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George F. Wittenberg 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 George F. Wittenberg sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 121 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

George F. Wittenberg 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 George F. Wittenberg sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

George F. Wittenberg is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their primary research spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on stroke rehabilitation and recovery.

The main fields of study associated with their work include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within these broad areas, the subfields prominently feature:

  • Neurology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Rehabilitation
  • Epidemiology
  • Biomedical Engineering

The core topics covered in their research involve:

  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

George F. Wittenberg's recent publications illustrate the scope and focus of their work. Selected papers include:

  • Epidural stimulation of the cervical spinal cord for post-stroke upper-limb paresis, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • A large, curated, open-source stroke neuroimaging dataset to improve lesion segmentation algorithms, 2022, Scientific Data
  • The ENIGMA Stroke Recovery Working Group: Big data neuroimaging to study brain-behavior relationships after stroke, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Electrical stimulation of the external ear acutely activates noradrenergic mechanisms in humans, 2021, Brain stimulation
  • Association of Brain Age, Lesion Volume, and Functional Outcome in Patients With Stroke, 2023, Neurology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Wittenberg include:

  • Wuwei Feng
  • Michael R. Borich
  • Steven C. Cramer
  • Lara A. Boyd
  • Adriana Bastos Conforto

Common venues for publishing their research are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain stimulation
  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Neurology
  • The Lancet Neurology

Best Publications

  • Robot-Assisted Therapy for Long-Term Upper-Limb Impairment after Stroke

    Albert C. Lo;Peter D. Guarino;Lorie G. Richards;Jodie K. Haselkorn

  • Getting neurorehabilitation right: what can be learned from animal models?

    John W. Krakauer;S. Thomas Carmichael;Dale Corbett;George F. Wittenberg

  • Multimodal imaging of brain reorganization in motor areas of the contralesional hemisphere of well recovered patients after capsular stroke

    Christian Gerloff;Khalaf Bushara;Alexandra Sailer;Eric M. Wassermann

  • Constraint-induced therapy in stroke: magnetic-stimulation motor maps and cerebral activation.

    George F Wittenberg;Robert Chen;Kenji Ishii;Khalafalla O Bushara

  • Roles of the Insular Cortex in the Modulation of Pain: Insights from Brain Lesions

    Christopher J. Starr;Lumy Sawaki;George F. Wittenberg;Jonathan H. Burdette

  • Improving Hand Function in Chronic Stroke

    Wolf Muellbacher;Coletta Richards;Ulf Ziemann;George Wittenberg

  • Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy Results in Increased Motor Map Area in Subjects 3 to 9 Months After Stroke

    Lumy Sawaki;Andrew J. Butler;Xiaoyan Leng;Peter A. Wassenaar

  • An Economic Analysis of Robot-Assisted Therapy for Long-Term Upper-Limb Impairment After Stroke

    Todd H. Wagner;Albert C. Lo;Peter Peduzzi;Dawn M. Bravata

  • Functional connectivity between somatosensory and visual cortex in early blind humans

    George F. Wittenberg;Konrad J. Werhahn;Eric M. Wassermann;Peter Herscovitch

  • The contribution of the putamen to sensory aspects of pain: insights from structural connectivity and brain lesions

    Christopher J. Starr;Lumy Sawaki;George F. Wittenberg;George F. Wittenberg;Jonathan H. Burdette

  • Effect of Gravity on Robot-Assisted Motor Training After Chronic Stroke: A Randomized Trial

    Susan S. Conroy;Jill Whitall;Laura Dipietro;Lauren M. Jones-Lush

  • Multicenter Randomized Trial of Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation for Chronic Stroke: Methods and Entry Characteristics for VA ROBOTICS:

    Albert C. Lo;Peter Guarino;Hermano I. Krebs;Bruce T. Volpe

  • The neural basis of constraint-induced movement therapy.

    George F Wittenberg;Judith D Schaechter

  • The ENIGMA Stroke Recovery Working Group: Big data neuroimaging to study brain-behavior relationships after stroke

    Sook-Lei Liew;Artemis Zavaliangos-Petropulu;Neda Jahanshad;Catherine E. Lang

  • Experience, cortical remapping, and recovery in brain disease.

    George F. Wittenberg

  • Robot-Assisted Arm Training in Chronic Stroke: Addition of Transition-to-Task Practice.

    Susan S Conroy;George F Wittenberg;George F Wittenberg;Hermano I Krebs;Min Zhan

  • Fractal dimension assessment of brain white matter structural complexity post stroke in relation to upper-extremity motor function

    Luduan Zhang;Andrew J. Butler;Chang Kai Sun;Vinod Sahgal

  • Dynamic Course of Intracortical TMS Paired-Pulse Responses During Recovery of Motor Function After Stroke

    George F. Wittenberg;Eric P. Bastings;Allison M. Fowlkes;Timothy M. Morgan

  • Function of identified interneurons in the leech elucidated using neural networks trained by back-propagation.

    Shawn R. Lockery;George Wittenberg;William B. Kristan;Garrison W. Cottrell

  • Immune complex effects on murine macrophages. I. Immune complexes suppress interferon-gamma induction of Ia expression.

    H W Virgin;G F Wittenberg;E R Unanue

  • Motor cortical functional geometry in cerebral palsy and its relationship to disability

    T. M Kesar;L Sawaki;L Sawaki;J. H Burdette;M. N Cabrera

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley J. MacIntosh
Bradley J. MacIntosh Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Steven A. Kautz
Steven A. Kautz Medical University of South Carolina
Amy Brodtmann
Amy Brodtmann Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Colleen A. Hanlon
Colleen A. Hanlon Wake Forest University
Carolee J. Winstein
Carolee J. Winstein University of Southern California
William B. Kristan
William B. Kristan University of California, San Diego
Winston D. Byblow
Winston D. Byblow University of Auckland
Cathy M. Stinear
Cathy M. Stinear University of Auckland
Surjo R. Soekadar
Surjo R. Soekadar Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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