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47
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9214
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6402
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Alexander Thiele 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 Alexander Thiele sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 132 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Alexander Thiele 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 Alexander Thiele sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Alexander Thiele is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and related subfields such as Molecular Biology, Political Science and International Relations, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their research interests encompass a diverse range of topics including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Alexander Thiele's publication record shows notable contributions to several high-impact journals and conference proceedings. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • intR2Dok (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
  • Neuron
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Scientific Reports

Among recent papers, the following are highlighted by their titles, years, and publication venues:

  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics, 2020, Neuron
  • Directed information exchange between cortical layers in macaque V1 and V4 and its modulation by selective attention, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Intrinsic timescales in the visual cortex change with selective attention and reflect spatial connectivity, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Top-down coordination of local cortical state during selective attention, 2021, Neuron
  • Distinct feedforward and feedback pathways for cell-type specific attention effects, 2024, Neuron

Collaborations have involved frequent co-authors who have worked with Thiele multiple times, including:

  • Jochem van Kempen
  • Marc Alwin Gieselmann
  • Christopher I. Petkov
  • C. Distler
  • Michael Boyd

In addition to journal articles, Thiele has contributed to academic book publications through publishers such as Mohr Siebeck eBooks and Berliner Kommentare. Book titles include:

  • Die Europäische Zentralbank, 2021
  • Das Vorabentscheidungsverfahren in Deutschland und in Polen, 2022
  • VwVfG, 2021

Best Publications

  • Cortical state and attention

    Kenneth D. Harris;Alexander Thiele

  • Acetylcholine contributes through muscarinic receptors to attentional modulation in V1

    Jose L. Herrero;M. J. Roberts;M. J. Roberts;Louise S. Delicato;Louise S. Delicato;Mark A. Gieselmann

  • Neuromodulation of Attention.

    Alexander Thiele;Mark A. Bellgrove

  • Neural Mechanisms of Saccadic Suppression

    A. Thiele;P. Henning;M. Kubischik;K.-P. Hoffmann

  • Attention Reduces Stimulus-Driven Gamma Frequency Oscillations and Spike Field Coherence in V1

    Matthew Chalk;Jose L. Herrero;Mark A. Gieselmann;Louise S. Delicato

  • Speed skills: measuring the visual speed analyzing properties of primate MT neurons.

    John A. Perrone;Alexander Thiele;Alexander Thiele

  • Comparison of spatial integration and surround suppression characteristics in spiking activity and the local field potential in macaque V1

    M. A. Gieselmann;A. Thiele

  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging

    Michael P. Milham;Michael P. Milham;Lei Ai;Bonhwang Koo;Ting Xu

  • Eye position effects in monkey cortex. I. Visual and pursuit-related activity in extrastriate areas MT and MST.

    F. Bremmer;U. J. Ilg;A. Thiele;C. Distler

  • Selective modulation of cortical state during spatial attention

    Tatiana A. Engel;Tatiana A. Engel;Nicholas A. Steinmetz;Marc A. Gieselmann;Alexander Thiele

  • Neuronal synchrony does not correlate with motion coherence in cortical area MT.

    Alexander Thiele;Gene Stoner

  • An exact method to quantify the information transmitted by different mechanisms of correlational coding.

    Pola G;Thiele A;Hoffmann Kp;Panzeri S

  • Optic Flow Processing in Monkey STS: A Theoretical and Experimental Approach

    Markus Lappe;Frank Bremmer;Martin Pekel;Alexander Thiele

  • Acetylcholine Dynamically Controls Spatial Integration in Marmoset Primary Visual Cortex

    M. J. Roberts;W. Zinke;K. Guo;R. Robertson

  • Attention-induced variance and noise correlation reduction in macaque V1 is mediated by NMDA receptors.

    Jose L. Herrero;Marc A. Gieselmann;Mehdi Sanayei;Alexander Thiele

  • Synchronization of Neuronal Activity during Stimulus Expectation in a Direction Discrimination Task

    Simone Cardoso de Oliveira;Alexander Thiele;Klaus-Peter Hoffmann

  • Muscarinic signaling in the brain

    Alexander Thiele

  • Attention alters spatial integration in macaque V1 in an eccentricity-dependent manner

    Mark Roberts;Louise S Delicato;Jose Herrero;Mark A Gieselmann

  • Orthogonal representation of sound dimensions in the primate midbrain

    Simon Baumann;Timothy D Griffiths;Li Sun;Christopher I Petkov

  • Stimulus-dependent variability and noise correlations in cortical MT neurons.

    Adrián Ponce-Alvarez;Alexander Thiele;Thomas D. Albright;Gene R. Stoner

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus-Peter Hoffmann
Klaus-Peter Hoffmann Ruhr University Bochum
Timothy D. Griffiths
Timothy D. Griffiths University College London
Christopher I. Petkov
Christopher I. Petkov Newcastle University
Stefano Panzeri
Stefano Panzeri University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Thomas D. Albright
Thomas D. Albright Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Pieter R. Roelfsema
Pieter R. Roelfsema Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Mark A. Bellgrove
Mark A. Bellgrove Monash University
Gustavo Deco
Gustavo Deco Pompeu Fabra University
Frank Bremmer
Frank Bremmer Philipp University of Marburg
Adrian Rees
Adrian Rees Newcastle University

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