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Stefan Van der Stigchel

Stefan Van der Stigchel

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
8404
World Ranking
6686
National Ranking
302

Neuroscience

D-Index
46
Citations
8532
World Ranking
6671
National Ranking
183

Stefan Van der Stigchel 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 Stefan Van der Stigchel sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 287 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stefan Van der Stigchel 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 Stefan Van der Stigchel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stefan Van der Stigchel is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and human-computer interaction.

The primary focus of their work lies within neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience, with topics covering neural and behavioral psychology studies, visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, spatial neglect and hemispheric dysfunction, gaze tracking and assistive technology, and multisensory perception and integration.

Stefan Van der Stigchel has published notable papers including:

  • Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks (2022, Trends in Neurosciences)
  • Low-Level Visual Information Is Maintained across Saccades, Allowing for a Postsaccadic Handoff between Visual Areas (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • An embodied account of visual working memory (2020, Visual Cognition)
  • When the central integrator disintegrates: A review of the role of the thalamus in cognition and dementia (2023, Alzheimer's & Dementia)
  • Attention rhythmically samples multi-feature objects in working memory (2022, Scientific Reports)

Frequently collaborating researchers include Christoph Strauch, Surya Gayet, Marnix Naber, Chris Paffen, and Tanja C.W. Nijboer.

Their work has been published often in venues such as the Journal of Vision, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Cortex, and the Journal of Neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Safe and sensible preprocessing and baseline correction of pupil-size data

    Sebastiaan Mathôt;Sebastiaan Mathôt;Jasper Fabius;Elle Van Heusden;Stefan Van der Stigchel

  • PyGaze: an open-source, cross-platform toolbox for minimal-effort programming of eyetracking experiments

    Edwin S. Dalmaijer;Sebastiaan Mathôt;Stefan Van der Stigchel

  • Faces capture attention: Evidence from inhibition of return

    Jan Theeuwes;Stefan Van der Stigchel

  • Eye movement trajectories and what they tell us

    Stefan Van der Stigchel;Martijn Meeter;Jan Theeuwes

  • A review on eye movement studies in childhood and adolescent psychiatry

    Nanda N.J. Rommelse;Stefan Van der Stigchel;Joseph A. Sergeant

  • Spreading the sparing : against a limited-capacity account of the attentional blink

    Christian N. L. Olivers;Stefan van der Stigchel;Johan Hulleman

  • Breaking continuous flash suppression: competing for consciousness on the pre-semantic battlefield

    Surya Gayet;Stefan Van der Stigchel;Chris L. E. Paffen

  • Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks

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  • New Light on the Mind’s Eye The Pupillary Light Response as Active Vision

    Sebastiaan Mathôt;Stefan Van der Stigchel

  • Examining the influence of task set on eye movements and fixations.

    Mark Mills;Andrew Hollingworth;Stefan Van der Stigchel;Lesa Hoffman

  • The link between motor and cognitive development in children born preterm and/or with low birth weight: A review of current evidence

    Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz;Hanna Mulder;Marian J. Jongmans;Ineke J.M. van der Ham

  • A competitive integration model of exogenous and endogenous eye movements

    Martijn Meeter;Stefan Van der Stigchel;Jan Theeuwes

  • Attentional SNARC: there's something special about numbers (let us count the ways).

    Michael D. Dodd;Stefan Van der Stigchel;M. Adil Leghari;Gery Fung

  • Information Matching the Content of Visual Working Memory Is Prioritized for Conscious Access

    Surya Gayet;Chris L. E. Paffen;Stefan Van der Stigchel

  • The limits of top-down control of visual attention.

    Stefan Van der Stigchel;Artem V. Belopolsky;Judith C. Peters;Judith C. Peters;Jasper G. Wijnen

  • You do not find your own face faster; you just look at it longer

    Christel Devue;Stefan Van der Stigchel;Serge Brédart;Jan Theeuwes

  • Approaching threat modulates visuotactile interactions in peripersonal space

    Alyanne M. de Haan;Miranda Smit;Stefan Van der Stigchel;H. Chris Dijkerman

  • Novelty Is Not Always the Best Policy Inhibition of Return and Facilitation of Return as a Function of Visual Task

    Michael D. Dodd;Stefan Van der Stigchel;Andrew Hollingworth

  • Visuospatial Working Memory as a Fundamental Component of the Eye Movement System

    Stefan Van der Stigchel;Andrew Hollingworth

  • Recent advances in the study of saccade trajectory deviations.

    Stefan Van der Stigchel

  • Relation between saccade trajectories and spatial distractor locations.

    Stefan Van der Stigchel;Jan Theeuwes

  • Early and Late Modulation of Saccade Deviations by Target Distractor Similarity

    Manon Mulckhuyse;Stefan Van der Stigchel;Jan Theeuwes

  • Cueing the location of a distractor: an inhibitory mechanism of spatial attention?

    Jaap Munneke;Stefan Van der Stigchel;Jan Theeuwes

Frequent Co-Authors

Tanja C.W. Nijboer
Tanja C.W. Nijboer Utrecht University
Jan Theeuwes
Jan Theeuwes Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Albert Postma
Albert Postma Utrecht University
H. Chris Dijkerman
H. Chris Dijkerman Utrecht University
Martijn Meeter
Martijn Meeter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christian N. L. Olivers
Christian N. L. Olivers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Andrew Hollingworth
Andrew Hollingworth University of Iowa
Ignace T. C. Hooge
Ignace T. C. Hooge Utrecht University
Frans A. J. Verstraten
Frans A. J. Verstraten University of Sydney
John-Dylan Haynes
John-Dylan Haynes Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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