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Dirk Wildgruber publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dirk Wildgruber sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 148 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Dirk Wildgruber D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Dirk Wildgruber is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and has contributed extensively to multiple research areas within psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. Their work primarily spans psychology, with 25 publications, followed by neuroscience (19 publications) and medicine (18 publications). The subfields of study in which they have been active include cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

Wildgruber's research topics cover a variety of themes such as autism spectrum disorder research, humor studies and applications, multisensory perception and integration, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, mental health and psychiatry, as well as behavioral and psychological studies.

The scientist has multiple recent papers published in well-known venues. These include:

  • Vocal Expression of Affective States in Spontaneous Laughter reveals the Bright and the Dark Side of Laughter, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Cerebrospinal fluid findings in patients with psychotic symptoms-a retrospective analysis, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Friend vs. Foe: Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Women With Different Hormonal States, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Neural Basis of Impaired Emotion Recognition in Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Recurrent Episodes of Paraphilic Behavior Possibly Associated With Olanzapine and Aripiprazole Treatment in a Patient With Schizophrenia, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequent publication venues where Dirk Wildgruber has contributed are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Collaborations form an important part of their scientific output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Benjamin Kreifelts
  • Kathrin N. Eckstein
  • Carolin Brück
  • Anne Martinelli
  • Michael Erb

Best Publications

  • Sensorimotor mapping of the human cerebellum: fMRI evidence of somatotopic organization

    Wolfgang Grodd;Ernst Hülsmann;Martin Lotze;Dirk Wildgruber

  • Identification of emotional intonation evaluated by fMRI.

    Dirk Wildgruber;Axel Riecker;Ingo Hertrich;Michael Erb

  • Cerebral processing of linguistic and emotional prosody: fMRI studies.

    D Wildgruber;H Ackermann;B Kreifelts;T Ethofer

  • fMRI reveals two distinct cerebral networks subserving speech motor control.

    A. Riecker;K. Mathiak;D. Wildgruber;M. Erb

  • Audiovisual integration of emotional signals in voice and face: an event-related fMRI study.

    Benjamin Kreifelts;Thomas Ethofer;Wolfgang Grodd;Michael Erb

  • Cerebral pathways in processing of affective prosody: a dynamic causal modeling study.

    Thomas Ethofer;Silke Anders;Michael Erb;Cornelia Herbert

  • Right-hemispheric organization of language following early left-sided brain lesions: functional MRI topography.

    Martin Staudt;Karen Lidzba;Wolfgang Grodd;Dirk Wildgruber

  • Differential contributions of motor cortex, basal ganglia, and cerebellum to speech motor control: effects of syllable repetition rate evaluated by fMRI.

    D. Wildgruber;H. Ackermann;W. Grodd

  • Functional lateralization of speech production at primary motor cortex: a fMRI study.

    Dirk Wildgruber;Hermann Ackermann;Uwe Klose;Bernd Kardatzki

  • Distinct Frontal Regions Subserve Evaluation of Linguistic and Emotional Aspects of Speech Intonation

    D. Wildgruber;I. Hertrich;A. Riecker;M. Erb

  • Emotional Voice Areas: Anatomic Location, Functional Properties, and Structural Connections Revealed by Combined fMRI/DTI

    Thomas Stefan Ethofer;Johanes Bretscher;Markus A. Gschwind;Benjamin Kreifelts

  • Does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive aspects of speech production? A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in humans.

    Hermann Ackermann;Dirk Wildgruber;Irene Daum;Wolfgang Grodd

  • Cerebral processing of emotional prosody—influence of acoustic parameters and arousal

    Sarah Wiethoff;Dirk Wildgruber;Benjamin Kreifelts;Hubertus Becker

  • Dynamic Brain Activation during Processing of Emotional Intonation: Influence of Acoustic Parameters, Emotional Valence, and Sex

    Dirk Wildgruber;H. Pihan;H. Ackermann;Michael Erb

  • Amygdala activation during reading of emotional adjectives—an advantage for pleasant content

    Cornelia Herbert;Thomas Ethofer;Silke Anders;Markus Junghofer

  • The speaking brain: a tutorial introduction to fMRI experiments in the production of speech, prosody and syntax

    G Dogil;H Ackermann;W Grodd;H Haider

  • Hemispheric lateralization effects of rhythm implementation during syllable repetitions: an fMRI study.

    Axel Riecker;Dirk Wildgruber;Grzegorz Dogil;Wolfgang Grodd

  • Emotional voices in context: A neurobiological model of multimodal affective information processing

    Carolin Brück;Benjamin Kreifelts;Dirk Wildgruber

  • Impact of voice on emotional judgment of faces: an event-related fMRI study.

    Thomas Ethofer;Silke Anders;Michael Erb;Christina Droll

  • Differential influences of emotion, task, and novelty on brain regions underlying the processing of speech melody

    Thomas Ethofer;Benjamin Kreifelts;Sarah Wiethoff;Jonathan Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Grodd
Wolfgang Grodd Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Michael Erb
Michael Erb Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Thomas Ethofer
Thomas Ethofer University of Tübingen
Hermann Ackermann
Hermann Ackermann University of Tübingen
Axel Riecker
Axel Riecker University of Ulm
Martin Lotze
Martin Lotze University of Greifswald
Kai Alter
Kai Alter Newcastle University
Klaus Scheffler
Klaus Scheffler Max Planck Society
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Ingo Hertrich
Ingo Hertrich University of Tübingen

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