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Klaas E. Stephan
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Neuroscience
Switzerland
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
109
Citations
52786
World Ranking
551
National Ranking
11

Klaas E. Stephan 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 Klaas E. Stephan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 340 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Klaas E. Stephan 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 Klaas E. Stephan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

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

  • The Balanced Accuracy and Its Posterior Distribution

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

  • Bayesian model selection for group studies.

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

  • The mismatch negativity: a review of underlying mechanisms.

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

  • 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

  • The anatomical basis of functional localization in the cortex

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

  • Comparing dynamic causal models

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

  • Synaptic plasticity and dysconnection in schizophrenia.

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

  • Ten simple rules for dynamic causal modeling.

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

  • The Computational Anatomy of Psychosis

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

  • Free-energy and the brain

    Karl J. Friston;Klaas E. Stephan

  • Comparing families of dynamic causal models.

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

  • Bayesian model selection for group studies - revisited.

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

  • A Bayesian Foundation for Individual Learning Under Uncertainty

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

  • The dysconnection hypothesis (2016)

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

  • Computational psychiatry: the brain as a phantastic organ

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

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

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

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

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

  • Dynamic causal modeling

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
Christoph Mathys
Christoph Mathys Aarhus University
Jean Daunizeau
Jean Daunizeau Grenoble Alpes University
Rosalyn J. Moran
Rosalyn J. Moran King's College London
Rolf Kötter
Rolf Kötter Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
William D. Penny
William D. Penny University of East Anglia
Marc Tittgemeyer
Marc Tittgemeyer Max Planck Society
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Gereon R. Fink
Gereon R. Fink University of Cologne
Quentin J. M. Huys
Quentin J. M. Huys University College London

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