2026 Christian K. Tamnes: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	67	2883	2636	13	12	169	16391

Overview

Christian K. Tamnes is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and specializes in research within medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Their work intersects several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research topics encompass:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Birth, Development, and Health
Mental Health Research Topics
Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Christian K. Tamnes has contributed to multiple papers, some of which include:

Inter-individual variability in structural brain development from late childhood to young adulthood, 2021, NeuroImage
#EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments, 2021, Cortex
Association of Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures With Psychosis Onset in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Developing Psychosis, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
New insights into the dynamic development of the cerebral cortex in childhood and adolescence: Integrating macro- and microstructural MRI findings, 2021, Progress in Neurobiology
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

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christian K. Tamnes include:

Lars T. Westlye
Linn B. Norbom
Ole A. Andreassen
Ingrid Agartz
Lia Ferschmann

Their research has appeared frequently in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Human Brain Mapping
Cortex
Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

Brain Maturation in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Regional Age-Related Changes in Cortical Thickness and White Matter Volume and Microstructure

Christian K. Tamnes;Ylva Østby;Anders M. Fjell;Lars T. Westlye

950
Citations
Life-Span Changes of the Human Brain White Matter: Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and Volumetry

Lars T. Westlye;Kristine B. Walhovd;Anders M. Dale;Anders M. Dale;Atle Bjørnerud

881
Citations
Development of the cerebral cortex across adolescence: A multisample study of inter-related longitudinal changes in cortical volume, surface area, and thickness

Christian Krog Tamnes;Megan M. Herting;Anne-Lise Goddings;Rosa Meuwese

734
Citations
Structural brain development between childhood and adulthood: Convergence across four longitudinal samples

Kathryn L. Mills;Anne-Lise Goddings;Megan M. Herting;Rosa Meuwese

642
Citations
Differential Longitudinal Changes in Cortical Thickness, Surface Area and Volume across the Adult Life Span: Regions of Accelerating and Decelerating Change

Andreas Berg Storsve;Anders Martin Fjell;Christian Krog Tamnes;Lars Tjelta Westlye

599
Citations
Heterogeneity in Subcortical Brain Development: A Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Brain Maturation from 8 to 30 Years

Ylva Østby;Christian K. Tamnes;Anders M. Fjell;Lars T. Westlye

561
Citations
The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network

Hannah Moshontz;Lorne Campbell;Charles R. Ebersole;Hans Ijzerman

404
Citations
A common brain network links development, aging, and vulnerability to disease

Gwenaëlle Douaud;Adrian R. Groves;Christian K. Tamnes;Lars Tjelta Westlye

368
Citations
Brain development and aging: overlapping and unique patterns of change.

Christian K. Tamnes;Kristine B. Walhovd;Anders M. Dale;Ylva Østby

345
Citations
Intracortical Myelin Links with Performance Variability across the Human Lifespan: Results from T1-and T2-Weighted MRI Myelin Mapping and Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Håkon Grydeland;Kristine B Walhovd;Christian Krog Tamnes;Lars Tjelta Westlye

323
Citations
Accelerated Changes in White Matter Microstructure during Aging: A Longitudinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

Claire E. Sexton;Kristine B. Walhovd;Andreas B. Storsve;Christian K. Tamnes

317
Citations
Methods and considerations for longitudinal structural brain imaging analysis across development.

Kathryn L. Mills;Kathryn L. Mills;Christian K. Tamnes

313
Citations
Development and aging of cortical thickness correspond to genetic organization patterns.

Anders Martin Fjell;Anders Martin Fjell;Håkon Grydeland;Stine Kleppe Krogsrud;Inge Kasbohm Amlien

295
Citations
Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

Sophia Frangou;Amirhossein Modabbernia;Steven C. R. Williams;Efstathios Papachristou

272
Citations
When does brain aging accelerate? Dangers of quadratic fits in cross-sectional studies.

Anders M. Fjell;Kristine B. Walhovd;Lars T. Westlye;Ylva Østby

265
Citations
Neuroimaging hippocampal subfields in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Unn Kristin H. Haukvik;Unn Kristin H. Haukvik;Christian Krog Tamnes;Erik Söderman;Ingrid Agartz;Ingrid Agartz

246
Citations
Becoming Consistent: Developmental Reductions in Intraindividual Variability in Reaction Time Are Related to White Matter Integrity

Christian K Tamnes;Anders M Fjell;Lars T Westlye;Ylva Østby

229
Citations
Unraveling age, puberty and testosterone effects on subcortical brain development across adolescence.

Lara M. Wierenga;Marieke G.N. Bos;Elisabeth Schreuders;Ferdi vd Kamp

226
Citations
Neurodevelopmental origins of lifespan changes in brain and cognition.

Kristine B Walhovd;Kristine B Walhovd;Stine Kleppe Krogsrud;Inge Kasbohm Amlien;Hauke Bartsch

223
Citations
Changes in white matter microstructure in the developing brain—A longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging study of children from 4 to 11 years of age

Stine K. Krogsrud;Anders M. Fjell;Christian K. Tamnes;Håkon Grydeland

218
Citations
Neuroanatomical correlates of executive functions in children and adolescents: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of cortical thickness

Christian K. Tamnes;Ylva Østby;Kristine B. Walhovd;Lars T. Westlye

213
Citations
Differentiating maturational and aging-related changes of the cerebral cortex by use of thickness and signal intensity.

Lars T. Westlye;Kristine B. Walhovd;Anders M. Dale;Atle Bjørnerud;Atle Bjørnerud

209
Citations