2026 Gesa Hartwigsen: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	48	6242	5750	525	496	291	7546

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Neuroscience

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Overview

Gesa Hartwigsen is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of neuroscience.

Their research spans multiple subfields, including:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Neurology
Social Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The main topics covered in their work are:

Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Action Observation and Synchronization
Reading and Literacy Development

Gesa Hartwigsen has frequently published in several scientific venues, with a focus on:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Brain Stimulation
Clinical Neurophysiology
NeuroImage
Cerebral Cortex

Notable recent papers include:

"Inferring Causality from Noninvasive Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience," 2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
"Functional specialization within the inferior parietal lobes across cognitive domains," 2021, eLife
"Dynamics of language reorganization after left temporo-parietal and frontal stroke," 2020, Brain
"Guidelines for TMS/tES clinical services and research through the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Brain Stimulation
"How does hemispheric specialization contribute to human-defining cognition?", 2021, Neuron

They have collaborated frequently with colleagues including:

Ole Numssen
Philipp Kuhnke
Konstantin Weise
Sandra Martin
Dorothee Saur

In addition to journal articles, Gesa Hartwigsen has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer Nature in 2024:

Biologische Psychologie

Best Publications

How does transcranial magnetic stimulation modify neuronal activity in the brain? Implications for studies of cognition

Hartwig R. Siebner;Gesa Hartwigsen;Gesa Hartwigsen;Tanja Kassuba;Tanja Kassuba;John C. Rothwell

404
Citations
Phonological decisions require both the left and right supramarginal gyri

Gesa Hartwigsen;Gesa Hartwigsen;Gesa Hartwigsen;Annette Baumgaertner;Annette Baumgaertner;Annette Baumgaertner;Cathy J. Price;Maria Koehnke

384
Citations
Combining non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation with neuroimaging and electrophysiology: Current approaches and future perspectives

Til Ole Bergmann;Til Ole Bergmann;Anke N. Karabanov;Gesa Hartwigsen;Gesa Hartwigsen;Axel Thielscher;Axel Thielscher

369
Citations
Damage to ventral and dorsal language pathways in acute aphasia.

Dorothee Kümmerer;Gesa Hartwigsen;Philipp Kellmeyer;Volkmar Glauche

306
Citations
Inferring Causality from Noninvasive Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Til Ole Bergmann;Gesa Hartwigsen

262
Citations
Neuroimaging of stroke recovery from aphasia – Insights into plasticity of the human language network

Gesa Hartwigsen;Dorothee Saur

261
Citations
Left inferior parietal lobe engagement in social cognition and language.

Danielo Bzdok;Gesa Hartwigsen;Andrew Reid;Angela R. Laird

199
Citations
A novel approach to localize cortical TMS effects

Konstantin Weise;Ole Numssen;Axel Thielscher;Gesa Hartwigsen

176
Citations
Functional specialization within the inferior parietal lobes across cognitive domains

Ole Numssen;Danilo Bzdok;Gesa Hartwigsen

175
Citations
Perturbation of the left inferior frontal gyrus triggers adaptive plasticity in the right homologous area during speech production

Gesa Hartwigsen;Gesa Hartwigsen;Dorothee Saur;Cathy J. Price;Stephan Ulmer

168
Citations
Dynamics of language reorganization after left temporo-parietal and frontal stroke

Anika Stockert;Max Wawrzyniak;Julian Klingbeil;Katrin Wrede

162
Citations
Neurobiology of Language Recovery After Stroke: Lessons From Neuroimaging Studies

Dorothee Saur;Gesa Hartwigsen

158
Citations
Functional Segregation of the Right Inferior Frontal Gyrus: Evidence From Coactivation-Based Parcellation.

Gesa Hartwigsen;Nicole E Neef;Julia A Camilleri;Daniel S Margulies

151
Citations
The Right Posterior Inferior Frontal Gyrus Contributes to Phonological Word Decisions in the Healthy Brain: Evidence from Dual-Site TMS.

Gesa Hartwigsen;Cathy J. Price;Annette Baumgaertner;Annette Baumgaertner;Annette Baumgaertner;Gesine Geiss

150
Citations
Flexible Redistribution in Cognitive Networks

Gesa Hartwigsen

129
Citations
Guidelines for TMS/tES clinical services and research through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Marom Bikson;Colleen A Hanlon;Adam J Woods;Bernadette T Gillick

128
Citations
Dissociating Parieto-Frontal Networks for Phonological and Semantic Word Decisions: A Condition-and-Perturb TMS Study

Gesa Hartwigsen;Gesa Hartwigsen;Gesa Hartwigsen;Anni Weigel;Paul Schuschan;Hartwig R. Siebner

121
Citations
How does hemispheric specialization contribute to human-defining cognition?

Gesa Hartwigsen;Yoshua Bengio;Danilo Bzdok;Danilo Bzdok

109
Citations
Comparing the Fullerton Advanced Balance Scale with the Mini-BESTest and Berg Balance Scale to assess postural control in patients with Parkinson disease

Christian Schlenstedt;Stephanie Brombacher;Gesa Hartwigsen;Burkhard Weisser

108
Citations
Task-Dependent Recruitment of Modality-Specific and Multimodal Regions during Conceptual Processing.

Philipp Kuhnke;Markus Kiefer;Gesa Hartwigsen

108
Citations
The neurophysiology of language: Insights from non-invasive brain stimulation in the healthy human brain.

Gesa Hartwigsen

94
Citations
Left Dorsal Premotor Cortex and Supramarginal Gyrus Complement Each Other during Rapid Action Reprogramming

Gesa Hartwigsen;Gesa Hartwigsen;Sven Bestmann;Nick S. Ward;Saskia Woerbel

87
Citations