2026 Alexander Opitz: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	40	8019	7407	3448	3119	110	8040

Overview

Alexander Opitz is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a total of 192 publications in this field. Within neuroscience, Opitz has contributed extensively to subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Opitz's work covers several key topics including:

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
Neurological disorders and treatments
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

They have published frequently in notable scientific venues, such as:

Brain Stimulation (36 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (21 publications)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (5 publications)
Clinical Neurophysiology (4 publications)
Journal of Neural Engineering (3 publications)

Among Opitz's recent papers are:

Dose-dependent effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on spike timing in awake nonhuman primates (2020, Science Advances)
Neurocognitive, physiological, and biophysical effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation (2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
The phase of sensorimotor mu and beta oscillations has the opposite effect on corticospinal excitability (2022, Brain Stimulation)
Identifying regions in prefrontal cortex related to working memory improvement: A novel meta-analytic method using electric field modeling (2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
Experimental evaluation of methods for real-time EEG phase-specific transcranial magnetic stimulation (2020, Journal of Neural Engineering)

Frequent collaborators of Opitz include:

Ivan Alekseichuk (47 joint publications)
Sina Shirinpour (44 joint publications)
Miles Wischnewski (40 joint publications)
Harry Tran (16 joint publications)
Taylor Berger (14 joint publications)

Best Publications

Transcranial focused ultrasound modulates the activity of primary somatosensory cortex in humans

Wynn Legon;Tomokazu F. Sato;Alexander Opitz;Jerel K Mueller

963
Citations
Determinants of the electric field during transcranial direct current stimulation

Alexander Opitz;Alexander Opitz;Alexander Opitz;Walter Paulus;Susanne Will;Andre Antunes

690
Citations
Immediate neurophysiological effects of transcranial electrical stimulation.

Anli Liu;Mihály Vöröslakos;Gregory Kronberg;Simon Henin

555
Citations
Electric field calculations in brain stimulation based on finite elements: an optimized processing pipeline for the generation and usage of accurate individual head models.

Mirko Windhoff;Alexander Opitz;Axel Thielscher

469
Citations
Impact of the gyral geometry on the electric field induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Axel Thielscher;Alexander Opitz;Mirko Windhoff

460
Citations
How the brain tissue shapes the electric field induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Alexander Opitz;Mirko Windhoff;Robin M. Heidemann;Robert Turner

366
Citations
Spatiotemporal structure of intracranial electric fields induced by transcranial electric stimulation in humans and nonhuman primates.

Alexander Opitz;Alexander Opitz;Arnaud Falchier;Chao Gan Yan;Chao Gan Yan;Erin M. Yeagle

320
Citations
TDCS increases cortical excitability: direct evidence from TMS-EEG.

Leonor J. Romero Lauro;Mario Rosanova;Giulia Mattavelli;Silvia Convento

277
Citations
Physiological observations validate finite element models for estimating subject-specific electric field distributions induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human motor cortex.

Alexander Opitz;Wynn Legon;Abby Rowlands;Warren K. Bickel

256
Citations
Dose-dependent effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on spike timing in awake nonhuman primates.

Luke Johnson;Ivan Alekseichuk;Jordan Krieg;Alex Doyle

255
Citations
Transcranial focused ultrasound modulates intrinsic and evoked EEG dynamics.

Jerel K Mueller;Wynn Legon;Alexander Opitz;Alexander Opitz;Tomokazu F. Sato

236
Citations
Neurocognitive, physiological, and biophysical effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation

Unknown

215
Citations
Repetitive magnetic stimulation induces plasticity of inhibitory synapses

Maximilian Lenz;Christos Galanis;Florian Müller-Dahlhaus;Alexander Opitz

212
Citations
The precision of value-based choices depends causally on fronto-parietal phase coupling.

Rafael Polanía;Marius Moisa;Marius Moisa;Alexander Opitz;Alexander Opitz;Marcus Grueschow

164
Citations
Brain state and polarity dependent modulation of brain networks by transcranial direct current stimulation

Lucia M. Li;Ines R. Violante;Ines R. Violante;Ines R. Violante;Rob Leech;Ewan Ross

151
Citations
Wearable transdermal electrical stimulation devices and methods of using them

Isy Goldwasser;William J. Tyler;Alexander Opitz;Tomokazu Sato

131
Citations
Comparative modeling of transcranial magnetic and electric stimulation in mouse, monkey, and human

Ivan Alekseichuk;Kathleen Mantell;Sina Shirinpour;Alexander Opitz

128
Citations
The phase of sensorimotor mu and beta oscillations has the opposite effect on corticospinal excitability

Unknown

126
Citations
Pulsed Ultrasound Differentially Stimulates Somatosensory Circuits in Humans as Indicated by EEG and fMRI

Wynn Legon;Abby Rowlands;Alexander Opitz;Tomokazu F. Sato

122
Citations
An integrated framework for targeting functional networks via transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Alexander Opitz;Alexander Opitz;Michael D. Fox;Michael D. Fox;R. Cameron Craddock;R. Cameron Craddock;Stanley J. Colcombe

119
Citations
Impact of transcranial direct current stimulation on fatigue in multiple sclerosis

Catarina Saiote;Thomas Goldschmidt;Charles Timäus;Martijn D. Steenwijk

103
Citations
On the importance of precise electrode placement for targeted transcranial electric stimulation.

Alexander Opitz;Alexander Opitz;Alexander Opitz;Erin Yeagle;Axel Thielscher;Charles E. Schroeder

99
Citations