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Nicholas D. Schiff

Nicholas D. Schiff

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Neuroscience

D-Index
67
Citations
22796
World Ranking
2833
National Ranking
1316

Nicholas D. Schiff 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 Nicholas D. Schiff sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 262 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nicholas D. Schiff 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 Nicholas D. Schiff sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 67 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nicholas D. Schiff is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in subfields such as Neurology, Epidemiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Emergency Medicine, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders

Recent publications by Nicholas D. Schiff include:

  • Thalamic deep brain stimulation in traumatic brain injury: a phase 1, randomized feasibility study, 2023, Nature Medicine

Other influential recent papers in related areas, although not authored by Schiff but relevant to their research context, are:

  • Recovery from disorders of consciousness: mechanisms, prognosis and emerging therapies, 2020, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Clinical and advanced neurophysiology in the prognostic and diagnostic evaluation of disorders of consciousness: review of an IFCN-endorsed expert group, 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • The Curing Coma Campaign: Framing Initial Scientific Challenges-Proceedings of the First Curing Coma Campaign Scientific Advisory Council Meeting, 2020, Neurocritical Care
  • Cognitive Motor Dissociation in Disorders of Consciousness, 2024, New England Journal of Medicine

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Nicholas D. Schiff include:

  • Sudhin A. Shah
  • Joseph T. Giacino
  • Brian L. Edlow
  • Joseph J. Fins
  • Jonathan D. Victor

Common publication venues for Schiff's work are:

  • Neurocritical Care
  • Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Best Publications

  • General anesthesia, sleep, and coma

    Emery N. Brown;Ralph Lydic;Nicholas D. Schiff

  • Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications

    Steven C. Cramer;Mriganka Sur;Bruce H. Dobkin;Charles J O'Brien

  • Brain function in coma, vegetative state, and related disorders

    Steven Laureys;Adrian M Owen;Nicholas D Schiff

  • Behavioural improvements with thalamic stimulation after severe traumatic brain injury

    N. D. Schiff;J. T. Giacino;K. Kalmar;J. D. Victor

  • Disorders of consciousness after acquired brain injury: the state of the science

    Joseph T. Giacino;Joseph J. Fins;Steven Laureys;Nicholas D. Schiff

  • Recovery of consciousness after brain injury: a mesocircuit hypothesis

    Nicholas D. Schiff

  • Recovery from disorders of consciousness: mechanisms, prognosis and emerging therapies.

    Brian L. Edlow;Jan Claassen;Nicholas D. Schiff;David M. Greer

  • Practice guideline update recommendations summary: Disorders of consciousness: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology; the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine; and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research

    Joseph T. Giacino;Douglas I. Katz;Nicholas D. Schiff;John Whyte

  • Central thalamic contributions to arousal regulation and neurological disorders of consciousness.

    Nicholas D. Schiff

  • Human consciousness is supported by dynamic complex patterns of brain signal coordination

    Athena Demertzi;Athena Demertzi;Enzo Tagliazucchi;Stanislas Dehaene;Stanislas Dehaene;Gustavo Deco

  • Coma and consciousness: paradigms (re)framed by neuroimaging.

    Steven Laureys;Nicholas D. Schiff

  • fMRI reveals large-scale network activation in minimally conscious patients

    N. D. Schiff;D. Rodriguez-Moreno;A. Kamal;K. H.S. Kim

  • Cognitive Motor Dissociation Following Severe Brain Injuries.

    Nicholas D. Schiff

  • Feedback mechanism for deep brain stimulation

    Nicholas D. Schiff;Keith Purpura;Steven Kalik

  • Residual cerebral activity and behavioural fragments can remain in the persistently vegetative brain

    Nicholas D. Schiff;Urs Ribary;Diana Rodriguez Moreno;Bradley Beattie

  • Possible axonal regrowth in late recovery from the minimally conscious state.

    Henning U. Voss;Aziz M. Uluç;Jonathan P. Dyke;Richard Watts

  • Intrinsic functional connectivity differentiates minimally conscious from unresponsive patients

    Athena Demertzi;Georgios Antonopoulos;Lizette Heine;Henning U. Voss

  • Therapeutic interventions in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness

    Aurore Thibaut;Aurore Thibaut;Nicholas Schiff;Joseph Giacino;Steven Laureys

  • A Proposal for a Coordinated Effort for the Determination of Brainwide Neuroanatomical Connectivity in Model Organisms at a Mesoscopic Scale

    Jason W. Bohland;Caizhi Wu;Helen Barbas;Hemant Bokil

  • Dissociations between behavioural and functional magnetic resonance imaging-based evaluations of cognitive function after brain injury

    Jonathan C. Bardin;Joseph J. Fins;Douglas I. Katz;Jennifer Hersh

  • Behavioural improvements with thalamic stimulation after severe traumatic brain injury (Nature (2007) 448, (600-603))

    N. D. Schiff;J. T. Giacino;K. Kalmar;J. D. Victor

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Victor
Jonathan D. Victor Cornell University
Steven Laureys
Steven Laureys University of Liège
Joseph T. Giacino
Joseph T. Giacino Massachusetts General Hospital
Clifford B. Saper
Clifford B. Saper Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Adrian M. Owen
Adrian M. Owen University of Western Ontario
Douglas I. Katz
Douglas I. Katz Boston University
Joy Hirsch
Joy Hirsch Yale University
Lionel Naccache
Lionel Naccache Sorbonne University
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France

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