2026 Michel Rijntjes: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	45	6822	6275	575	544	170	11601

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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

1790
Citations
Dynamics of language reorganization after stroke

Dorothee Saur;Rüdiger Lange;Annette Baumgaertner;Valeska Schraknepper

1262
Citations
Recovery from Wernicke's aphasia: a positron emission tomographic study.

Cornelius Weiller;Christian Isensee;Michel Rijntjes;Walter Huber

711
Citations
Training-induced brain plasticity in aphasia

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

557
Citations
Broca's area and the language instinct

Mariacristina Musso;Andrea Moro;Volkmar Glauche;Michel Rijntjes

553
Citations
Brain representation of active and passive movements.

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

488
Citations
Localization of a cerebellar timing process using PET

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

358
Citations
Experimental cranial pain elicited by capsaicin: a PET study

A May;H Kaube;C Büchel;C Eichten

341
Citations
The human action recognition system and its relationship to Broca's area: an fMRI study.

Farsin Hamzei;Michel Rijntjes;Christian Dettmers;Volkmar Glauche

328
Citations
A blueprint for movement: functional and anatomical representations in the human motor system

Michel Rijntjes;Christian Dettmers;Christian Büchel;Stefan Kiebel

290
Citations
Two different reorganization patterns after rehabilitative therapy: An exploratory study with fMRI and TMS

Farsin Hamzei;Joachim Liepert;Christian Dettmers;Cornelius Weiller

215
Citations
Levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel in advanced Parkinson's: Final results of the GLORIA registry.

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

213
Citations
How the ventral pathway got lost: and what its recovery might mean.

Cornelius Weiller;Tobias Bormann;Dorothee Saur;Mariachristina Musso

209
Citations
Recovery of motor and language abilities after stroke: the contribution of functional imaging.

Michel Rijntjes;Cornelius Weiller

203
Citations
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

199
Citations
Structural Connectivity for Visuospatial Attention: Significance of Ventral Pathways

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

194
Citations
[18F]FDG-PET is superior to [123I]IBZM-SPECT for the differential diagnosis of parkinsonism

Sabine Hellwig;Florian Amtage;Annabelle Kreft;Ralph Buchert

193
Citations
Cortical reorganization in patients with facial palsy

Michel Rijntjes;Martin Tegenthoff;Joachim Liepert;Georg Leonhardt

191
Citations
Neural bases of imitation and pantomime in acute stroke patients: distinct streams for praxis.

Markus Hoeren;Dorothee Kümmerer;Tobias Bormann;Lena Beume

186
Citations
Multiple somatotopic representations in the human cerebellum.

Michel Rijntjes;Christian Buechel;Stefan Kiebel;Cornelius Weiller

177
Citations
Mechanisms of recovery in stroke patients with hemiparesis or aphasia: new insights, old questions and the meaning of therapies.

Michel Rijntjes

162
Citations