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

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	47	6402	5890	511	469	132	9214

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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

1069
Citations
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

544
Citations
Neuromodulation of Attention.

Alexander Thiele;Mark A. Bellgrove

381
Citations
Neural Mechanisms of Saccadic Suppression

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

349
Citations
Attention Reduces Stimulus-Driven Gamma Frequency Oscillations and Spike Field Coherence in V1

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

325
Citations
Speed skills: measuring the visual speed analyzing properties of primate MT neurons.

John A. Perrone;Alexander Thiele;Alexander Thiele

322
Citations
Comparison of spatial integration and surround suppression characteristics in spiking activity and the local field potential in macaque V1

M. A. Gieselmann;A. Thiele

317
Citations
An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging

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

266
Citations
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

265
Citations
Selective modulation of cortical state during spatial attention

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

239
Citations
Neuronal synchrony does not correlate with motion coherence in cortical area MT.

Alexander Thiele;Gene Stoner

231
Citations
An exact method to quantify the information transmitted by different mechanisms of correlational coding.

Pola G;Thiele A;Hoffmann Kp;Panzeri S

205
Citations
Optic Flow Processing in Monkey STS: A Theoretical and Experimental Approach

Markus Lappe;Frank Bremmer;Martin Pekel;Alexander Thiele

200
Citations
Acetylcholine Dynamically Controls Spatial Integration in Marmoset Primary Visual Cortex

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

189
Citations
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

185
Citations
Synchronization of Neuronal Activity during Stimulus Expectation in a Direction Discrimination Task

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

184
Citations
Muscarinic signaling in the brain

Alexander Thiele

167
Citations
Attention alters spatial integration in macaque V1 in an eccentricity-dependent manner

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

154
Citations
Orthogonal representation of sound dimensions in the primate midbrain

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

154
Citations
Stimulus-dependent variability and noise correlations in cortical MT neurons.

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

143
Citations