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Håkan Fischer

Håkan Fischer

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
52
Citations
11657
World Ranking
4966
National Ranking
42

Neuroscience

D-Index
52
Citations
11666
World Ranking
5269
National Ranking
106

Håkan Fischer 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 Håkan Fischer sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 209 publications — 71st percentile

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

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

Håkan Fischer 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 Håkan Fischer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Håkan Fischer is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and works primarily in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

Fischer has a body of published research that appears in frequent venues such as Biological Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, and Cortex. These journals reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work, bridging psychological and neuroscientific approaches.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Fischer include:

  • Effects of aging on emotion recognition from dynamic multimodal expressions and vocalizations, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Cortical thickness and resting-state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross-sectional pooled mega-analysis, 2020, Psychophysiology
  • Moment-to-Moment Brain Signal Variability Reliably Predicts Psychiatric Treatment Outcome, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Triangle Singularity as the Origin of the a₁(1420), 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Training Emotion Recognition Accuracy: Results for Multimodal Expressions and Facial Micro Expressions, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology

Throughout their career, Fischer has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors. Among the most common collaborators are:

  • Kristoffer Månsson
  • Amirhossein Manzouri
  • Petri Laukka
  • Tie-Qiang Li
  • Diana S. Cortes

Best Publications

  • A functional MRI study of human amygdala responses to facial expressions of fear versus anger.

    Paul J. Whalen;Lisa M. Shin;Sean C. McInerney;Håkan Fischer

  • Gender and age differences in the prevalence of specific fears and phobias

    Mats Fredrikson;Peter Annas;HÅkan Fischer;Gustav Wik

  • Common Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients With Social Phobia Treated With Citalopram or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

    Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors;Ina Marteinsdottir;Håkan Fischer

  • Differential response in the human amygdala to racial outgroup vs ingroup face stimuli.

    Allen J. Hart;Paul J. Whalen;Lisa M. Shin;Sean C. McInerney

  • Differential prefrontal cortex and amygdala habituation to repeatedly presented emotional stimuli.

    Christopher I. Wright;Hakan Fischer;Paul J. Whalen;Sean C. Mcinerney

  • Cerebral blood flow in subjects with social phobia during stressful speaking tasks: a PET study.

    Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Ina Marteinsdottir;Håkan Fischer

  • Brain habituation during repeated exposure to fearful and neutral faces: a functional MRI study.

    Håkan Fischer;Christopher I Wright;Christopher I Wright;Paul J Whalen;Paul J Whalen;Sean C McInerney

  • Neurofunctional correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder: a PET symptom provocation study

    Anna Pissiota;Örjan Frans;Manuel Fernandez;Lars von Knorring

  • Neural correlates of training-related working-memory gains in old age

    Yvonne Brehmer;Anna Rieckmann;Martin Bellander;Helena Westerberg

  • Functional neuroanatomical correlates of electrodermal activity: A positron emission tomographic study

    Mats Fredrikson;Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors Olsson;Håkan Fischer

  • The amygdala and individual differences in human fear conditioning

    Tomas Furmark;Håkan Fischer;Gustav Wik;Mattias Larsson

  • Novelty responses and differential effects of order in the amygdala, substantia innominata, and inferior temporal cortex.

    Christopher I Wright;Christopher I Wright;Brian Martis;Brian Martis;Carl E Schwartz;Lisa M Shin;Lisa M Shin

  • Age-differential patterns of brain activation during perception of angry faces

    Håkan Fischer;Johan Sandblom;Joachim Gavazzeni;Peter Fransson

  • Physiological correlates of the flow experience during computer game playing

    László Harmat;Örjan de Manzano;Töres Theorell;Lennart Högman

  • Activation in striatum and medial temporal lobe during sequence learning in younger and older adults: relations to performance.

    Anna Rieckmann;Håkan Fischer;Lars Bäckman

  • Dopamine D1 receptors and age differences in brain activation during working memory

    Lars Bäckman;Sari Karlsson;Håkan Fischer;Per Karlsson

  • Affective and attentive neural networks in humans: a PET study of Pavlovian conditioning.

    Mats Fredrikson;Gustav Wik;Håkan Fischer;Jesper Andersson

  • Functional anatomy of hypnotic analgesia: a PET study of patients with fibromyalgia.

    Gustav Wik;Håkan Fischer;Björn Bragée;Basil Finer

  • Brain function in a patient with torture related post-traumatic stress disorder before and after fluoxetine treatment: a positron emission tomography provocation study

    Manuel Fernandez;Anna Pissiota;Örjan Frans;Lars von Knorring

  • Reduced activity in the extrastriate visual cortex of individuals with strabismic amblyopia.

    Kazuyuki Imamura;Hans Richter;Hans Richter;Håkan Fischer;Gunnar Lennerstrand

Frequent Co-Authors

Mats Lekander
Mats Lekander Karolinska Institute
Torbjörn Åkerstedt
Torbjörn Åkerstedt Karolinska Institute
Tomas Furmark
Tomas Furmark Uppsala University
Mats Fredrikson
Mats Fredrikson Uppsala University
Göran Kecklund
Göran Kecklund Stockholm University
Petri Laukka
Petri Laukka Uppsala University
Lars Bäckman
Lars Bäckman Karolinska Institute
John Axelsson
John Axelsson Stockholm University
Christopher I. Wright
Christopher I. Wright Harvard University
Jesper L. R. Andersson
Jesper L. R. Andersson University of Oxford

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