Andrea Mechelli

25.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
161 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Andrea Mechelli is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrea Mechelli has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 57 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 50 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Andrea Mechelli's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (83 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (46 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (44 papers). Andrea Mechelli is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (83 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (46 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (44 papers). Andrea Mechelli collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Andrea Mechelli's co-authors include Cathy J. Price, Karl Friston, Philip McGuire, William Pettersson‐Yeo, John Ashburner, C.J. Price, Giuseppe Sartori, R. S. J. Frackowiak, Nicolás Crossley and Sandra Vieira and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Andrea Mechelli

157 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The hubs of the human connectome are generally implicated in the anatomy of brain disorders
    2014 846 citations Nicolás Crossley, Andrea Mechelli et al. profile →
  2. Nonlinear Responses in fMRI: The Balloon Model, Volterra Kernels, and Other Hemodynamics
    2000 785 citations Andrea Mechelli et al. profile →
  3. Using Support Vector Machine to identify imaging biomarkers of neurological and psychiatric disease: A critical review
    2012 767 citations Graziella Orrù, William Pettersson‐Yeo et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →
  4. Voxel-Based Morphometry of the Human Brain: Methods and Applications
    2005 688 citations Andrea Mechelli, Cathy J. Price et al. profile →
  5. Comparing dynamic causal models
    2004 665 citations Klaas Ε. Stephan, Andrea Mechelli et al. profile →
  6. Structural plasticity in the bilingual brain
    2004 663 citations Andrea Mechelli, Jenny Crinion et al. profile →
  7. Dysconnectivity in schizophrenia: Where are we now?
    2010 521 citations William Pettersson‐Yeo, Paul Allen et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →
  8. Using deep learning to investigate the neuroimaging correlates of psychiatric and neurological disorders: Methods and applications
    2017 387 citations Sandra Vieira, Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Andrea Mechelli United Kingdom 64 11.5k 4.3k 3.3k 2.6k 1.8k 161 16.0k
N. Tzourio-Mazoyer France 17 13.3k 1.2× 4.2k 1.0× 2.7k 0.8× 2.7k 1.1× 2.0k 1.1× 26 17.4k
Susan Whitfield‐Gabrieli United States 46 10.7k 0.9× 2.7k 0.6× 2.5k 0.7× 3.1k 1.2× 988 0.6× 137 13.9k
Douglas C. Noll United States 61 15.1k 1.3× 5.8k 1.4× 2.7k 0.8× 3.2k 1.2× 1.5k 0.9× 205 22.7k
Marc Joliot France 37 14.0k 1.2× 5.1k 1.2× 3.1k 0.9× 2.8k 1.1× 991 0.6× 93 19.2k
Fabrice Crivello France 49 16.5k 1.4× 5.3k 1.2× 3.6k 1.1× 3.3k 1.3× 2.3k 1.3× 99 22.3k
Elizabeth R. Sowell United States 61 7.1k 0.6× 3.2k 0.8× 2.7k 0.8× 1.5k 0.6× 1.4k 0.8× 147 16.9k
Todd B. Parrish United States 74 9.9k 0.9× 4.3k 1.0× 1.7k 0.5× 2.3k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 252 18.8k
Nitin Gogtay United States 52 8.5k 0.7× 3.2k 0.7× 4.2k 1.3× 2.1k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 112 15.9k
Damien A. Fair United States 63 14.2k 1.2× 4.1k 1.0× 3.4k 1.0× 3.0k 1.2× 816 0.5× 197 19.4k
Clare Kelly United States 57 17.0k 1.5× 5.6k 1.3× 4.0k 1.2× 3.4k 1.3× 794 0.4× 110 20.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baecker, Lea, et al.. (2025). Impacts of extreme heat on mental health: Systematic review and qualitative investigation of the underpinning mechanisms. The Journal of Climate Change and Health. 22. 100446–100446.
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Golay, Philippe, Andrea Mechelli, Luis Alameda, et al.. (2025). A dimensional approach to psychosis: identifying cognition, depression, and thought disorder factors in a clinical sample. Schizophrenia. 11(1). 97–97.
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Georgiades, Anna, et al.. (2023). Psychosocial stress, interpersonal sensitivity, and social withdrawal in clinical high risk for psychosis: a systematic review. Schizophrenia. 9(1). 38–38. 23 indexed citations
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Qin, Kun, Du Lei, Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya, et al.. (2022). Using graph convolutional network to characterize individuals with major depressive disorder across multiple imaging sites. EBioMedicine. 78. 103977–103977. 59 indexed citations
