2026 James Ashe: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	32	9491	8755	4013	3626	81	7695

Overview

James Ashe is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to medicine, with specific contributions in neurology, physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, psychiatry and mental health, genetics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers a variety of interconnected topics including balance, gait, and falls prevention; cerebral palsy and movement disorders; cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus; Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments; long-term effects of COVID-19; COVID-19 clinical research studies; and the neuroscience of respiration and sleep.

Recent publications by James Ashe include:

Using kinematics to re-define the pull test as a quantitative biomarker of the postural response in normal pressure hydrocephalus patients, 2022, Experimental Brain Research
Central Apnea in Patients with COVID-19 Infection, 2023, J - Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal
Parkinson Disease Genetics Extended to African and Hispanic Ancestries in the VA Million Veteran Program, 2023, Neurology Genetics
Longitudinal improvement in postural instability is distinct from gait in treated adult hydrocephalus, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Using kinematics to re-define the pull test as a quantitative biomarker of the postural response, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors with whom James Ashe has collaborated include Jacob Hanson, Vibha Mavanji, Scott M. Lewis, John M. Looft, and Robert A. McGovern.

Key publication venues for Ashe's research are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Experimental Brain Research, J - Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal, Neurology Genetics, and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Best Publications

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of motor cortex;hemispheric asymmetry and handedness

Seong Gi Kim;James Ashe;Kristy Hendrich;Jutta M Ellermann

1292
Citations
The motor cortex and the coding of force.

Apostolos P. Georgopoulos;James Ashe;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Masato Taira

611
Citations
Movement Parameters and Neural Activity in Motor Cortex and Area 5

James Ashe;Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

486
Citations
Functional imaging of human motor cortex at high magnetic field

Seong-Gi Kim;J. Ashe;A. P. Georgopoulos;H. Merkle

464
Citations
Functional activation in motor cortex reflects the direction and the degree of handedness

Paul Dassonville;Xiao-Hong Zhu;Kâmil Ugurbil;Seong-Gi Kim

422
Citations
Negative covariation between task-related responses in alpha/beta-band activity and BOLD in human sensorimotor cortex: an EEG and fMRI study of motor imagery and movements.

Han Yuan;Tao Liu;Rebecca Szarkowski;Cristina Rios

315
Citations
Differential Effect of Reward and Punishment on Procedural Learning

Tobias Wächter;Ovidiu V. Lungu;Ovidiu V. Lungu;Tao Liu;Tao Liu;Daniel T. Willingham

266
Citations
Cerebellum Activation Associated with Performance Change but Not Motor Learning

R. D. Seidler;A. Purushotham;S.-G. Kim;K. Uğurbil

263
Citations
Cortical control of motor sequences.

James Ashe;Ovidiu V Lungu;Ovidiu V Lungu;Alexandra T Basford;Alexandra T Basford;Xiaofeng Lu

258
Citations
Physiologic properties and somatotopic organization of the primate motor thalamus

J. L. Vitek;J. Ashe;M. R. DeLong;G. E. Alexander

238
Citations
Force and the motor cortex

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227
Citations
Anticipatory activity in primary motor cortex codes memorized movement sequences.

Xiaofeng Lu;Xiaofeng Lu;James Ashe;James Ashe

207
Citations
Motor cortical activity in a memorized delay task.

Nikolaos Smyrnis;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Masato Taira;Masato Taira;James Ashe;James Ashe;Apostolos P. Georgopoulos;Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

205
Citations
Motor cortical activity preceding a memorized movement trajectory with an orthogonal bend

James Ashe;Masato Taira;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Giuseppe Pellizzer

166
Citations
The evaluation of preprocessing choices in single-subject BOLD fMRI using NPAIRS performance metrics.

Stephen LaConte;Stephen LaConte;Jon R. Anderson;Jon R. Anderson;Suraj Muley;Suraj Muley;James Ashe

163
Citations
Role of the olivo-cerebellar system in timing

Duo Xu;Tao Liu;James Ashe;Khalafalla O. Bushara;Khalafalla O. Bushara

157
Citations
Neural correlates of encoding and expression in implicit sequence learning.

R. D. Seidler;R. D. Seidler;A. Purushotham;S. G. Kim;Kamil Ugurbil

150
Citations
On the relations between single cell activity in the motor cortex and the direction and magnitude of three-dimensional static isometric force

Masato Taira;Jyl Boline;Jyl Boline;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Nikolaos Smyrnis;Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

148
Citations
Impaired predictive motor timing in patients with cerebellar disorders.

Martin Bares;Martin Bares;Ovidiu Lungu;Ovidiu Lungu;Tao Liu;Tao Liu;Tobias Waechter;Tobias Waechter

123
Citations
The Effect of Stimulus–Response Compatibility on Cortical Motor Activation

Paul Dassonville;Scott M. Lewis;Xiao-Hong Zhu;Kamil Ugurbil

121
Citations
Effects of movement predictability on cortical motor activation.

Paul Dassonville;Scott M. Lewis;Xiao-Hong Zhu;Kamil Ugurbil

95
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ovidiu Lungu University of Montreal

Apostolos P. Georgopoulos University of Minnesota

Martin Bareš Masaryk University

Kamil Ugurbil University of Minnesota

Nikolaos Smyrnis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Stephen C. Strother University of Toronto

Xiao Hong Zhu University of Minnesota

Rachael D. Seidler University of Florida

John Wood University College London

Michael Häusser University College London

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