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Sebastian Ocklenburg

Sebastian Ocklenburg

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
53
Citations
8432
World Ranking
5161
National Ranking
434

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
53
Citations
8227
World Ranking
2336
National Ranking
65

Sebastian Ocklenburg publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sebastian Ocklenburg sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 203 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Sebastian Ocklenburg D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sebastian Ocklenburg sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sebastian Ocklenburg is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. They have contributed extensively to topics including hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience, functional brain connectivity studies, morphological variations and asymmetry, neural and behavioral psychology studies, spatial neglect and hemispheric dysfunction, stress responses and cortisol, and cognitive abilities and testing.

Ocklenburg has published frequently in a range of scientific venues. The most common publication venues include:

  • Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition
  • Scientific Reports
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Behavioural Brain Research

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ocklenburg include:

  • "Brain Lateralization: A Comparative Perspective," 2020, Physiological Reviews
  • "Human handedness: A meta-analysis," 2020, Psychological Bulletin
  • "#EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments," 2021, Cortex
  • "Atypical lateralization in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders: What is the role of stress?," 2020, Cortex
  • "The brain under stress-A systematic review and activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of changes in BOLD signal associated with acute stress exposure," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Ocklenburg has collaborated regularly with several researchers. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Onur Güntürkün
  • Dorothea Metzen
  • Julian Packheiser
  • Annakarina Mundorf
  • Gesa Berretz

Seven books published by Springer Nature feature Ocklenburg's work. Notable book titles include:

  • Left-Handedness and Brain Asymmetries (2024)
  • Die Psychologie und Neurowissenschaft der Klimakrise (2023)
  • The Psychology and Neuroscience of Hugging (2024)
  • Die Psychologie und Neurowissenschaft der Umarmung (2022)
  • Linkshändigkeit und Hirnasymmetrien (2022)
  • The Psychology and Neuroscience of the Climate Crisis (2024)
  • Biomarkers in Work and Organizational Psychology (2025)

Ocklenburg's research contributions encompass a wide range of topics related to brain asymmetry and lateralization, experimental and cognitive psychology, and the neural effects of stress. Their interdisciplinary approach bridges neuroscience and psychology, reflected in both empirical studies and theoretical analyses.

Best Publications

  • Human handedness: A meta-analysis

    Marietta Papadatou-Pastou;Eleni Ntolka;Judith Schmitz;Maryanne Martin

  • Brain Lateralization: A Comparative Perspective.

    Onur Güntürkün;Felix Ströckens;Sebastian Ocklenburg

  • Ontogenesis of Lateralization

    Onur Güntürkün;Onur Güntürkün;Sebastian Ocklenburg

  • Limb preferences in non-human vertebrates

    Felix Ströckens;Onur Güntürkün;Sebastian Ocklenburg

  • Hemispheric Asymmetries: The Comparative View

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;Onur Güntürkün

  • The ontogenesis of language lateralization and its relation to handedness.

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;Christian Beste;Larissa Arning;Jutta Peterburs

  • Humans recognize emotional arousal in vocalizations across all classes of terrestrial vertebrates: evidence for acoustic universals

    Piera Filippi;Jenna V. Congdon;John Hoang;Daniel Liu Bowling

  • “Likes” as social rewards: Their role in online social comparison and decisions to like other People's selfies

    Astrid M. Rosenthal-von der Pütten;Matthias R. Hastall;Sören Köcher;Christian Meske

  • Epigenetic regulation of lateralized fetal spinal gene expression underlies hemispheric asymmetries.

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;Judith Schmitz;Zahra Moinfar;Dirk Moser

  • Handedness: a neurogenetic shift of perspective.

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;Christian Beste;Onur Güntürkün

  • Left is where the L is right. Significantly delayed reaction time in limb laterality recognition in both CRPS and phantom limb pain patients.

    Annika Reinersmann;Golo Sung Haarmeyer;Markus Blankenburg;Jule Frettlöh

  • #EEGManyLabs : investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments

    Yuri G. Pavlov;Nika Adamian;Stefan Appelhoff;Mahnaz Arvaneh

  • Impaired spatial body representation in complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS I).

    Annika Reinersmann;Julia Landwehrt;Elena K. Krumova;Sebastian Ocklenburg

  • The Relationship Between Axon Density, Myelination, and Fractional Anisotropy in the Human Corpus Callosum.

    Patrick Friedrich;Patrick Friedrich;Christoph Fraenz;Caroline Schlüter;Sebastian Ocklenburg

  • Laterality in the rubber hand illusion

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;Naima Rüther;Jutta Peterburs;Marlies Pinnow

  • Auditory Hallucinations and Reduced Language Lateralization in Schizophrenia: A Meta-analysis of Dichotic Listening Studies

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;René Westerhausen;Marco Hirnstein;Kenneth Hugdahl

  • Intrahemispheric white matter asymmetries: the missing link between brain structure and functional lateralization?

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;Patrick Friedrich;Onur Güntürkün;Erhan Genç

  • Stress and laterality - The comparative perspective

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;S. Mechiel Korte;Jutta Peterburs;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Lateralisation of conspecific vocalisation in non-human vertebrates

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;Felix Ströckens;Onur Güntürkün

  • Lateralized neural mechanisms underlying the modulation of response inhibition processes.

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;Onur Güntürkün;Christian Beste

  • The Lateralized Brain: The Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries

    Onur Gunturkun;Sebastian Ocklenburg

  • PCSK6 VNTR Polymorphism Is Associated with Degree of Handedness but Not Direction of Handedness.

    Larissa Arning;Sebastian Ocklenburg;Stefanie Schulz;Vanessa Ness

  • Handedness and the X chromosome: The role of androgen receptor CAG-repeat length

    Larissa Arning;Sebastian Ocklenburg;Stefanie Schulz;Vanessa Ness

Frequent Co-Authors

Onur Güntürkün
Onur Güntürkün Ruhr University Bochum
Jörg T. Epplen
Jörg T. Epplen Ruhr University Bochum
Robert Kumsta
Robert Kumsta Ruhr University Bochum
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Kenneth Hugdahl
Kenneth Hugdahl University of Bergen
Christoph Maier
Christoph Maier Ruhr University Bochum
René Westerhausen
René Westerhausen University of Oslo
Jan G. Hengstler
Jan G. Hengstler TU Dortmund University
Michael Falkenstein
Michael Falkenstein TU Dortmund University

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