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Michael P. Kilgard

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
61
Citations
13680
World Ranking
3676
National Ranking
1685

Michael P. Kilgard 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 Michael P. Kilgard sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 187 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael P. Kilgard 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 Michael P. Kilgard sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 61 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Michael P. Kilgard is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with notable work in neurology, cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, rehabilitation, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's research topics span across several areas including vagus nerve stimulation research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neuroscience and neural engineering, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, heart rate variability and autonomic control, spinal cord injury research, and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Brain stimulation

Michael P. Kilgard has several notable recent papers, including:

  • "Optimizing Dosing of Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Stroke Recovery," 2020, Translational Stroke Research
  • "Vagus Nerve Stimulation Paired With Rehabilitative Training Enhances Motor Recovery After Bilateral Spinal Cord Injury to Cervical Forelimb Motor Pools," 2020, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
  • "How to Fail with Paired VNS Therapy," 2023, Brain Stimulation
  • "A Limited Range of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Intensities Produce Motor Cortex Reorganization When Delivered During Training," 2020, Behavioural Brain Research
  • "Vagus Nerve Stimulation Enhances Fear Extinction as an Inverted-U Function of Stimulation Intensity," 2021, Experimental Neurology

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Seth A. Hays
  • Robert L. Rennaker
  • Tanya T. Danaphongse
  • David Pruitt
  • Joseph Epperson

Best Publications

  • Cortical map reorganization enabled by nucleus basalis activity.

    Michael P. Kilgard;Michael M. Merzenich

  • Reversing pathological neural activity using targeted plasticity

    Jonathan R. Riley;Jonathan D. Seale;Will A. Vrana

  • Caenorhabditis elegans rab-3 Mutant Synapses Exhibit Impaired Function and Are Partially Depleted of Vesicles

    Michael L. Nonet;Jane E. Staunton;Michael P. Kilgard;Tim Fergestad

  • Plasticity of temporal information processing in the primary auditory cortex

    Michael P. Kilgard;Michael M. Merzenich

  • Parametric characterization of neural activity in the locus coeruleus in response to vagus nerve stimulation

    Daniel R. Hulsey;Jonathan R. Riley;Kristofer W. Loerwald;Robert L. Rennaker

  • Safety, Feasibility, and Efficacy of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Paired With Upper-Limb Rehabilitation After Ischemic Stroke

    Jesse Dawson;David Pierce;Anand Dixit;PT Teresa J Kimberley

  • Cortical Map Plasticity Improves Learning but Is Not Necessary for Improved Performance

    Amanda Reed;Jonathan Riley;Ryan Carraway;Andres Carrasco

  • Cortical activity patterns predict speech discrimination ability

    Claudia A. Perez;Ye Ting H. Chen;Ryan S. Carraway

  • Targeting plasticity with vagus nerve stimulation to treat neurological disease.

    Seth A. Hays;Robert L. Rennaker;Michael P. Kilgard

  • Sensory Input Directs Spatial and Temporal Plasticity in Primary Auditory Cortex

    Michael P. Kilgard;Pritesh K. Pandya;Jessica Vazquez;Anil Gehi

  • Environmental enrichment improves response strength, threshold, selectivity, and latency of auditory cortex neurons.

    Cherie R. Percaccio;Pritesh K. Pandya;Raluca Moucha

  • Anticipated stimuli across skin.

    Michael P. Kilgard;Michael M. Merzenich

  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation Enhances Stable Plasticity and Generalization of Stroke Recovery

    Eric C. Meyers;Bleyda R. Solorzano;Justin James;Patrick D. Ganzer

  • Repeatedly Pairing Vagus Nerve Stimulation with a Movement Reorganizes Primary Motor Cortex

    Benjamin A. Porter;Navid Khodaparast;Tabbassum Fayyaz;Ryan J. Cheung

  • Vagus nerve stimulation modulates cortical synchrony and excitability through the activation of muscarinic receptors

    J.A. Nichols;A.R. Nichols;A.R. Nichols;S.M. Smirnakis

  • Sound-induced seizures in serotonin 5-HT2c receptor mutant mice.

    Thomas J. Brennan;William W. Seeley;Michael Kilgard;Christoph E. Schreiner

  • Safety and Efficacy of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Paired With Tones for the Treatment of Tinnitus: A Case Series

    Dirk De Ridder Md;MA Sven Vanneste Msc;Michael P. Kilgard

  • Distributed representation of spectral and temporal information in rat primary auditory cortex

    Michael P. Kilgard;Michael M. Merzenich

  • Reorganization of Motor Cortex by Vagus Nerve Stimulation Requires Cholinergic Innervation.

    Daniel R. Hulsey;Seth A. Hays;Navid Khodaparast;Andrea Ruiz

  • Vagus nerve stimulation during rehabilitative training improves forelimb strength following ischemic stroke

    N. Khodaparast;S.A. Hays;A.M. Sloan;D.R. Hulsey

  • System for stimulating brain plasticity

    Michael P. Kilgard;Michael M. Merzenich

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert L. Rennaker
Robert L. Rennaker The University of Texas at Dallas
Seth A. Hays
Seth A. Hays The University of Texas at Dallas
Michael M. Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich University of California, San Francisco
Sven Vanneste
Sven Vanneste Trinity College Dublin
Mark P. Goldberg
Mark P. Goldberg The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Christoph E. Schreiner
Christoph E. Schreiner University of California, San Francisco
Joseph J. LoTurco
Joseph J. LoTurco University of Connecticut
Dirk De Ridder
Dirk De Ridder University of Otago
Francisco Aboitiz
Francisco Aboitiz Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Emilio Bizzi
Emilio Bizzi MIT

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