2026 Robert Leech: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	71	2365	2162	235	214	238	25061

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Overview

Robert Leech is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics within neuroscience such as Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Mind Wandering and Attention, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Mental Health Research Topics, and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications.

Robert Leech has contributed to numerous publications, with recent notable research papers including:

The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective, 2021, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
Human brain effects of DMT assessed via EEG-fMRI, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
From mechanisms to markers: novel noninvasive EEG proxy markers of the neural excitation and inhibition system in humans, 2022, Translational Psychiatry
Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging, 2020, Neuron
The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought, 2021, iScience

The scientist frequently publishes in journals and platforms such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), Scientific Reports, PLoS Computational Biology, and Nature Communications.

Collaborative work is a significant component of their research approach, with frequent co-authors including Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies, Boris C. Bernhardt, Daniel S. Margulies, and Rosalyn Moran. The number of collaborations with these individuals ranges from 21 to 38 joint works.

Best Publications

The role of the posterior cingulate cortex in cognition and disease.

Robert Leech;David J. Sharp

2457
Citations
The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs

Robin Lester Carhart-Harris;Robert Leech;Peter John Hellyer;Murray Shanahan

1401
Citations
Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI studies with psilocybin

Robin L. Carhart-Harris;David Erritzoe;Tim Williams;James M. Stone

1376
Citations
Neural correlates of the LSD experience revealed by multimodal neuroimaging

Robin L. Carhart-Harris;Suresh D. Muthukumaraswamy;Suresh D. Muthukumaraswamy;Leor Roseman;Mendel Kaelen

987
Citations
Fractionating the Default Mode Network: Distinct Contributions of the Ventral and Dorsal Posterior Cingulate Cortex to Cognitive Control

Robert Leech;Salwa Kamourieh;Christian F. Beckmann;David J. Sharp

874
Citations
The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective.

Jonathan Smallwood;Boris C Bernhardt;Robert Leech;Danilo Bzdok

862
Citations
White matter damage and cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury.

Kirsi Maria Kinnunen;Richard Greenwood;Jane Hilary Powell;Robert Leech

828
Citations
Network dysfunction after traumatic brain injury

David J. Sharp;Gregory Scott;Robert Leech

715
Citations
Echoes of the Brain within the Posterior Cingulate Cortex

Robert Leech;Rodrigo Braga;David J. Sharp

695
Citations
Salience network integrity predicts default mode network function after traumatic brain injury

Valerie Bonnelle;Timothy E. Ham;Robert Leech;Kirsi M. Kinnunen

676
Citations
Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI-measured brain mechanisms

Robin L Carhart-Harris;Leor Roseman;Mark Bolstridge;Lysia Demetriou;Lysia Demetriou

606
Citations
Default Mode Network Connectivity Predicts Sustained Attention Deficits after Traumatic Brain Injury

V Bonnelle;R Leech;K M Kinnunen;T E Ham

556
Citations
Increased Global Functional Connectivity Correlates with LSD-Induced Ego Dissolution

Enzo Tagliazucchi;Enzo Tagliazucchi;Leor Roseman;Mendel Kaelen;Csaba Orban

553
Citations
Default mode network functional and structural connectivity after traumatic brain injury.

David J. Sharp;Christian F. Beckmann;Richard Greenwood;Kirsi Maria Kinnunen

522
Citations
Prediction of brain age suggests accelerated atrophy after traumatic brain injury

James H. Cole;Robert Leech;David J. Sharp

464
Citations
Enhanced repertoire of brain dynamical states during the psychedelic experience

Enzo Tagliazucchi;Robin Carhart-Harris;Robert Leech;David Nutt

432
Citations
Cognitive control and its impact on recovery from aphasic stroke

Sonia L.E. Brownsett;Jane E. Warren;Jane E. Warren;Fatemeh Geranmayeh;Zoe Woodhead

309
Citations
Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG

Christopher Timmermann;Leor Roseman;Michael Schartner;Raphael Milliere

307
Citations
Implications for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: functional magnetic resonance imaging study with psilocybin

R. L. Carhart-Harris;R. Leech;T. M. Williams;D. Erritzoe

302
Citations
A functional network perspective on response inhibition and attentional control

Michelle Erika-Florence;Robert Leech;Adam Hampshire

274
Citations
The effects of psilocybin and MDMA on between-network resting state functional connectivity in healthy volunteers.

Leor Roseman;Robert Leech;Amanda Feilding;David J. Nutt

271
Citations
Functional Connectivity Measures After Psilocybin Inform a Novel Hypothesis of Early Psychosis

Robin L Carhart-Harris;Robert Leech;David Erritzoe;Tim M Williams

270
Citations