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Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
6154
World Ranking
7898
National Ranking
662

Peter Heil 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 Peter Heil sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 117 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Heil 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 Peter Heil 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.

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Overview

Peter Heil is a researcher affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Germany. Their work primarily focuses on neuroscience, with particular attention to cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, and speech and hearing. Their research spans several subfields including statistical and nonlinear physics and global and planetary change.

Themes central to their research encompass hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, and genetics; hearing loss and rehabilitation; noise effects and management; neural dynamics and brain function; stochastic dynamics and bifurcation; ecosystem dynamics and resilience; and acoustic wave phenomena research.

Peter Heil has authored publications in various peer-reviewed journals, reflecting contributions across multiple topics related to auditory processing and neuroscience. Some of their recent papers include the following:

  • "Inconsistent effects of stochastic resonance on human auditory processing" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Phase Locking of Auditory Nerve Fibers: The Role of Lowpass Filtering by Hair Cells" (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Validation of a Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography Reconstruction Tool for Aortic Valve Calcium Quantification" (2022, Structural Heart)
  • "Comparing and modeling absolute auditory thresholds in an alternative-forced-choice and a yes-no procedure" (2021, Hearing Research)
  • "A simplified physiological model of rate-level functions of auditory-nerve fibers" (2021, Hearing Research)

They collaborate frequently with several researchers, including Adam J. Peterson, Katharina S. Rufener, Julian Kauk, Philipp Ruhnau, and Stefan Repplinger.

Peter Heil's research has been published most prominently in the following venues:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Hearing Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Structural Heart

Best Publications

  • Effect of unilateral partial cochlear lesions in adult cats on the representation of lesioned and unlesioned cochleas in primary auditory cortex

    R. Rajan;D. R. F. Irvine;Lisa Z. Wise;P. Heil

  • Multisensory processing via early cortical stages: Connections of the primary auditory cortical field with other sensory systems.

    E. Budinger;P. Heil;A. Hess;A. Hess;H. Scheich

  • Auditory cortical onset responses revisited: I. First-spike timing

    Peter Heil

  • Frequency and periodicity are represented in orthogonal maps in the human auditory cortex: evidence from magnetoencephalography

    G. Langner;M. Sams;P. Heil;H. Schulze

  • Functional Organization of Auditory Cortex in the Mongolian Gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). I. Electrophysiological Mapping of Frequency Representation and Distinction of Fields

    Hardy Thomas;Jochen Tillein;Peter Heil;Henning Scheich

  • First-spike latency of auditory neurons revisited.

    Peter Heil

  • First-spike timing of auditory-nerve fibers and comparison with auditory cortex.

    Peter Heil;Dexter R. F. Irvine

  • AUDITORY CORTICAL ONSET RESPONSES REVISITED. II. RESPONSE STRENGTH

    Peter Heil

  • Sensitivity of neurons in cat primary auditory cortex to tones and frequency-modulated stimuli. II: Organization of response properties along the 'isofrequency' dimension.

    Peter Heil;R. Rajan;Dexter R.F. Irvine

  • Functional organization of auditory cortex in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). III. Anatomical subdivisions and corticocortical connections.

    Eike Budinger;Peter Heil;Henning Scheich

  • Topographic representation of tone intensity along the isofrequency axis of cat primary auditory cortex

    Peter Heil;R. Rajan;D.R.F. Irvine

  • Functional organization of auditory cortex in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). IV. Connections with anatomically characterized subcortical structures.

    Eike Budinger;Peter Heil;Henning Scheich

  • A unifying basis of auditory thresholds based on temporal summation

    Peter Heil;Heinrich Neubauer

  • New Insights into the Hemodynamic Blood Oxygenation Level-Dependent Response through Combination of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Optical Recording in Gerbil Barrel Cortex

    Andreas Hess;Detlef Stiller;Thomas Kaulisch;Peter Heil

  • Sensitivity of neurons in cat primary auditory cortex to tones and frequency-modulated stimuli. I: Effects of variation of stimulus parameters.

    Peter Heil;R. Rajan;Dexter R.F. Irvine

  • Auditory activation of "visual" cortical areas in the blind mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi).

    Gilles Bronchti;Peter Heil;Ronen Sadka;Andreas Hess

  • Auditory pathway and auditory activation of primary visual targets in the blind mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi): I. 2-deoxyglucose study of subcortical centers.

    Gilles Bronchti;Peter Heil;Henning Scheich;Zvi Wollberg

  • Processing of frequency-modulated stimuli in the chick auditory cortex analogue: evidence for topographic representations and possible mechanisms of rate and directional sensitivity.

    Peter Heil;Gerald Langner;Henning Scheich

  • Invasion of visual cortex by the auditory system in the naturally blind mole rat.

    Peter Heil;Gilles Bronchti;Zvi Wollberg;Henning Scheich

  • Parallels Between Timing of Onset Responses of Single Neurons in Cat and of Evoked Magnetic Fields in Human Auditory Cortex

    Silke Biermann;Peter Heil

  • Basic response properties of auditory nerve fibers: a review

    Peter Heil;Adam J. Peterson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dexter R. F. Irvine
Dexter R. F. Irvine Monash University
Henning Scheich
Henning Scheich Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Mikko Sams
Mikko Sams Aalto University
Ramesh Rajan
Ramesh Rajan Monash University
Riitta Hari
Riitta Hari Aalto University
Arnaud Delorme
Arnaud Delorme University of California, San Diego
André Schmidt
André Schmidt University of Basel
Manfred Laucht
Manfred Laucht Heidelberg University
Evdokia Anagnostou
Evdokia Anagnostou Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Gerard J. Byrne
Gerard J. Byrne University of Queensland

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