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Wolf-Dieter Heiss

Wolf-Dieter Heiss

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
113
Citations
37011
World Ranking
5020
National Ranking
277

Wolf-Dieter Heiss publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolf-Dieter Heiss sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 461 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Wolf-Dieter Heiss D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolf-Dieter Heiss sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 113 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wolf-Dieter Heiss was affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their scholarly contributions primarily spanned the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with specializations in Cognitive Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Neurology, Physiology, and Pharmacology.

The main research topics addressed in Heiss's work included:

  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Muscle Activation and Electromyography Studies

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Heiss were:

  • "Differential Effects of Speech and Language Therapy and rTMS in Chronic Versus Subacute Post-stroke Aphasia: Results of the NORTHSTAR-CA Trial," published in 2022 in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
  • "P240 Comparing the effectiveness of rTMS and tDCS for aphasia recovery after stroke," published in 2020 in Clinical Neurophysiology
  • "Alzheimer-typical temporo-parietal atrophy and hypoperfusion are associated with a more significant cholinergic impairment in amnestic neurodegenerative syndromes," published in 2025 in Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Frequent co-authors who collaborated with Heiss included:

  • Anna Zumbansen
  • Sandra E. Black
  • Dylan J. Edwards
  • Alexander Hartmann
  • Sylvain Lanthier

Heiss's publications appeared in multiple venues with repeated contributions to:

  • Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Clinical Neurophysiology

Best Publications

  • Cerebral Representation of One’s Own Past: Neural Networks Involved in Autobiographical Memory

    Gereon R. Fink;Hans J. Markowitsch;Mechthild Reinkemeier;Thomas Bruckbauer

  • The Ecat Exact Hr - Performance of a New High-resolution Positron Scanner

    Klaus Wienhard;Magnus Dahlbom;Lars Eriksson;Christian Michel

  • Post-stroke dementia - a comprehensive review

    Milija D. Mijajlović;Aleksandra Pavlović;Michael Brainin;Wolf Dieter Heiss

  • Differential capacity of left and right hemispheric areas for compensation of poststroke aphasia

    W.-D. Heiss;J. Kessler;A. Thiel;M. Ghaemi

  • Progressive derangement of periinfarct viable tissue in ischemic stroke.

    W.-D. Heiss;M. Huber;G. R. Fink;K. Herholz

  • Simultaneous MR/PET Imaging of the Human Brain : Feasibility Study

    Heinz Peter W. Schlemmer;Bernd J. Pichler;Matthias Schmand;Ziad Burbar

  • Functional recovery of cortical neurons as related to degree and duration of ischemia.

    W D Heiss;G Rosner

  • Stroke: Working toward a prioritized world agenda

    Vladimir Hachinski;Geoffrey A. Donnan;Philip B. Gorelick;Werner Hacke

  • Nosocomial Pneumonia After Acute Stroke Implications for Neurological Intensive Care Medicine

    Ruediger Hilker;Carsten Poetter;Nahide Findeisen;Jan Sobesky

  • Ischemic penumbra: evidence from functional imaging in man.

    Wolf-Dieter Heiss

  • A proposed regional hierarchy in recovery of post-stroke aphasia.

    Wolf-Dieter Heiss;Alexander Thiel

  • Dementia in Parkinson disease Functional imaging of cholinergic and dopaminergic pathways

    Rüdiger Hilker;A. V. Thomas;J. C. Klein;S. Weisenbach

  • An Interactive Technique for Three-Dimensional Image Registration: Validation for PET, SPECT, MRI and CT Brain Studies

    Uwe Pietrzyk;Karl Herholz;Gereon Fink;Andreas Jacobs

  • Neurotransmitter changes in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson disease dementia in vivo

    Johannes C. Klein;Carsten Eggers;Elke Kalbe;S. Weisenbach

  • Early Intravenous Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke in a Community-Based Approach

    Martin Grond;Christoph Stenzel;Susanne Schmülling;Jobst Rudolf

  • Nonlinear progression of Parkinson disease as determined by serial positron emission tomographic imaging of striatal fluorodopa F 18 activity

    Ruediger Hilker;Katherine Schweitzer;Silke Coburger;Mehran Ghaemi

  • Locus ceruleus degeneration promotes Alzheimer pathogenesis in amyloid precursor protein 23 transgenic mice.

    Michael T. Heneka;Mutiah A. Ramanathan;Andreas H. Jacobs;Lucia Dumitrescu-Ozimek

  • Brain plasticity in poststroke aphasia: what is the contribution of the right hemisphere?

    Hans Karbe;Alexander Thiel;Gerald Weber-Luxenburger;Karl Herholz

  • Delineation of brain tumor extent with [11C]L-methionine positron emission tomography: local comparison with stereotactic histopathology.

    Lutz W. Kracht;Hrvoje Miletic;Susanne Busch;Andreas H. Jacobs

  • Does the Mismatch Match the Penumbra? Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography in Early Ischemic Stroke

    Jan Sobesky;Olivier Zaro Weber;Fritz-Georg Lehnhardt;Volker Hesselmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Herholz
Karl Herholz University of Manchester
Alexander Thiel
Alexander Thiel McGill University
Josef Kessler
Josef Kessler University of Cologne
Rüdiger Hilker
Rüdiger Hilker Goethe University Frankfurt
Gereon R. Fink
Gereon R. Fink University of Cologne
Elke Kalbe
Elke Kalbe University of Vechta
Hans J. Markowitsch
Hans J. Markowitsch Bielefeld University
Michael E. Casey
Michael E. Casey Siemens (United States)
Volker Sturm
Volker Sturm University of Cologne
Michael Huber
Michael Huber University of Zurich

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