2026 Klaas E. Stephan: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	109	551	499	11	11	340	52786

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Neuroscience

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52786

Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Klaas E. Stephan is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Their research primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and pharmacology.

Their investigations delve into several specialized topics including:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function
Mental Health Research Topics
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Treatment of Major Depression
Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

Stephan has published numerous papers in prominent venues, with notable frequent publication outlets such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Biological Psychiatry
NeuroImage
eLife
European Journal of Neuroscience

Among their recent works are several papers spanning from 2020 to 2021, including:

"TAPAS: An Open-Source Software Package for Translational Neuromodeling and Computational Psychiatry" (2021) published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
"Interoception of breathing and its relationship with anxiety" (2021) published in Neuron
"Computational Mechanisms of Effort and Reward Decisions in Patients With Depression and Their Association With Relapse After Antidepressant Discontinuation" (2020) published in JAMA Psychiatry
"Regression dynamic causal modeling for resting-state fMRI" (2021) published in Human Brain Mapping
"Ketamine Affects Prediction Errors about Statistical Regularities: A Computational Single-Trial Analysis of the Mismatch Negativity" (2020) published in Journal of Neuroscience

Stephan collaborates frequently with various researchers in their field, including:

Jakob Heinzle
Stefan Frässle
Olivia K. Harrison
Lars Kasper
Sandra Iglesias

Best Publications

A new SPM toolbox for combining probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps and functional imaging data

Simon B. Eickhoff;Klaas E. Stephan;Hartmut Mohlberg;Christian Grefkes

4572
Citations
Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John P. O'Doherty;Klaas E. Stephan

2459
Citations
The Balanced Accuracy and Its Posterior Distribution

Kay Henning Brodersen;Cheng Soon Ong;Klaas Enno Stephan;Joachim M. Buhmann

1778
Citations
Bayesian model selection for group studies.

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

1661
Citations
The mismatch negativity: a review of underlying mechanisms.

Marta I. Garrido;James M. Kilner;Klaas E. Stephan;Karl J. Friston

1585
Citations
Dysconnection in Schizophrenia: From Abnormal Synaptic Plasticity to Failures of Self-monitoring

Klaas E. Stephan;Klaas E. Stephan;Karl J. Friston;Chris D. Frith;Chris D. Frith

1384
Citations
The anatomical basis of functional localization in the cortex

Richard E. Passingham;Richard E. Passingham;Klaas E. Stephan;Klaas E. Stephan;Rolf Kötter

1179
Citations
Comparing dynamic causal models

William D. Penny;Klaas E. Stephan;Andrea Mechelli;Karl J. Friston

1010
Citations
Synaptic plasticity and dysconnection in schizophrenia.

Klaas E. Stephan;Torsten Baldeweg;Karl J. Friston

992
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
The Computational Anatomy of Psychosis

Rick A. Adams;Klaas Enno Stephan;Klaas Enno Stephan;Harriet R. Brown;Christopher D. Frith

862
Citations
Free-energy and the brain

Karl J. Friston;Klaas E. Stephan

801
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
The dysconnection hypothesis (2016)

Karl Friston;Harriet R. Brown;Harriet R. Brown;Jakob Siemerkus;Klaas E. Stephan

645
Citations
Computational psychiatry: the brain as a phantastic organ

Karl J Friston;Klaas Enno Stephan;Klaas Enno Stephan;Read Montague;Read Montague;Raymond J Dolan

644
Citations
Bayesian model reduction and empirical Bayes for group (DCM) studies

Karl J. Friston;Vladimir Litvak;Ashwini Oswal;Adeel Razi

639
Citations
Context-Dependent Human Extinction Memory is Mediated by a Ventromedial Prefrontal and Hippocampal Network.

Raffael Kalisch;Elian Korenfeld;Klaas Enno Stephan;Nikolaus Weiskopf

597
Citations
Dynamic causal modeling

Andre C. Marreiros;Klaas Enno Stephan;Karl J. Friston

567
Citations