2026 Jean Daunizeau: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	56	2755	2635	45	43	112	18545

Overview

Jean Daunizeau is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Neuroscience and Medicine, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Modeling and Simulation as key subfields. Their scientific work integrates elements of Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Daunizeau's publications have covered a diverse range of topics. These include studies related to COVID-19 epidemiology, neural and behavioral psychology, influenza virus research, neural dynamics and brain function, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, functional brain connectivity, and decision-making and behavioral economics.

The scientist has published in a variety of venues, with frequent contributions to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Wellcome Open Research
arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
eLife

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

"Dynamic causal modelling of COVID-19" (2020), published in DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
"Trading mental effort for confidence in the metacognitive control of value-based decision-making" (2021), published in eLife
"Second waves, social distancing, and the spread of COVID-19 across America" (2020), published in Wellcome Open Research
"Choosing what we like vs liking what we choose: How choice-induced preference change might actually be instrumental to decision-making" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
"Effort avoidance as a core mechanism of apathy in frontotemporal dementia" (2022), published in Brain

Daunizeau has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Karl Friston
Rosalyn Moran
Adeel Razi
Alexander J. Billig
Thomas Parr

Overall, Jean Daunizeau's scientific contributions are integrated across neuroscience and medical disciplines, with a strong emphasis on cognitive and computational approaches, as well as epidemiological studies related to infectious diseases.

Best Publications

Bayesian model selection for group studies.

Klaas Enno Stephan;Will D. Penny;Jean Daunizeau;Rosalyn J. Moran

1661
Citations
Action and behavior: a free-energy formulation

Karl J. Friston;Jean Daunizeau;James Kilner;Stefan J. Kiebel

997
Citations
Ten simple rules for dynamic causal modeling.

K.E. Stephan;K.E. Stephan;W.D. Penny;R.J. Moran;H.E.M. den Ouden

940
Citations
A hierarchy of time-scales and the brain.

Stefan J. Kiebel;Jean Daunizeau;Karl J. Friston

831
Citations
Comparing families of dynamic causal models.

Will D. Penny;Klaas E. Stephan;Klaas E. Stephan;Jean Daunizeau;Maria J. Rosa

786
Citations
Bayesian model selection for group studies - revisited.

Lionel Rigoux;Klaas Enno Stephan;Klaas Enno Stephan;Karl J. Friston;Jean Daunizeau

761
Citations
A Bayesian Foundation for Individual Learning Under Uncertainty

Christoph Mathys;Jean Daunizeau;Jean Daunizeau;Karl J Friston;Klaas Enno Stephan;Klaas Enno Stephan

756
Citations
Multiple sparse priors for the M/EEG inverse problem

Karl J. Friston;Lee M. Harrison;Jean Daunizeau;Stefan J. Kiebel

711
Citations
EEG and MEG data analysis in SPM8.

Vladimir Litvak;Jérémie Mattout;Stefan J. Kiebel;Christophe Phillips

655
Citations
Reinforcement Learning or Active Inference

Karl J. Friston;Jean Daunizeau;Stefan J. Kiebel

543
Citations
Nonlinear Dynamic Causal Models for fMRI

Klaas Enno Stephan;Lars Kasper;Lee M. Harrison;Jean Daunizeau

522
Citations
Uncertainty in perception and the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter

Christoph D. Mathys;Ekaterina I. Lomakina;Ekaterina I. Lomakina;Jean Daunizeau;Sandra Iglesias

517
Citations
Effective connectivity: Influence, causality and biophysical modeling

Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa;Alard Roebroeck;Jean Daunizeau;Jean Daunizeau;Karl J. Friston

430
Citations
VBA: A Probabilistic Treatment of Nonlinear Models for Neurobiological and Behavioural Data

Jean Daunizeau;Vincent Adam;Lionel Rigoux

429
Citations
Dynamic causal modelling: a critical review of the biophysical and statistical foundations.

Jean Daunizeau;Olivier David;Klaas E. Stephan;Klaas E. Stephan

364
Citations
Neural mechanisms underlying motivation of mental versus physical effort.

Liane Schmidt;Maël Lebreton;Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin;Jean Daunizeau

353
Citations
Network discovery with DCM

Karl J. Friston;Baojuan Li;Baojuan Li;Jean Daunizeau;Jean Daunizeau;Klaas E. Stephan;Klaas E. Stephan

340
Citations
DEM: a variational treatment of dynamic systems.

Karl J. Friston;Nelson J. Trujillo-Barreto;Jean Daunizeau

314
Citations
Automatic integration of confidence in the brain valuation signal

Maël Lebreton;Maël Lebreton;Raphaëlle Abitbol;Raphaëlle Abitbol;Raphaëlle Abitbol;Jean Daunizeau;Jean Daunizeau;Mathias Pessiglione;Mathias Pessiglione

309
Citations
Variational Bayesian identification and prediction of stochastic nonlinear dynamic causal models

Jean Daunizeau;Karl J. Friston;Stefan J. Kiebel

282
Citations
Evaluation of EEG localization methods using realistic simulations of interictal spikes.

Christophe Grova;Jean Daunizeau;Jean Daunizeau;Jean-Marc Lina;Jean-Marc Lina;Christian G. Bénar

280
Citations