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45
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11601
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Michel Rijntjes 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 Michel Rijntjes sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 170 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michel Rijntjes 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 Michel Rijntjes 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

Michel Rijntjes is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields related to medicine and neuroscience, with a primary focus on neurology and cognitive neuroscience. The subfields of their work include radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cellular and molecular neuroscience, as well as social psychology.

Their main research topics cover:

  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Michel Rijntjes has contributed to multiple publications across a variety of prominent journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • Brain
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Cortex
  • NeuroImage Clinical

Some of their recent and notable papers include:

  • The ventral pathway of the human brain: A continuous association tract system, 2021, NeuroImage
  • The correlation between apraxia and neglect in the right hemisphere: A voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping study in 138 acute stroke patients, 2020, Cortex
  • The dual-loop model for combining external and internal worlds in our brain, 2022, NeuroImage
  • Disentangling nigral and putaminal contribution to motor impairment and levodopa response in Parkinson's disease, 2022, npj Parkinson's Disease
  • Anatomical correlates of recovery in apraxia: A longitudinal lesion-mapping study in stroke patients, 2021, Cortex

They frequently collaborate with several coauthors, including:

  • Cornelius Weiller
  • Nils Schröter
  • Horst Urbach
  • Marco Reisert
  • Wolfgang H. Jost

Best Publications

  • Ventral and dorsal pathways for language

    Dorothee Saur;Björn W. Kreher;Susanne Schnell;Dorothee Kümmerer

  • Dynamics of language reorganization after stroke

    Dorothee Saur;Rüdiger Lange;Annette Baumgaertner;Valeska Schraknepper

  • Recovery from Wernicke's aphasia: a positron emission tomographic study.

    Cornelius Weiller;Christian Isensee;Michel Rijntjes;Walter Huber

  • Training-induced brain plasticity in aphasia

    Mariacristina Musso;Cornelius Weiller;Stefan Kiebel;Stephan P. Müller

  • Broca's area and the language instinct

    Mariacristina Musso;Andrea Moro;Volkmar Glauche;Michel Rijntjes

  • Brain representation of active and passive movements.

    C. Weiller;M Jüptner;S Fellows;M Rijntjes

  • Localization of a cerebellar timing process using PET

    M. Jueptner;M. Rijntjes;C. Weiller;J. H. Faiss

  • Experimental cranial pain elicited by capsaicin: a PET study

    A May;H Kaube;C Büchel;C Eichten

  • The human action recognition system and its relationship to Broca's area: an fMRI study.

    Farsin Hamzei;Michel Rijntjes;Christian Dettmers;Volkmar Glauche

  • A blueprint for movement: functional and anatomical representations in the human motor system

    Michel Rijntjes;Christian Dettmers;Christian Büchel;Stefan Kiebel

  • Two different reorganization patterns after rehabilitative therapy: An exploratory study with fMRI and TMS

    Farsin Hamzei;Joachim Liepert;Christian Dettmers;Cornelius Weiller

  • Levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel in advanced Parkinson's: Final results of the GLORIA registry.

    Angelo Antonini;Werner Poewe;K. Ray Chaudhuri;Robert Jech

  • How the ventral pathway got lost: and what its recovery might mean.

    Cornelius Weiller;Tobias Bormann;Dorothee Saur;Mariachristina Musso

  • Recovery of motor and language abilities after stroke: the contribution of functional imaging.

    Michel Rijntjes;Cornelius Weiller

  • Functional plasticity induced by mirror training: the mirror as the element connecting both hands to one hemisphere.

    Farsin Hamzei;Claus Henning Läppchen;Volkmar Glauche;Irina Mader

  • Structural Connectivity for Visuospatial Attention: Significance of Ventral Pathways

    Roza M. Umarova;Dorothee Saur;Susanne Schnell;Christoph P. Kaller

  • [18F]FDG-PET is superior to [123I]IBZM-SPECT for the differential diagnosis of parkinsonism

    Sabine Hellwig;Florian Amtage;Annabelle Kreft;Ralph Buchert

  • Cortical reorganization in patients with facial palsy

    Michel Rijntjes;Martin Tegenthoff;Joachim Liepert;Georg Leonhardt

  • Neural bases of imitation and pantomime in acute stroke patients: distinct streams for praxis.

    Markus Hoeren;Dorothee Kümmerer;Tobias Bormann;Lena Beume

  • Multiple somatotopic representations in the human cerebellum.

    Michel Rijntjes;Christian Buechel;Stefan Kiebel;Cornelius Weiller

  • Mechanisms of recovery in stroke patients with hemiparesis or aphasia: new insights, old questions and the meaning of therapies.

    Michel Rijntjes

Frequent Co-Authors

Cornelius Weiller
Cornelius Weiller University of Freiburg
Christoph P. Kaller
Christoph P. Kaller University of Freiburg
Volkmar Glauche
Volkmar Glauche University of Freiburg
Christian Dettmers
Christian Dettmers University of Konstanz
Oliver Tüscher
Oliver Tüscher Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Christian Büchel
Christian Büchel University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Hans-Christoph Diener
Hans-Christoph Diener University of Duisburg-Essen
Volker A. Coenen
Volker A. Coenen University of Freiburg
Ralph Buchert
Ralph Buchert Universität Hamburg

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