2026 Rolf Kötter: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	44	7027	195	103	20913

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Neuroscience

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20913

Overview

Rolf Kötter was affiliated with Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands and contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research primarily focused on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Neurology, Education, and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.

The main topics covered in their work included Memory and Neural Mechanisms, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Motor Control and Adaptation, and Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders.

Kötter's scientific output included several recent papers published in recognized venues:

White matter hyperintensities at critical crossroads for executive function and verbal abilities in small vessel disease (2020, Human Brain Mapping)
Tract-specific statistics based on diffusion-weighted probabilistic tractography (2022, Communications Biology)
Determining the Optimal TMS Image-Based Target to Modulate Reward and Control Functioning in Nicotine Users (2024, Neuromodec journal.)
Right posterior theta reflects human parahippocampal phase resetting by salient cues during goal-directed navigation (2024, bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Changes in memory function in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: Findings from the Covid and Cognition online study (2025, Cortex)

Throughout their career, Kötter frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Malte R. Güth, Ravi D. Mill, Michael W. Cole, Travis E. Baker, and Nicole Lalta.

Their studies often appeared in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain Stimulation, Human Brain Mapping, Communications Biology, and Neuromodec journal.

Best Publications

The Human Connectome: A Structural Description of the Human Brain

Olaf Sporns;Giulio Tononi;Rolf Kötter

3877
Citations
Toward discovery science of human brain function

Bharat B. Biswal;Maarten Mennes;Xi Nian Zuo;Suril Gohel

3359
Citations
Network structure of cerebral cortex shapes functional connectivity on multiple time scales.

Christopher J. Honey;Rolf Kötter;Michael Breakspear;Olaf Sporns

1997
Citations
Identification and classification of hubs in brain networks.

Olaf Sporns;Christopher J. Honey;Rolf Kötter;Rolf Kötter

1363
Citations
The anatomical basis of functional localization in the cortex

Richard E. Passingham;Richard E. Passingham;Klaas E. Stephan;Klaas E. Stephan;Rolf Kötter

1179
Citations
Key role of coupling, delay, and noise in resting brain fluctuations

Gustavo Deco;Viktor Jirsa;A. R. McIntosh;Olaf Sporns

880
Citations
Motifs in Brain Networks

Olaf Sporns;Rolf Kötter

780
Citations
Noise during Rest Enables the Exploration of the Brain's Dynamic Repertoire

Anandamohan Ghosh;Y. Rho;Anthony Randal McIntosh;Rolf Kötter

663
Citations
Advanced database methodology for the Collation of Connectivity data on the Macaque brain (CoCoMac).

Klass E. Stephan;Lars Kamper;Ahmet Bozkurt;Gully A. P. C. Burns

433
Citations
Online retrieval, processing, and visualization of primate connectivity data from the CoCoMac database.

Rolf Kötter

396
Citations
Functional Dissociation between Medial and Lateral Prefrontal Cortical Spatiotemporal Activation in Negative and Positive Emotions: A Combined fMRI/MEG Study

Georg Northoff;Andre Richter;Matthias Gessner;Florian Schlagenhauf

370
Citations
Computational analysis of functional connectivity between areas of primate cerebral cortex.

Klaas E. Stephan;Claus–C. Hilgetag;Gully A. P. C. Burns;Marc A. O'Neill

337
Citations
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

321
Citations
The Scalable Brain Atlas: Instant Web-Based Access to Public Brain Atlases and Related Content

Rembrandt Bakker;Paul H. E. Tiesinga;Rolf Kötter

307
Citations
Layer-Specific Intracolumnar and Transcolumnar Functional Connectivity of Layer V Pyramidal Cells in Rat Barrel Cortex

Dirk Schubert;Jochen F. Staiger;Nichole Cho;Rolf Kötter

271
Citations
Functional Diversity of Layer IV Spiny Neurons in Rat Somatosensory Cortex: Quantitative Morphology of Electrophysiologically Characterized and Biocytin Labeled Cells

Jochen F. Staiger;Iris Flagmeyer;Dirk Schubert;Karl Zilles

260
Citations
Cell Type-Specific Circuits of Cortical Layer IV Spiny Neurons

Dirk Schubert;Rolf Kötter;Karl Zilles;Heiko J Luhmann

231
Citations
Mapping functional connectivity in barrel-related columns reveals layer- and cell type-specific microcircuits.

Dirk Schubert;Rolf Kötter;Rolf Kötter;Jochen F Staiger

202
Citations
Postsynaptic integration of glutamatergic and dopaminergic signals in the striatum

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201
Citations
Hierarchy and dynamics of neural networks.

Marcus Kaiser;Claus C. Hilgetag;Rolf Kötter

185
Citations
Orbitofrontal Cortical Dysfunction in Akinetic Catatonia: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study During Negative Emotional Stimulation

Georg Northoff;Rolf Kötter;Frank Baumgart;Peter Danos

184
Citations