2026 Viktor K. Jirsa: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	81	1562	1423	50	44	291	25939

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Neuroscience

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25939

Research.com Recognitions

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Viktor K. Jirsa is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural dynamics and brain function, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Neurological disorders and treatments, and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering.

Recent publications by Viktor K. Jirsa include the following:

Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults (2023), published in Nature Medicine
A taxonomy of seizure dynamotypes (2020), published in eLife
The quest for multiscale brain modeling (2022), published in Trends in Neurosciences
The Bayesian Virtual Epileptic Patient: A probabilistic framework designed to infer the spatial map of epileptogenicity in a personalized large-scale brain model of epilepsy spread (2020), published in NeuroImage
Personalised virtual brain models in epilepsy (2023), published in The Lancet Neurology

They frequently collaborate with several researchers, including Spase Petkoski, Pierpaolo Sorrentino, Meysam Hashemi, Fabricē Bartolomei, and Marmaduke Woodman.

Viktor K. Jirsa's work has appeared in a variety of publication venues with significant contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), NeuroImage, and Network Neuroscience.

The scientist is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

Emerging concepts for the dynamical organization of resting-state activity in the brain

Gustavo Deco;Viktor K. Jirsa;Viktor K. Jirsa;Anthony R. McIntosh

1932
Citations
The Dynamic Brain: From Spiking Neurons to Neural Masses and Cortical Fields

Gustavo Deco;Viktor K. Jirsa;Peter A. Robinson;Michael Breakspear;Michael Breakspear

1244
Citations
Key role of coupling, delay, and noise in resting brain fluctuations

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

880
Citations
Ongoing Cortical Activity at Rest: Criticality, Multistability, and Ghost Attractors

Gustavo Deco;Viktor K. Jirsa

815
Citations
On the nature of seizure dynamics

Viktor K. Jirsa;Viktor K. Jirsa;William C. Stacey;Pascale P. Quilichini;Pascale P. Quilichini;Anton I. Ivanov;Anton I. Ivanov

792
Citations
Noise during Rest Enables the Exploration of the Brain's Dynamic Repertoire

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

663
Citations
Enhancement of neural synchrony by time delay.

Mukeshwar Dhamala;Viktor K. Jirsa;Viktor K. Jirsa;Mingzhou Ding;Mingzhou Ding

618
Citations
Field Theory of Electromagnetic Brain Activity.

V. K. Jirsa;H. Haken

609
Citations
Defining epileptogenic networks: Contribution of SEEG and signal analysis

Fabrice Bartolomei;Stanislas Lagarde;Fabrice Wendling;Fabrice Wendling;Aileen McGonigal

606
Citations
Functional connectivity dynamics: modeling the switching behavior of the resting state.

Enrique C.A. Hansen;Demian Battaglia;Andreas Spiegler;Gustavo Deco

597
Citations
The dynamics of resting fluctuations in the brain: metastability and its dynamical cortical core

Gustavo Deco;Morten L. Kringelbach;Morten L. Kringelbach;Viktor K. Jirsa;Petra Ritter

559
Citations
The Virtual Brain: a simulator of primate brain network dynamics

Paula Leon;Stuart Knock;Michael Marmaduke Woodman;Lia Domide

534
Citations
The Virtual Epileptic Patient: Individualized whole-brain models of epilepsy spread

Viktor K. Jirsa;Timothée Proix;Dionysios Perdikis;Michael Marmaduke Woodman

432
Citations
Resting brains never rest: computational insights into potential cognitive architectures

Gustavo Deco;Viktor K. Jirsa;Anthony R. McIntosh

423
Citations
Mathematical framework for large-scale brain network modeling in The Virtual Brain.

Paula Sanz-Leon;Stuart A. Knock;Andreas Spiegler;Viktor K. Jirsa

378
Citations
A systematic framework for functional connectivity measures

Huifang E. Wang;Huifang E. Wang;Christian G. Bénar;Christian G. Bénar;Pascale P. Quilichini;Pascale P. Quilichini;Karl J. Friston

326
Citations
A derivation of a macroscopic field theory of the brain from the quasi-microscopic neural dynamics

V. K. Jirsa;H. Haken

298
Citations
The Virtual Brain Integrates Computational Modeling and Multimodal Neuroimaging

Petra Ritter;Michael Schirner;Anthony Randal McIntosh;Viktor K. Jirsa

282
Citations
Transitions to synchrony in coupled bursting neurons.

Mukeshwar Dhamala;Viktor K. Jirsa;Viktor K. Jirsa;Mingzhou Ding;Mingzhou Ding

281
Citations
Individual brain structure and modelling predict seizure propagation

Timothee Proix;Fabrice Bartolomei;Maxime Guye;Viktor Jirsa

274
Citations
Cross-frequency coupling in real and virtual brain networks.

Viktor K. Jirsa;Viktor Müller

253
Citations