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D-Index
120
Citations
54718
World Ranking
3742
National Ranking
205

Peter Falkai publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Falkai sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 1,194 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Peter Falkai D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Falkai sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 120 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Machine Learning Approaches for Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry.

    Dominic B Dwyer;Peter Falkai;Nikolaos Koutsouleris

  • Hippocampal Plasticity in Response to Exercise in Schizophrenia

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Cell loss in the hippocampus of schizophrenics.

    Peter Falkai;Bernhard Bogerts

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Nikolaos Koutsouleris;Christos Davatzikos;Stefan Borgwardt;Christian Gaser

  • 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

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

    P. Falkai;B. Bogerts;M. Rozumek

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

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

  • 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

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

    Thomas A Bayer;Peter Falkai;Wolfgang Maier

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

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Schmitt
Andrea Schmitt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alkomiet Hasan
Alkomiet Hasan University of Augsburg
Oliver Gruber
Oliver Gruber Heidelberg University
William G. Honer
William G. Honer University of British Columbia
Wolfgang Gaebel
Wolfgang Gaebel Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Wolfgang Maier
Wolfgang Maier University of Bonn
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Nikolaos Koutsouleris
Nikolaos Koutsouleris Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner TU Dresden

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