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Ferath Kherif 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 Ferath Kherif sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 118 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ferath Kherif 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 Ferath Kherif sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ferath Kherif is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to fields intersecting medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and neurology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Kherif has published papers in a number of venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
  • Neurobiology of Aging

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Converging patterns of aging-associated brain volume loss and tissue microstructure differences," 2020, Neurobiology of Aging
  • "Towards a European health research and innovation cloud (HRIC)," 2020, Genome Medicine
  • "Mean Oxygen Saturation during Sleep Is Related to Specific Brain Atrophy Pattern," 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • "Machine Learning for Health: Algorithm Auditing & Quality Control," 2021, Journal of Medical Systems
  • "Restoring statistical validity in group analyses of motion-corrupted MRI data," 2022, Human Brain Mapping

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kherif include:

  • Bogdan Draganski
  • Antoine Lutti
  • Adeliya Latypova
  • Martin Preisig
  • Drozdstoy Stoyanov

Best Publications

  • Evidence for segregated and integrative connectivity patterns in the human Basal Ganglia.

    Bogdan Draganski;Ferath Kherif;Stefan Klöppel;Philip A Cook

  • Motor cortex maps articulatory features of speech sounds

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Martina Huss;Ferath Kherif;Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin

  • Regional specificity of MRI contrast parameter changes in normal ageing revealed by voxel-based quantification (VBQ)

    Bogdan Draganski;John Ashburner;Chloe Hutton;Ferat Kherif;Ferat Kherif

  • hMRI – A toolbox for quantitative MRI in neuroscience and clinical research

    Karsten Tabelow;Evelyne Balteau;John Ashburner;Martina F. Callaghan

  • Principal component analysis

    Ferath Kherif;Adeliya Latypova

  • The 16p11.2 locus modulates brain structures common to autism, schizophrenia and obesity

    A M Maillard;A Ruef;F Pizzagalli;E Migliavacca;E Migliavacca

  • Multivariate voxel-based morphometry successfully differentiates schizophrenia patients from healthy controls.

    Yasuhiro Kawasaki;Michio Suzuki;Ferath Kherif;Tsutomu Takahashi

  • Electroconvulsive therapy-induced brain plasticity determines therapeutic outcome in mood disorders.

    Juergen Dukart;Francesca Regen;Ferath Kherif;Michael Colla

  • Does semantic context benefit speech understanding through top-down processes? evidence from time-resolved sparse fmri

    Matthew H. Davis;Michael A. Ford;Ferath Kherif;Ingrid S. Johnsrude

  • Retinotopic organization of visual mental images as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Isabelle Klein;Jessica Dubois;Jean-François Mangin;Ferath Kherif

  • Detection of fMRI activation using cortical surface mapping.

    Alexandre Andrade;Ferath Kherif;Jean‐François Mangin;Keith J. Worsley

  • Automatized clustering and functional geometry of human parietofrontal networks for language, space, and number

    Olivier Simon;Ferath Kherif;Guillaume Flandin;Jean-Baptiste Poline

  • A primal sketch of the cortex mean curvature: a morphogenesis based approach to study the variability of the folding patterns

    A. Cachia;J.-F. Mangin;D. Riviere;F. Kherif

  • Explaining Function with Anatomy: Language Lateralization and Corpus Callosum Size

    Goulven Josse;Mohamed L. Seghier;Ferath Kherif;Cathy J. Price

  • Automatic Top-Down Processing Explains Common Left Occipito-Temporal Responses to Visual Words and Objects

    Ferath Kherif;Goulven Josse;Cathy J. Price

  • New tissue priors for improved automated classification of subcortical brain structures on MRI.

    Sara Lorio;Samuel Fresard;Stanislaw Adaszewski;Ferath Kherif

  • The role of the left head of caudate in suppressing irrelevant words

    Nilufa Ali;David W. Green;Ferath Kherif;Joseph T. Devlin

  • A generic framework for the parcellation of the cortical surface into gyri using geodesic Voronoı̈ diagrams

    Arnaud Cachia;Jean-François Mangin;Denis Rivière;Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos

  • Group analysis in functional neuroimaging: selecting subjects using similarity measures.

    Ferath Kherif;Jean-Baptiste Poline;Sébastien Mériaux;Habib Benali

  • Imagery or meaning? Evidence for a semantic origin of category-specific brain activity in metabolic imaging

    Olaf Hauk;Matthew H Davis;Ferath Kherif;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Evidence for segregated and integrative connectivity patterns in the human basal ganglia

    Bogdan Draganski;F Kherif;Stefan Klöppel;PA Cook

Frequent Co-Authors

Bogdan Draganski
Bogdan Draganski University Hospital of Bern
Antoine Lutti
Antoine Lutti University of Lausanne
Jean-Baptiste Poline
Jean-Baptiste Poline Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Richard S. J. Frackowiak
Richard S. J. Frackowiak École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Juergen Dukart
Juergen Dukart Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Cathy J. Price
Cathy J. Price University College London
Jean-François Démonet
Jean-François Démonet University Hospital of Lausanne
Denis Le Bihan
Denis Le Bihan University of Paris-Saclay
John Ashburner
John Ashburner University College London
Martin Preisig
Martin Preisig University of Lausanne

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