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Gustavo Deco publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gustavo Deco sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 562 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Gustavo Deco D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gustavo Deco sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 91 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Gustavo Deco is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on understanding brain function through the lens of computational models, neural dynamics, and functional connectivity studies.

Their publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • Dynamic coupling of whole-brain neuronal and neurotransmitter systems, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Brain States and Transitions: Insights from Computational Neuroscience, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Microbiota alterations in proline metabolism impact depression, 2022, Cell Metabolism
  • Genetic influences on hub connectivity of the human connectome, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Dynamical consequences of regional heterogeneity in the brain's transcriptional landscape, 2021, Science Advances

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors including:

  • Morten L. Kringelbach
  • Yonatan Sanz Perl
  • Anira Escrichs
  • Enzo Tagliazucchi
  • Jakub Vohryzek

Their publications are predominantly found in a range of venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • NeuroImage
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Network Neuroscience

Gustavo Deco's main fields of study emphasize Neuroscience, with a significant focus on subfields including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The core topics covered in their research feature:

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

This profile reflects a focused engagement with brain connectivity, computational approaches to brain states, and translational applications related to mental health and neuroimaging methodologies. Gustavo Deco's work contributes to multidisciplinary insights into brain function, dynamics, and associated clinical and molecular aspects.

Best Publications

  • Emerging concepts for the dynamical organization of resting-state activity in the brain

    Gustavo Deco;Viktor K. Jirsa;Viktor K. Jirsa;Anthony R. McIntosh

  • The Dynamic Brain: From Spiking Neurons to Neural Masses and Cortical Fields

    Gustavo Deco;Viktor K. Jirsa;Peter A. Robinson;Michael Breakspear;Michael Breakspear

  • Key role of coupling, delay, and noise in resting brain fluctuations

    Gustavo Deco;Viktor Jirsa;A. R. McIntosh;Olaf Sporns

  • Ongoing Cortical Activity at Rest: Criticality, Multistability, and Ghost Attractors

    Gustavo Deco;Viktor K. Jirsa

  • Computational Neuroscience of Vision

    Edmund T. Rolls;Gustavo Deco

  • Rethinking segregation and integration: contributions of whole-brain modelling.

    Gustavo Deco;Giulio Tononi;Melanie Boly;Morten L. Kringelbach

  • Can sliding-window correlations reveal dynamic functional connectivity in resting-state fMRI?

    Rikkert Hindriks;Mohit H. Adhikari;Yusuke Murayama;Marco Ganzetti

  • Resting-State Functional Connectivity Emerges from Structurally and Dynamically Shaped Slow Linear Fluctuations

    Gustavo Deco;Adrián Ponce-Alvarez;Dante Mantini;Dante Mantini;Gian Luca Romani

  • Functional connectivity dynamics: modeling the switching behavior of the resting state.

    Enrique C.A. Hansen;Demian Battaglia;Andreas Spiegler;Gustavo Deco

  • Role of local network oscillations in resting-state functional connectivity

    Joana Cabral;Etienne Hugues;Olaf Sporns;Gustavo Deco

  • The dynamics of resting fluctuations in the brain: metastability and its dynamical cortical core

    Gustavo Deco;Morten L. Kringelbach;Morten L. Kringelbach;Viktor K. Jirsa;Petra Ritter

  • Human consciousness is supported by dynamic complex patterns of brain signal coordination

    Athena Demertzi;Athena Demertzi;Enzo Tagliazucchi;Stanislas Dehaene;Stanislas Dehaene;Gustavo Deco

  • Great expectations: using whole-brain computational connectomics for understanding neuropsychiatric disorders.

    Gustavo Deco;Morten L. Kringelbach

  • Stochastic dynamics as a principle of brain function

    Gustavo Deco;Edmund T. Rolls;Ranulfo Romo

  • Computational models of schizophrenia and dopamine modulation in the prefrontal cortex

    Edmund T. Rolls;Marco Loh;Gustavo Deco;Gustavo Deco;Georg Winterer

  • An Information-Theoretic Approach to Neural Computing

    Gustavo Deco;Dragan Obradovic

  • Resting brains never rest: computational insights into potential cognitive architectures

    Gustavo Deco;Viktor K. Jirsa;Anthony R. McIntosh

  • A Neurodynamical cortical model of visual attention and invariant object recognition

    Gustavo Deco;Edmund T. Rolls

  • How Local Excitation-Inhibition Ratio Impacts the Whole Brain Dynamics

    Gustavo Deco;Adrián Ponce-Alvarez;Patric Hagmann;Patric Hagmann;Gian Luca Romani

  • Exploring the network dynamics underlying brain activity during rest.

    Joana R. B. Cabral;Joana R. B. Cabral;Morten L. Kringelbach;Gustavo Deco

  • The Noisy Brain: Stochastic Dynamics as a Principle of Brain Function

    Edmund T. Rolls;Gustavo Deco

Frequent Co-Authors

Morten L. Kringelbach
Morten L. Kringelbach University of Oxford
Edmund T. Rolls
Edmund T. Rolls University of Warwick
Dante Mantini
Dante Mantini KU Leuven
Viktor K. Jirsa
Viktor K. Jirsa Aix-Marseille University
Petra Ritter
Petra Ritter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Patric Hagmann
Patric Hagmann University of Lausanne
Enzo Tagliazucchi
Enzo Tagliazucchi University of Buenos Aires
Helmut Laufs
Helmut Laufs Kiel University
Nikos K. Logothetis
Nikos K. Logothetis Chinese Academy of Sciences
Maurizio Corbetta
Maurizio Corbetta University of Padua

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