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Vieira, Sandra, et al.. (2022). Can we predict who will benefit from cognitive-behavioural therapy? A systematic review and meta-analysis of machine learning studies. Clinical Psychology Review. 97. 102193–102193. 33 indexed citations
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Morgan, Sarah E., Jonathan Young, Ameera X. Patel, et al.. (2020). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Connectivity Accurately Distinguishes Cases With Psychotic Disorders From Healthy Controls, Based on Cortical Features Associated With Brain Network Development. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 6(12). 1125–1134. 20 indexed citations
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Li, Jie, Nick Manning, & Andrea Mechelli. (2019). Digging deeper in Shanghai: towards a ‘mechanism-rich’ epidemiology. International Health. 11(Supplement_1). S14–S23. 4 indexed citations
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Reilly, Thomas J., Andrea Mechelli, Philip McGuire, Paolo Fusar‐Poli, & Peter J. Uhlhaas. (2019). E-Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: Viewpoint on Potential of Digital Innovations for Preventive Psychiatry. JMIR Mental Health. 6(10). e14581–e14581. 13 indexed citations
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Vieira, Sandra, Qiyong Gong, Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya, et al.. (2018). Using Machine Learning and Structural Neuroimaging to Detect First Episode Psychosis: Reconsidering the Evidence. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 46(1). 17–26. 65 indexed citations
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Gong, Qiyong, Xinyu Hu, William Pettersson‐Yeo, et al.. (2016). Network-Level Dysconnectivity in Drug-Naïve First-Episode Psychosis: Dissociating Transdiagnostic and Diagnosis-Specific Alterations. Neuropsychopharmacology. 42(4). 933–940. 51 indexed citations
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Prata, Diana, Andrea Mechelli, & Shitij Kapur. (2014). Clinically meaningful biomarkers for psychosis: A systematic and quantitative review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 45. 134–141. 64 indexed citations
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Mechelli, Andrea, Paolo Fusar‐Poli, Diana Prata, et al.. (2012). Genetic Vulnerability to Psychosis and Cortical Function: Epistatic Effects between DAAO and G72. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 18(4). 510–517. 14 indexed citations
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Orrù, Graziella, William Pettersson‐Yeo, André F. Marquand, Giuseppe Sartori, & Andrea Mechelli. (2012). Using Support Vector Machine to identify imaging biomarkers of neurological and psychiatric disease: A critical review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 36(4). 1140–1152. 767 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mechelli, Andrea, Anita Riecher‐Rössler, Eva Meisenzahl, et al.. (2011). Neuroanatomical Abnormalities That Predate the Onset of Psychosis. Archives of General Psychiatry. 68(5). 489–489. 197 indexed citations
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Nosarti, Chiara, Andrea Mechelli, Muriel Walshe, et al.. (2010). Structural covariance in the cortex of very preterm adolescents: A voxel‐based morphometry study. Human Brain Mapping. 32(10). 1615–1625. 42 indexed citations
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Crossley, Nicolás, Andrea Mechelli, Paolo Fusar‐Poli, et al.. (2009). Superior temporal lobe dysfunction and frontotemporal dysconnectivity in subjects at risk of psychosis and in first‐episode psychosis. Human Brain Mapping. 30(12). 4129–4137. 165 indexed citations
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Allen, Paul, Andrea Mechelli, Klaas Ε. Stephan, et al.. (2008). Fronto-temporal Interactions during Overt Verbal Initiation and Suppression. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 20(9). 1656–1669. 46 indexed citations
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Lee, Hweeling, Joseph T. Devlin, Clare Shakeshaft, et al.. (2007). Anatomical Traces of Vocabulary Acquisition in the Adolescent Brain. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(5). 1184–1189. 131 indexed citations
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Wright, Nicole C., Andrea Mechelli, Uta Noppeney, et al.. (2007). Selective activation around the left occipito‐temporal sulcus for words relative to pictures: Individual variability or false positives?. Human Brain Mapping. 29(8). 986–1000. 31 indexed citations

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