wallis, Antonio H. Lara, Avgusta Y. Shestyuk, Erik Peterson and Natalie Schaworonkow and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Neuroscience and Journal of Neurophysiology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Donoghue

25 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

  1. Parameterizing neural power spectra into periodic and aperiodic components
    2020 1.0k citations Thomas Donoghue, Erik Peterson et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Donoghue United States 11 1.5k 441 133 112 102 26 1.8k
Torben Noto United States 8 963 0.6× 324 0.7× 102 0.8× 77 0.7× 93 0.9× 9 1.3k
Avgusta Y. Shestyuk United States 11 1.5k 1.0× 346 0.8× 122 0.9× 117 1.0× 269 2.6× 13 1.8k
Paroma Varma United States 8 885 0.6× 281 0.6× 100 0.8× 58 0.5× 59 0.6× 19 1.3k
Christopher Rennie Australia 20 1.9k 1.3× 420 1.0× 109 0.8× 127 1.1× 202 2.0× 42 2.3k
Anna Korzeniewska United States 18 1.6k 1.1× 290 0.7× 89 0.7× 128 1.1× 139 1.4× 41 1.9k
Andrea Brovelli France 22 2.2k 1.5× 521 1.2× 150 1.1× 130 1.2× 172 1.7× 40 2.6k
Leonardo L. Gollo Australia 20 1.9k 1.3× 296 0.7× 86 0.6× 56 0.5× 178 1.7× 41 2.2k
Daniel S. Rizzuto United States 21 1.8k 1.2× 723 1.6× 148 1.1× 114 1.0× 107 1.0× 27 2.1k
Mikael Lundqvist Sweden 21 2.4k 1.6× 797 1.8× 93 0.7× 55 0.5× 136 1.3× 38 2.7k
Andrew J. Quinn United Kingdom 23 2.0k 1.3× 395 0.9× 246 1.8× 79 0.7× 160 1.6× 61 2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Donoghue

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All Works

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Jacobs, Joshua, et al.. (2025). Temporally resolved analyses of aperiodic features track neural dynamics during sleep. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 160–160. 1 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas. (2025). A Systematic Review of Aperiodic Neural Activity in Clinical Investigations. European Journal of Neuroscience. 62(7). e70255–e70255. 4 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas, et al.. (2023). spiketools: a Python package for analyzing single-unitneural activity. The Journal of Open Source Software. 8(91). 5268–5268. 2 indexed citations
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Tait, Luke, Thomas Donoghue, George Stothart, et al.. (2023). Resting-state EEG signatures of Alzheimer's disease are driven by periodic but not aperiodic changes. Neurobiology of Disease. 190. 106380–106380. 28 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe flexibly shift representations across spatial and memory tasks. Hippocampus. 33(5). 600–615. 15 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Using multi‐task experiments to test principles of hippocampal function. Hippocampus. 33(5). 646–657. 6 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas, Bradley Voytek, & Shannon Ellis. (2022). Course Materials for Data Science in Practice. 5(51). 121–121. 3 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas & Bradley Voytek. (2022). Automated meta-analysis of the event-related potential (ERP) literature. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 1867–1867. 19 indexed citations
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Ostlund, Brendan, et al.. (2022). Spectral parameterization for studying neurodevelopment: How and why. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 54. 101073–101073. 61 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas, Natalie Schaworonkow, & Bradley Voytek. (2021). Methodological considerations for studying neural oscillations. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55(11-12). 3502–3527. 149 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Electrophysiological Frequency Band Ratio Measures Conflate Periodic and Aperiodic Neural Activity. eNeuro. 7(6). ENEURO.0192–20.2020. 101 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas, Erik Peterson, Paroma Varma, et al.. (2020). Parameterizing neural power spectra into periodic and aperiodic components. Nature Neuroscience. 23(12). 1655–1665. 1047 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cole, Scott R., Thomas Donoghue, Richard Gao, & Bradley Voytek. (2019). NeuroDSP: A package for neural digital signal processing. The Journal of Open Source Software. 4(36). 1272–1272. 35 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas. (2019). LISC: A Python Package for Scientific Literature Collection and Analysis. The Journal of Open Source Software. 4(41). 1674–1674. 7 indexed citations
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Robertson, Madeline M., Sarah Furlong, Bradley Voytek, et al.. (2019). EEG power spectral slope differs by ADHD status and stimulant medication exposure in early childhood. Journal of Neurophysiology. 122(6). 2427–2437. 126 indexed citations
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Fox, W. & Thomas Donoghue. (2018). Confidence Levels in Scientific Writing: Automated Mining of Primary Literature and Press Releases.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Richard, Thomas Donoghue, & Bradley Voytek. (2017). Automated Generation of Cognitive Ontology via Web Text-Mining.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations
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Werf, Jebbe J. van der, Jeffrey S. Doucette, Thomas Donoghue, & Jan S. Ribberink. (2005). Detailed measurements of velocities and concentrations over full-scale ripples in oscillatory flow. University of Twente Research Information. 6–6. 2 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Thomas, et al.. (2001). Sand bed response to submerged water jet. 6 indexed citations

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