2026 Nick S. Ward: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	69	2599	2376	258	235	234	20237

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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

1486
Citations
Neural correlates of motor recovery after stroke: a longitudinal fMRI study.

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

1234
Citations
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

1070
Citations
Neural correlates of outcome after stroke: a cross-sectional fMRI study

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

842
Citations
Mechanisms underlying recovery of motor function after stroke.

Nick S. Ward;Leonardo G. Cohen

836
Citations
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

668
Citations
Central neuromodulation in chronic migraine patients with suboccipital stimulators: a PET study.

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

581
Citations
Age‐related changes in the neural correlates of motor performance

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

568
Citations
Motor system activation after subcortical stroke depends on corticospinal system integrity

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

516
Citations
A Positron Emission Tomographic Study in Spontaneous Migraine

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

505
Citations
Consensus paper: Combining transcranial stimulation with neuroimaging

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

398
Citations
Cortical Reorganization After Stroke: How Much and How Functional?

Christian Grefkes;Nick S. Ward

370
Citations
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

368
Citations
Disability, atrophy and cortical reorganization following spinal cord injury

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

338
Citations
Intensive upper limb neurorehabilitation in chronic stroke: outcomes from the Queen Square programme

Nick S Ward;Fran Brander;Kate Kelly

319
Citations
Posterior hypothalamic and brainstem activation in hemicrania continua

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

292
Citations
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

290
Citations
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

263
Citations
Compensatory mechanisms in the aging motor system.

Nick S. Ward

262
Citations
Anatomy of Stroke Injury Predicts Gains From Therapy

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

261
Citations
Mechanisms underlying recovery of motor function after stroke

N S Ward

184
Citations