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

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	62	3485	3187	1609	1453	236	16480

Overview

Alexander Rotenberg is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Key subfields of study include Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Molecular Biology.

The main research topics that Alexander Rotenberg focuses on are:

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
Epilepsy research and treatment
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Neurological disorders and treatments
Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexander Rotenberg include:

Phillip L. Pearl (25 publications)
Melissa Tsuboyama (15 publications)
Henry H.C. Lee (15 publications)
Álvaro Pascual-Leone (13 publications)
Ali Jannati (12 publications)

Alexander Rotenberg has published regularly in several venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

Clinical Neurophysiology (7 publications)
Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology (7 publications)
Epilepsia (6 publications)
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology (6 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)

Recent notable papers by Alexander Rotenberg include:

Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines, 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology
Assessing the mechanisms of brain plasticity by transcranial magnetic stimulation, 2022, Neuropsychopharmacology
Repurposed molecules for antiepileptogenesis: Missing an opportunity to prevent epilepsy?, 2020, Epilepsia
Review of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Epilepsy, 2020, Clinical Therapeutics
Cis P-tau underlies vascular contribution to cognitive impairment and dementia and can be effectively targeted by immunotherapy in mice, 2021, Science Translational Medicine

Best Publications

Clinical research with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS): Challenges and future directions

Andre Russowsky Brunoni;Michael A. Nitsche;Nadia Bolognini;Marom Bikson

1686
Citations
Safety of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Evidence Based Update 2016.

Marom Bikson;Pnina Grossman;Chris Thomas;Adantchede Louis Zannou

1463
Citations
Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines

Simone Rossi;Andrea Antal;Sven Bestmann;Marom Bikson

1333
Citations
Characterizing Brain Cortical Plasticity and Network Dynamics Across the Age-Span in Health and Disease with TMS-EEG and TMS-fMRI

Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Catarina Freitas;Lindsay Oberman;Jared C. Horvath

512
Citations
Glutamate and GABA Imbalance Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Réjean M. Guerriero;Christopher C. Giza;Christopher C. Giza;Alexander Rotenberg

506
Citations
A mouse model of tuberous sclerosis: neuronal loss of Tsc1 causes dysplastic and ectopic neurons, reduced myelination, seizure activity, and limited survival.

Lynsey Meikle;Delia M. Talos;Hiroaki Onda;Kristen Pollizzi

502
Citations
Antibody against early driver of neurodegeneration cis P-tau blocks brain injury and tauopathy

Asami Kondo;Koorosh Shahpasand;Rebekah Mannix;Jianhua Qiu

455
Citations
Conditional Deletion of the Glutamate Transporter GLT-1 Reveals That Astrocytic GLT-1 Protects against Fatal Epilepsy While Neuronal GLT-1 Contributes Significantly to Glutamate Uptake into Synaptosomes

Geraldine T. Petr;Yan Sun;Yan Sun;Natalie M. Frederick;Yun Zhou

394
Citations
Mice Expressing Activated CaMKII Lack Low Frequency LTP and Do Not Form Stable Place Cells in the CA1 Region of the Hippocampus

Alexander Rotenberg;Mark Mayford;Robert D Hawkins;Eric R Kandel

312
Citations
Assessing the mechanisms of brain plasticity by transcranial magnetic stimulation

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269
Citations
Safety and tolerability of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with epilepsy: a review of the literature.

Erica Hyunji Bae;Lara M. Schrader;Katsuyuki Machii;Miguel Alonso-Alonso

250
Citations
Contribution of axonal orientation to pathway-dependent modulation of excitatory transmission by direct current stimulation in isolated rat hippocampus

Anatoli Y. Kabakov;Paul A. Muller;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Frances E. Jensen

247
Citations
Regulation of lifespan by neural excitation and REST

Joseph M. Zullo;Derek Drake;Liviu Aron;Patrick O’Hern

240
Citations
Transcranial direct current stimulation for treatment of refractory childhood focal epilepsy.

Narong Auvichayapat;Alexander Rotenberg;Roman Gersner;Sudarat Ngodklang

209
Citations
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) methods and apparatus

Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Alexander Rotenberg;Iain E S Glass;Frances E Jensen

200
Citations
Ceftriaxone Treatment after Traumatic Brain Injury Restores Expression of the Glutamate Transporter, GLT-1, Reduces Regional Gliosis, and Reduces Post-Traumatic Seizures in the Rat

Grant S. Goodrich;Anatoli Y. Kabakov;Mustafa Q. Hameed;Sameer C. Dhamne

184
Citations
Characterizing and Modulating Brain Circuitry through Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Combined with Electroencephalography

Faranak Farzan;Marine Vernet;Mouhsin M. D. Shafi;Alexander Rotenberg

171
Citations
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Child Neurology: Current and Future Directions

Richard E. Frye;Alexander Rotenberg;Molliann Ousley;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

167
Citations
Transcranial Magnetic and Direct Current Stimulation in Children.

Mustafa Q. Hameed;Sameer C. Dhamne;Roman Gersner;Harper L. Kaye

158
Citations
Replicable in vivo physiological and behavioral phenotypes of the Shank3B null mutant mouse model of autism

Sameer C. Dhamne;Jill L. Silverman;Chloe E. Super;Stephen H. T. Lammers

157
Citations
Parallel instabilities of long-term potentiation, place cells, and learning caused by decreased protein kinase A activity.

Alexander Rotenberg;Ted Abel;Robert D. Hawkins;Eric R. Kandel

147
Citations
Seizure-induced changes in place cell physiology: relationship to spatial memory

Xianzeng Liu;Robert U. Muller;Li-Tung Huang;John L. Kubie

138
Citations