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61166
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3449
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Stefan Leucht publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stefan Leucht sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 511 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Stefan Leucht D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stefan Leucht sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 122 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Stefan Leucht is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work concentrates on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Pharmacology.

The main topics addressed in Stefan Leucht's research include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Stefan Leucht has published extensively in several scientific journals with frequent contributions to:

  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Among notable recent papers, the following stand out:

  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of antidepressants, psychotherapies, and their combination for acute treatment of children and adolescents with depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Psychosocial and psychological interventions for relapse prevention in schizophrenia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Half a century of research on antipsychotics and schizophrenia: A scientometric study of hotspots, nodes, bursts, and trends, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associated Control Measures on the Mental Health of the General Population, 2022, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Association of CYP2C19 and CYP2D6 Poor and Intermediate Metabolizer Status With Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Exposure, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry

Stefan Leucht has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Spyridon Siafis
  • Johannes Schneider-Thoma
  • Irene Bighelli
  • John M. Davis
  • Georgia Salanti

Best Publications

  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

    Andrea Cipriani;Andrea Cipriani;Toshi A Furukawa;Georgia Salanti;Anna Chaimani;Anna Chaimani;Anna Chaimani

  • Comparative efficacy and tolerability of 15 antipsychotic drugs in schizophrenia: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis

    Stefan Leucht;Andrea Cipriani;Andrea Cipriani;Loukia Spineli;Dimitris Mavridis

  • Physical illness in patients with severe mental disorders.I. Prevalence, impact of medications and disparities in health care

    Marc De Hert;Christoph U. Correll;Julio Bobes;Marcelo Cetkovich-Bakmas

  • Second-generation versus first-generation antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia: a meta-analysis

    Stefan Leucht;Caroline Corves;Caroline Corves;Dieter Arbter;Rolf R Engel

  • What does the PANSS mean

    Stefan Leucht;Stefan Leucht;John M. Kane;Werner Kissling;Johannes Hamann

  • Comparative efficacy and tolerability of 32 oral antipsychotics for the acute treatment of adults with multi-episode schizophrenia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

    Maximilian Huhn;Adriani Nikolakopoulou;Johannes Schneider-Thoma;Marc Krause

  • Efficacy and extrapyramidal side-effects of the new antipsychotics olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, and sertindole compared to conventional antipsychotics and placebo. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

    S. Leucht;G. Pitschel-Walz;D. Abraham;W. Kissling

  • Physical illness in patients with severe mental disorders. II. Barriers to care, monitoring and treatment guidelines, plus recommendations at the system and individual level

    Marc De Hert;Dan Cohen;Julio Bobes;Marcelo Cetkovich-Bakmas

  • Antipsychotic drugs versus placebo for relapse prevention in schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Stefan Leucht;Magdolna Tardy;Katja Komossa;Stephan Heres

  • The Effect of Family Interventions on Relapse and Rehospitalization in Schizophrenia—A Meta-analysis

    Gabi Pitschel-Walz;Stefan Leucht;Josef Bäuml;Werner Kissling

  • Opioid antagonists for alcohol dependence

    Susanne Rösner;Andrea Hackl‐Herrwerth;Stefan Leucht;Simona Vecchi

  • Clinical implications of Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale scores.

    Stefan Leucht;John M. Kane;Werner Kissling;Johannes Hamann

  • Lower risk for tardive dyskinesia associated with second-generation antipsychotics: a systematic review of 1-year studies.

    Christoph U. Correll;Stefan Leucht;John M. Kane

  • Physical illness and schizophrenia: a review of the literature

    S Leucht;T Burkard;J Henderson;M Maj

  • Comparative efficacy and tolerability of antidepressants for major depressive disorder in children and adolescents: a network meta-analysis.

    Andrea Cipriani;Xinyu Zhou;Cinzia Del Giovane;Sarah E Hetrick

  • Head-to-head comparisons of metabolic side effects of second generation antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Christine Rummel-Kluge;Katja Komossa;Sandra Schwarz;Heike Hunger

  • New generation antipsychotics versus low-potency conventional antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Stefan Leucht;Kristian Wahlbeck;Johannes Hamann;Werner Kissling

  • Relapse prevention in schizophrenia with new-generation antipsychotics: a systematic review and exploratory meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials.

    Stefan Leucht;Thomas R.E. Barnes;Werner Kissling;Rolf R. Engel

  • The expert consensus guideline series. Optimizing pharmacologic treatment of psychotic disorders. Introduction: methods, commentary, and summary.

    John M. Kane;Stefan Leucht;Daniel Carpenter;John P. Docherty

  • Second-generation versus first-generation antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia : a meta-analysis. Commentary

    Peter Tyrer;Tim Kendall;Stefan Leucht;Caroline Corves

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Davis
John M. Davis University of Illinois at Chicago
Andrea Cipriani
Andrea Cipriani University of Oxford
John M. Kane
John M. Kane Zucker Hillside Hospital
Toshi A. Furukawa
Toshi A. Furukawa Kyoto University
Rolf R. Engel
Rolf R. Engel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Christoph U. Correll
Christoph U. Correll Charité - University Medicine Berlin
John R. Geddes
John R. Geddes University of Oxford
Stephen Z. Levine
Stephen Z. Levine University of Haifa
René S. Kahn
René S. Kahn Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Iris E. C. Sommer
Iris E. C. Sommer University Medical Center Groningen

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