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Peter Schönknecht

Peter Schönknecht

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Neuroscience

D-Index
50
Citations
7948
World Ranking
5797
National Ranking
486

Peter Schönknecht publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 234 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Peter Schönknecht D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Peter Schönknecht is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and focuses primarily on medical research. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields within medicine, including cognitive neuroscience, neurology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and applied psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to brain function, autonomic control, and mental health. These main topics include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Recent publications by Peter Schönknecht reflect these diverse interests and appear in a variety of academic journals. Some of the notable papers include:

  • "Cohort Profile: The LIFE-Adult-Study," 2022, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Autonomic balance determines the severity of COVID-19 courses," 2020, Bioelectronic Medicine
  • "Amygdalar nuclei and hippocampal subfields on MRI: Test-retest reliability of automated volumetry across different MRI sites and vendors," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Accuracy and reproducibility of automated white matter hyperintensities segmentation with lesion segmentation tool: A European multi-site 3T study," 2020, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • "E-mental health in Germany - what is the current use and what are experiences of different types of health care providers for patients with mental illnesses?", 2023, Archives of Public Health

Peter Schönknecht frequently publishes in several journals, including:

  • Sexuologie Zeitschrift für Sexualmedizin Sexualtherapie und Sexualwissenschaft
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Bioelectronic Medicine
  • Archives of Public Health
  • NeuroImage

Collaborative work forms an important aspect of their research. Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Tilman Hensch
  • Marco Leitzke
  • Giovanni B. Frisoni
  • Laura F. Kuhle
  • Steffi G. Riedel-Heller

Peter Schönknecht's contributions focus on exploring mechanisms underlying brain connectivity and autonomic nervous system function, with applied implications for mental health and neurological conditions. The scientist continues to engage with emerging topics such as digital mental health interventions and clinical research related to COVID-19.

Best Publications

  • Discrimination between Alzheimer dementia and controls by automated analysis of multicenter FDG PET

    Karl Herholz;Eric Salmon;Daniela Perani;Jean-Claude Baron

  • Lithium trial in Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter 10-week study.

    Harald Hampel;Michael Ewers;Katharina Bürger;Peter Annas

  • Cognitive activity, education and socioeconomic status as preventive factors for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    Christine Sattler;Pablo Toro;Peter Schönknecht;Johannes Schröder

  • The LIFE-Adult-Study: objectives and design of a population-based cohort study with 10,000 deeply phenotyped adults in Germany

    Markus Loeffler;Christoph Engel;Peter Ahnert;Dorothee Alfermann

  • Prevalence and Natural Course of Aging-Associated Cognitive Decline in a Population-Based Sample of Young-Old Subjects

    Peter Schönknecht;Johannes Pantel;Andreas Kruse;Johannes Schröder

  • Impairment in basal limbic function in schizophrenia during affect recognition.

    Albrecht Hempel;Eckhard Hempel;Peter Schönknecht;Christoph Stippich

  • Cerebrospinal fluid 24S-hydroxycholesterol is increased in patients with Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy controls

    Peter Schönknecht;Dieter Lütjohann;Johannes Pantel;Habertus Bardenheuer

  • Brain morphometry reproducibility in multi-center 3T MRI studies: a comparison of cross-sectional and longitudinal segmentations

    J Jovicich;M Marizzoni;R Sala-Llonch;B Bosch

  • Multicenter assessment of CSF-phosphorylated tau for the prediction of conversion of MCI.

    M. Ewers;K. Buerger;S. J. Teipel;P. Scheltens

  • Reduced cerebral glucose metabolism in patients at risk for Alzheimer's disease.

    Aoife Hunt;Peter Schönknecht;Marcus Henze;Ulrich Seidl

  • Reduced olfactory bulb and tract volume in early Alzheimer's disease—A MRI study

    Philipp A. Thomann;Vasco Dos Santos;Pablo Toro;Peter Schönknecht

  • Prevalence of minor depression in elderly persons with and without mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review

    Maryna Polyakova;Maryna Polyakova;N. Sonnabend;C. Sander;R. Mergl

  • International quality control survey of neurochemical dementia diagnostics

    Piotr Lewczuk;Georg Beck;Oliver Ganslandt;Hermann Esselmann

  • Functional connectivity in major depression: Increased phase synchronization between frontal cortical EEG-source estimates

    S Olbrich;A Tränkner;T Chittka;U Hegerl

  • Cholinergic receptor subtypes and their role in cognition, emotion, and vigilance control: an overview of preclinical and clinical findings.

    Susanne Graef;Susanne Graef;Peter Schönknecht;Osama Sabri;Ulrich Hegerl

  • Multiplexed quantification of dementia biomarkers in the CSF of patients with early dementias and MCI: a multicenter study.

    Piotr Lewczuk;Johannes Kornhuber;Hugo Vanderstichele;Eugeen Vanmechelen

  • Skin and brain age together: The role of hormones in the ageing process.

    Evgenia Makrantonaki;Peter Schönknecht;Amir M. Hossini;Elmar Kaiser

  • Topography of callosal atrophy reflects distribution of regional cerebral volume reduction in Alzheimer's disease.

    Johannes Pantel;Johannes Schröder;Marek Jauss;Marco Essig

  • Longitudinal reproducibility of default-mode network connectivity in healthy elderly participants: A multicentric resting-state fMRI study

    Jorge Jovicich;Ludovico Minati;Moira Marizzoni;Rocco Marchitelli

  • Reduced cerebrospinal fluid estradiol levels are associated with increased β-amyloid levels in female patients with Alzheimer's disease

    Peter Schönknecht;Johannes Pantel;Klaus Klinga;Malene Jensen

  • Dissociation between CSF total tau and tau protein phosphorylated at threonine 231 in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

    Katharina Buerger;Markus Otto;Stefan J. Teipel;Raymond Zinkowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Hegerl
Ulrich Hegerl Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe
Jens Wiltfang
Jens Wiltfang University of Göttingen
Flavio Nobili
Flavio Nobili University of Genoa
Giovanni B. Frisoni
Giovanni B. Frisoni University of Geneva
Jorge Jovicich
Jorge Jovicich University of Trento
Paolo Maria Rossini
Paolo Maria Rossini Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Lucilla Parnetti
Lucilla Parnetti University of Perugia
Magda Tsolaki
Magda Tsolaki Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Andrea Soricelli
Andrea Soricelli Parthenope University of Naples
Pieter Jelle Visser
Pieter Jelle Visser Amsterdam University Medical Centers

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