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Neuroscience

D-Index
43
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6459
World Ranking
7442
National Ranking
623

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
6339
World Ranking
4500
National Ranking
123

Benjamin Straube publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin Straube sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 195 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Benjamin Straube D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin Straube sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Benjamin Straube is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in neuroscience and psychology. Their work encompasses 175 publications in neuroscience and 137 in psychology, with a focus on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

Their recent publications illustrate a diverse research interest. These include studies such as "A Systematic Evaluation of Machine Learning-Based Biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder" published in 2024 in JAMA Psychiatry; "The treasure inside barley seeds: microbial diversity and plant beneficial bacteria" in Environmental Microbiome in 2021; and "Change of Threat Expectancy as Mechanism of Exposure-Based Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders: Evidence From 8,484 Exposure Exercises of 605 Patients" from 2022 in Clinical Psychological Science.

Additional papers include "Learning dynamics of electrophysiological brain signals during human fear conditioning" (2020, NeuroImage) and "Efficacy of temporally intensified exposure for anxiety disorders: A multicenter randomized clinical trial" (2021, Depression and Anxiety).

Straube collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Tilo Kircher (116 joint publications), Frederike Stein (55), Igor Nenadić (53), Udo Dannlowski (50), and Susanne Meinert (48).

The frequent publication venues reflect a varied dissemination of work, with the highest number of publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) totaling 25, followed by Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 23. Other venues include Molecular Psychiatry (12 publications), Human Brain Mapping (7), and NeuroImage (6).

The main topics of Straube's research focus on several interconnected areas such as:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Best Publications

  • Don't fear 'fear conditioning': Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear

    Tina B. Lonsdorf;Mareike M. Menz;Marta Andreatta;Miguel A. Fullana

  • Effect of cognitive-behavioral therapy on neural correlates of fear conditioning in panic disorder.

    Tilo Kircher;Volker Arolt;Andreas Jansen;Martin Pyka

  • Why are help-seeking subjects at ultra-high risk for psychosis help-seeking?

    Irina Falkenberg;Irina Falkenberg;Lucia Valmaggia;Majella Byrnes;Marianna Frascarelli;Marianna Frascarelli

  • Neural Integration of Iconic and Unrelated Coverbal Gestures: A Functional MRI Study

    Antonia Green;Benjamin Straube;Susanne Weis;Andreas Jansen;Andreas Jansen

  • Predicting treatment response to cognitive behavioral therapy in panic disorder with agoraphobia by integrating local neural information.

    Tim Hahn;Tilo Kircher;Benjamin Straube;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • The differentiation of iconic and metaphoric gestures: common and unique integration processes.

    Benjamin Straube;Benjamin Straube;Antonia Green;Antonia Green;Bianca Bromberger;Tilo Kircher

  • Neural Substrates of Treatment Response to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia

    Ulrike Lueken;Benjamin Straube;Carsten Konrad;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • Neurobiological markers predicting treatment response in anxiety disorders: A systematic review and implications for clinical application.

    Ulrike Lueken;Kathrin C. Zierhut;Tim Hahn;Benjamin Straube

  • An overview of the neuro-cognitive processes involved in the encoding, consolidation, and retrieval of true and false memories.

    Benjamin Straube

  • Neural interaction of speech and gesture: differential activations of metaphoric co-verbal gestures.

    Tilo Kircher;Benjamin Straube;Dirk Leube;Susanne Weis

  • MAOA and mechanisms of panic disorder revisited: from bench to molecular psychotherapy

    Andreas Reif;Jan Richter;Benjamin Straube;Michael Höfler

  • A Systematic Evaluation of Machine Learning-Based Biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder.

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  • Superior Temporal Sulcus Disconnectivity During Processing of Metaphoric Gestures in Schizophrenia

    Benjamin Straube;Antonia Green;Katharina Sass;Tilo Kircher

  • Memory effects of speech and gesture binding: Cortical and hippocampal activation in relation to subsequent memory performance

    Benjamin Straube;Antonia Green;Susanne Weis;Anjan Chatterjee

  • Comparing memory skill maintenance across the life span: preservation in adults, increase in children.

    Yvonne Brehmer;Shu-Chen Li;Benjamin Straube;Gundula Stoll

  • A supramodal neural network for speech and gesture semantics: an fMRI study.

    Benjamin Straube;Antonia Green;Antonia Green;Susanne Weis;Susanne Weis;Tilo Kircher

  • Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the positive affective processing of safety signals.

    Ben J. Harrison;Miquel Angel Fullana;Esther Via;Carles Soriano-Mas

  • Oxytocin receptor polymorphism and childhood social experiences shape adult personality, brain structure and neural correlates of mentalizing.

    Henriette Schneider-Hassloff;Benjamin Straube;Andreas Jansen;Bianca Nuscheler

  • Space and time in perceptual causality

    Benjamin Straube;Benjamin Straube;Anjan Chatterjee

  • Distinct Roles for the Cerebellum, Angular Gyrus, and Middle Temporal Gyrus in Action-Feedback Monitoring.

    Bianca M van Kemenade;B Ezgi Arikan;Kornelius Podranski;Kornelius Podranski;Olaf Steinsträter

  • Altered top-down and bottom-up processing of fear conditioning in panic disorder with agoraphobia.

    U. Lueken;B. Straube;I. Reinhardt;N. I. Maslowski

  • Social cues, mentalizing and the neural processing of speech accompanied by gestures.

    Benjamin Straube;Antonia Green;Antonia Green;Andreas Jansen;Anjan Chatterjee

Frequent Co-Authors

Tilo Kircher
Tilo Kircher Philipp University of Marburg
Bettina Pfleiderer
Bettina Pfleiderer University of Münster
Andreas Ströhle
Andreas Ströhle Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Andreas Reif
Andreas Reif Goethe University Frankfurt
Alexander L. Gerlach
Alexander L. Gerlach University of Cologne
Andreas Jansen
Andreas Jansen Philipp University of Marburg
Alfons O. Hamm
Alfons O. Hamm University of Greifswald
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg

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