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Frauke Nees

Frauke Nees

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
61
Citations
13303
World Ranking
3399
National Ranking
154

Neuroscience

D-Index
61
Citations
13961
World Ranking
3671
National Ranking
319

Frauke Nees publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 334 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Frauke Nees D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

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

30–31 D-Index: 398 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 702 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 671 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 659 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 641 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 671 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 617 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 558 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 495 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 487 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 445 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 390 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 408 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 345 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 325 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 321 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 248 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 290 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 218 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 219 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 215 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 183 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 169 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 132 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 137 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 120 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 112 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 86 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 101 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 83 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 77 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 70 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 78 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 58 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 53 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 57 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 48 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 53 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 46 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 24 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 35 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 27 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 31 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 22 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 24 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 11 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 19 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 10 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 16 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 10 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 5 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 12 scientists 144+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Frauke Nees is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany, contributing extensively to research in medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Their work spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, with particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their scholarly output engages deeply with a range of topics including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Frequent collaboration has been a significant aspect of their research. Notable coauthors include Tobias Banaschewski, Herta Flor, Sylvane Desrivières, Andreas Heinz, and Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, each contributing to a substantial number of joint publications.

Frauke Nees has published extensively in several scientific venues, with a marked presence in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • eLife
  • Nature Mental Health
  • Scientific Reports

Among the recent papers authored by or involving Frauke Nees are:

  • "Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment," 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults," 2023, Nature Medicine
  • "Cognitive and brain development is independently influenced by socioeconomic status and polygenic scores for educational attainment," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The empirical replicability of task-based fMRI as a function of sample size," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "The IMAGEN study: a decade of imaging genetics in adolescents," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry

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

  • Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks

    Jonas Richiardi;Jonas Richiardi;Andre Altmann;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Catie Chang

  • Adolescent impulsivity phenotypes characterized by distinct brain networks.

    Robert Whelan;Patricia J Conrod;Patricia J Conrod;Jean-Baptiste Poline;Anbarasu Lourdusamy

  • Neuropsychosocial profiles of current and future adolescent alcohol misusers

    Robert Whelan;Robert Whelan;Richard Watts;Catherine A. Orr;Robert R. Althoff

  • The Brain’s Response to Reward Anticipation and Depression in Adolescence: Dimensionality, Specificity, and Longitudinal Predictions in a Community-Based Sample

    Argyris Stringaris;Pablo Vidal-Ribas Belil;Eric Artiges;Hervé Lemaitre

  • The structure of psychopathology in adolescence and its common personality and cognitive correlates.

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Frédéric N. Brière;Maeve O'Leary-Barrett;Tobias Banaschewski

  • 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

  • Risk taking and the adolescent reward system: a potential common link to substance abuse.

    Sophia Schneider;Jan Peters;Uli Bromberg;Stefanie Brassen

  • Early Cannabis Use, Polygenic Risk Score for Schizophrenia and Brain Maturation in Adolescence

    Leon French;Courtney Gray;Gabriel Leonard;Michel Perron;Michel Perron

  • Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults

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  • Determinants of Early Alcohol Use In Healthy Adolescents: The Differential Contribution of Neuroimaging and Psychological Factors

    Frauke Nees;Jelka Tzschoppe;Christopher J Patrick;Sabine Vollstädt-Klein

  • Neural and cognitive correlates of the common and specific variance across externalizing problems in young adolescence.

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Maren Struve;Robert Whelan;Tobias Banaschewski

  • Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment.

    Matthew D Albaugh;Jonatan Ottino-Gonzalez;Amanda Sidwell;Claude Lepage

  • Positive Association of Video Game Playing with Left Frontal Cortical Thickness in Adolescents

    Simone Kühn;Robert Lorenz;Tobias Banaschewski;Gareth J. Barker

  • Deficient fear extinction memory in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Manon Wicking;Frauke Steiger;Frauke Nees;Slawomira J. Diener

  • Blunted ventral striatal responses to anticipated rewards foreshadow problematic drug use in novelty-seeking adolescents

    Christian Büchel;Jan Peters;Tobias Banaschewski;Arun L W Bokde

  • RASGRF2 regulates alcohol-induced reinforcement by influencing mesolimbic dopamine neuron activity and dopamine release

    David Stacey;Ainhoa Bilbao;Matthieu Maroteaux;Tianye Jia

  • Cortical thickness of superior frontal cortex predicts impulsiveness and perceptual reasoning in adolescence

    Christina Schilling;S Kühn;T Paus;T Paus;T Paus;A Romanowski

  • Grey matter volume differences associated with extremely low levels of cannabis use in adolescence.

    Catherine Orr;Catherine Orr;Philip Spechler;Zhipeng Cao;Zhipeng Cao;Matthew Albaugh

  • Structural brain correlates of heart rate variability in a healthy young adult population.

    Tobias Winkelmann;Julian F. Thayer;Sebastian Pohlack;Frauke Nees

  • Cognitive and brain development is independently influenced by socioeconomic status and polygenic scores for educational attainment.

    Nicholas Judd;Bruno Sauce;John Wiedenhoeft;Jeshua Tromp

  • Pain catastrophizing and pain-related emotions: influence of age and type of pain.

    Ruth Ruscheweyh;Frauke Nees;Martin Marziniak;Stefan Evers

Frequent Co-Authors

Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Andreas Heinz
Andreas Heinz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Patricia J. Conrod
Patricia J. Conrod University of Montreal
Jean-Luc Martinot
Jean-Luc Martinot École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Luise Poustka
Luise Poustka University of Göttingen

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