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Alard Roebroeck publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alard Roebroeck sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 111 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Alard Roebroeck D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alard Roebroeck sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alard Roebroeck is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands, focusing primarily on the field of Medicine. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biophysics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to advanced imaging and brain studies. Major areas of their research include:

  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Bone and Joint Diseases

Roebroeck's work has been published frequently in prominent scientific venues. The most common outlets for their research include:

  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Appetite
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Some of the recent papers attributed to Roebroeck include:

  • Ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging in human epilepsy: A systematic review, 2021, NeuroImage Clinical
  • Benchtop mesoSPIM: a next-generation open-source light-sheet microscope for cleared samples, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Human larynx motor cortices coordinate respiration for vocal-motor control, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Reflective multi-immersion microscope objectives inspired by the Schmidt telescope, 2023, Nature Biotechnology
  • Efficient 3D light-sheet imaging of very large-scale optically cleared human brain and prostate tissue samples, 2023, Communications Biology

Their collaborative network includes several frequent co-authors, such as:

  • Benedikt A. Poser
  • Sven Hildebrand
  • Alexander Leemans
  • Tim B. Dyrby
  • Kurt G. Schilling

This body of work reflects an emphasis on both methodological innovation and application across multiple imaging modalities and biomedical fields. Roebroeck's contributions span research involving magnetic resonance imaging technologies, light-sheet microscopy, and neurofunctional studies related to vocal-motor control and disease diagnostics.

Best Publications

  • Mapping directed influence over the brain using Granger causality and fMRI.

    Alard Roebroeck;Elia Formisano;Rainer Goebel

  • Investigating directed cortical interactions in time-resolved fMRI data using vector autoregressive modeling and Granger causality mapping.

    Rainer Goebel;Alard Roebroeck;Dae-Shik Kim;Elia Formisano

  • Hunger is the best spice: an fMRI study of the effects of attention, hunger and calorie content on food reward processing in the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex.

    Nicolette Siep;Anne Roefs;Alard Roebroeck;Remco Havermans

  • Mapping the information flow from one brain to another during gestural communication

    Marleen B. Schippers;Alard Roebroeck;Remco Renken;Luca Nanetti

  • Effective connectivity: Influence, causality and biophysical modeling

    Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa;Alard Roebroeck;Jean Daunizeau;Jean Daunizeau;Karl J. Friston

  • The mesoSPIM initiative: open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging cleared tissue

    Fabian F Voigt;Daniel Kirschenbaum;Evgenia Platonova;Stéphane Pagès

  • The identification of interacting networks in the brain using fMRI: model selection, causality and deconvolution

    Alard Roebroeck;Elia Formisano;Rainer Goebel

  • Specialization in the default mode: Task‐induced brain deactivations dissociate between visual working memory and attention

    Jutta S. Mayer;Alard Roebroeck;Konrad Maurer;David Edmund Johannes Linden

  • Human cortical connectome reconstruction from diffusion weighted MRI: The effect of tractography algorithm

    Matteo Bastiani;Nadim Joni Shah;Nadim Joni Shah;Nadim Joni Shah;Rainer Goebel;Alard Roebroeck

  • General overview on the merits of multimodal neuroimaging data fusion.

    Kâmil Uludağ;Alard Roebroeck

  • Fighting food temptations: The modulating effects of short-term cognitive reappraisal, suppression and up-regulation on mesocorticolimbic activity related to appetitive motivation

    Nicolette Siep;Anne Roefs;Alard Roebroeck;Remco Havermans

  • Phase Coupling in a Cerebro-Cerebellar Network at 8–13 Hz during Reading

    Jan Kujala;Kristen Pammer;Kristen Pammer;Piers Cornelissen;Alard Roebroeck

  • Histological validation of high-resolution DTI in human post mortem tissue

    Arne Seehaus;Alard Roebroeck;Matteo Bastiani;Lúcia Fonseca

  • The Brain's Intention to Imitate: The Neurobiology of Intentional versus Automatic Imitation

    Nina Bien;Alard Roebroeck;Rainer Goebel;Alexander T. Sack

  • Anatomical brain connectivity and positive symptoms of schizophrenia: A diffusion tensor imaging study

    Anna Rotarska-Jagiela;Viola Oertel-Knoechel;Federico DeMartino;Vincent van de Ven

  • Physiologically informed dynamic causal modeling of fMRI data

    Martin Havlicek;Alard Roebroeck;Karl J. Friston;Anna Gardumi

  • A short history of causal modeling of fMRI data

    Klaas Enno Stephan;Alard Roebroeck

  • Imagery of a moving object: The role of occipital cortex and human MT/V5+

    Amanda L. Kaas;Sarah Weigelt;Alard Roebroeck;Axel Kohler

  • Ex vivo diffusion MRI of the human brain: Technical challenges and recent advances

    Alard Roebroeck;Karla L. Miller;Manisha Aggarwal

  • Individualized parcellation of the subthalamic nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease with 7T MRI.

    Birgit R. Plantinga;Yasin Temel;Yuval Duchin;Kâmil Uludag

  • Investigating directed influences between activated brain areas in a motor-response task using fMRI

    Birgit Abler;Alard Roebroeck;Rainer Goebel;Anett Höse

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Goebel
Rainer Goebel Maastricht University
Elia Formisano
Elia Formisano Maastricht University
Anita Jansen
Anita Jansen Maastricht University
Anne Roefs
Anne Roefs Maastricht University
Remco C. Havermans
Remco C. Havermans Maastricht University
Alexander T. Sack
Alexander T. Sack Maastricht University
Anna Vilanova
Anna Vilanova Eindhoven University of Technology
Yasin Temel
Yasin Temel Maastricht University
Jim van Os
Jim van Os University Medical Center Utrecht
David Edmund Johannes Linden
David Edmund Johannes Linden Maastricht University

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