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Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies is a research topic within Cognitive Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 61k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the analysis of brain functional connectivity networks using techniques such as resting-state fMRI, default mode network activity, cortical parcellation, and graph theoretical analysis. It explores the organization, development, and dysfunction of brain networks in various neurological disorders.

  • Functional Connectivity
  • Resting-State fMRI
  • Default Mode Network
  • Brain Network Organization
  • Connectome
  • Neuroimaging Data Analysis
  • Cortical Parcellation
  • Graph Theory
  • Brain Network Development
  • Neurological Disorders
Research works
61k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Which countries lead Functional Brain Connectivity Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (4.7k and 4.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 4.7k works
  2. 2 China 4.3k works
  3. 3 Germany 946 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 835 works
  5. 5 Canada 714 works
  6. 6 Italy 642 works
  7. 7 India 607 works
  8. 8 France 484 works
  9. 9 Japan 464 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 410 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 33.4%China: 30.5%Germany: 6.7%United Kingdom: 5.9%6 others listed: 23.5%33%largest
United States4,710 · 33.4%China4,299 · 30.5%Germany946 · 6.7%United Kingdom835 · 5.9%6 others listed3,320 · 23.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Functional Brain Connectivity Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Functional Brain Connectivity Studies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 318 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 142 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 137 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 132 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 132 works
  6. 6 Capital Medical UniversityChina 131 works
  7. 7 McGill UniversityCanada 127 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 124 works
  9. 9 Emory UniversityUnited States 116 works
  10. 10 Yale UniversityUnited States 112 works

Who are the leading researchers in Functional Brain Connectivity Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies include Yoshua Bengio, George Davey Smith and Mark J. Daly.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  4. 4 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  5. 5 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  6. 6 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  7. 7 Valery L. Feigin New Zealand 341k citations
  8. 8 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  9. 9 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  10. 10 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Functional Brain Connectivity Studies?

The most cited paper in Functional Brain Connectivity Studies is "Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain" (N. Tzourio-Mazoyer, Brigitte Landeau, Dimitri Papathanassiou et al., 2002), with 17,037 citations. Next come "An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest" (14,405) and "Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL" (14,361).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain N. Tzourio-Mazoyer, Brigitte Landeau, Dimitri Papathanassiou et al. · NeuroImage Open access 2002 17,037
2 An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest Rahul S. Desikan, Florent Ségonne, Bruce R. Fischl et al. · NeuroImage 14 Mar 2006 14,405
3 Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL Stephen M. Smith, Mark Jenkinson, Mark W. Woolrich et al. · NeuroImage 2004 14,361
4 A New Depression Scale Designed to be Sensitive to Change Stuart Montgomery, Marie Åsberg · The British Journal of Psychiatry Apr 1979 14,132
5 A default mode of brain function Marcus E. Raichle, Ann Mary MacLeod, Abraham Z. Snyder et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 16 Jan 2001 12,560
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Where is Functional Brain Connectivity Studies research done?

The largest centres of Functional Brain Connectivity Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), London (United Kingdom) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Belmont, Jülich and Fort Wayne.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 789 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 378 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 324 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 257 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 238 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 236 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 236 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 223 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 208 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 203 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BelmontUS · 21.8 works29×
  2. JülichDE · 43.7 works10×
  3. Fort WayneUS · 20.9 works9.7×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Functional Brain Connectivity Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Functional Brain Connectivity Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, McGill University and University College London score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 12.8%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University College L…University of OxfordMcGill UniversityHarvard University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 74.012.0%6.5×318 +3.0%
2McGill UniversityCanada 69.212.3%8.3×127 +12.1%
3University College LondonUnited Kingdom 68.813.3%5.1×124 -3.7%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 64.313.1%3.9×83 -11.5%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 63.713.3%4.2×95 -4.7%
6Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 61.914.4%3.1×33 +8.3%
7Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 61.514.5%6.3×58 -6.5%
8Yale UniversityUnited States 61.410.6%6.7×112 -6.5%
9University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 61.113.5%3.8×69 -13.3%
10Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 60.611.0%6.5×71 -4.6%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, country by country

Is Functional Brain Connectivity Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Functional Brain Connectivity Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.067% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Functional Brain Connectivity Studies0.076% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Functional Brain Connectivity Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Functional Brain Connectivity Studies9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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