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83
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710

Essa Yacoub 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 Essa Yacoub sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 229 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Essa Yacoub 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 Essa Yacoub sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 83 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Essa Yacoub is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a specific focus on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Pediatrics. Their research interests include Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, and Neural dynamics and brain function.

Recent notable publications by Essa Yacoub include:

  • The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective (2021), published in NeuroImage
  • Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain (2024), published in Nature
  • Lowering the thermal noise barrier in functional brain mapping with magnetic resonance imaging (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Next-generation MRI scanner designed for ultra-high-resolution human brain imaging at 7 Tesla (2023), published in Nature Methods
  • NOise reduction with DIstribution Corrected (NORDIC) PCA in dMRI with complex-valued parameter-free locally low-rank processing (2020), published in NeuroImage

Their frequent coauthors include Kâmil Uğurbil, Luca Vizioli, Steen Moeller, Logan T. Dowdle, and Damien A. Fair.

Essa Yacoub has published extensively in multiple venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • NeuroImage
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The subfields of study reflected in their work include Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Pediatrics, with additional focus on Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics covered in Essa Yacoub's research are:

  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

Best Publications

  • The WU-Minn Human Connectome Project: An Overview

    David C. Van Essen;Stephen M. Smith;M Deanna;Timothy Edward John Behrens

  • A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex

    Matthew F. Glasser;Timothy S. Coalson;Emma C. Robinson;Emma C. Robinson;Carl D. Hacker

  • The Human Connectome Project: A data acquisition perspective

    D. C. Van Essen;Kamil Ugurbil;Edward J Auerbach

  • Multimodal population brain imaging in the UK Biobank prospective epidemiological study

    Karla L Miller;Fidel Alfaro-Almagro;Neal K Bangerter;David L Thomas

  • Multiband Multislice GE-EPI at 7 Tesla, With 16-Fold Acceleration Using Partial Parallel Imaging With Application to High Spatial and Temporal Whole-Brain FMRI

    Steen Moeller;Essa Yacoub;Cheryl A. Olman;Edward Auerbach

  • Resting-state fMRI in the Human Connectome Project

    S M Smith;C F Beckmann;J Andersson;E J Auerbach

  • Multiplexed echo planar imaging for sub-second whole brain fmri and fast diffusion imaging

    David A. Feinberg;David A. Feinberg;Steen Moeller;Stephen M. Smith;Edward J Auerbach

  • ICA-based artefact removal and accelerated fMRI acquisition for improved resting state network imaging

    Ludovica Griffanti;Ludovica Griffanti;Gholamreza Salimi-Khorshidi;Christian F. Beckmann;Edward J. Auerbach

  • The Human Connectome Project's neuroimaging approach

    Matthew F Glasser;Stephen M Smith;Daniel S Marcus;Jesper L R Andersson

  • Advances in diffusion MRI acquisition and processing in the Human Connectome Project.

    Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos;Saâd Jbabdi;Junqian Xu;Jesper L. R. Andersson

  • Pushing spatial and temporal resolution for functional and diffusion MRI in the Human Connectome Project

    Kamil Ugurbil;Junqian Xu;Edward J. Auerbach;Steen Moeller

  • Temporally-independent functional modes of spontaneous brain activity

    Stephen M. Smith;Karla L. Miller;Steen Moeller;Junqian Xu

  • Sustained Negative BOLD, Blood Flow and Oxygen Consumption Response and Its Coupling to the Positive Response in the Human Brain

    Amir Shmuel;Essa Yacoub;Josef Pfeuffer;Pierre Francois Van de Moortele

  • High-field fMRI unveils orientation columns in humans.

    Essa Yacoub;Noam Harel;Kâmil Uğurbil

  • Evaluation of slice accelerations using multiband echo planar imaging at 3 T.

    Junqian Xu;Steen Moeller;Edward J. Auerbach;John P. Strupp

  • Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: Imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects

    Michael P. Harms;Leah H. Somerville;Beau M. Ances;Jesper Andersson

  • Imaging brain function in humans at 7 Tesla

    Essa Yacoub;Amir Shmuel;Josef Pfeuffer;Pierre Francois Van De Moortele

  • Contextual Feedback to Superficial Layers of V1.

    Lars Muckli;Federico De Martino;Federico De Martino;Luca Vizioli;Lucy S. Petro

  • The UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project (BCP): An overview of the study design and protocol development.

    Brittany R. Howell;Martin A. Styner;Wei Gao;Wei Gao;Pew-Thian Yap

  • Microvascular BOLD contribution at 4 and 7 T in the human brain: gradient-echo and spin-echo fMRI with suppression of blood effects.

    Timothy Q. Duong;Essa Yacoub;Gregor Adriany;Xiaoping Hu;Xiaoping Hu

  • Spin-echo fMRI in humans using high spatial resolutions and high magnetic fields.

    Essa Yacoub;Timothy Q. Duong;Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele;Martin Lindquist

Frequent Co-Authors

Kamil Ugurbil
Kamil Ugurbil University of Minnesota
Federico De Martino
Federico De Martino Maastricht University
Xiaoping Hu
Xiaoping Hu University of California, Riverside
Junqian Xu
Junqian Xu Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Amir Shmuel
Amir Shmuel Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele University of Minnesota
Stephen M. Smith
Stephen M. Smith University of Oxford
Rainer Goebel
Rainer Goebel Maastricht University
David A. Feinberg
David A. Feinberg University of California, Berkeley
David C. Van Essen
David C. Van Essen Washington University in St. Louis

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