2026 Markus Ploner: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	45	6845	6296	577	546	134	10214

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Overview

Markus Ploner is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a strong focus on Cognitive Neuroscience as a subfield. Additional areas of study include Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Neurology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, notably:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Neural dynamics and brain function
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Pain Management and Placebo Effect

Markus Ploner has contributed to a number of recent papers, including:

"Common and specific large-scale brain changes in major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, and chronic pain: a transdiagnostic multimodal meta-analysis of structural and functional MRI studies" (2022) published in Neuropsychopharmacology
"Fatigue, depression, and pain in multiple sclerosis: How neuroinflammation translates into dysfunctional reward processing and anhedonic symptoms" (2020) published in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
"Resting-state electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography as biomarkers of chronic pain: a systematic review" (2022) published in Pain
"Temporal-spectral signaling of sensory information and expectations in the cerebral processing of pain" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"DISCOVER-EEG: an open, fully automated EEG pipeline for biomarker discovery in clinical neuroscience" (2023) published in Scientific Data

The frequent publication venues for Markus Ploner include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Pain
Journal of Pain
eLife
Neuropsychopharmacology

Regular collaborators in Markus Ploner's research are:

Cristina Gil Ávila
Laura Tiemann
Elisabeth S. May
Vanessa D. Hohn
Henrik Heitmann

Best Publications

Neurocognitive aspects of pain perception.

Katja Wiech;Markus Ploner;Markus Ploner;Irene Tracey

908
Citations
The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil

Ulrike Bingel;Ulrike Bingel;Vishvarani Wanigasekera;Katja Wiech;Roisin Ni Mhuircheartaigh

895
Citations
Anterior Insula Integrates Information about Salience into Perceptual Decisions about Pain

Katja Wiech;Chia Shu Lin;Kay H. Brodersen;Ulrike Bingel;Ulrike Bingel

530
Citations
Gamma Oscillations in Human Primary Somatosensory Cortex Reflect Pain Perception

Joachim Gross;Alfons Schnitzler;Alfons Schnitzler;Lars Timmermann;Markus Ploner;Markus Ploner

471
Citations
Neurophysiology and functional neuroanatomy of pain perception.

A. Schnitzler;M. Ploner

451
Citations
Brain Rhythms of Pain

Markus Ploner;Christian Sorg;Joachim Gross

421
Citations
Prestimulus functional connectivity determines pain perception in humans

Markus Ploner;Michael C. Lee;Katja Wiech;Ulrike Bingel

330
Citations
Parallel Activation of Primary and Secondary Somatosensory Cortices in Human Pain Processing

Markus Ploner;Frank Schmitz;Hans-Joachim Freund;Alfons Schnitzler

321
Citations
Differential Coding of Pain Intensity in the Human Primary and Secondary Somatosensory Cortex

Lars Timmermann;Markus Ploner;Katrin Haucke;Frank Schmitz

318
Citations
Pain affect without pain sensation in a patient with a postcentral lesion

M. Ploner;H.-J. Freund;A. Schnitzler

314
Citations
Brain imaging tests for chronic pain: medical, legal and ethical issues and recommendations

K D Davis;H Flor;H T Greely;G D Iannetti

288
Citations
Cortical representation of first and second pain sensation in humans.

Markus Ploner;Joachim Gross;Lars Timmermann;Alfons Schnitzler

279
Citations
Prefrontal Gamma Oscillations Encode Tonic Pain in Humans

Enrico Schulz;Elisabeth S. May;Martina Postorino;Laura Tiemann

271
Citations
Differential Organization of Touch and Pain in Human Primary Somatosensory Cortex

Markus Ploner;Frank Schmitz;Hans-Joachim Freund;Alfons Schnitzler

254
Citations
Frontostriatal Gating of Tinnitus and Chronic Pain.

Josef P. Rauschecker;Josef P. Rauschecker;Elisabeth S. May;Audrey Maudoux;Markus Ploner

248
Citations
Pain Suppresses Spontaneous Brain Rhythms

Markus Ploner;Joachim Gross;Lars Timmermann;Bettina Pollok

206
Citations
Decoding the perception of pain from fMRI using multivariate pattern analysis

Kay Henning Brodersen;Katja Wiech;Ekaterina I. Lomakina;Ekaterina I. Lomakina;Chia-shu Lin

201
Citations
Decoding an Individual's Sensitivity to Pain from the Multivariate Analysis of EEG Data

Enrico Schulz;Andrew Zherdin;Laura Tiemann;Claudia Plant;Claudia Plant

199
Citations
Amygdala activity contributes to the dissociative effect of cannabis on pain perception

Michael C Lee;Markus Ploner;Katja Wiech;Ulrike Bingel;Ulrike Bingel

174
Citations
Common and specific large-scale brain changes in major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, and chronic pain: a transdiagnostic multimodal meta-analysis of structural and functional MRI studies

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145
Citations
Supplementary Materials for The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil

Ulrike Bingel;Vishvarani Wanigasekera;Katja Wiech;Roisin Ni Mhuircheartaigh

4
Citations