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Josef Kessler 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 Josef Kessler sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 269 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Josef Kessler 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 Josef Kessler sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Josef Kessler is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a total of 29 and 13 publications respectively. Their work also covers important subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research has addressed several main topics, among which Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research stands out with 14 publications. They have also contributed to studies on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Cognitive Functions and Memory, Noise Effects and Management, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery.

Josef Kessler's collaboration network includes frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Elke Kalbe, Gereon R. Fink, Oezguer A. Onur, Stefanie T. Jost, and Ümran Sema Seven, reflecting collaborative efforts in their research domain.

The primary venues for their research publications include the Journal of Parkinson's Disease, PsycTESTS Dataset, Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, Journal of Neurology, and Journal of Clinical Medicine.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Multidomain cognitive impairment in non-hospitalized patients with the post-COVID-19 syndrome: results from a prospective monocentric cohort (2022, Journal of Neurology)
  • Concordance of Mini-Mental State Examination, Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Parkinson Neuropsychometric Dementia Assessment in the classification of cognitive performance in Parkinson's disease (2020, Journal of the Neurological Sciences)
  • Cognitive dysfunction in older prisoners in Germany: a cross-sectional pilot study (2020, International Journal of Prisoner Health)
  • The Influence of Age, Gender and Education on Neuropsychological Test Scores: Updated Clinical Norms for Five Widely Used Cognitive Assessments (2023, Journal of Clinical Medicine)
  • Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation in Essential Tremor Plus Is as Effective as in Essential Tremor (2020, Brain Sciences)

Best Publications

  • Cerebral Representation of One’s Own Past: Neural Networks Involved in Autobiographical Memory

    Gereon R. Fink;Hans J. Markowitsch;Mechthild Reinkemeier;Thomas Bruckbauer

  • Introducing MASC: a movie for the assessment of social cognition.

    Isabel Dziobek;Stefan Fleck;Elke Kalbe;Kimberley Rogers

  • DemTect: a new, sensitive cognitive screening test to support the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and early dementia

    E Kalbe;J Kessler;P Calabrese;R Smith

  • Decision-making deficits of Korsakoff patients in a new gambling task with explicit rules: Associations with executive functions

    Matthias Brand;Esther Fujiwara;Sabine Borsutzky;Elke Kalbe

  • Differential capacity of left and right hemispheric areas for compensation of poststroke aphasia

    W.-D. Heiss;J. Kessler;A. Thiel;M. Ghaemi

  • Dissociating cognitive from affective theory of mind: A TMS study

    Elke Kalbe;Marius Schlegel;Alexander T. Sack;Dennis A. Nowak

  • Decision-making impairments in patients with pathological gambling.

    Matthias Brand;Elke Kalbe;Kirsten Labudda;Esther Fujiwara

  • Role of the contralateral inferior frontal gyrus in recovery of language function in poststroke aphasia - A combined repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and positron emission tomography study

    Lutz Winhuisen;Alexander Thiel;Birgit Schumacher;Josef Kessler

  • Brain plasticity in poststroke aphasia: what is the contribution of the right hemisphere?

    Hans Karbe;Alexander Thiel;Gerald Weber-Luxenburger;Karl Herholz

  • Decision-making impairments in patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Matthias Brand;Kirsten Labudda;Elke Kalbe;Rüdiger Hilker

  • Screening for cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease with the Parkinson neuropsychometric dementia assessment (PANDA) instrument

    Elke Kalbe;Pasquale Calabrese;Nils Kohn;Rüdiger Hilker

  • The amygdala's contribution to memory—a study on two patients with Urbach-Wiethe disease

    Hans J. Markowitsch;Pasquale Calabrese;Michael Würker;Herbert F. Durwen

  • Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Aphasic Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

    Nora Weiduschat;Alexander Thiel;Ilona Rubi-Fessen;Alexander Hartmann

  • From the left to the right: How the brain compensates progressive loss of language function

    Alexander Thiel;Birgit Habedank;Karl Herholz;Josef Kessler

  • Effects of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation on Language Networks and Recovery in Early Poststroke Aphasia

    Alexander Thiel;Alexander Hartmann;Ilona Rubi-Fessen;Carole Anglade

  • Piracetam Improves Activated Blood Flow and Facilitates Rehabilitation of Poststroke Aphasic Patients

    J. Kessler;A. Thiel;H. Karbe;W. D. Heiss

  • Dissociation of decision-making under ambiguity and decision-making under risk in patients with Parkinson's disease: A neuropsychological and psychophysiological study

    Frank Euteneuer;Florian Schaefer;Ralf Stuermer;Wolfram Boucsein

  • Individual Functional Anatomy of Verb Generation

    K Herholz;A Thiel;K Wienhard;U Pietrzyk

  • Affective and cognitive Theory of Mind in patients with parkinson's disease.

    Maren E. Bodden;Brit Mollenhauer;Claudia Trenkwalder;Nicole Cabanel

  • HMPAO SPET and FDG PET in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: comparison of perfusion and metabolic pattern.

    Ruediger Mielke;Uwe Pietrzyk;Andreas Jacobs;Gereon R. Fink

Frequent Co-Authors

Elke Kalbe
Elke Kalbe University of Vechta
Hans J. Markowitsch
Hans J. Markowitsch Bielefeld University
Karl Herholz
Karl Herholz University of Manchester
Wolf-Dieter Heiss
Wolf-Dieter Heiss Max Planck Society
W.-D. Heiss
W.-D. Heiss Max Planck Society
Matthias Brand
Matthias Brand University of Duisburg-Essen
Gereon R. Fink
Gereon R. Fink University of Cologne
Alexander Thiel
Alexander Thiel McGill University
Peter H. Weiss
Peter H. Weiss Forschungszentrum Jülich
Rüdiger Hilker
Rüdiger Hilker Goethe University Frankfurt

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