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Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
5849
World Ranking
7915
National Ranking
181

Patrick Freund 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 Patrick Freund sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 134 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Patrick Freund 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 Patrick Freund sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Patrick Freund is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on subfields such as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics including:

  • Spinal Cord Injury Research
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations

Patrick Freund has contributed to numerous publications, with notable papers including:

  • Generic acquisition protocol for quantitative MRI of the spinal cord, 2021, Nature Protocols
  • Multiparameter mapping of relaxation (R1, R2*), proton density and magnetization transfer saturation at 3 T: A multicenter dual-vendor reproducibility and repeatability study, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Open-access quantitative MRI data of the spinal cord and reproducibility across participants, sites and manufacturers, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Imaging and Electrophysiology for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 9], 2021, Global Spine Journal
  • A New Framework for Investigating the Biological Basis of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 5]: Mechanical Stress, Vulnerability and Time, 2022, Global Spine Journal

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Maryam Seif
  • Armin Curt
  • Gergely Dávid
  • Simon Schading-Sassenhausen
  • Nikolaus Weiskopf

Patrick Freund publishes regularly in scientific venues such as:

  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Imaging Neuroscience
  • NeuroImage
  • Frontiers in Neurology

Best Publications

  • Nogo-A-specific antibody treatment enhances sprouting and functional recovery after cervical lesion in adult primates.

    Patrick Freund;Eric Schmidlin;Thierry Wannier;Thierry Wannier;Jocelyne Bloch

  • Widespread age-related differences in the human brain microstructure revealed by quantitative magnetic resonance imaging

    Martina F. Callaghan;Patrick Freund;Patrick Freund;Patrick Freund;Bogdan Draganski;Elaine Anderson

  • Disability, atrophy and cortical reorganization following spinal cord injury

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

  • MRI investigation of the sensorimotor cortex and the corticospinal tract after acute spinal cord injury: a prospective longitudinal study

    Patrick Freund;Patrick Freund;Patrick Freund;Nikolaus Weiskopf;John Ashburner;Katharina Wolf

  • Traumatic and nontraumatic spinal cord injury: pathological insights from neuroimaging

    Gergely David;Gergely David;Siawoosh Mohammadi;Siawoosh Mohammadi;Allan R. Martin;Julien Cohen-Adad

  • Anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment enhances sprouting of corticospinal axons rostral to a unilateral cervical spinal cord lesion in adult macaque monkey.

    Patrick Freund;Thierry Wannier;Thierry Wannier;Eric Schmidlin;Jocelyne Bloch

  • MRI in traumatic spinal cord injury: from clinical assessment to neuroimaging biomarkers.

    Patrick Freund;Maryam Seif;Maryam Seif;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Karl Friston

  • Anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment promotes recovery of manual dexterity after unilateral cervical lesion in adult primates--re-examination and extension of behavioral data.

    Patrick Freund;Eric Schmidlin;Thierry Wannier;Thierry Wannier;Jocelyne Bloch

  • Spinal cord grey matter segmentation challenge.

    Ferran Prados;Ferran Prados;John Ashburner;Claudia Blaiotta;Tom Brosch

  • Generic acquisition protocol for quantitative MRI of the spinal cord.

    Julien Cohen-Adad;Julien Cohen-Adad;Eva Alonso-Ortiz;Mihael Abramovic;Carina Arneitz

  • Progressive neurodegeneration following spinal cord injury: Implications for clinical trials

    Gabriel Ziegler;Gabriel Ziegler;Patrick Grabher;Alan Thompson;Daniel Altmann;Daniel Altmann

  • Tracking Changes following Spinal Cord Injury: Insights from Neuroimaging

    Patrick Freund;Armin Curt;Karl Friston;Alan Thompson

  • Association of pain and CNS structural changes after spinal cord injury

    Catherine R. Jutzeler;Eveline Huber;Martina F. Callaghan;Roger Luechinger

  • Tracking sensory system atrophy and outcome prediction in spinal cord injury

    Patrick Grabher;Martina F. Callaghan;John Ashburner;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Nikolaus Weiskopf

  • Corticomotor representation to a human forearm muscle changes following cervical spinal cord injury

    Patrick Freund;John Rothwell;Michael Craggs;Alan J. Thompson

  • Axonal integrity predicts cortical reorganisation following cervical injury

    Patrick Freund;Claudia A Wheeler-Kingshott;Zoltan Nagy;Nikos Gorgoraptis

  • Multiparameter mapping of relaxation (R1, R2*), proton density and magnetization transfer saturation at 3 T: A multicenter dual-vendor reproducibility and repeatability study.

    Tobias Leutritz;Maryam Seif;Maryam Seif;Gunther Helms;Rebecca S Samson

  • Recovery after spinal cord relapse in multiple sclerosis is predicted by radial diffusivity.

    Patrick Freund;Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott;Jonathan Jackson;David Miller

  • Relationship between structural brainstem and brain plasticity and lower-limb training in spinal cord injury: a longitudinal pilot study.

    Michael Villiger;Patrick Grabher;Marie-Claude Hepp-Reymond;Daniel Kiper

  • The impact of post-processing on spinal cord diffusion tensor imaging

    Siawoosh Mohammadi;Patrick Freund;Patrick Freund;Patrick Freund;Thorsten Feiweier;Armin Curt

  • Degeneration of the injured cervical cord is associated with remote changes in corticospinal tract integrity and upper limb impairment.

    Patrick Freund;Torben Schneider;Zoltan Nagy;Chloe Hutton

Frequent Co-Authors

Armin Curt
Armin Curt University of Zurich
Nikolaus Weiskopf
Nikolaus Weiskopf Max Planck Society
Alan J. Thompson
Alan J. Thompson University College London
Claudia A. M. Wheeler-Kingshott
Claudia A. M. Wheeler-Kingshott University College London
Spyros Kollias
Spyros Kollias University of Zurich
Julien Cohen-Adad
Julien Cohen-Adad Polytechnique Montréal
Lars Michels
Lars Michels University of Zurich
Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
John Ashburner
John Ashburner University College London
Eric M. Rouiller
Eric M. Rouiller University of Fribourg

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Best Scientists Citing Patrick Freund

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Nikolaus Weiskopf

Max Planck Society

Publications: 63

Julien Cohen-Adad

Julien Cohen-Adad

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Publications: 54

Michael G. Fehlings

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Martin E. Schwab

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University Hospital of Bern

Publications: 21

Claudia A. M. Wheeler-Kingshott

Claudia A. M. Wheeler-Kingshott

University College London

Publications: 20

Antoine Lutti

Antoine Lutti

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Publications: 17

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Stephen M. Strittmatter

Yale University

Publications: 17

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Publications: 15

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Publications: 14

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