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35
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4993
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Wolfgang Heide 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 Wolfgang Heide sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 144 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Heide 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 Wolfgang Heide sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wolfgang Heide is affiliated with the Allgemeines Krankenhaus Celle in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a strong focus on Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Physiology, and Ophthalmology.

Their scholarly work addresses several main topics, including Vestibular and Auditory Disorders, Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders, Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Glaucoma and Retinal Disorders, Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis, Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction, and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research.

The scientist has published papers in various academic venues with repeated contributions in:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • Brain
  • Journal of Neurology
  • Neuropsychologia

Notable recent publications include:

  • Rituximab Treatment and Long-term Outcome of Patients With Autoimmune Encephalitis, 2021, Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • Clinical, serological and genetic predictors of response to immunotherapy in anti-IgLON5 disease, 2022, Brain
  • Risk of acute brain lesions in dizzy patients presenting to the emergency room: who needs imaging and who does not?, 2020, Journal of Neurology
  • Parallel in-depth analysis of repeat expansions in ataxia patients by long-read sequencing, 2022, Brain
  • Genome-wide Association Study Identifies 2 New Loci Associated With Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis, 2021, Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation

Frequent collaborators of Wolfgang Heide include:

  • Andrea Kraft
  • Christoph Helmchen
  • Kurt-Wolfram Sühs
  • Jan Lewerenz
  • Carsten Finke

Best Publications

  • Recombinant Human Erythropoietin in the Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke

    Hannelore Ehrenreich;Karin Weissenborn;Hilmar Prange;Dietmar Schneider

  • Five-Year Risk of Stroke after TIA or Minor Ischemic Stroke.

    Pierre Amarenco;Philippa C Lavallée;Linsay Monteiro Tavares;Julien Labreuche

  • Acute Cerebrovascular Disease in the Young The Stroke in Young Fabry Patients Study

    Arndt Rolfs;Franz Fazekas;Ulrike Grittner;Martin Dichgans

  • Activation of frontoparietal cortices during memorized triple-step sequences of saccadic eye movements: an fMRI study

    W. Heide;F. Binkofski;R. J. Seitz;S. Posse

  • Reduction of P3b in patients with temporo-parietal lesions

    Rolf Verleger;Wolfgang Heide;Christian Butt;Detlef Kömpf

  • Eye movement abnormalities in essential tremor may indicate cerebellar dysfunction

    C. Helmchen;A. Hagenow;J. Miesner;A. Sprenger

  • Combined deficits of saccades and visuo-spatial orientation after cortical lesions

    W. Heide;Detlef Kömpf

  • Deficits of smooth pursuit eye movements after frontal and parietal lesions

    Wolfgang Heide;Klaus Kurzidim;Detlef Kömpf

  • Cortical mechanisms of smooth pursuit eye movements with target blanking. An fMRI study

    Rebekka Lencer;Matthias Nagel;Andreas Sprenger;Silke Zapf

  • Differential Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Saccadic Eye Movements

    Elisabeth Zils;Andreas Sprenger;Wolfgang Heide;Jan Born

  • Focal dystonia as a presenting sign of spinocerebellar ataxia 17.

    Johann M. Hagenah;Christine Zühlke;Yorck Hellenbroich;Wolfgang Heide

  • EFNS task force--therapy of nystagmus and oscillopsia.

    A. Straube;Richard John Leigh;A. Bronstein;W. Heide

  • Eye movements and psychiatric disease.

    Peter Trillenberg;Rebekka Lencer;Wolfgang Heide

  • Parametric modulation of cortical activation during smooth pursuit with and without target blanking. An fMRI study

    Matthias Nagel;Andreas Sprenger;Silke Zapf;Christian Erdmann

  • Eye–hand coordination in essential tremor

    Peter Trillenberg;Julia Führer;Andreas Sprenger;Ania Hagenow

  • The effect of oral ethanol consumption on eye movements in healthy volunteers.

    A. Moser;Wolfgang Heide;Detlef Kömpf

  • Reduced neuronal activity in the V5 complex underlies smooth-pursuit deficit in schizophrenia: evidence from an fMRI study.

    Rebekka Lencer;Matthias Nagel;Andreas Sprenger;Wolfgang Heide

  • Lateralized Human Cortical Activity for Shifting Visuospatial Attention and Initiating Saccades

    Bernd Wauschkuhn;Rolf Verleger;Edmund Wascher;Wolfgang Klostermann

  • Oculomotor Testing in the Differential Diagnosis of Degenerative Ataxic Disorders

    Karl Wessel;Carsten Moschner;Klaus-Peter Wandinger;Deflef Kömpf

  • The cerebellum in the cerebro-cerebellar network for the control of eye and hand movements — an fMRI study

    M.F. Nitschke;T. Arp;G. Stavrou;C. Erdmann

  • Visual search in patients with left visual hemineglect.

    A Sprenger;D Kömpf;W Heide

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Sprenger
Andreas Sprenger University of Lübeck
Detlef Kömpf
Detlef Kömpf University of Lübeck
Christoph Helmchen
Christoph Helmchen University of Lübeck
Ferdinand Binkofski
Ferdinand Binkofski RWTH Aachen University
Rolf Verleger
Rolf Verleger University of Lübeck
Stefan Posse
Stefan Posse University of New Mexico
Giovanni Buccino
Giovanni Buccino Magna Graecia University
Hartwig R. Siebner
Hartwig R. Siebner Copenhagen University Hospital
Heiner Deubel
Heiner Deubel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Christine Klein
Christine Klein University of Lübeck

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