Cite us
Primary citation
If you use openhdemg for your reaserch, please cite our original tutorial article. Any citation will help us to continue our work.
Cite us as:
Valli G, Ritsche P, Casolo A, Negro F, De Vito G. Tutorial: analysis of central and peripheral motor unit properties from decomposed High-Density surface EMG signals with openhdemg. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 2023, 102850, ISSN 1050-6411, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelekin.2023.102850.
Some of the methods implemented in openhdemg are described in dedicated publications by their developers. If you use these methods in your research, please cite the corresponding article. Doing so helps acknowledge the researchers who contributed these tools to the openhdemg project and supports the continued development of open, reproducible scientific software.
If you use openhdemg for the estimation of common synaptic input, please cite the following tutorial article as:
Cabral HV, Valli G, Zanotti R, Delis I, Negro F. Estimating common synaptic inputs to spinal motor neurons from motor unit spike trains using openhdemg. arXiv, 2026, 2606.23066 [q-bio.NC], https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.23066.
- SVR discharge rate smoothing
If you use openhdemg for discharge rate smoothing using support vector regression, please cite the following original article as:
Beauchamp JA, Khurram OU, Dewald JPA, Heckman CJ, Pearcey GEP. A computational approach for generating continuous estimates of motor unit discharge rates and visualizing population discharge characteristics. Journal of Neural Engineering, 2022, 19(1), 10.1088/1741-2552/ac4594, https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ac4594.
Other citations
Please note that many of the methodological frameworks implemented in openhdemg were originally proposed, validated, or refined in dedicated publications by other researchers. In addition to citing openhdemg, it is the user’s responsibility to cite all relevant articles associated with the specific analyses performed.
This may include, for example, the original or reference publications related to motor unit tracking, conduction velocity estimation, ΔF analysis, or any other method used within the software. Properly citing these works ensures that the researchers who developed the underlying methods receive appropriate credit.