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Rolf Kötter 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 Rolf Kötter sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 103 publications — 19th percentile

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

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

Rolf Kötter 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 Rolf Kötter sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • Toward discovery science of human brain function

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

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

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

  • Identification and classification of hubs in brain networks.

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

  • The anatomical basis of functional localization in the cortex

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

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

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

  • Motifs in Brain Networks

    Olaf Sporns;Rolf Kötter

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

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

  • 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

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

    Rolf Kötter

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cell Type-Specific Circuits of Cortical Layer IV Spiny Neurons

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

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

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

  • Postsynaptic integration of glutamatergic and dopaminergic signals in the striatum

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  • Hierarchy and dynamics of neural networks.

    Marcus Kaiser;Claus C. Hilgetag;Rolf Kötter

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

    Georg Northoff;Rolf Kötter;Frank Baumgart;Peter Danos

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich
Heiko J. Luhmann
Heiko J. Luhmann Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jochen F. Staiger
Jochen F. Staiger University of Göttingen
Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns Indiana University
Claus C. Hilgetag
Claus C. Hilgetag University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Viktor K. Jirsa
Viktor K. Jirsa Aix-Marseille University
Georg Northoff
Georg Northoff University of Ottawa
Patric Hagmann
Patric Hagmann University of Lausanne
Axel Schleicher
Axel Schleicher Forschungszentrum Jülich

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