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2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
147
Citations
98713
World Ranking
158
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Simon B. Eickhoff is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and advanced neuroimaging techniques.

Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, neurology, and psychiatry and mental health. These areas reflect a broad engagement with both the methodological and clinical aspects of brain research.

Among the main topics of Simon B. Eickhoff's research are functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, mental health research topics, neural and behavioral psychology studies, advanced MRI techniques and applications, and issues related to health, environment, and cognitive aging.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams," 2020, Nature
  • "Multimodal Abnormalities of Brain Structure and Function in Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Identification of Common Neural Circuit Disruptions in Emotional Processing Across Psychiatric Disorders," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "JuSpace: A tool for spatial correlation analyses of magnetic resonance imaging data with nuclear imaging derived neurotransmitter maps," 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Individual-Specific Areal-Level Parcellations Improve Functional Connectivity Prediction of Behavior," 2021, Cerebral Cortex

Simon B. Eickhoff frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including:

  • Felix Hoffstaedter
  • Kaustubh R. Patil
  • Juergen Dukart
  • B.T. Thomas Yeo
  • Sofie L. Valk

The scientist's work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • A new SPM toolbox for combining probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps and functional imaging data

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Klaas E. Stephan;Hartmut Mohlberg;Christian Grefkes

  • Local-Global Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex from Intrinsic Functional Connectivity MRI

    Alexander Schaefer;Ru Kong;Evan M Gordon;Timothy O Laumann

  • The Human Brainnetome Atlas: A New Brain Atlas Based on Connectional Architecture

    Lingzhong Fan;Hai Li;Junjie Zhuo;Yu Zhang

  • Situating the default-mode network along a principal gradient of macroscale cortical organization

    Daniel S. Margulies;Satrajit S. Ghosh;Satrajit S. Ghosh;Alexandros Goulas;Marcel Falkiewicz

  • An Improved Framework for Confound Regression and Filtering for Control of Motion Artifact in the Preprocessing of Resting-State Functional Connectivity Data

    Theodore D. Satterthwaite;Mark A. Elliott;Raphael T. Gerraty;Kosha Ruparel

  • Coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of neuroimaging data: a random-effects approach based on empirical estimates of spatial uncertainty

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Angela R. Laird;Christian Grefkes;Ling E. Wang

  • ALE meta-analysis of action observation and imitation in the human brain.

    Svenja Caspers;Karl Zilles;Karl Zilles;Angela R. Laird;Simon B. Eickhoff;Simon B. Eickhoff

  • Activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis revisited.

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Danilo Bzdok;Danilo Bzdok;Angela R. Laird;Florian Kurth

  • Identification of a common neurobiological substrate for mental illness.

    Madeleine Goodkind;Simon B. Eickhoff;Desmond J. Oathes;Desmond J. Oathes;Ying Jiang;Ying Jiang

  • A link between the systems: functional differentiation and integration within the human insula revealed by meta-analysis.

    Florian Kurth;Karl Zilles;Peter T. Fox;Angela R. Laird

  • Minimizing Within-Experiment and Within-Group Effects in Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analyses

    Peter E. Turkeltaub;Simon B. Eickhoff;Simon B. Eickhoff;Angela R. Laird;Mick Fox

  • Behavioral interpretations of intrinsic connectivity networks

    Angela R. Laird;P. Mickle Fox;Simon B. Eickhoff;Jessica A. Turner

  • Assignment of functional activations to probabilistic cytoarchitectonic areas revisited

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Tomas Paus;Tomas Paus;Svenja Caspers;Marie-Helene Grosbras;Marie-Helene Grosbras

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

    Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Felix Holzmeister;Colin F. Camerer;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber

  • Modelling neural correlates of working memory: a coordinate-based meta-analysis.

    Claudia Rottschy;Robert Langner;Robert Langner;Imis Dogan;Kathrin Reetz;Kathrin Reetz

  • Benchmarking of participant-level confound regression strategies for the control of motion artifact in studies of functional connectivity.

    Rastko Ciric;Daniel H. Wolf;Jonathan D. Power;David R. Roalf

  • Neural network of cognitive emotion regulation--an ALE meta-analysis and MACM analysis.

    Nils Kohn;Simon B. Eickhoff;M. Scheller;Angela R. Laird

  • Sustaining attention to simple tasks: a meta-analytic review of the neural mechanisms of vigilant attention.

    Robert Langner;Simon B. Eickhoff

  • Is the ADHD brain wired differently? A review on structural and functional connectivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Kerstin Konrad;Simon B. Eickhoff;Simon B. Eickhoff

  • Neural correlates of action: Comparing meta-analyses of imagery, observation, and execution

    Robert M. Hardwick;Svenja Caspers;Simon B. Eickhoff;Stephan P. Swinnen

  • Minds at rest? Social cognition as the default mode of cognizing and its putative relationship to the ''default system" of the brain

    Leo Schilbach;Simon B. Eickhoff;Anna Rotarska-Jagiela;Gereon R. Fink

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix Hoffstaedter
Felix Hoffstaedter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Katrin Amunts
Katrin Amunts Forschungszentrum Jülich
Peter T. Fox
Peter T. Fox The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Angela R. Laird
Angela R. Laird Florida International University
Christian Grefkes
Christian Grefkes University of Cologne
Robert Langner
Robert Langner Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Svenja Caspers
Svenja Caspers Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Danilo Bzdok
Danilo Bzdok Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Gereon R. Fink
Gereon R. Fink University of Cologne

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