2026 Benson Mwangi: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	45	6848	6299	2959	2663	140	10066

Overview

Benson Mwangi is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work has contributed to various topics, notably:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
Mental Health Research Topics
Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

Mwangi's frequent publication venues include:

Molecular Psychiatry
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Biological Psychiatry
Journal of Affective Disorders
Human Brain Mapping

The scientist has collaborated extensively with multiple coauthors, among them:

Jair C. Soares
Dominik Grotegerd
Paul M. Thompson
Tilo Kircher
Udo Dannlowski

Selected recent publications include:

Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
Brain Structure in Acutely Underweight and Partially Weight-Restored Individuals With Anorexia Nervosa: A Coordinated Analysis by the ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group, 2022, Biological Psychiatry
<scp>Mega-analysis</scp> methods in <scp>ENIGMA</scp>: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group, 2021, Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group.

L Schmaal;D P Hibar;P G Sämann;G B Hall

1300
Citations
The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

824
Citations
Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder : An MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

D P Hibar;L T Westlye;L T Westlye;N T Doan;N T Doan;N Jahanshad

770
Citations
A Review of Feature Reduction Techniques in Neuroimaging

Benson Mwangi;Tian Siva Tian;Jair C. Soares

605
Citations
Subcortical volumetric abnormalities in bipolar disorder

D. P. Hibar;L. T. Westlye;L. T. Westlye;T. G. M. van Erp;J. Rasmussen

512
Citations
Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

343
Citations
Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

233
Citations
Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex

Tulio Guadalupe;Samuel R. Mathias;Theo G.M. vanErp;Christopher D. Whelan;Christopher D. Whelan

227
Citations
Multi-centre diagnostic classification of individual structural neuroimaging scans from patients with major depressive disorder.

Benson Mwangi;Klaus P. Ebmeier;Keith Matthews;J. Douglas Steele

209
Citations
Areas of controversy in neuroprogression in bipolar disorder.

I. C. Passos;B. Mwangi;E. Vieta;M. Berk;M. Berk

208
Citations
The insular cortex and the neuroanatomy of major depression

Reiner Sprengelmeyer;J. Douglas Steele;Benson Mwangi;Poornima Kumar

197
Citations
The impact of machine learning techniques in the study of bipolar disorder: A systematic review.

Diego Librenza-Garcia;Bruno Jaskulski Kotzian;Jessica Yang;Benson Mwangi

185
Citations
Hippocampal subfield volumes in mood disorders

Cao B;Passos Ic;Mwangi B;Amaral-Silva H

179
Citations
Identifying a clinical signature of suicidality among patients with mood disorders: A pilot study using a machine learning approach

Ives Cavalcante Passos;Benson Mwangi;Bo Cao;Jane E. Hamilton

177
Citations
Using structural MRI to identify bipolar disorders – 13 site machine learning study in 3020 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorders Working Group

Abraham Nunes;Hugo G. Schnack;Christopher R.K. Ching;Christopher R.K. Ching;Ingrid Agartz

156
Citations
Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders : Evidence through univariate and multivariate mega-analysis including 6420 participants from the ENIGMA MDD working group.

Nils Opel;Anbupalam Thalamuthu;Anbupalam Thalamuthu;Yuri Milaneschi;Dominik Grotegerd

152
Citations
Lifespan Gyrification Trajectories of Human Brain in Healthy Individuals and Patients with Major Psychiatric Disorders.

Bo Cao;Benson Mwangi;Ives Cavalcante Passos;Mon-Ju Wu

127
Citations
Big data analytics and machine learning: 2015 and beyond.

Ives Cavalcante Passos;Benson Mwangi;Flávio Kapczinski

125
Citations
Prediction of individual subject's age across the human lifespan using diffusion tensor imaging: A machine learning approach

Benson Mwangi;Khader M. Hasan;Jair C. Soares

120
Citations
Brainstem abnormalities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder support high accuracy individual diagnostic classification.

Blair A. Johnston;Benson Mwangi;Keith Matthews;David Coghill

118
Citations
Neuroprogression and illness trajectories in bipolar disorder

Natália S Kapczinski;Benson Mwangi;Ryan M Cassidy;Diego Librenza-Garcia

117
Citations