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Christian Plewnia

Christian Plewnia

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
6691
World Ranking
6974
National Ranking
587

Christian Plewnia 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 Plewnia sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 196 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christian Plewnia 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 Plewnia sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christian Plewnia is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research spans the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with a strong emphasis on neurology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry, and mental health. The scope of their work also includes experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their scholarly contributions focus on several primary research topics including:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Pain Management and Treatment
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Christian Plewnia has published frequently in well-known scientific venues such as:

  • Brain Stimulation
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Clinical Neurophysiology

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by them are:

  • "Transcranial direct current stimulation as an additional treatment to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in adults with major depressive disorder in Germany (DepressionDC): a triple-blind, randomised, sham-controlled, multicentre trial" (2023, The Lancet)
  • "Enhancing cognitive control training with transcranial direct current stimulation: a systematic parameter study" (2020, Brain Stimulation)
  • "Efficacy of Augmentation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Depression" (2022, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • "Can we change binge eating behaviour by interventions addressing food-related impulsivity? A systematic review" (2021, Journal of Eating Disorders)
  • "Combined antisaccade task and transcranial direct current stimulation to increase response inhibition in binge eating disorder" (2020, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience)

Christian Plewnia frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Andreas J. Fallgatter
  • Frank Padberg
  • Katrin Elisabeth Giel
  • Kathrin Schag
  • Tobias Schwippel

Best Publications

  • Enhancement of planning ability by transcranial direct current stimulation.

    Colleen A. Dockery;Ruth Hueckel-Weng;Niels Birbaumer;Christian Plewnia

  • The role of multiple contralesional motor areas for complex hand movements after internal capsular lesion

    Martin Lotze;Jochen Markert;Paul Sauseng;Julia Hoppe

  • Antidepressant effects of augmentative transcranial magnetic stimulation: randomised multicentre trial.

    Uwe Herwig;Andreas J. Fallgatter;Jacqueline Höppner;Gerhard W. Eschweiler

  • Dose-dependent attenuation of auditory phantom perception (tinnitus) by PET-guided repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Christian Plewnia;Matthias Reimold;Arif Najib;Bernhard Brehm

  • Nigral stimulation for resistant axial motor impairment in Parkinson's disease? A randomized controlled trial.

    Daniel Weiss;Margarete Walach;Christoph Meisner;Melanie Fritz

  • Amelioration of Cognitive Control in Depression by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

    Larissa Wolkenstein;Christian Plewnia

  • Transient suppression of tinnitus by transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Christian Plewnia;Mathias Bartels;Christian Gerloff

  • Moderate therapeutic efficacy of positron emission tomography-navigated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for chronic tinnitus: a randomised, controlled pilot study.

    Christian Plewnia;Matthias Reimold;Arif Najib;Gerald Reischl

  • Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on executive functions: influence of COMT Val/Met polymorphism.

    Christian Plewnia;Bastian Zwissler;Isabella Längst;Brigitte Maurer

  • Augmentation of working memory training by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).

    Steffen Philipp Ruf;Andreas J. Fallgatter;Christian Plewnia

  • Disinhibition of the contralateral motor cortex by low-frequency rTMS.

    Christian Plewnia;Martin Lotze;Christian Gerloff

  • Treatment of major depression with bilateral theta burst stimulation: A randomized controlled pilot trial

    Christian Plewnia;Patrizio Pasqualetti;Stephan Große;Sarah Schlipf

  • Shaping Memory Accuracy by Left Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

    Bastian Zwissler;Christoph Sperber;Sina Aigeldinger;Sebastian Schindler

  • Enhancement of human cortico-motoneuronal excitability by the selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor reboxetine.

    Christian Plewnia;Julia Hoppe;Christoph Hiemke;Mathias Bartels

  • The COMT Val/Met polymorphism modulates effects of tDCS on response inhibition.

    Vanessa Nieratschker;Christoph Kiefer;Katrin Giel;Rejko Krüger;Rejko Krüger

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation as an additional treatment to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in adults with major depressive disorder in Germany (DepressionDC): a triple-blind, randomised, sham-controlled, multicentre trial

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  • Subthalamic stimulation modulates cortical motor network activity and synchronization in Parkinson's disease

    Daniel Weiss;Rosa Klotz;Rathinaswamy B. Govindan;Marlieke Scholten

  • Controversy: Does repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation/ transcranial direct current stimulation show efficacy in treating tinnitus patients?

    Berthold Langguth;Dirk de Ridder;John L. Dornhoffer;Peter Eichhammer

  • Self-face recognition in schizophrenia.

    Tilo T. Kircher;Nina Y. Seiferth;Christian Plewnia;Sophia Baar

  • Event-related desynchronization and excitability of the ipsilateral motor cortex during simple self-paced finger movements

    Cornelia Rau;Christian Plewnia;Friedhelm Hummel;Christian Gerloff

  • Targeting the biased brain: non-invasive brain stimulation to ameliorate cognitive control

    Christian Plewnia;Philipp A Schroeder;Larissa Wolkenstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Rejko Krüger
Rejko Krüger University of Luxembourg
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Alireza Gharabaghi
Alireza Gharabaghi University of Tübingen
Christian Gerloff
Christian Gerloff University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Alkomiet Hasan
Alkomiet Hasan University of Augsburg
Frank Padberg
Frank Padberg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hans-Christoph Nuerk
Hans-Christoph Nuerk University of Tübingen
Katrin Elisabeth Giel
Katrin Elisabeth Giel University of Tübingen
Surjo R. Soekadar
Surjo R. Soekadar Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Peter Falkai
Peter Falkai Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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