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Gesa Hartwigsen

Gesa Hartwigsen

Max Planck Society
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
7546
World Ranking
6242
National Ranking
525

Gesa Hartwigsen 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 Gesa Hartwigsen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 291 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gesa Hartwigsen 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 Gesa Hartwigsen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Damage to ventral and dorsal language pathways in acute aphasia.

    Dorothee Kümmerer;Gesa Hartwigsen;Philipp Kellmeyer;Volkmar Glauche

  • Inferring Causality from Noninvasive Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience.

    Til Ole Bergmann;Gesa Hartwigsen

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

    Gesa Hartwigsen;Dorothee Saur

  • Left inferior parietal lobe engagement in social cognition and language.

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

  • A novel approach to localize cortical TMS effects

    Konstantin Weise;Ole Numssen;Axel Thielscher;Gesa Hartwigsen

  • Functional specialization within the inferior parietal lobes across cognitive domains

    Ole Numssen;Danilo Bzdok;Gesa Hartwigsen

  • 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

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

    Anika Stockert;Max Wawrzyniak;Julian Klingbeil;Katrin Wrede

  • Neurobiology of Language Recovery After Stroke: Lessons From Neuroimaging Studies

    Dorothee Saur;Gesa Hartwigsen

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

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

  • 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

  • Flexible Redistribution in Cognitive Networks

    Gesa Hartwigsen

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

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

  • 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

  • How does hemispheric specialization contribute to human-defining cognition?

    Gesa Hartwigsen;Yoshua Bengio;Danilo Bzdok;Danilo Bzdok

  • 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

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

    Philipp Kuhnke;Markus Kiefer;Gesa Hartwigsen

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

    Gesa Hartwigsen

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Hartwig R. Siebner
Hartwig R. Siebner Copenhagen University Hospital
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Axel Thielscher
Axel Thielscher Technical University of Denmark
Thomas R. Knösche
Thomas R. Knösche Max Planck Society
Danilo Bzdok
Danilo Bzdok Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Jonas Obleser
Jonas Obleser University of Lübeck
Katharina von Kriegstein
Katharina von Kriegstein TU Dresden
Til Ole Bergmann
Til Ole Bergmann University of Tübingen
Hellmuth Obrig
Hellmuth Obrig Max Planck Society
Joseph Classen
Joseph Classen Leipzig University

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