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Nick S. Ward

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Neuroscience

D-Index
69
Citations
20237
World Ranking
2599
National Ranking
257

Nick S. Ward 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 Nick S. Ward sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 234 publications — 71st percentile

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

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

Nick S. Ward 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 Nick S. Ward sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Nick S. Ward is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and primarily works within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research focuses extensively on rehabilitation and recovery following stroke, as well as acute ischemic stroke management and related neurological disorders.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Subfields within their work highlight specialization areas such as:

  • Rehabilitation
  • Neurology
  • Epidemiology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Surgery

The core topics addressed by their research comprise:

  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Nick S. Ward has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Brain Communications
  • The Lancet Neurology

Several recent papers include:

  • Intracerebral implantation of human neural stem cells and motor recovery after stroke: multicentre prospective single-arm study (PISCES-2), 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Consensus-Based Core Set of Outcome Measures for Clinical Motor Rehabilitation After Stroke-A Delphi Study, 2020, Frontiers in Neurology
  • The ENIGMA Stroke Recovery Working Group: Big data neuroimaging to study brain-behavior relationships after stroke, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Damage to the right insula disrupts the perception of affective touch, 2020, eLife
  • Timing and Dose of Upper Limb Motor Intervention After Stroke: A Systematic Review, 2021, Stroke

Their work frequently involves collaboration with co-authors such as:

  • Sven Bestmann
  • Catharina Zich
  • Fran Brander
  • Kathryn S. Hayward
  • Amy Brodtmann

Best Publications

  • Agreed definitions and a shared vision for new standards in stroke recovery research: The Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable taskforce:

    Julie Bernhardt;Kathryn S Hayward;Kathryn S Hayward;Gert Kwakkel;Gert Kwakkel;Nick S Ward

  • Neural correlates of motor recovery after stroke: a longitudinal fMRI study.

    N. S. Ward;M. M. Brown;A. J. Thompson;R. S. J. Frackowiak

  • How does transcranial DC stimulation of the primary motor cortex alter regional neuronal activity in the human brain

    Nicolas Lang;Hartwig R. Siebner;Hartwig R. Siebner;Nick S. Ward;Lucy Lee

  • Neural correlates of outcome after stroke: a cross-sectional fMRI study

    N. S. Ward;M. M. Brown;A. J. Thompson;R. S. J. Frackowiak

  • Mechanisms underlying recovery of motor function after stroke.

    Nick S. Ward;Leonardo G. Cohen

  • Biomarkers of Stroke Recovery: Consensus-Based Core Recommendations from the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable.

    Lara A Boyd;Kathryn S Hayward;Nick S Ward;Cathy M Stinear

  • Central neuromodulation in chronic migraine patients with suboccipital stimulators: a PET study.

    Manjit S Matharu;Thorsten Bartsch;Nick Ward;Richard S J Frackowiak

  • Age‐related changes in the neural correlates of motor performance

    N. S. Ward;R. S. J. Frackowiak

  • Motor system activation after subcortical stroke depends on corticospinal system integrity

    Nick S. Ward;Jennifer M. Newton;Orlando B. C. Swayne;Lucy Lee

  • A Positron Emission Tomographic Study in Spontaneous Migraine

    Shazia K. Afridi;Nicola J. Giffin;Holger Kaube;Karl J. Friston

  • Consensus paper: Combining transcranial stimulation with neuroimaging

    Hartwig R. Siebner;Hartwig R. Siebner;Til O. Bergmann;Sven Bestmann;Sven Bestmann;Marcello Massimini

  • Cortical Reorganization After Stroke: How Much and How Functional?

    Christian Grefkes;Nick S. Ward

  • Stages of Motor Output Reorganization after Hemispheric Stroke Suggested by Longitudinal Studies of Cortical Physiology

    Orlando B.C. Swayne;John C. Rothwell;Nick S. Ward;Nick S. Ward;Richard J. Greenwood

  • Disability, atrophy and cortical reorganization following spinal cord injury

    Patrick Freund;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Nick S. Ward;Chloe Hutton

  • Intensive upper limb neurorehabilitation in chronic stroke: outcomes from the Queen Square programme

    Nick S Ward;Fran Brander;Kate Kelly

  • Posterior hypothalamic and brainstem activation in hemicrania continua

    Manjit S. Matharu;Anna S. Cohen;David J. McGonigle;Nick Ward

  • Non-invasive mapping of corticofugal fibres from multiple motor areas - relevance to stroke recovery

    Jennifer M. Newton;Nick S. Ward;Geoffrey J. M. Parker;Ralf Deichmann

  • The role of contralesional dorsal premotor cortex after stroke as studied with concurrent TMS-fMRI

    Sven Bestmann;Orlando Swayne;Felix Blankenburg;Felix Blankenburg;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff

  • Compensatory mechanisms in the aging motor system.

    Nick S. Ward

  • Anatomy of Stroke Injury Predicts Gains From Therapy

    Jeff D. Riley;Vu Le;Lucy Der-Yeghiaian;Jill See

  • Mechanisms underlying recovery of motor function after stroke

    N S Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Rothwell
John C. Rothwell University College London
Sven Bestmann
Sven Bestmann University College London
Richard S. J. Frackowiak
Richard S. J. Frackowiak École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Steven C. Cramer
Steven C. Cramer University of California, Los Angeles
Martin M. Brown
Martin M. Brown University College London
Lara A. Boyd
Lara A. Boyd University of British Columbia
Richard Greenwood
Richard Greenwood University College London
Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Cathy M. Stinear
Cathy M. Stinear University of Auckland

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