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Philipp Kanske

Philipp Kanske

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
49
Citations
9684
World Ranking
5674
National Ranking
272

Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
9578
World Ranking
6168
National Ranking
516

Philipp Kanske 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 Philipp Kanske sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 218 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Philipp Kanske 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 Philipp Kanske sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Philipp Kanske is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and has an extensive research background primarily in psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research spans multiple interconnected topics including anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, mental health research topics, functional brain connectivity studies, and personality traits and psychology.

Notable recent publications by Philipp Kanske include:

  • Toward a hierarchical model of social cognition: A neuroimaging meta-analysis and integrative review of empathy and theory of mind (2020, Psychological Bulletin)
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) item analysis of empathy and theory of mind (2020, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Cross-network interactions in social cognition: A review of findings on task related brain activation and connectivity (2020, Cortex)
  • Defining key concepts for mental state attribution (2024, Communications Psychology)
  • The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: An individual data meta-analysis (2021, Journal of Personality)

Philipp Kanske frequently publishes in venues such as Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Communications Psychology.

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Katharina Förster
  • Veronika Engert
  • Emanuel Jauk
  • Tania Singer
  • Sebastian Trautmann

Best Publications

  • How to Regulate Emotion? Neural Networks for Reappraisal and Distraction

    Philipp Kanske;Janine Heissler;Sandra Schönfelder;André Bongers

  • Concreteness in emotional words: ERP evidence from a hemifield study.

    Philipp Kanske;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Toward a hierarchical model of social cognition: A neuroimaging meta-analysis and integrative review of empathy and theory of mind.

    Matthias Schurz;Joaquim Radua;Matthias G. Tholen;Lara Maliske

  • Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain–behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind

    Philipp Kanske;Anne Böckler;Fynn-Mathis Trautwein;Tania Singer

  • The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network

    Hannah Moshontz;Lorne Campbell;Charles R. Ebersole;Hans Ijzerman

  • On the interaction of social affect and cognition: empathy, compassion and theory of mind

    Katrin Preckel;Philipp Kanske;Tania Singer

  • Decoding the Charitable Brain: Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Attention Shifts Differentially Predict Altruistic Giving

    Anita Tusche;Anita Tusche;Anne Böckler;Philipp Kanske;Fynn Mathis Trautwein

  • Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training

    Sofie L. Valk;Boris C. Bernhardt;Boris C. Bernhardt;Fynn-Mathis Trautwein;Anne Böckler

  • Improving Methodological Standards in Behavioral Interventions for Cognitive Enhancement

    C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier;Arthur F. Kramer;Arthur F. Kramer;Sophia Vinogradov

  • Emotion triggers executive attention: Anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala responses to emotional words in a conflict task

    Philipp Kanske;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Are strong empathizers better mentalizers? Evidence for independence and interaction between the routes of social cognition

    Philipp Kanske;Anne Böckler;Fynn-Mathis Trautwein;Franca H. Parianen Lesemann

  • Neural correlates of emotion regulation deficits in remitted depression: The influence of regulation strategy, habitual regulation use, and emotional valence

    Philipp Kanske;Janine Heissler;Sandra Schönfelder;Michèle Wessa

  • Attentional Orienting towards Emotion: P2 and N400 ERP Effects.

    Philipp Kanske;Jan Plitschka;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Modulation of early conflict processing: N200 responses to emotional words in a flanker task.

    Philipp Kanske;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Time course of emotion-related responding during distraction and reappraisal

    Sandra Schönfelder;Sandra Schönfelder;Philipp Kanske;Philipp Kanske;Janine Heissler;Michèle Wessa;Michèle Wessa

  • Social cognition in aggressive offenders: Impaired empathy, but intact theory of mind

    Korina Winter;Stephanie Spengler;Felix Bermpohl;Tania Singer

  • Emotion Speeds up Conflict Resolution: A New Role for the Ventral Anterior Cingulate Cortex?

    Philipp Kanske;Sonja A. Kotz

  • Differential Benefits of Mental Training Types for Attention, Compassion, and Theory of Mind

    Fynn-Mathis Trautwein;Philipp Kanske;Anne Böckler;Tania Singer

  • Dissociating Empathy From Perspective-Taking: Evidence From Intra- and Inter-Individual Differences Research.

    Julia Stietz;Emanuel Jauk;Sören Krach;Philipp Kanske;Philipp Kanske

  • Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: a large-scale fMRI study

    Pascal Molenberghs;Fynn-Mathis Trautwein;Anne Böckler;Tania Singer

  • Where the depressed mind wanders: Self-generated thought patterns as assessed through experience sampling as a state marker of depression

    Ferdinand Hoffmann;Christian Banzhaf;Philipp Kanske;Felix Bermpohl

Frequent Co-Authors

Tania Singer
Tania Singer Max Planck Society
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University
Michèle Wessa
Michèle Wessa Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Boris C. Bernhardt
Boris C. Bernhardt Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Emanuel Jauk
Emanuel Jauk TU Dresden
Erich Schröger
Erich Schröger Leipzig University
Sören Krach
Sören Krach University of Lübeck
Matthias Schurz
Matthias Schurz University of Innsbruck
Felix Bermpohl
Felix Bermpohl Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Peter Kirsch
Peter Kirsch Heidelberg University

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