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Medicine

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114
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262

Psychology

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342
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Volker Arolt 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 Volker Arolt sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 519 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Volker Arolt 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 Volker Arolt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 114 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Volker Arolt is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. Their research output includes 50 publications in psychology, 36 in medicine, and 34 in neuroscience, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach.

The scientist's work spans multiple subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology with 26 publications, genetics with 19, clinical psychology with 17, psychiatry and mental health also with 17, and cognitive neuroscience with 15 publications. This range indicates active involvement in both foundational psychological research and clinical applications.

Arolt's research covers various topics, with significant contributions in areas such as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes, covered in 28 publications. They have also explored subjects related to mental health research topics, genetic associations and epidemiology, tryptophan and brain disorders, schizophrenia research and treatment, bipolar disorder and treatment, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Their frequent coauthors include Udo Dannlowski, Tilo Kircher, Andreas Ströhle, Katharina Domschke, and Alfons O. Hamm, with collaboration counts ranging from 19 to 36 joint publications, indicating sustained research partnerships.

Arolt has published regularly in specific venues with multiple papers in Molecular Psychiatry (5 publications), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 4, Neuropsychopharmacology with 3, Translational Psychiatry with 3, and Journal of Affective Disorders with 3 publications.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Volker Arolt include:

  • Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • Identifying the Common Genetic Basis of Antidepressant Response, 2021, Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science
  • Systematic misestimation of machine learning performance in neuroimaging studies of depression, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Change of Threat Expectancy as Mechanism of Exposure-Based Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders: Evidence From 8,484 Exposure Exercises of 605 Patients, 2022, Clinical Psychological Science
  • An Investigation of Psychosis Subgroups With Prognostic Validation and Exploration of Genetic Underpinnings, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

    David M. Howard;Mark J. Adams;Toni Kim Clarke;Jonathan D. Hafferty

  • Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group.

    L Schmaal;D P Hibar;P G Sämann;G B Hall

  • Limbic Scars: Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment Revealed by Functional and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Udo Dannlowski;Anja Stuhrmann;Victoria Beutelmann;Peter Zwanzger

  • The cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor celecoxib has therapeutic effects in major depression: results of a double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled, add-on pilot study to reboxetine.

    N. Müller;M. J. Schwarz;S. Dehning;A. Douhe

  • S100B in brain damage and neurodegeneration

    Matthias Rothermundt;Marion Peters;Jochen H.M. Prehn;Volker Arolt

  • Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder : An MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

    D P Hibar;L T Westlye;L T Westlye;N T Doan;N T Doan;N Jahanshad

  • Human Fear Conditioning and Extinction in Neuroimaging: A Systematic Review

    Christina Sehlmeyer;Sonja Schöning;Pienie Zwitserlood;Bettina Pfleiderer

  • Genome-wide association for major depressive disorder: a possible role for the presynaptic protein piccolo

    P.F. Sullivan;E.J.C. de Geus;G. Willemsen;M.R. James

  • An international two-stage genome-wide search for schizophrenia susceptibility genes.

    H.W. Moises;L. Yang;H. Kristbjarnarson;C. Wiese

  • Automatic mood-congruent amygdala responses to masked facial expressions in major depression.

    Thomas Suslow;Carsten Konrad;Harald Kugel;Daniel Rumstadt

  • Long-term cognitive and emotional consequences of mild traumatic brain injury

    Carsten Konrad;A. J. Geburek;Fred Rist;H. Blumenroth

  • Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression

    R. C. Culverhouse;N. L. Saccone;A. C. Horton;Y. Ma

  • Maternal posttraumatic stress response after the birth of a very low-birth-weight infant.

    A Kersting;M Dorsch;U Wesselmann;K Lüdorff

  • Effective electroconvulsive therapy reverses glutamate/glutamine deficit in the left anterior cingulum of unipolar depressed patients

    Bettina Pfleiderer;Nikolaus Michael;Andreas Erfurth;Patricia Ohrmann

  • A genomewide association study points to multiple loci that predict antidepressant drug treatment outcome in depression

    Marcus Ising;Susanne Lucae;Elisabeth B. Binder;Thomas Bettecken

  • Cytokine production and serum proteins in depression.

    A. Seidel;V. Arolt;M. Hunstiger;L. Rink

  • Brain morphometric biomarkers distinguishing unipolar and bipolar depression. A voxel-based morphometry-pattern classification approach.

    Ronny Redlich;Jorge J. R. Almeida;Dominik Grotegerd;Nils Opel

  • Childhood maltreatment is associated with an automatic negative emotion processing bias in the amygdala.

    Udo Dannlowski;Udo Dannlowski;Harald Kugel;Franziska Huber;Anja Stuhrmann

  • Metabolic changes within the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex occurring with electroconvulsive therapy in patients with treatment resistant unipolar depression.

    Nikolaus Michael;A. Erfurth;P. Ohrmann;V. Arolt

  • Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression

    Robert C. Culverhouse;Nancy L. Saccone;Amy C. Horton;Yinjiao Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Thomas Suslow
Thomas Suslow Leipzig University
Harald Kugel
Harald Kugel University of Münster
Walter Heindel
Walter Heindel University of Münster
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg
Patricia Ohrmann
Patricia Ohrmann University of Münster
Tilo Kircher
Tilo Kircher Philipp University of Marburg
Peter Zwanzger
Peter Zwanzger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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