2026 Christian Keysers: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	68	2693	2461	90	85	177	38013

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Neuroscience

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Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Christian Keysers is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and focuses on research spanning several interconnected fields within neuroscience and psychology. Their work primarily addresses cognitive neuroscience and social psychology, alongside topics in psychiatry and mental health, sensory systems, and behavioral neuroscience.

The key topics researched by Christian Keysers include:

Action Observation and Synchronization
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Christian Keysers has published extensively, contributing to both high-impact and specialized journals. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), NeuroImage, Scientific Reports, Nature Neuroscience, and Current Biology.

Some recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Keysers include:

Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents, 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Harm to Others Acts as a Negative Reinforcer in Rats, 2020, Current Biology
Neural mechanisms necessary for empathy-related phenomena across species, 2021, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis of the physical and mental health benefits of touch interventions, 2024, Nature Human Behaviour

Keysers frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. Regular co-authors include Valeria Gazzola, Kalliopi Ioumpa, Frédéric Michon, L. De Angelis, and Selene Gallo, reflecting a network of collaborators across related disciplines.

Christian Keysers works at the intersection of neuroscience and psychology and contributes to understanding the neural basis of social behaviors, emotional contagion, and empathy-related processes. Their research also explores the neuroendocrine underpinnings of behavior and integrates multiple methodologies to investigate brain function dynamics and memory mechanisms.

In 2016, Keysers was recognized as a member of Academia Europaea, reflecting a formal acknowledgment within the scientific community.

Best Publications

Both of us disgusted in My insula: the common neural basis of seeing and feeling disgust.

Bruno Wicker;Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers;Jane Plailly;Jean Pierre Royet

3310
Citations
A unifying view of the basis of social cognition.

Vittorio Gallese;Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers;Giacomo Rizzolatti

3252
Citations
The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism

A Di Martino;C-G Yan;Q Li;E Denio

2883
Citations
Hearing sounds, understanding actions: action representation in mirror neurons.

Evelyne Kohler;Christian Keysers;M. Alessandra Umiltà;Leonardo Fogassi

2817
Citations
I Know What You Are Doing: A Neurophysiological Study

M.A. Umiltà;E. Kohler;V. Gallese;L. Fogassi

1993
Citations
A touching sight: SII/PV activation during the observation and experience of touch.

Christian Keysers;Bruno Wicker;Valeria Gazzola;Jean-Luc Anton

1247
Citations
Brain-to-Brain coupling: A mechanism for creating and sharing a social world

Uri Hasson;Asif A. Ghazanfar;Bruno Galantucci;Bruno Galantucci;Simon Garrod;Simon Garrod

1210
Citations
Empathy and the somatotopic auditory mirror system in humans

Valeria Gazzola;Lisa Aziz-Zadeh;Lisa Aziz-Zadeh;Christian Keysers

1095
Citations
Somatosensation in social perception

Christian Keysers;Jon H. Kaas;Valeria Gazzola

1031
Citations
The anthropomorphic brain: the mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions.

Valeria Gazzola;G. Rizzolatti;Bruno Wicker;Christian Keysers

925
Citations
The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data

Valeria Gazzola;Christian Keysers

883
Citations
Empathy for positive and negative emotions in the gustatory cortex

Mbemba Jabbi;Marte Swart;Marte Swart;Christian Keysers

826
Citations
Demystifying social cognition: a Hebbian perspective

Christian Keysers;David I. Perrett

817
Citations
Integrating simulation and theory of mind: from self to social cognition

Christian Keysers;Valeria Gazzola

697
Citations
Audiovisual mirror neurons and action recognition

C. Keysers;E. Kohler;M. A. Umiltà;L. Nanetti

669
Citations
Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence

Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers;Valeria Gazzola;Valeria Gazzola;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

640
Citations
Towards a unifying neural theory of social cognition

Christian Keysers;Valeria Gazzola

562
Citations
Expanding the mirror: vicarious activity for actions, emotions, and sensations.

Christian Keysers;Valeria Gazzola

554
Citations
Evidence for mirror systems in emotions.

J. A. C. J. Bastiaansen;M. Thioux;M. Thioux;C. Keysers;C. Keysers

529
Citations
Measuring shared responses across subjects using intersubject correlation

Samuel A Nastase;Valeria Gazzola;Valeria Gazzola;Uri Hasson;Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers

458
Citations
The Speed of Sight

C. Keysers;D.-K. Xiao;P. Földiák;D. I. Perrett

434
Citations