2026 Peter Hagoort: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	118	280	242	8	8	743	45504
Neuroscience	118	412	370	7	7	781	45562

Peter Hagoort 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 Peter Hagoort sits on this spectrum.

31 publications 705+

This scientist: 743 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Hagoort 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 Peter Hagoort sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 118 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 Netherlands Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Netherlands Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award
2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
2005 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council
2004 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003 - Dr Hendrik Muller Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Peter Hagoort is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. Their research activities span multiple fields focused on language processing, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology, with a particular emphasis on the neurobiology of language and bilingualism.

The main fields of study for Peter Hagoort are:

Neuroscience
Psychology

The subfields include:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Social Psychology
Artificial Intelligence

Key topics of their work comprise:

Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Reading and Literacy Development
Neural dynamics and brain function
Action Observation and Synchronization
Neuroscience and Music Perception
Multisensory perception and integration
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Notable recent publications include:

"A hierarchy of linguistic predictions during natural language comprehension" (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"A hierarchy of linguistic predictions during natural language comprehension" (2020), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"Commonalities and Asymmetries in the Neurobiological Infrastructure for Language Production and Comprehension" (2021), Cerebral Cortex
"Word contexts enhance the neural representation of individual letters in early visual cortex" (2020), Nature Communications
"Real-time emotion generation in human-robot dialogue using large language models" (2023), Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Peter Hagoort frequently publishes in the following venues:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Neurobiology of Language
Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
Cognition

Their frequent co-authors include:

Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen
Anne Kösem
Floris P. de Lange
Laura Giglio
Hartmut Fitz

Peter Hagoort has received several honors over their career:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
Member of Academia Europaea (2012)
Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council (2005)
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)
Dr Hendrik Muller Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)

Best Publications

On Broca, brain, and binding: A new framework

Peter Hagoort

1709
Citations
Integration of Word Meaning and World Knowledge in Language Comprehension

Peter Hagoort;Lea A. Hald;Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen;Karl Magnus Petersson

1507
Citations
The syntactic positive shift (sps) as an erp measure of syntactic processing

Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown;Jolanda Groothusen

1415
Citations
Anticipating upcoming words in discourse: Evidence from ERPs and reading times

Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Colin M. Brown;Pienie Zwitserlood;Valesca Kooijman

1102
Citations
The processing nature of the n400: Evidence from masked priming

Colin Brown;Peter Hagoort

1047
Citations
Semantic Integration in Sentences and Discourse: Evidence from the N400

Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown

803
Citations
Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

723
Citations
The neural integration of speaker and message

Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Danielle van den Brink;Cathelijne M. J. Y. Tesink;Miriam Kos

583
Citations
Interplay between Syntax and Semantics during Sentence Comprehension: ERP Effects of Combining Syntactic and Semantic Violations

Peter Hagoort

579
Citations
The N400 as a function of the level of processing.

Dorothee J. Chwilla;Colin M. Brown;Peter Hagoort

574
Citations
Neuronal Dynamics Underlying High- and Low-Frequency EEG Oscillations Contribute Independently to the Human BOLD Signal

René Scheeringa;René Scheeringa;Pascal Fries;Pascal Fries;Karl Magnus Petersson;Karl Magnus Petersson;Robert Oostenveld

533
Citations
MUC (Memory, Unification, Control) and beyond

Peter Hagoort;Peter Hagoort

507
Citations
Frontal theta EEG activity correlates negatively with the default mode network in resting state.

René Scheeringa;Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen;Karl Magnus Petersson;Robert Oostenveld

482
Citations
The Neurobiology of Language beyond Single Words

Peter Hagoort;Peter Indefrey

474
Citations
When Language Meets Action: The Neural Integration of Gesture and Speech

Roel M. Willems;Aslı Özyürek;Peter Hagoort

472
Citations
Neural evidence for the interplay between language, gesture, and action: A review

Roel M. Willems;Peter Hagoort

466
Citations
The neurocognition of language

Colin M. Brown;Peter Hagoort

464
Citations
How the brain solves the binding problem for language: A neurocomputational model of syntactic processing

Peter Hagoort

462
Citations
Trial-by-trial coupling between EEG and BOLD identifies networks related to alpha and theta EEG power increases during working memory maintenance.

René Scheeringa;Karl Magnus Petersson;Karl Magnus Petersson;Robert Oostenveld;David G. Norris

447
Citations
The Neural Circuitry Involved in the Reading of German Words and Pseudowords: A PET Study

Peter Hagoort;Peter Indefrey;Colin Brown;Hans Herzog

431
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Magnus Petersson University of Algarve

Roel M. Willems Radboud University

Colin M. Brown Max Planck Society

Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen Radboud University

Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen Tilburg University

Ivan Toni Radboud University

Asli Ozyurek Max Planck Society

Jos J. A. Van Berkum Utrecht University

Robert Oostenveld Radboud University

James M. McQueen Radboud University

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