2026 Wayne C. Drevets: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	132	2285	2127	1292	1184	426	79548

Overview

Wayne C. Drevets is affiliated with Johnson & Johnson in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with notable contributions in subfields such as Pharmacology, Biological Psychiatry, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their work focuses on several main topics, including:

Treatment of Major Depression
Tryptophan and brain disorders
Stress Responses and Cortisol
Mental Health Research Topics
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
Bipolar Disorder and Treatment

In terms of publication venues, Wayne C. Drevets has published extensively in:

Biological Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
Journal of Affective Disorders
Brain Behavior and Immunity

Notable recent papers include:

Esketamine Nasal Spray for Rapid Reduction of Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder Who Have Active Suicide Ideation With Intent: Results of a Phase 3, Double-Blind, Randomized Study (ASPIRE II), 2020, The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
Esketamine Nasal Spray for Rapid Reduction of Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms in Patients Who Have Active Suicidal Ideation With Intent, 2020, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Immune targets for therapeutic development in depression: towards precision medicine, 2022, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Esketamine Nasal Spray Plus Oral Antidepressant in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression, 2020, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Whole-blood expression of inflammasome- and glucocorticoid-related mRNAs correctly separates treatment-resistant depressed patients from drug-free and responsive patients in the BIODEP study, 2020, Translational Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators include Carla M. Canuso, Vanina Popova, Jaskaran Singh, Rosanne Lane, and Edward T. Bullmore. Their collaborations have resulted in numerous coauthored papers, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

Subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in mood disorders

Wayne C. Drevets;Joseph L. Price;Joseph R. Simpson;Richard D. Todd

3493
Citations
Neurobiology of emotion perception I: the neural basis of normal emotion perception

Mary L Phillips;Wayne C Drevets;Scott L Rauch;Richard Lane

2782
Citations
Neurobiology of emotion perception II: Implications for major psychiatric disorders

Mary L Phillips;Wayne C Drevets;Scott L Rauch;Richard Lane

2156
Citations
GLIAL REDUCTION IN THE SUBGENUAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX IN MOOD DISORDERS

Dost Öngür;Wayne C. Drevets;Joseph L. Price

1856
Citations
A neural model of voluntary and automatic emotion regulation: implications for understanding the pathophysiology and neurodevelopment of bipolar disorder.

Mary L. Phillips;Cecile D. Ladouceur;Wayne C. Drevets;Wayne C. Drevets

1635
Citations
Neuroimaging and neuropathological studies of depression: implications for the cognitive-emotional features of mood disorders.

Wayne C Drevets

1603
Citations
The cellular neurobiology of depression

Husseini K. Manji;Wayne C. Drevets;Dennis S. Charney

1561
Citations
Discovering endophenotypes for major depression.

Gregor Hasler;Wayne C Drevets;Husseini K Manji;Dennis S Charney

1442
Citations
The subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in mood disorders.

Wayne C. Drevets;Jonathan Savitz;Michael Trimble

1238
Citations
Neural circuits underlying the pathophysiology of mood disorders.

Joseph L. Price;Wayne C. Drevets

1064
Citations
Suppression of Regional Cerebral Blood during Emotional versus Higher Cognitive Implications for Interactions between Emotion and Cognition

Wayne C. Drevets;Marcus E. Raichle

1011
Citations
Reduced Prefrontal Glutamate/Glutamine and γ-Aminobutyric Acid Levels in Major Depression Determined Using Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Gregor Hasler;Jan Willem van der Veen;Toni Tumonis;Noah Meyers

1001
Citations
Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

933
Citations
Amphetamine-induced dopamine release in human ventral striatum correlates with euphoria

Wayne C. Drevets;Clara H. Gautier;Julie C Price;David J. Kupfer

895
Citations
PET imaging of serotonin 1A receptor binding in depression

Wayne C Drevets;Ellen Frank;Julie C Price;David J Kupfer

875
Citations
Functional anatomical correlates of antidepressant drug treatment assessed using PET measures of regional glucose metabolism.

Wayne C Drevets;Wayne C Drevets;Wendy Bogers;Marcus E Raichle

837
Citations
The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

824
Citations
Neuroimaging Abnormalities in the Amygdala in Mood Disorders

Wayne C. Drevets

754
Citations
Amygdala Response to Fearful Faces in Anxious and Depressed Children

Kathleen M. Thomas;Wayne C. Drevets;Wayne C. Drevets;Ronald E. Dahl;Neal D. Ryan

713
Citations
5-HT1A Receptor Function in Major Depressive Disorder

Jonathan Savitz;Irwin Lucki;Wayne C. Drevets

705
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerzy Bodurka MIT

Dennis S. Charney Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Carlos A. Zarate National Institutes of Health

Dara M. Cannon University of Galway

Alexander Neumeister Independent Scientist / Consultant, US

David A. Luckenbaugh National Institutes of Health

Husseini K. Manji National Institutes of Health

Gregor Hasler University of Fribourg

Maura L. Furey Janssen (Belgium)

Patrick S.F. Bellgowan National Institutes of Health

External Links

Personal website of Wayne C. Drevets

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