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Rudolf N. Cardinal 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 Rudolf N. Cardinal sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 148 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rudolf N. Cardinal 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 Rudolf N. Cardinal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Rudolf N. Cardinal is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Psychology and Medicine. Within these areas, their work is deeply engaged in Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The research topics addressed by Cardinal cover several specialized themes. These include Schizophrenia research and treatment, Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, Mental Health research topics, COVID-19 and mental health, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Dementia and cognitive impairment research, as well as studies on anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

The scientist has contributed to a range of prominent journals and publication venues. Frequent venues for their publications include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 15 publications, The British Journal of Psychiatry (5), BJPsych Open (5), Frontiers in Psychiatry (4), and SSRN Electronic Journal (4).

Several coauthors have contributed extensively to Cardinal's work. These frequent collaborators include Shanquan Chen, Trevor W. Robbins, J. R. Lewis, Peter B. Jones, and Emilio Fernández-Egea.

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Rudolf N. Cardinal include:

  • The early impact of COVID-19 on mental health and community physical health services and their patients' mortality in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, UK (2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research)
  • Mental health outcomes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in the United States: A national cross-sectional study (2021, Journal of Affective Disorders)
  • Generation and evaluation of artificial mental health records for Natural Language Processing (2020, npj Digital Medicine)
  • Patient and public involvement to build trust in artificial intelligence: A framework, tools, and case studies (2022, Patterns)
  • Association between lithium use and the incidence of dementia and its subtypes: A retrospective cohort study (2022, PLoS Medicine)

Best Publications

  • Emotion and motivation: the role of the amygdala, ventral striatum, and prefrontal cortex

    Rudolf N. Cardinal;John A. Parkinson;Jeremy Hall;Barry J. Everitt

  • Prefrontal executive and cognitive functions in rodents: neural and neurochemical substrates

    Jeffrey W. Dalley;Rudolf N. Cardinal;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Impulsive choice induced in rats by lesions of the nucleus accumbens core

    Rudolf N. Cardinal;David R. Pennicott;C. Lakmali Sugathapala;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Contrasting Roles of Basolateral Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex in Impulsive Choice

    Catharine A. Winstanley;David E. H. Theobald;Rudolf N. Cardinal;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Appetitive behavior: impact of amygdala-dependent mechanisms of emotional learning.

    Barry J Everitt;Rudolf N Cardinal;John A Parkinson;Trevor W Robbins

  • ANOVA for the Behavioral Sciences Researcher

    Rudolf N. Cardinal;Michael R.F. Aitken

  • Differential Involvement of NMDA, AMPA/Kainate, and Dopamine Receptors in the Nucleus Accumbens Core in the Acquisition and Performance of Pavlovian Approach Behavior

    Patricia Di Ciano;Rudolf N. Cardinal;Rosemary A. Cowell;Simon J. Little

  • Neural systems implicated in delayed and probabilistic reinforcement

    Rudolf N. Cardinal

  • The effects of d -amphetamine, chlordiazepoxide, α-flupenthixol and behavioural manipulations on choice of signalled and unsignalled delayed reinforcement in rats

    Rudolf N. Cardinal;Trevor W. Robbins;Barry J. Everitt

  • Limbic corticostriatal systems and delayed reinforcement.

    Rudolf N. Cardinal;Catharine A. Winstanley;Trevor W. Robbins;Barry J. Everitt

  • Nucleus accumbens dopamine depletion impairs both acquisition and performance of appetitive Pavlovian approach behaviour: implications for mesoaccumbens dopamine function.

    J.A Parkinson;J.W Dalley;R.N Cardinal;A Bamford

  • Double Dissociation between Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulation of Medial Prefrontal and Orbitofrontal Cortex during a Test of Impulsive Choice

    Catharine A. Winstanley;David E.H. Theobald;Jeffrey W. Dalley;Rudolf N. Cardinal

  • Distinct Changes in Cortical Acetylcholine and Noradrenaline Efflux during Contingent and Noncontingent Performance of a Visual Attentional Task

    Jeffrey W. Dalley;Jill McGaughy;Mark T. O'Connell;Rudolf N. Cardinal

  • Neural and psychological mechanisms underlying appetitive learning: links to drug addiction.

    Rudolf N Cardinal;Barry J Everitt

  • Effects of lesions of the nucleus accumbens core on choice between small certain rewards and large uncertain rewards in rats.

    Rudolf N Cardinal;Nathan J Howes

  • Cortical Cholinergic Function and Deficits in Visual Attentional Performance in Rats Following 192 IgG–Saporin-induced Lesions of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

    Jeffrey W. Dalley;David E. Theobald;Pascale Bouger;Yogita Chudasama

  • Effects of selective excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus accumbens core, anterior cingulate cortex, and central nucleus of the amygdala on autoshaping performance in rats.

    Rudolf N. Cardinal;John A. Parkinson;Guillaume Lachenal;Katherine M. Halkerston

  • Decision making and neuropsychiatry

    Shibley Rahman;Barbara J. Sahakian;Rudolf N. Cardinal;Robert D. Rogers

  • Limbic cortical-ventral striatal systems underlying appetitive conditioning.

    John A. Parkinson;Rudolf N. Cardinal;Barry J. Everitt

  • Differential involvement of amygdala subsystems in appetitive conditioning and drug addiction.

    B.J. Everitt;R.N. Cardinal;J. Hall;J.A. Parkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Barry J. Everitt
Barry J. Everitt University of Cambridge
Barbara J. Sahakian
Barbara J. Sahakian University of Cambridge
John A. Parkinson
John A. Parkinson Bangor University
Naomi A. Fineberg
Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire
Michael R. F. Aitken
Michael R. F. Aitken King's College London
Angela C. Roberts
Angela C. Roberts University of Cambridge
Samuel R. Chamberlain
Samuel R. Chamberlain University of Southampton
Jeremy Hall
Jeremy Hall Cardiff University

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