Ziad S. Saad

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Ziad S. Saad is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Ziad S. Saad has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 10 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Ziad S. Saad's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (38 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (22 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (20 papers). Ziad S. Saad is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (38 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (22 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (20 papers). Ziad S. Saad collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and United Kingdom. Ziad S. Saad's co-authors include Robert W. Cox, Hang Joon Jo, Alex Martin, Stephen J. Gotts, Peter A. Bandettini, Gang Chen, Richard C. Reynolds, Michael S. Beauchamp, Kevin Murphy and Daniel Glen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ziad S. Saad

61 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Trouble at Rest: How Correlation Patterns and Group Differences Become Distorted After Global Signal Regression

2012 713 citations Ziad S. Saad, Stephen J. Gotts et al. Brain Connectivity profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ziad S. Saad United States	36	5.0k	2.2k	838	537	408	65	6.2k
P. Mickle Fox United States	20	6.1k 1.2×	2.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	825 1.5×	366 0.9×	25	7.0k
Chloe Hutton United Kingdom	34	4.5k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	763 0.9×	696 1.3×	446 1.1×	68	6.8k
Lilla Zöllei United States	24	5.7k 1.1×	2.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	830 1.5×	303 0.7×	62	7.4k
Marisa O. Hollinshead United States	8	5.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	781 1.5×	303 0.7×	10	6.6k
Matthew Webster United Kingdom	9	5.5k 1.1×	3.6k 1.6×	924 1.1×	714 1.3×	338 0.8×	11	7.7k
Evan M. Gordon United States	28	7.1k 1.4×	2.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.6×	683 1.3×	320 0.8×	58	8.0k
Lingzhong Fan China	27	3.4k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	710 0.8×	668 1.2×	260 0.6×	86	4.5k
Sophie Achard France	19	5.6k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	510 0.9×	381 0.9×	70	6.6k
Tom Eichele Norway	41	7.2k 1.4×	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	827 1.5×	337 0.8×	72	8.0k
Daniel A. Handwerker United States	26	6.7k 1.3×	2.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	497 0.9×	343 0.8×	51	7.4k

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Kang, Sujin, Jamie Ford, Luc Bracoud, et al.. (2025). Prevalence and risk factors of cerebral microhemorrhages and superficial siderosis in cognitively unimpaired older adults: analysis from the CHARIOT‐PRO SubStudy. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(8). e70594–e70594.

Feizpour, Azadeh, Vincent Doré, Natasha Krishnadas, et al.. (2025). Alzheimer’s disease biological PET staging using plasma p217+tau. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 53–53.

Reynolds, Richard C., et al.. (2024). Processing, evaluating, and understanding FMRI data with afni_proc.py. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 1–52. 2 indexed citations

Feizpour, Azadeh, Vincent Doré, James D. Doecke, et al.. (2023). Prognostic utility of plasma p217+tau vs amyloid and tau PET in the Alzheimer’s continuum. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(S14). 1 indexed citations

Schindler, Matthew K., Souheil Inati, Ziad S. Saad, et al.. (2019). Robust, atlas-free, automatic segmentation of brain MRI in health and disease. Heliyon. 5(2). e01226–e01226. 15 indexed citations

Galléa, Cécile, Priyantha Herath, Valerie Voon, et al.. (2017). Loss of inhibition in sensorimotor networks in focal hand dystonia. NeuroImage Clinical. 17. 90–97. 44 indexed citations

Branco, Mariana P., Anna Gaglianese, Daniel Glen, et al.. (2017). ALICE: A tool for automatic localization of intra-cranial electrodes for clinical and high-density grids. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 301. 43–51. 32 indexed citations

Cox, Robert W., et al.. (2015). Use of signatures to create probability maps of brain tissues in health and disease - a new diagnostic tool?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

Taylor, Paul A., Gang Chen, Robert W. Cox, & Ziad S. Saad. (2015). Open Environment for Multimodal Interactive Connectivity Visualization and Analysis. Brain Connectivity. 6(2). 109–121. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Gang, Ziad S. Saad, Nancy E. Adleman, Ellen Leibenluft, & Robert W. Cox. (2015). Detecting the subtle shape differences in hemodynamic responses at the group level. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 9. 375–375. 35 indexed citations

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Chen, Gang, Nancy E. Adleman, Ziad S. Saad, Ellen Leibenluft, & Robert W. Cox. (2014). Applications of multivariate modeling to neuroimaging group analysis: A comprehensive alternative to univariate general linear model. NeuroImage. 99. 571–588. 189 indexed citations

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González-Castillo, Javier, Daniel A. Handwerker, Meghan E. Robinson, et al.. (2014). The spatial structure of resting state connectivity stability on the scale of minutes. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 8. 138–138. 95 indexed citations

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Taylor, Paul A. & Ziad S. Saad. (2013). FATCAT: (An Efficient) Functional And Tractographic Connectivity Analysis Toolbox. Brain Connectivity. 3(5). 523–535. 158 indexed citations

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Saad, Ziad S., Richard C. Reynolds, Hang Joon Jo, et al.. (2013). Correcting Brain-Wide Correlation Differences in Resting-State FMRI. Brain Connectivity. 3(4). 339–352. 154 indexed citations

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Chen, Gang, Ziad S. Saad, Jennifer C. Britton, Daniel S. Pine, & Robert W. Cox. (2013). Linear mixed-effects modeling approach to FMRI group analysis. NeuroImage. 73. 176–190. 299 indexed citations

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Saad, Ziad S., Stephen J. Gotts, Kevin Murphy, et al.. (2012). Trouble at Rest: How Correlation Patterns and Group Differences Become Distorted After Global Signal Regression. Brain Connectivity. 2(1). 25–32. 713 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jo, Hang Joon, Ziad S. Saad, Stephen J. Gotts, Alex Martin, & Robert W. Cox. (2012). Quantifying Agreement between Anatomical and Functional Interhemispheric Correspondences in the Resting Brain. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e48847–e48847. 27 indexed citations

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Saad, Ziad S. & Richard C. Reynolds. (2011). SUMA. NeuroImage. 62(2). 768–773. 184 indexed citations

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Jo, Hang Joon, et al.. (2010). Mapping sources of correlation in resting state FMRI, with artifact detection and removal. NeuroImage. 52(2). 571–582. 418 indexed citations

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Cox, Robert W., et al.. (2010). Segmentation priors from local image properties: Without using bias field correction, location-based templates, or registration. NeuroImage. 55(1). 142–152. 15 indexed citations

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