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Alan F. Schatzberg

Alan F. Schatzberg

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
128
Citations
78351
World Ranking
2661
National Ranking
1485

Alan F. Schatzberg publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan F. Schatzberg sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 658 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Alan F. Schatzberg D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan F. Schatzberg sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 128 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Alan F. Schatzberg is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans medicine and neuroscience, with a significant focus on pharmacology, psychiatry and mental health, biological psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology.

Their work addresses major topics including treatment of major depression, tryptophan and brain disorders, functional brain connectivity studies, stress responses and cortisol, mental health research topics, electroconvulsive therapy studies, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Notable recent papers by Schatzberg include:

  • "Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia," 2022, Nature
  • "Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy (SNT): A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial," 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Treatment-resistant depression: definition, prevalence, detection, management, and investigational interventions," 2023, World Psychiatry
  • "A Delphi-method-based consensus guideline for definition of treatment-resistant depression for clinical trials," 2021, Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors associated with Schatzberg's research include Laura M. Hack, William E. Bunney, Boris D. Heifets, Huda Akil, and Stanley J. Watson.

Their work is frequently published in journals such as the American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuropsychopharmacology, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Alongside numerous articles, Schatzberg has contributed to several book publications. These include titles published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks, such as "Schatzberg's Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology" (2024) and "The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology" (2024). Additionally, they authored "Practical Psychopharmacology" published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Schatzberg was awarded membership in the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Dissociable Intrinsic Connectivity Networks for Salience Processing and Executive Control

    William W. Seeley;Vinod Menon;Alan F. Schatzberg;Jennifer Keller

  • Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Major Depression: Abnormally Increased Contributions from Subgenual Cingulate Cortex and Thalamus

    Michael D. Greicius;Benjamin H. Flores;Vinod Menon;Gary H. Glover

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Resting-state connectivity biomarkers define neurophysiological subtypes of depression

    Andrew T Drysdale;Logan Grosenick;Logan Grosenick;Jonathan Downar;Katharine Dunlop

  • Major depressive disorder

    Christian Otte;Stefan M. Gold;Stefan M. Gold;Brenda W. Penninx;Carmine Maria Pariante

  • A comparison of nefazodone, the cognitive behavioral-analysis system of psychotherapy, and their combination for the treatment of chronic depression.

    Martin B. Keller;James P. McCullough;Daniel N. Klein;Bruce Arnow

  • A Placebo-Controlled, Double-blind, Randomized Trial of an Extract of Ginkgo Biloba for Dementia

    Pierre L. Le Bars;Martin M. Katz;Nancy Berman;Turan M. Itil

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4

    Pamela Sklar;Pamela Sklar;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Laura J. Scott;Ole A. Andreassen

  • On the Interactions of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis and Sleep: Normal HPA Axis Activity and Circadian Rhythm, Exemplary Sleep Disorders

    Theresa M. Buckley;Alan F. Schatzberg

  • Differential responses to psychotherapy versus pharmacotherapy in patients with chronic forms of major depression and childhood trauma

    Charles B. Nemeroff;Christine M. Heim;Michael E. Thase;Daniel N. Klein

  • Gender differences in treatment response to sertraline versus imipramine in chronic depression.

    Susan G. Kornstein;Alan F. Schatzberg;Michael E. Thase;Kimberly A. Yonkers

  • Report by the ACNP Task Force on Response and Remission in Major Depressive Disorder

    A John Rush;Helena C Kraemer;Harold A Sackeim;Maurizio Fava

  • Disrupted amygdalar subregion functional connectivity and evidence of a compensatory network in generalized anxiety disorder.

    Amit Etkin;Katherine E. Prater;Alan F. Schatzberg;Vinod Menon

  • Using chronic pain to predict depressive morbidity in the general population

    Maurice M. Ohayon;Alan F. Schatzberg

  • A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trial of an extract of Ginkgo biloba for dementia. North American EGb Study Group

    Le Bars Pl;Katz Mm;Berman N;Itil Tm

  • The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology

    Alan F. Schatzberg;Charles B. Nemeroff

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • HPA axis in major depression: cortisol, clinical symptomatology and genetic variation predict cognition

    Jennifer Keller;Rowena Gomez;Rowena Gomez;Gordon Williams;Anna Lembke

  • Prevalence of anxiety disorders and their comorbidity with mood and addictive disorders

    Darrel A. Regier;Donald S. Rae;William E. Narrow;Charles T. Kaelber

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles B. Nemeroff
Charles B. Nemeroff The University of Texas at Austin
Huda Akil
Huda Akil University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William E. Bunney
William E. Bunney University of California, Irvine
Joseph J. Schildkraut
Joseph J. Schildkraut Harvard University
Richard M. Myers
Richard M. Myers HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Stanley J. Watson
Stanley J. Watson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jack D. Barchas
Jack D. Barchas Cornell University
Jun Li
Jun Li University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams Stanford University
Michael E. Thase
Michael E. Thase University of Pennsylvania

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