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Rainer K.W. Schwarting

Rainer K.W. Schwarting

Philipp University of Marburg
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
64
Citations
13806
World Ranking
3288
National Ranking
285

Rainer K.W. Schwarting 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 Rainer K.W. Schwarting sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 231 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rainer K.W. Schwarting 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 Rainer K.W. Schwarting sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Rainer K.W. Schwarting is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology.

Their work extensively covers subfields such as Social Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology. The research topics explored include Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Infant Health and Development, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Schwarting include:

  • Behavioral analysis in laboratory rats: Challenges and usefulness of 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Advanced paternal age as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders: a translational study, 2020, Molecular Autism
  • Sex differences in the acoustic features of social play-induced 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations: A detailed spectrographic analysis in wild-type Sprague-Dawley and Cacna1c haploinsufficient rats, 2020, Developmental Psychobiology
  • Acute orofacial pain leads to prolonged changes in behavioral and affective pain components, 2020, Pain
  • Using expectation violation models to improve the outcome of psychological treatments, 2022, Clinical Psychology Review

Frequent collaborators of Schwarting include Markus Wöhr, Roberto Andreatini, Theresa M. Kisko, Liana Melo-Thomas, and José Augusto Pochapski.

Their research contributions have been published in several venues multiple times, including Behavioural Brain Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, EMBO Reports, and Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • The unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesion model in behavioral brain research. Analysis of functional deficits, recovery and treatments.

    R.K.W. Schwarting;J.P. Huston

  • Behavioral phenotyping of the MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease

    Marco Sedelis;Rainer K.W Schwarting;Joseph P Huston

  • Unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of meso-striatal dopamine neurons and their physiological sequelae.

    R.K.W. Schwarting;J.P. Huston

  • Affective communication in rodents: ultrasonic vocalizations as a tool for research on emotion and motivation

    Markus Wöhr;Rainer K. W. Schwarting

  • MPTP susceptibility in the mouse: behavioral, neurochemical, and histological analysis of gender and strain differences.

    Marco Sedelis;Katja Hofele;Georg W. Auburger;Sarah Morgan

  • High versus low reactivity to a novel environment: behavioural, pharmacological and neurochemical assessments.

    C.M. Thiel;C.P. Müller;J.P. Huston;R.K.W. Schwarting

  • Ultrasonic communication in rats: can playback of 50-kHz calls induce approach behavior?

    Markus Wöhr;Rainer K. W. Schwarting

  • Effects of experience and context on 50-kHz vocalizations in rats.

    Markus Wöhr;Bart Houx;Rainer K.W. Schwarting;Berry Spruijt

  • Individual response profiles of male Wistar rats in animal models for anxiety and depression.

    Ying-Jui Ho;Julian Eichendorff;Rainer K.W Schwarting

  • Hippocampal acetylcholine and habituation learning.

    C.M. Thiel;J.P. Huston;R.K.W. Schwarting

  • Expectancies as core features of mental disorders.

    Winfried Rief;Julia A. Glombiewski;Mario Gollwitzer;Anna Schubö

  • Extracellular adenosine levels in neostriatum and hippocampus during rest and activity periods of rats.

    J.P. Huston;H.L. Haas;F. Boix;M. Pfister

  • Overt behavior and ultrasonic vocalization in a fear conditioning paradigm: a dose-response study in the rat.

    Markus Wöhr;Andreas Borta;Rainer K.W. Schwarting

  • Rat ultrasonic vocalization in aversively motivated situations and the role of individual differences in anxiety-related behavior.

    A Borta;M Wöhr;R K W Schwarting

  • Situational factors, conditions and individual variables which can determine ultrasonic vocalizations in male adult Wistar rats

    Rainer K.W. Schwarting;Nikita Jegan;Markus Wöhr

  • Playback of 22-kHz and 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations induces differential c-fos expression in rat brain.

    Monika Sadananda;Markus Wöhr;Rainer K.W. Schwarting

  • Distorted Cognitive Processes in Major Depression: A Predictive Processing Perspective.

    Tobias Kube;Tobias Kube;Tobias Kube;Rainer K.W. Schwarting;Liron Rozenkrantz;Liron Rozenkrantz;Julia Anna Glombiewski;Julia Anna Glombiewski

  • Animal models of human psychopathology based on individual differences in novelty-seeking and anxiety.

    Cornelius R. Pawlak;Ying-Jui Ho;Rainer K.W. Schwarting

  • Differential effects of social and physical environmental enrichment on brain plasticity, cognition, and ultrasonic communication in rats.

    Juan C. Brenes;Juan C. Brenes;Martin Lackinger;Günter U. Höglinger;Gerhard Schratt

  • Neurobiology of the major psychoses: a translational perspective on brain structure and function-the FOR2107 consortium.

    Tilo Kircher;Markus Wöhr;Igor Nenadic;Rainer Schwarting

  • Maternal care, isolation-induced infant ultrasonic calling, and their relations to adult anxiety-related behavior in the rat.

    Markus Wöhr;Rainer K. W. Schwarting

  • Substance P and its role in neural mechanisms governing learning, anxiety and functional recovery

    R.U. Hasenöhrl;M.A.De Souza-Silva;S. Nikolaus;C. Tomaz

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Wöhr
Markus Wöhr Philipp University of Marburg
Joseph P. Huston
Joseph P. Huston Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Rainer Spanagel
Rainer Spanagel Heidelberg University
Carsten Culmsee
Carsten Culmsee Philipp University of Marburg
Stephanie H. Witt
Stephanie H. Witt Heidelberg University
Marcus Lira Brandão
Marcus Lira Brandão Universidade de São Paulo
Georg Auburger
Georg Auburger Goethe University Frankfurt
Carlos Tomaz
Carlos Tomaz University of Brasília
Robert J. Carey
Robert J. Carey SUNY Upstate Medical University

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