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2026

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Psychology

D-Index
117
Citations
43784
World Ranking
298
National Ranking
17

Neuroscience

D-Index
117
Citations
43947
World Ranking
423
National Ranking
9

Murat Yücel 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 Murat Yücel sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 455 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Murat Yücel 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 Murat Yücel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 117 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Murat Yücel is affiliated with the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. The main areas of study include clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, and applied psychology.

The research topics covered by Yücel involve a range of subjects such as functional brain connectivity studies, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, the impact of technology on adolescents, neural and behavioral psychology studies, eating disorders and behaviors, mental health research topics, and cannabis and cannabinoid research.

Yücel has contributed to several recent papers, which address key areas within their fields of interest:

  • Expert appraisal of criteria for assessing gaming disorder: an international Delphi study, 2021, Addiction
  • Regional, circuit and network heterogeneity of brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders, 2023, Nature Neuroscience
  • Advances in problematic usage of the internet research - A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the internet, 2022, Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • Key influences on university students' physical activity: a systematic review using the Theoretical Domains Framework and the COM-B model of human behaviour, 2024, BMC Public Health
  • Sex differences in the neuroanatomy of alcohol dependence: hippocampus and amygdala subregions in a sample of 966 people from the ENIGMA Addiction Working Group, 2021, Translational Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yücel include:

  • Chao Suo
  • Lucy Albertella
  • Samuel R. Chamberlain
  • Leonardo F. Fontenelle
  • Rebecca Segrave

Yücel has published extensively in a number of scientific venues, with noteworthy recurring contributions to the following journals:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry (11 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (9 publications)
  • Neuroscience Applied (6 publications)
  • Comprehensive Psychiatry (4 publications)
  • Translational Psychiatry (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Pathways underlying neuroprogression in bipolar disorder : focus on inflammation, oxidative stress and neurotrophic factors

    Michael Berk;Flavio P Kapczinski;Ana Cristina Andreazza;Ana Cristina Andreazza;Olivia Dean;Olivia Dean

  • Whole-brain anatomical networks: does the choice of nodes matter?

    Andrew Zalesky;Alexander Fornito;Alexander Fornito;Ian H Harding;Luca Cocchi

  • Cognitive endophenotypes of bipolar disorder: a meta-analysis of neuropsychological deficits in euthymic patients and their first-degree relatives.

    Emre Bora;Murat Yucel;Christos Pantelis

  • Theory of mind impairment in schizophrenia: Meta-analysis

    Emre Bora;Murat Yucel;Christos Pantelis

  • Gray matter abnormalities in Major Depressive Disorder: A meta-analysis of voxel based morphometry studies

    Emre Bora;Alex Fornito;Christos Pantelis;Murat Yücel

  • An evaluation of the efficacy, reliability, and sensitivity of motion correction strategies for resting-state functional MRI.

    Linden Parkes;Ben D. Fulcher;Murat Yücel;Alex Fornito

  • Acute and Chronic Effects of Cannabinoids on Human Cognition—A Systematic Review

    Samantha J. Broyd;Hendrika H. van Hell;Camilla Beale;Murat Yücel

  • Structural Brain Imaging Evidence for Multiple Pathological Processes at Different Stages of Brain Development in Schizophrenia

    Christos Pantelis;Murat Yücel;Stephen J Wood;Dennis Velakoulis

  • Altered Corticostriatal Functional Connectivity in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

    B J Harrison;Carles Soriano-Mas;Jesus M Pujol;Hector Ortiz

  • Structural brain abnormalities in major depressive disorder: A selective review of recent MRI studies

    Valentina Lorenzetti;Nicholas Brian Allen;Alexander Fornito;Murat Yucel

  • Cognitive impairment in euthymic major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis

    Emre Bora;Ben J Harrison;Murat Yucel;Christos Pantelis

  • Regional brain abnormalities associated with long-term heavy cannabis use.

    Murat Yucel;Nadia Solowij;Colleen Respondek;Sarah Whittle

  • Neuroanatomical abnormalities in schizophrenia: a multimodal voxelwise meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis.

    Emre Bora;Alex Fornito;Joaquim Radua;Mark Walterfang

  • Addiction, a condition of compulsive behaviour? Neuroimaging and neuropsychological evidence of inhibitory dysregulation

    Dan I Lubman;Murat Yücel;Murat Yücel;Christos Pantelis

  • Structural and Functional Imaging Studies in Chronic Cannabis Users: A Systematic Review of Adolescent and Adult Findings

    Albert Batalla;Sagnik Bhattacharyya;Murat Yucel;Paolo Fusar-Poli

  • The emergence of depression in adolescence: development of the prefrontal cortex and the representation of reward.

    Christopher G Davey;Murat Yucel;Nicholas Brian Allen

  • Consistency and functional specialization in the default mode brain network

    Ben J. Harrison;Jesus Pujol;Marina López-Solà;Rosa Hernández-Ribas

  • Addiction, compulsive drug seeking, and the role of frontostriatal mechanisms in regulating inhibitory control

    Jodie Feil;Dianne Sheppard;Paul B. Fitzgerald;Paul B. Fitzgerald;Murat Yücel

  • The anticipation and outcome phases of reward and loss processing: a neuroimaging meta-analysis of the monetary incentive delay task

    Stuart Oldham;Carsten Murawski;Alex Fornito;George J. Youssef

  • Cognitive functioning in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and affective psychoses: meta-analytic study.

    Emre Bora;Murat Yucel;Christos Pantelis

  • Mapping grey matter reductions in schizophrenia : An anatomical likelihood estimation analysis of voxel-based morphometry studies

    Alexander Fornito;Murat Yucel;Jessica Patti;Stephen J Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Christos Pantelis
Christos Pantelis University of Melbourne
Valentina Lorenzetti
Valentina Lorenzetti Australian Catholic University
Alex Fornito
Alex Fornito Monash University
Dan I. Lubman
Dan I. Lubman Monash University
Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Leonardo F. Fontenelle Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Nicholas B. Allen
Nicholas B. Allen University of Oregon
Dennis Velakoulis
Dennis Velakoulis University of Melbourne
Stephen J. Wood
Stephen J. Wood University of Melbourne
Sarah Whittle
Sarah Whittle University of Melbourne
Nadia Solowij
Nadia Solowij University of Wollongong

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