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Arne May 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 Arne May sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 365 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Arne May 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 Arne May sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Arne May is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and has a research focus primarily in the field of medicine, with a significant number of publications related to psychiatry and mental health, pathology and forensic medicine, physiology, neurology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research on migraine and headache disorders, trigeminal neuralgia and its treatments, sympathectomy and hyperhidrosis treatments, pain mechanisms and treatments, temporomandibular joint disorders, ophthalmology and eye disorders, as well as olfactory and sensory function studies.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Arne May include:

  • Longitudinal Neuroimaging over 30 Days: Temporal Characteristics of Migraine, 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • The migraineur's brain networks: Continuous resting state fMRI over 30 days, 2020, Cephalalgia
  • Central effects of erenumab in migraine patients, 2020, Neurology
  • Redefining migraine phases - a suggestion based on clinical, physiological, and functional imaging evidence, 2020, Cephalalgia
  • Migraine monoclonal antibodies against CGRP change brain activity depending on ligand or receptor target - an fMRI study, 2022, eLife

May frequently collaborates with several researchers in the field. Notable coauthors include:

  • Hauke Basedau
  • Jan Mehnert
  • Kuan-Po Peng
  • Peter J. Goadsby
  • Hans-Christoph Diener

The scientist's work appears commonly in several key journals, including:

  • Cephalalgia
  • Neurology
  • Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain
  • Pain
  • The Journal of Headache and Pain

Best Publications

  • Neuroplasticity: changes in grey matter induced by training.

    Bogdan Draganski;Christian Gaser;Volker Busch;Gerhard Schuierer

  • Brain stem activation in spontaneous human migraine attacks.

    C Weiller;A May;V Limmroth;M Jüptner

  • Hypothalamic activation in cluster headache attacks

    Arne May;Anish Bahra;Christian Büchel;Richard Sj Frackowiak

  • EFNS guideline on the drug treatment of migraine--revised report of an EFNS task force.

    S. Evers;J. Áfra;A. Frese;P. J. Goadsby;P. J. Goadsby

  • Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Brain Structure Changes during Extensive Learning

    Bogdan Draganski;Christian Gaser;Gerd Kempermann;Hans-Georg Kuhn

  • Training-Induced Brain Structure Changes in the Elderly

    Janina Boyke;Joenna Driemeyer;Christian Gaser;Christian Büchel

  • Chronic pain may change the structure of the brain

    A May

  • Cluster headache: a prospective clinical study with diagnostic implications.

    Anish Bahra;Arne May;Peter J. Goadsby

  • The Trigeminovascular System in Humans: Pathophysiologic Implications for Primary Headache Syndromes of the Neural Influences on the Cerebral Circulation:

    Arne May;Peter J. Goadsby

  • Brain gray matter decrease in chronic pain is the consequence and not the cause of pain.

    Rea Rodriguez-Raecke;Andreas Niemeier;Kristin Ihle;Wolfgang Ruether

  • The migraine generator revisited: continuous scanning of the migraine cycle over 30 days and three spontaneous attacks

    Laura H. Schulte;Arne May

  • Chronic migraine: risk factors, mechanisms and treatment.

    Arne May;Laura H. Schulte

  • Correlation between structural and functional changes in brain in an idiopathic headache syndrome.

    A. May;J. Ashburner;C. Buchel;David McGonigle

  • Changes in gray matter induced by learning--revisited.

    Joenna Driemeyer;Janina Boyke;Christian Gaser;Christian Büchel

  • Experience-dependent structural plasticity in the adult human brain

    Arne May

  • Training-induced structural changes in the adult human brain.

    Bogdan Draganski;Arne May

  • EFNS guidelines on the treatment of cluster headache and other trigeminal‐autonomic cephalalgias

    A. May;M. Leone;J. Áfra;M. Linde

  • Affective components and intensity of pain correlate with structural differences in gray matter in chronic back pain patients

    Schmidt-Wilcke T;Leinisch E;Gänssbauer S;Draganski B

  • Gray matter decrease in patients with chronic tension type headache

    T. Schmidt-Wilcke;E. Leinisch;A. Straube;N. Kämpfe

  • Cluster headache: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management.

    Arne May

  • EFNS guideline on the drug treatment of migraine - revised report of an EFNS task force

    Cme Article;S. Evers;A. Frese;P. J. Goadsby

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Goadsby
Peter J. Goadsby King's College London
Stefan Evers
Stefan Evers University of Münster
Andreas Straube
Andreas Straube Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bogdan Draganski
Bogdan Draganski University Hospital of Bern
Hans-Christoph Diener
Hans-Christoph Diener University of Duisburg-Essen
Ulrich Bogdahn
Ulrich Bogdahn University of Regensburg
Christian Büchel
Christian Büchel University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Rigmor Jensen
Rigmor Jensen University of Copenhagen
Christian Gaser
Christian Gaser Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jean Schoenen
Jean Schoenen University of Liège

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