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Masayuki Hirata

Masayuki Hirata

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
42
Citations
5871
World Ranking
7712
National Ranking
258

Masayuki Hirata 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 Masayuki Hirata sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 260 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Masayuki Hirata 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 Masayuki Hirata sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Masayuki Hirata is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan. The research activity primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, surgery, and speech and hearing.

Their research covers several main topics such as EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and neural engineering, epilepsy research and treatment, dysphagia assessment and management, and voice and speech disorders.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • NeuroImage
  • Journal of Neural Engineering
  • Clinical Neurophysiology

Selected recent papers by Masayuki Hirata include:

  • Corneo-retinal-dipole and eyelid-related eye artifacts can be corrected offline and online in electroencephalographic and magnetoencephalographic signals, 2020, NeuroImage
  • High-density mapping of primate digit representations with a 1152-channel µECoG array, 2021, Journal of Neural Engineering
  • Distance- and speed-informed kinematics decoding improves M/EEG based upper-limb movement decoder accuracy, 2020, Journal of Neural Engineering
  • Fully-Automated Spike Detection and Dipole Analysis of Epileptic MEG Using Deep Learning, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • A Swallowing Decoder Based on Deep Transfer Learning: AlexNet Classification of the Intracranial Electrocorticogram, 2020, International Journal of Neural Systems

Masayuki Hirata has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Hiroaki Hashimoto, Haruhiko Kishima, Satoru Oshino, Naoki Tani, and Hui Ming Khoo.

Best Publications

  • Electrocorticographic control of a prosthetic arm in paralyzed patients

    Takufumi Yanagisawa;Masayuki Hirata;Youichi Saitoh;Haruhiko Kishima

  • Reduction of intractable deafferentation pain by navigation-guided repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the primary motor cortex.

    Azuma Hirayama;Youichi Saitoh;Haruhiko Kishima;Toshio Shimokawa

  • Real-time control of a prosthetic hand using human electrocorticography signals: Technical note

    Takufumi Yanagisawa;Masayuki Hirata;Youichi Saitoh;Tetsu Goto

  • Movement-related desynchronization of the cerebral cortex studied with spatially filtered magnetoencephalography.

    Masaaki Taniguchi;Amami Kato;Norihiko Fujita;Masayuki Hirata

  • Motor cortex stimulation for central and peripheral deafferentation pain. Report of eight cases.

    Youichi Saitoh;Masahiko Shibata;Shun-ichiro Hirano;Masayuki Hirata

  • Determination of language dominance with synthetic aperture magnetometry: comparison with the Wada test.

    Masayuki Hirata;Amami Kato;Masaaki Taniguchi;Youichi Saitoh

  • Regulation of motor representation by phase-amplitude coupling in the sensorimotor cortex.

    Takufumi Yanagisawa;Okito Yamashita;Masayuki Hirata;Haruhiko Kishima

  • Reduction of intractable deafferentation pain due to spinal cord or peripheral lesion by high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the primary motor cortex.

    Youichi Saitoh;Azuma Hirayama;Haruhiko Kishima;Toshio Shimokawa

  • Diffusion tensor fiber tracking in patients with central post-stroke pain; correlation with efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Tetsu Goto;Youichi Saitoh;Naoya Hashimoto;Masayuki Hirata

  • Stimulation of primary motor cortex for intractable deafferentation pain.

    Y. Saitoh;A. Hirayama;H. Kishima;S. Oshino

  • Electrical stimulation of primary motor cortex within the central sulcus for intractable neuropathic pain

    Koichi Hosomi;Youichi Saitoh;Haruhiko Kishima;Satoru Oshino

  • Application of a rigid endoscope to the microsurgical management of 54 cerebral aneurysms: results in 48 patients.

    Masaaki Taniguchi;Hiroshi Takimoto;Toshiki Yoshimine;Nobumitsu Shimada

  • Prediction of Three-Dimensional Arm Trajectories Based on ECoG Signals Recorded from Human Sensorimotor Cortex

    Yasuhiko Nakanishi;Takufumi Yanagisawa;Duk Shin;Ryohei Fukuma

  • Wireless Multichannel Neural Recording With a 128-Mbps UWB Transmitter for an Implantable Brain-Machine Interfaces

    H. Ando;K. Takizawa;T. Yoshida;K. Matsushita

  • Neural decoding using gyral and intrasulcal electrocorticograms.

    Takufumi Yanagisawa;Masayuki Hirata;Youichi Saitoh;Amami Kato

  • Modulation of neuronal activity after spinal cord stimulation for neuropathic pain; H215O PET study

    Haruhiko Kishima;Youichi Saitoh;Satoru Oshino;Koichi Hosomi

  • Cortical excitability changes after high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for central poststroke pain

    Koichi Hosomi;Haruhiko Kishima;Satoru Oshino;Masayuki Hirata

  • Language dominance and mapping based on neuromagnetic oscillatory changes: comparison with invasive procedures

    Masayuki Hirata;Tetsu Goto;Gareth Barnes;Yuka Umekawa

  • High Spatiotemporal Resolution ECoG Recording of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials with Flexible Micro-Electrode Arrays.

    Taro Kaiju;Taro Kaiju;Keiichi Doi;Keiichi Doi;Masashi Yokota;Masashi Yokota;Kei Watanabe

  • Cortical oscillatory power changes during auditory oddball task revealed by spatially filtered magnetoencephalography

    Ryouhei Ishii;Leonides Canuet;Anthony Herdman;Atsuko Gunji

  • Differential responses of primary auditory cortex in autistic spectrum disorder with auditory hypersensitivity

    Junko Matsuzaki;Kuriko Kagitani-Shimono;Tetsu Goto;Wakako Sanefuji

  • Induced sensorimotor brain plasticity controls pain in phantom limb patients

    Takufumi Yanagisawa;Ryohei Fukuma;Ben Seymour;Koichi Hosomi

Frequent Co-Authors

Haruhiko Kishima
Haruhiko Kishima Osaka University
Youichi Saitoh
Youichi Saitoh Osaka University
Amami Kato
Amami Kato Kindai University
Yukiyasu Kamitani
Yukiyasu Kamitani Kyoto University
Ryouhei Ishii
Ryouhei Ishii Osaka Metropolitan University
Masatoshi Takeda
Masatoshi Takeda Izumi University
Hideki Mochizuki
Hideki Mochizuki Osaka University
Hironobu Nakamura
Hironobu Nakamura Osaka University
Ben Seymour
Ben Seymour University of Oxford
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Hiroshi Ishiguro Osaka University

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