2026 Norman E. Rosenthal: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	80	17139	16110	8587	7937	223	22780

Overview

Norman E. Rosenthal is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular emphasis on psychiatry and mental health as well as biological psychiatry. The main topics covered in their work include bipolar disorder and treatment, electroconvulsive therapy studies, and tryptophan and brain disorders.

Recent publications by Rosenthal demonstrate contributions across several medical subfields and include:

"Zonisamide for Bipolar Depression: A Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Adjunctive Trial" (2025) published in Psychopharmacology Bulletin
"INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN-7 PREDICTS CARDIOVASCULAR AND RENAL OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES AND CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE: THE CREDENCE TRIAL" (2022) published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
"EPH215 Yearly Trend of Obesity Prevalence Among Hospitalized Patients in the United States: 2017−2021" (2023) published in Value in Health

Their frequent co-authors include Deborah Dauphinais, Michael B. Knable, Joshua Rosenthal, Mark Polanski, and James L. Januzzi. These collaborations span multiple studies and publications, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement within the clinical and medical research community.

Rosenthal's work has been published in various scientific venues, with notable contributions to Psychopharmacology Bulletin, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Value in Health. This distribution of publication venues correlates with their multifaceted research interests residing at the intersection of mental health, metabolic disorders, and clinical outcomes.

Best Publications

Seasonal Affective Disorder: A Description of the Syndrome and Preliminary Findings With Light Therapy

Norman E. Rosenthal;David A. Sack;J. Christian Gillin;Alfred J. Lewy

3162
Citations
Epidemiological findings of seasonal changes in mood and behavior. A telephone survey of Montgomery County, Maryland.

Siegfried Kasper;Thomas A. Wehr;John J. Bartko;Paul A. Gaist

873
Citations
Prevalence of seasonal affective disorder at four latitudes.

Leora N. Rosen;Steven D. Targum;Michael Terman;Michael J. Bryant

699
Citations
Topiramate for Treating Alcohol Dependence: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Bankole A. Johnson;Norman Rosenthal;Julie A. Capece;Frank Wiegand

630
Citations
Rapid cycling affective disorder: contributing factors and treatment responses in 51 patients

T. A. Wehr;D. A. Sack;N. E. Rosenthal;R. W. Cowdry

559
Citations
Bright artificial light treatment of a manic-depressive patient with a seasonal mood cycle.

Alfred J. Lewy;Herbert A. Kern;Norman E. Rosenthal;Thomas A. Wehr

532
Citations
Sleep reduction as a final common pathway in the genesis of mania.

Thomas A. Wehr;David A. Sack;Norman E. Rosenthal

527
Citations
Antidepressant effects of light in seasonal affective disorder.

Norman E Rosenthal;David A. Sack;Constance J. Carpenter;Barbara L. Parry

456
Citations
Seasonal Affective Disorders

Norman E Rosenthal;Thomas A Wehr

446
Citations
Phase-shifting effects of bright morning light as treatment for delayed sleep phase syndrome.

Norman E. Rosenthal;Jean R. Joseph-Vanderpool;Alytia A. Levendosky;Scott H. Johnston

427
Citations
A circadian signal of change of season in patients with seasonal affective disorder.

Thomas A. Wehr;Wallace C. Duncan;Leo Sher;Daniel Aeschbach

399
Citations
Seasonality and affective illness.

Thomas A. Wehr;Norman E. Rosenthal

380
Citations
Phototherapy in individuals with and without subsyndromal seasonal affective disorder.

S. Kasper;S. L. B. Rogers;A. Yancey;P. M. Schulz

320
Citations
Phototherapy of seasonal affective disorder. Time of day and suppression of melatonin are not critical for antidepressant effects.

Thomas A. Wehr;Frederick M. Jacobsen;David A. Sack;Josephine Arendt

286
Citations
MANIC-DEPRESSIVE PATIENTS MAY BE SUPERSENSITIVE TO LIGHT

Alfred J. Lewy;Thomas A. Wehr;Frederick K. Goodwin;David A. Newsome

280
Citations
Bupropion XL in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized, placebo-controlled study

Timothy E. Wilens;Barbara R. Haight;Joseph P. Horrigan;James J. Hudziak

277
Citations
Melatonin administration in insomnia.

S P James;D A Sack;N E Rosenthal;W B Mendelson

248
Citations
Relationship between sleep and mood in patients with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder

Ellen Leibenluft;Paul S. Albert;Norman E. Rosenthal;Thomas A. Wehr

245
Citations
Role of serotonin transporter promoter repeat length polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) in seasonality and seasonal affective disorder.

N E Rosenthal;C M Mazzanti;R L Barnett;T A Hardin

243
Citations
Effects of Tryptophan Depletion vs Catecholamine Depletion in Patients With Seasonal Affective Disorder in Remission With Light Therapy

Alexander Neumeister;Erick H. Turner;Jefferey R. Matthews;Teodor T. Postolache

219
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Wehr National Institutes of Health

Siegfried Kasper Medical University of Vienna

Dennis L. Murphy National Institutes of Health

Norio Ozaki Nagoya University

Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health

David Goldman National Institutes of Health

Leo Sher Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Martin H. Teicher Harvard University

Alytia A. Levendosky Michigan State University

George C. Brainard Thomas Jefferson University

External Links

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