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Sören Krach 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 Sören Krach sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 130 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sören Krach 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 Sören Krach sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sören Krach is affiliated with the University of Lübeck in Germany and specializes in research at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience. Their work centers around several fields of study, primarily Psychology and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in subfields such as Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

The research topics covered by Krach include Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Mental Health Research Topics, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, as well as Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

The scientist has published extensively, with key papers that include:

  • The neuroscience of social feelings: mechanisms of adaptive social functioning, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • The Human Affectome, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Internal control beliefs shape positive affect and associated neural dynamics during outcome valuation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The (un)learning of social functions and its significance for mental health, 2022, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Self-beneficial belief updating as a coping mechanism for stress-induced negative affect, 2021, Scientific Reports

Krach's publication record frequently appears in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, and Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science.

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a group of co-authors, including Frieder M. Paulus, Annalina V. Mayer, Laura Müller-Pinzler, David S. Stolz, and Lena Rademacher. These collaborations have contributed to a steady output of multidisciplinary research.

Best Publications

  • Anticipation of monetary and social reward differently activates mesolimbic brain structures in men and women

    Katja N. Spreckelmeyer;Sören Krach;Gregor Kohls;Lena Rademacher

  • Can machines think? Interaction and perspective taking with robots investigated via fMRI.

    Sören Krach;Frank Hegel;Britta Wrede;Gerhard Sagerer

  • Dissociation of neural networks for anticipation and consumption of monetary and social rewards

    Lena Rademacher;Sören Krach;Gregor Kohls;Arda Irmak

  • Your flaws are my pain: linking empathy to vicarious embarrassment.

    Sören Krach;Jan Christopher Cohrs;Nicole Cruz de Echeverría Loebell;Tilo Kircher

  • The Rewarding Nature of Social Interactions

    Sören Krach;Frieder M Paulus;Maren E. Bodden;Tilo Kircher

  • Neural correlates of narrative shifts during auditory story comprehension.

    Carin Whitney;Walter Huber;Juliane Klann;Susanne Weis

  • Understanding social robots: A user study on anthropomorphism

    F. Hegel;S. Krach;T. Kircher;B. Wrede

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

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

  • Neural pathways of embarrassment and their modulation by social anxiety

    L. Müller-Pinzler;L. Müller-Pinzler;Valeria Gazzola;Valeria Gazzola;Christian Keysers;Jens Sommer

  • Effect of CACNA1C rs1006737 on neural correlates of verbal fluency in healthy individuals.

    Axel Krug;Vanessa Nieratschker;Valentin Markov;Sören Krach

  • Are women better mindreaders? Sex differences in neural correlates of mentalizing detected with functional MRI

    Sören Krach;Isabelle Blümel;Dominic Marjoram;Tineke Lataster

  • The neuroscience of social feelings: mechanisms of adaptive social functioning.

    Paul J. Eslinger;Silke Anders;Tomasso Ballarini;Sydney Boutros

  • Mentalizing and the Role of the Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus in Sharing Others' Embarrassment

    Frieder Michel Paulus;Laura Müller-Pinzler;Andreas Jansen;Valeria Gazzola

  • Association of rs1006737 in CACNA1C with alterations in prefrontal activation and fronto-hippocampal connectivity.

    Frieder M. Paulus;Johannes Bedenbender;Sören Krach;Martin Pyka

  • Online mentalising investigated with functional MRI

    Tilo Kircher;Isabelle Blümel;Dominic Marjoram;Tineke Lataster

  • Taxonomic and thematic categories: Neural correlates of categorization in an auditory-to-visual priming task using fMRI

    Katharina Sass;Olga Sachs;Sören Krach;Tilo Kircher

  • When your friends make you cringe: social closeness modulates vicarious embarrassment-related neural activity

    Laura Müller-Pinzler;Lena Rademacher;Frieder M. Paulus;Sören Krach

  • Effects of a CACNA1C genotype on attention networks in healthy individuals.

    Markus Thimm;Tilo Kircher;Thilo Kellermann;Valentin Markov

  • Evidence from pupillometry and fMRI indicates reduced neural response during vicarious social pain but not physical pain in autism

    Sören Krach;Inge Kamp-Becker;Wolfgang Einhäuser;Jens Sommer

  • The Impact Factor Fallacy.

    Frieder M. Paulus;Nicole Cruz;Sören Krach

  • Partial support for ZNF804A genotype-dependent alterations in prefrontal connectivity.

    Frieder M. Paulus;Sören Krach;Johannes Bedenbender;Martin Pyka

  • Concerns about cultural neurosciences: a critical analysis.

    Marina Martínez Mateo;Maurice Cabanis;Nicole Cruz de Echeverría Loebell;Sören Krach

Frequent Co-Authors

Tilo Kircher
Tilo Kircher Philipp University of Marburg
Andreas Jansen
Andreas Jansen Philipp University of Marburg
Axel Krug
Axel Krug Philipp University of Marburg
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Klaus Zerres
Klaus Zerres RWTH Aachen University
Thomas Eggermann
Thomas Eggermann RWTH Aachen University
Tony Stöcker
Tony Stöcker German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
N. Jon Shah
N. Jon Shah Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jens Sommer
Jens Sommer Philipp University of Marburg

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