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Christian C. Ruff

Christian C. Ruff

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
62
Citations
15004
World Ranking
3502
National Ranking
93

Christian C. Ruff 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 Christian C. Ruff sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 181 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christian C. Ruff 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 Christian C. Ruff sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 62 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Christian C. Ruff is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant body of work in cognitive neuroscience. The scientist's contributions span multiple subfields including neurology, experimental and cognitive psychology, general decision sciences, and social psychology.

The main research topics covered by Christian C. Ruff include:

  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation studies
  • Decision-making and behavioral economics
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment

Christian C. Ruff has published extensively. The following is a selection of recent papers, detailing their titles, years of publication, and venues:

  • "Guidelines for TMS/tES clinical services and research through the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Brain Stimulation
  • "Real-world stress resilience is associated with the responsivity of the locus coeruleus," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Dissociable mechanisms govern when and how strongly reward attributes affect decisions," 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Role of the locus coeruleus arousal system in cognitive control," 2020, Journal of Neuroendocrinology
  • "When differences matter: rTMS/fMRI reveals how differences in dispositional empathy translate to distinct neural underpinnings of self-other distinction in empathy," 2020, Cortex

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Marius Moisa
  • Marcus Grueschow
  • Birgit Kleim
  • Rafael Polanía
  • Gilles de Hollander

Christian C. Ruff's work appears regularly in publication venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • eLife

The research conducted by Christian C. Ruff covers a variety of approaches within neuroscience, integrating cognitive neuroscience with clinical and experimental methodologies. Their research includes advanced techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation and neuroimaging to explore neural mechanisms underlying complex behaviors, decision-making processes, and emotional and moral judgments.

Best Publications

  • Studying and modifying brain function with non-invasive brain stimulation.

    Rafael Polanía;Michael A. Nitsche;Michael A. Nitsche;Christian C. Ruff

  • Cognitive biases associated with medical decisions: a systematic review

    Gustavo Saposnik;Donald A. Redelmeier;Christian C. Ruff;Philippe N. Tobler

  • The neurobiology of rewards and values in social decision making

    Christian C. Ruff;Ernst Fehr

  • Concurrent TMS-fMRI and psychophysics reveal frontal influences on human retinotopic visual cortex

    Christian C. Ruff;Felix Blankenburg;Otto Bjoertomt;Sven Bestmann

  • Right supramarginal gyrus is crucial to overcome emotional egocentricity bias in social judgments.

    Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Claus Lamm;Claus Lamm;Christian C. Ruff;Tania Singer;Tania Singer

  • Distinct Causal Influences of Parietal Versus Frontal Areas on Human Visual Cortex: Evidence from Concurrent TMS–fMRI

    Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Sven Bestmann;Sven Bestmann;Felix Blankenburg;Felix Blankenburg;Otto Bjoertomt;Otto Bjoertomt

  • Linking Brain Structure and Activation in Temporoparietal Junction to Explain the Neurobiology of Human Altruism

    Yosuke Morishima;Daniel Schunk;Adrian Bruhin;Christian C. Ruff

  • Changing Social Norm Compliance with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation

    Christian C Ruff;Giuseppe Ugazio;Giuseppe Ugazio;Ernst Fehr

  • Reasoning, Models, and Images: Behavioral Measures and Cortical Activity

    Markus Knauff;Thomas Fangmeier;Christian C. Ruff;P. N. Johnson-laird

  • Neural oscillations and synchronization differentially support evidence accumulation in perceptual and value-based decision making.

    Rafael Polanía;Ian Krajbich;Marcus Grueschow;Christian C. Ruff

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging detects activation of the visual association cortex during laser acupuncture of the foot in humans.

    Christian M. Siedentopf;Stefan M. Golaszewski;Felix M. Mottaghy;Christian C. Ruff

  • Combining TMS and fMRI: from 'virtual lesions' to functional-network accounts of cognition.

    Christian C. Ruff;Jon Driver;Sven Bestmann

  • The role of contralesional dorsal premotor cortex after stroke as studied with concurrent TMS-fMRI

    Sven Bestmann;Orlando Swayne;Felix Blankenburg;Felix Blankenburg;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff

  • Mapping causal interregional influences with concurrent TMS–fMRI

    Sven Bestmann;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Felix Blankenburg;Nikolaus Weiskopf

  • fMRI Evidence for a Three-Stage Model of Deductive Reasoning

    Thomas Fangmeier;Markus Knauff;Christian C. Ruff;Vladimir Sloutsky

  • Causal evidence for frontal involvement in memory target maintenance by posterior brain areas during distracter interference of visual working memory

    Eva Feredoes;Klaartje Heinen;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Christian Ruff;Christian Ruff

  • Dorsal Premotor Cortex Exerts State-Dependent Causal Influences on Activity in Contralateral Primary Motor and Dorsal Premotor Cortex

    Sven Bestmann;Sven Bestmann;Orlando Swayne;Felix Blankenburg;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff

  • Efficient coding of subjective value.

    Rafael Polanía;Michael Woodford;Christian C. Ruff

  • Source monitoring and memory confidence in schizophrenia.

    S. Moritz;T.S. Woodward;T.S. Woodward;T.S. Woodward;C.C. Ruff;C.C. Ruff;C.C. Ruff

  • A causal account of the brain network computations underlying strategic social behavior

    Christopher A Hill;Shinsuke Suzuki;Rafael Polania;Marius Moisa

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix Blankenburg
Felix Blankenburg Freie Universität Berlin
Sven Bestmann
Sven Bestmann University College London
Nikolaus Weiskopf
Nikolaus Weiskopf Max Planck Society
Philippe N. Tobler
Philippe N. Tobler University of Zurich
Todd A. Hare
Todd A. Hare University of Zurich
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees University College London
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Todd S. Woodward
Todd S. Woodward University of British Columbia
Gustavo Saposnik
Gustavo Saposnik University of Toronto
Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr University of Zurich

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