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Researcher · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · Switzerland

Olaf Blanke

Olaf Blanke publishes mostly in Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction, on topics such as Action Observation and Synchronization, Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts and Visual perception and processing mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0002-9745-3983 OpenAlex
World rank
#132,564
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#2,730
of 80,918
Works
563
Citations
28k
Citations per work
49.8
h-index
81
i10-index 291Top 0.8% in Cognitive Neuroscience
Olaf Blanke

What does Olaf Blanke research?

Olaf Blanke's work is mostly in Neuroscience (44%), Psychology (17%), Computer Science (9%).

Life Sciences: 249 works · 44.2% of their workNeuroscience: 249 works · 44.2% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 230 works · 40.9% of their workNeurology: 19 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 129 works · 22.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 94 works · 16.7% of their workPsychology: 94 works · 16.7% of their workSocial Psychology: 69 works · 12.2% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 25 works · 4.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 50 works · 8.8% of their workComputer Science: 50 works · 8.8% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 50 works · 8.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 42 works · 7.4% of their workMedicine: 42 works · 7.4% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 42 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKOlaf Blanke563works
Life Sciences44%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences17%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Neuroscience24944.2%
  2. Everything else12922.9%
    1. Psychology9416.7%
    1. Computer Science508.8%
    1. Medicine427.4%
  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience41% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology12% of their works
  3. 3Human-Computer Interaction9% of their works
  4. 4Psychiatry and Mental health7% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Neurology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Olaf Blanke's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Embodiment, Neural Mechanisms, Action Observation, Mirror Neuron System, Emotion Regulation, Presence, Virtual Reality and Neural Processing.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Embodiment2792 topics
  2. Neural Mechanisms1982 topics
  3. Action Observation1451 topic
  4. Mirror Neuron System1451 topic
  5. Emotion Regulation1392 topics
  6. Presence1341 topic
  7. Virtual Reality1341 topic
  8. Neural Processing1031 topic
  9. Visual Perception1031 topic
  10. Interoception861 topic
  11. Somatic Symptoms861 topic
  12. Cross-modal Plasticity651 topic
  13. Tactile Perception651 topic
  14. Functional Connectivity551 topic
  15. Resting-State fMRI551 topic
  16. Brain-Computer Interfaces541 topic
  17. EEG Analysis541 topic
  18. Cognitive Control531 topic
  19. Decision Making531 topic

Where does Olaf Blanke work?

Olaf Blanke's main affiliation in the publication record is École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Olaf Blanke have?

OpenAlex counts 563 works and 28,033 citations for Olaf Blanke, an h-index of 81, ranking #132,564 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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