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Christian Grefkes

Christian Grefkes

University of Cologne
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
68
Citations
26040
World Ranking
2703
National Ranking
235

Christian Grefkes 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 Grefkes sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 295 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christian Grefkes 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 Grefkes sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christian Grefkes is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant body of work distributed across subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Rehabilitation, and Epidemiology.

The scientific topics frequently addressed in their publications include:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management

Christian Grefkes has contributed to the literature through various papers, among which the following are prominent:

  • Recovery from stroke: current concepts and future perspectives, 2020, Neurological Research and Practice
  • Precision medicine in stroke: towards personalized outcome predictions using artificial intelligence, 2021, Brain
  • Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): An update (2014-2018), 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology (coauthored by Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur)
  • Corrigendum to "Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): An update (2014-2018)", 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology (coauthored by Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur)
  • Human brain connectivity: Clinical applications for clinical neurophysiology, 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology (coauthored by Mark Hallett)

The frequent publication venues where Christian Grefkes's work appears include:

  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurological Research and Practice
  • Brain
  • Human Brain Mapping

Throughout their career, Christian Grefkes has collaborated regularly with a number of researchers including Gereon R. Fink, Caroline Tscherpel, Lukas Hensel, Lukas J. Volz, and Theresa Paul.

Best Publications

  • A new SPM toolbox for combining probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps and functional imaging data

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Klaas E. Stephan;Hartmut Mohlberg;Christian Grefkes

  • Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): An update (2014–2018)

    Jean Pascal Lefaucheur;André Aleman;Chris Baeken;David H. Benninger

  • Coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of neuroimaging data: a random-effects approach based on empirical estimates of spatial uncertainty

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Angela R. Laird;Christian Grefkes;Ling E. Wang

  • The functional organization of the intraparietal sulcus in humans and monkeys.

    Christian Grefkes;Gereon R. Fink

  • Reorganization of cerebral networks after stroke: new insights from neuroimaging with connectivity approaches

    Christian Grefkes;Gereon R. Fink

  • Cortical connectivity after subcortical stroke assessed with functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Christian Grefkes;Dennis A. Nowak;Simon B. Eickhoff;Manuel Dafotakis

  • Interhemispheric competition after stroke: brain stimulation to enhance recovery of function of the affected hand

    Dennis A. Nowak;Christian Grefkes;Mitra Ameli;Gereon R. Fink

  • Connectivity-based approaches in stroke and recovery of function

    Christian Grefkes;Christian Grefkes;Gereon R Fink

  • Dynamic intra- and interhemispheric interactions during unilateral and bilateral hand movements assessed with fMRI and DCM.

    Christian Grefkes;Simon B. Eickhoff;Dennis A. Nowak;Manuel Dafotakis

  • Recovery from stroke: current concepts and future perspectives

    Christian Grefkes;Christian Grefkes;Gereon R. Fink;Gereon R. Fink

  • Activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of motor-related neural activity after stroke.

    Anne K. Rehme;Simon B. Eickhoff;Claudia Rottschy;Gereon R. Fink

  • The Role of the Contralesional Motor Cortex for Motor Recovery in the Early Days after Stroke Assessed with Longitudinal fMRI

    Anne Kathrin Rehme;Gereon R. Fink;D. Yves von Cramon;Christian Grefkes

  • Modulating cortical connectivity in stroke patients by rTMS assessed with fMRI and dynamic causal modeling

    Christian Grefkes;Dennis A. Nowak;Ling E. Wang;Manuel Dafotakis

  • Human somatosensory area 2: observer-independent cytoarchitectonic mapping, interindividual variability, and population map.

    Christian Grefkes;Stefan Geyer;Thorsten Schormann;Per E. Roland

  • Crossmodal processing of object features in human anterior intraparietal cortex: an fMRI study implies equivalencies between humans and monkeys.

    Christian Grefkes;Peter H. Weiss;Karl Zilles;Gereon R. Fink

  • Cortical Reorganization After Stroke: How Much and How Functional?

    Christian Grefkes;Nick S. Ward

  • Dynamic causal modeling of cortical activity from the acute to the chronic stage after stroke

    Anne Kathrin Rehme;Simon B. Eickhoff;Ling E. Wang;Gereon R. Fink

  • Effects of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the contralesional primary motor cortex on movement kinematics and neural activity in subcortical stroke

    Dennis A. Nowak;Christian Grefkes;Manuel Dafotakis;Simon Eickhoff

  • Differential effects of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over ipsilesional primary motor cortex in cortical and subcortical middle cerebral artery stroke.

    Mitra Ameli;Christian Grefkes;Friederike Kemper;Florian P. Riegg

  • Cerebral network disorders after stroke: Evidence from imaging-based connectivity analyses of active and resting brain states in humans

    Anne Kathrin Rehme;Christian Grefkes

  • Hierarchical Processing of Tactile Shape in the Human Brain

    Anna Bodegård;Stefan Geyer;Christian Grefkes;Karl Zilles

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon B. Eickhoff
Simon B. Eickhoff Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Gereon R. Fink
Gereon R. Fink University of Cologne
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Felix Hoffstaedter
Felix Hoffstaedter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Svenja Caspers
Svenja Caspers Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Kathrin Reetz
Kathrin Reetz RWTH Aachen University
Robert Langner
Robert Langner Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Katrin Amunts
Katrin Amunts Forschungszentrum Jülich
Stefan Geyer
Stefan Geyer Max Planck Society
Marc Tittgemeyer
Marc Tittgemeyer Max Planck Society

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