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Wolfram Schultz

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
103
Citations
77769
World Ranking
675
National Ranking
82

Wolfram Schultz 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 Wolfram Schultz sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 288 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfram Schultz 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 Wolfram Schultz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Honorary Member, Swedish Basal Ganglia Society (SWEBAGS)
  • 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
  • 2013 - Zülch Prize, Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation, Max-Planck Society
  • 2010 - Europe J Neuroscience Award, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (EJN FENS Award)
  • 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
  • 2005 - Ipsen Prize for Neuronal Plasticity
  • 2002 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • 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

  • Predictive Reward Signal of Dopamine Neurons

    Wolfram Schultz

  • Getting Formal with Dopamine and Reward

    Wolfram Schultz

  • Discrete coding of reward probability and uncertainty by dopamine neurons.

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

  • Behavioral Theories and the Neurophysiology of Reward

    Wolfram Schultz

  • Neuronal coding of prediction errors.

    Wolfram Schultz;Anthony Dickinson

  • 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

  • Multiple reward signals in the brain

    Wolfram Schultz

  • Multiple Dopamine Functions at Different Time Courses

    Wolfram Schultz

  • Relative reward preference in primate orbitofrontal cortex

    Léon Tremblay;Wolfram Schultz;Wolfram Schultz

  • Adaptive Coding of Reward Value by Dopamine Neurons

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

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

    Jeffrey R. Hollerman;Wolfram Schultz

  • Dopamine responses comply with basic assumptions of formal learning theory

    Pascale Waelti;Anthony Dickinson;Wolfram Schultz

  • Behavioral dopamine signals.

    Wolfram Schultz

  • Responses of monkey dopamine neurons during learning of behavioral reactions.

    Tomas Ljungberg;Paul Apicella;Wolfram Schultz

  • Reward Processing in Primate Orbitofrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia

    Wolfram Schultz;Léon Tremblay;Jeffrey R. Hollerman

  • Neuronal Reward and Decision Signals: From Theories to Data

    Wolfram Schultz

  • Dopamine reward prediction-error signalling: a two-component response

    Wolfram Schultz

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

    Jacques Mirenowicz;Wolfram Schultz

  • Dopamine neurons and their role in reward mechanisms

    Wolfram Schultz

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

    W Schultz;P Apicella;E Scarnati;T Ljungberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe N. Tobler
Philippe N. Tobler University of Zurich
Ranulfo Romo
Ranulfo Romo National Autonomous University of Mexico
Léon Tremblay
Léon Tremblay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
John P. O'Doherty
John P. O'Doherty California Institute of Technology
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Paul C. Fletcher
Paul C. Fletcher University of Cambridge
Erik Sundström
Erik Sundström Karolinska Institute
Anthony Dickinson
Anthony Dickinson University of Cambridge
Ole Paulsen
Ole Paulsen University of Cambridge
Urban Ungerstedt
Urban Ungerstedt Karolinska Institute

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