2026 Wolfram Schultz: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	103	675	606	83	77	288	77769

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Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Member of Academia Europaea
2023 - Honorary Member, Swedish Basal Ganglia Society (SWEBAGS)
2019 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society
2018 - Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
2017 - The Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation For their multidisciplinary analysis of brain mechanisms that link learning to reward, which has far-reaching implications for the understanding of human behaviour, including disorders of decision-making in conditions such as gambling, drug addiction, compulsive behaviour and schizophrenia
2014 - Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
2013 - Zülch Prize, Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation, Max-Planck Society
2010 - Europe J Neuroscience Award, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (EJN FENS Award)
2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2005 - Ipsen Prize for Neuronal Plasticity
2002 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Wolfram Schultz is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in neuroscience. Their research output includes substantial work in cognitive neuroscience, general decision sciences, economics and econometrics, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and safety research.

The scientist's main fields of study encompass:

Neuroscience

With a focus on several subfields, their work spans:

Cognitive Neuroscience
General Decision Sciences
Economics and Econometrics
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Safety Research

The research topics engaged by Wolfram Schultz include:

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Neural dynamics and brain function
Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Memory and Neural Mechanisms

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues. The most frequent of these are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Neuroscience
Neuron
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Wolfram Schultz include:

"An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics," 2020, Neuron
"Reward-specific satiety affects subjective value signals in orbitofrontal cortex during multicomponent economic choice," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"A dopamine mechanism for reward maximization," 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Mechanisms of adjustments to different types of uncertainty in the reward environment across mice and monkeys," 2023, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
"Nonhuman Primates Satisfy Utility Maximization in Compliance with the Continuity Axiom of Expected Utility Theory," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators include the following researchers:

Fabian Grabenhorst
Simone Ferrari-Toniolo
Alexandre Pastor-Bernier
Leo Chi U Seak
Arkadiusz Stasiak

Wolfram Schultz's work has been recognized by several awards and memberships. These include:

Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society, 2019
The Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation, 2017, for multidisciplinary analysis connecting learning to reward and its implications for human behavior and disorders related to decision-making
Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2009
Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation, 2002
Membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward

Schultz W;Dayan P;Montague Pr

11654
Citations
Predictive Reward Signal of Dopamine Neurons

Wolfram Schultz

5882
Citations
Getting Formal with Dopamine and Reward

Wolfram Schultz

3236
Citations
Discrete coding of reward probability and uncertainty by dopamine neurons.

Christopher D. Fiorillo;Philippe N. Tobler;Wolfram Schultz

2499
Citations
Behavioral Theories and the Neurophysiology of Reward

Wolfram Schultz

2010
Citations
Neuronal coding of prediction errors.

Wolfram Schultz;Anthony Dickinson

1809
Citations
Responses of monkey dopamine neurons to reward and conditioned stimuli during successive steps of learning a delayed response task

W Schultz;P Apicella;T Ljungberg

1778
Citations
Multiple reward signals in the brain

Wolfram Schultz

1776
Citations
Multiple Dopamine Functions at Different Time Courses

Wolfram Schultz

1772
Citations
Relative reward preference in primate orbitofrontal cortex

Léon Tremblay;Wolfram Schultz;Wolfram Schultz

1700
Citations
Adaptive Coding of Reward Value by Dopamine Neurons

Philippe N. Tobler;Christopher D. Fiorillo;Wolfram Schultz

1581
Citations
Dopamine neurons report an error in the temporal prediction of reward during learning.

Jeffrey R. Hollerman;Wolfram Schultz

1555
Citations
Dopamine responses comply with basic assumptions of formal learning theory

Pascale Waelti;Anthony Dickinson;Wolfram Schultz

1407
Citations
Behavioral dopamine signals.

Wolfram Schultz

1311
Citations
Responses of monkey dopamine neurons during learning of behavioral reactions.

Tomas Ljungberg;Paul Apicella;Wolfram Schultz

1310
Citations
Reward Processing in Primate Orbitofrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia

Wolfram Schultz;Léon Tremblay;Jeffrey R. Hollerman

1291
Citations
Neuronal Reward and Decision Signals: From Theories to Data

Wolfram Schultz

1274
Citations
Dopamine reward prediction-error signalling: a two-component response

Wolfram Schultz

1118
Citations
Preferential activation of midbrain dopamine neurons by appetitive rather than aversive stimuli

Jacques Mirenowicz;Wolfram Schultz

1092
Citations
Dopamine neurons and their role in reward mechanisms

Wolfram Schultz

1065
Citations
Neuronal activity in monkey ventral striatum related to the expectation of reward

W Schultz;P Apicella;E Scarnati;T Ljungberg

1024
Citations