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Wolfgang Wölwer 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 Wolfgang Wölwer sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 152 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Wölwer 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 Wolfgang Wölwer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wolfgang Wölwer is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research spans a wide range of topics within medicine and psychology, with a particular focus on psychiatry and mental health.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Key subfields of Wölwer's work are:

  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Wölwer's research addresses a variety of topics, prominently featuring:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access

Frequent co-authors in Wölwer's research include:

  • Alkomiet Hasan
  • Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
  • Peter Falkai
  • Martin Hellmich
  • Berend Malchow

Wölwer has published extensively in several journals, with multiple contributions to:

  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Psychiatry Research

Representative recent papers by Wolfgang Wölwer include:

  • "Factors associated with the onset of major depressive disorder in adults with type 2 diabetes living in 12 different countries: results from the INTERPRET-DD prospective study," 2020, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • "Aerobic endurance training to improve cognition and enhance recovery in schizophrenia: design and methodology of a multicenter randomized controlled trial," 2020, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • "Exercise as an add-on treatment in individuals with schizophrenia: Results from a large multicenter randomized controlled trial," 2023, Psychiatry Research
  • "Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) versus Training in Affect Recognition (TAR) in patients with schizophrenia: A randomized controlled trial," 2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • "Associations between cognitive performance and Mediterranean dietary pattern in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus," 2020, Nutrition and Diabetes

Best Publications

  • Remediation of impairments in facial affect recognition in schizophrenia: efficacy and specificity of a new training program.

    Wolfgang Wölwer;Nicole Frommann;Sabine Halfmann;Anja Piaszek

  • Early detection and secondary prevention of psychosis: facts and visions.

    Heinz Häfner;Kurt Maurer;Stephan Ruhrmann;Andreas Bechdolf

  • Neurophysiological correlates of the recognition of facial expressions of emotion as revealed by magnetoencephalography.

    M. Streit;A.A. Ioannides;L. Liu;W. Wölwer

  • Remediation of facial affect recognition impairments in patients with schizophrenia: a new training program.

    Nicole Frommann;Marcus Streit;Wolfgang Wölwer

  • Facial-affect recognition and visual scanning behaviour in the course of schizophrenia

    Marcus Streit;Wolfgang Wölwer;Wolfgang Gaebel

  • Left prefrontal high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of schizophrenia with predominant negative symptoms: a sham-controlled, randomized multicenter trial.

    Thomas Wobrock;Birgit Guse;Joachim Cordes;Wolfgang Wölwer

  • Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia as Primary Target of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Results of the Randomized Clinical TONES Study

    Stefan Klingberg;Wolfgang Wölwer;Corinna Engel;Andreas Wittorf

  • Neuropsychological Profiles in Different At-Risk States of Psychosis: Executive Control Impairment in the Early—and Additional Memory Dysfunction in the Late—Prodromal State

    Ingo Frommann;Ralf Pukrop;Jürgen Brinkmeyer;Andreas Bechdolf

  • Facial affect recognition in the course of schizophrenia.

    W Wölwer;M Streit;U Polzer;W Gaebel

  • Facial expressivity in the course of schizophrenia and depression.

    Wolfgang Gaebel;Wolfgang Wölwer

  • Training of affect recognition (TAR) in schizophrenia—Impact on functional outcome

    G. Sachs;B. Winklbaur;R. Jagsch;I. Lasser

  • Electrophysiological correlates of emotional and structural face processing in humans.

    Marcus Streit;Wolfgang Wölwer;Jürgen Brinkmeyer;Ralf Ihl

  • Social-Cognitive Remediation in Schizophrenia: Generalization of Effects of the Training of Affect Recognition (TAR)

    Wolfgang Wölwer;Nicole Frommann

  • Time course of regional brain activations during facial emotion recognition in humans

    Marcus Streit;Jürgen Dammers;Sebnem Simsek-Kraues;Jürgen Brinkmeyer

  • Auditory P300 in individuals clinically at risk for psychosis

    Ingo Frommann;Jürgen Brinkmeyer;Stephan Ruhrmann;Eva Hack

  • Disturbed facial affect recognition in patients with schizophrenia associated with hypoactivity in distributed brain regions: a magnetoencephalographic study.

    Marcus Streit;Andreas Ioannides;Thorsten Sinnemann;Wolfgang Wölwer

  • Relapse prevention in first-episode schizophrenia--maintenance vs intermittent drug treatment with prodrome-based early intervention: results of a randomized controlled trial within the German Research Network on Schizophrenia.

    Wolfgang Gaebel;Mathias Riesbeck;Wolfgang Wölwer;Ansgar Klimke

  • Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Improves Facial Affect Recognition in Schizophrenia

    Wolfgang Wölwer;Agnes Lowe;Jürgen Brinkmeyer;Marcus Streit

  • EEG-correlates of facial affect recognition and categorisation of blurred faces in schizophrenic patients and healthy volunteers.

    M. Streit;W. Wölwer;J. Brinkmeyer;R. Ihl

  • Cognitive Effects of High-Frequency rTMS in Schizophrenia Patients With Predominant Negative Symptoms: Results From a Multicenter Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial

    Alkomiet Hasan;Birgit Guse;Joachim Cordes;Wolfgang Wölwer

  • The influence of baseline symptoms and insight on the therapeutic alliance early in the treatment of schizophrenia.

    Andreas Wittorf;Ute Jakobi;Andreas Bechdolf;Andreas Bechdolf;Bernhard Müller

  • German research network on schizophrenia: Bridging the gap between research and care

    Wolfgang Wölwer;Gerhard Buchkremer;Heinz Häfner;Joachim Klosterkötter

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Gaebel
Wolfgang Gaebel Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner TU Dresden
Peter Falkai
Peter Falkai Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Georg Winterer
Georg Winterer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Wolfgang Maier
Wolfgang Maier University of Bonn
Joachim Klosterkötter
Joachim Klosterkötter University of Cologne
Hans-Jürgen Möller
Hans-Jürgen Möller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alkomiet Hasan
Alkomiet Hasan University of Augsburg
Tilo Kircher
Tilo Kircher Philipp University of Marburg
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

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