Alfonso Nieto-Castanon (Nieto Castañón)
Computational neuroscientist
Director, Computational Neuroscience Research Lab, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Visiting Researcher (2018-2025), Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, USA
Research Affiliate (2022-2025), McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
I work on the field of computational neuroscience, and my background is on cognitive neuroscience (Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University) and engineering (B.S./M.S. in Telecommunication Engineering, Universidad de Valladolid). My areas of specialization are modeling and statistics, brain imaging methods, and machine learning, and my main research interest is the understanding and characterization of human brain dynamics.
On this site you will find my most recent publications and some of the related research software that I have developed over the past few years, as well as some of the programming and data-analysis competitions and art projects that I enjoy when not working on my research.
PUBLICATIONS
15,010 citations
7,968 citations during last 5 years (2020-2024)
2,113 citations during last year (2024)
4,810 fractional citations (citations divided by authors in each publication)
publications: 86 i10-index: 61 h-index: 40
source Google Scholar, April 2025
11 high-impact publications
(publications that rank in the top 1% by Research Interest Score among all academic publications in the same year)
7,195 RI Score (author's aggregated Research Interest Score)
70,376 reads
source ResearchGate, May 2025
top 1% highest-impact researchers
author ranked in the top 1% highest Research Interest Score among all researchers across all academic fields (source:ResearchGate)
top 2% most-cited Computational Neuroscience researchers
author ranked in the top 2% highest total citation count among all researchers in the same field (source:Google Scholar)
RESEARCH IMPACT MEASURES
RESEARCH SOFTWARE
CONN functional connectivity toolbox:
6,570 academic publications using CONN
source Google Scholar, April 2025
162,692 file downloads
2,288,333 pageviews
14,971 support forum posts
source NITRC, April 2025
top 1% highest-impact research software
software ranked in the top 1% most frequently viewed and downloaded tools in neuroimaging (source:NITRC)
