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Markus Ploner

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Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
10214
World Ranking
6845
National Ranking
577

Markus Ploner 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 Markus Ploner sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 134 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Markus Ploner 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 Markus Ploner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • 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

  • Anterior Insula Integrates Information about Salience into Perceptual Decisions about Pain

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

  • Gamma Oscillations in Human Primary Somatosensory Cortex Reflect Pain Perception

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

  • Neurophysiology and functional neuroanatomy of pain perception.

    A. Schnitzler;M. Ploner

  • Brain Rhythms of Pain

    Markus Ploner;Christian Sorg;Joachim Gross

  • Prestimulus functional connectivity determines pain perception in humans

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

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

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

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

    Lars Timmermann;Markus Ploner;Katrin Haucke;Frank Schmitz

  • Pain affect without pain sensation in a patient with a postcentral lesion

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

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

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

  • Cortical representation of first and second pain sensation in humans.

    Markus Ploner;Joachim Gross;Lars Timmermann;Alfons Schnitzler

  • Prefrontal Gamma Oscillations Encode Tonic Pain in Humans

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

  • Differential Organization of Touch and Pain in Human Primary Somatosensory Cortex

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

  • Frontostriatal Gating of Tinnitus and Chronic Pain.

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

  • Pain Suppresses Spontaneous Brain Rhythms

    Markus Ploner;Joachim Gross;Lars Timmermann;Bettina Pollok

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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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  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfons Schnitzler
Alfons Schnitzler Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Joachim Gross
Joachim Gross University of Münster
Ulrike Bingel
Ulrike Bingel University of Duisburg-Essen
Lars Timmermann
Lars Timmermann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Katja Wiech
Katja Wiech University of Oxford
Bettina Pollok
Bettina Pollok Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey University of Oxford
Lars Wojtecki
Lars Wojtecki Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Volker Sturm
Volker Sturm University of Cologne
Thomas R. Tölle
Thomas R. Tölle Technical University of Munich

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