2026 Peter Falkai: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	120	3742	3504	205	198	1194	54718

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Neurosciences

Overview

Peter Falkai is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on medicine and psychology, with significant contributions to psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Their work includes studies in social psychology and general health professions.

The main topics explored in their publications include:

Schizophrenia research and treatment
Bipolar disorder and treatment
Functional brain connectivity studies
Mental health treatment and access
Tryptophan and brain disorders
Mental health and psychiatry
Mental health research topics

Falkai has contributed substantially to literature published in various venues, most frequently in:

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
European Psychiatry
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Schizophrenia Bulletin
Neuroscience Applied

Their frequent coauthors reflect collaborations across a network of psychiatric and neuroscience researchers, including:

Alkomiet Hasan
Andrea Schmitt
Sergi Papiol
Kristina Adorjan
Elias Wagner

Among the recent papers associated with Peter Falkai are:

"The identification, assessment and management of difficult-to-treat depression: An international consensus statement," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
"Multimodal Machine Learning Workflows for Prediction of Psychosis in Patients With Clinical High-Risk Syndromes and Recent-Onset Depression," 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
"EPA guidance on assessment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia," 2021, European Psychiatry
"EPA guidance on treatment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia," 2021, European Psychiatry
"Subjective burden and perspectives of German healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

In recognition of scientific contributions, Peter Falkai was awarded membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007, specifically cited for work in neurosciences.

Best Publications

Mind reading: neural mechanisms of theory of mind and self-perspective.

Kai Vogeley;Patrick Bussfeld;Albert Newen;S. Herrmann

1497
Citations
Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

1346
Citations
Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: Treatment Response and Resistance in Psychosis (TRRIP) Working Group Consensus Guidelines on Diagnosis and Terminology.

Oliver D. Howes;Rob McCutcheon;Ofer Agid;Andrea De Bartolomeis

1097
Citations
Machine Learning Approaches for Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry.

Dominic B Dwyer;Peter Falkai;Nikolaos Koutsouleris

905
Citations
Hippocampal Plasticity in Response to Exercise in Schizophrenia

Frank-Gerald Pajonk;Thomas Wobrock;Oliver Gruber;Harald Scherk

859
Citations
World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Schizophrenia, Part 1: Update 2012 on the acute treatment of schizophrenia and the management of treatment resistance

Alkomiet Hasan;Peter Falkai;Thomas Wobrock;Jeffrey Lieberman

752
Citations
Neural Correlates of First-Person Perspective as One Constituent of Human Self-Consciousness

K. Vogeley;M. May;A. Ritzl;P. Falkai

717
Citations
EPA guidance on physical activity as a treatment for severe mental illness: a meta-review of the evidence and Position Statement from the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), supported by the International Organization of Physical Therapists in Mental Health (IOPTMH).

Brendon Stubbs;Brendon Stubbs;Davy Vancampfort;Mats Hallgren;Joseph Firth

690
Citations
Revealing the complex genetic architecture of obsessive-compulsive disorder using meta-analysis

Paul D. Arnold;Kathleen D. Askland;Cristina Barlassina;Laura Bellodi

622
Citations
Cell loss in the hippocampus of schizophrenics.

Peter Falkai;Bernhard Bogerts

611
Citations
Assessment of Response to Lithium Maintenance Treatment in Bipolar Disorder: A Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen) Report

Mirko Manchia;Mazda Adli;Nirmala Akula;Raffaella Ardau

570
Citations
Abnormalities of myelination in schizophrenia detected in vivo with MRI, and post-mortem with analysis of oligodendrocyte proteins

S W Flynn;D J Lang;A L Mackay;V Goghari

513
Citations
World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Schizophrenia, Part 2: Update 2012 on the long-term treatment of schizophrenia and management of antipsychotic-induced side effects

Alkomiet Hasan;Peter Falkai;Thomas Wobrock;Jeffrey Lieberman

498
Citations
Accelerated Brain Aging in Schizophrenia and Beyond: A Neuroanatomical Marker of Psychiatric Disorders

Nikolaos Koutsouleris;Christos Davatzikos;Stefan Borgwardt;Christian Gaser

493
Citations
Fear is only as deep as the mind allows: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on the regulation of negative affect.

Esther Kristina Diekhof;Katharina Geier;Peter Falkai;Oliver Gruber

484
Citations
Limbic pathology in schizophrenia: the entorhinal region--a morphometric study.

P. Falkai;B. Bogerts;M. Rozumek

459
Citations
Vagus nerve stimulation is associated with mood improvements in epilepsy patients.

Gerda Elger;Christian Hoppe;Peter Falkai;A.John Rush

434
Citations
World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines for biological treatment of schizophrenia, part 2: Long-term treatment of schizophrenia

Peter Falkai;Thomas Wobrock;Jeffrey Lieberman;Birte Glenthoj

428
Citations
Genetic and non-genetic vulnerability factors in schizophrenia: the basis of the “Two hit hypothesis”

Thomas A Bayer;Peter Falkai;Wolfgang Maier

415
Citations
Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

65
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Schmitt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Alkomiet Hasan University of Augsburg

Oliver Gruber Heidelberg University

William G. Honer University of British Columbia

Wolfgang Gaebel Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Wolfgang Maier University of Bonn

Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

Nikolaos Koutsouleris Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Michael Wagner TU Dresden

External Links

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