Benjamin Becker

12.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
270 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Becker is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Becker has authored 270 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 109 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 84 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Becker's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (90 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (68 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (55 papers). Benjamin Becker is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (90 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (68 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (55 papers). Benjamin Becker collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Hong Kong. Benjamin Becker's co-authors include Keith M. Kendrick, Christian Montag, René Hurlemann, Weihua Zhao, Dirk Scheele, Shuxia Yao, Cornelia Sindermann, Feng Zhou, Wolfgang Maier and Yayuan Geng and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Becker

249 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Running-Induced Systemic Cathepsin B Secretion Is Associated with Memory Function

2016 417 citations Benjamin Becker et al. profile →
The Role of Empathy and Life Satisfaction in Internet and Smartphone Use Disorder

2018 149 citations Bernd Lachmann, Rayna Sariyska et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Becker China	44	2.6k	2.4k	2.2k	1.0k	898	270	7.3k
Lauri Nummenmaa Finland	57	5.5k 2.1×	2.6k 1.1×	2.6k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	380 0.4×	196	9.6k
Giuseppe Pagnoni Italy	37	3.9k 1.5×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	506 0.6×	68	7.4k
Peter Kirsch Germany	58	5.1k 2.0×	3.6k 1.5×	3.1k 1.4×	2.3k 2.2×	417 0.5×	196	11.9k
Hedy Kober United States	44	5.4k 2.1×	1.8k 0.8×	3.5k 1.6×	3.7k 3.6×	552 0.6×	105	10.6k
Jan Gläscher Germany	31	3.8k 1.4×	1.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	808 0.8×	164 0.2×	56	5.9k
Raffaël Kalisch Germany	42	5.2k 2.0×	1.9k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	2.5k 2.4×	217 0.2×	130	9.7k
Salomon Israel Israel	33	900 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.7×	346 0.4×	68	5.2k
Maarten A.S. Boksem Netherlands	30	2.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	493 0.5×	400 0.4×	62	5.3k
Håkan Fischer Sweden	49	4.6k 1.8×	1.3k 0.5×	2.6k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	272 0.3×	190	7.2k
William M. Kelley United States	46	6.8k 2.6×	2.4k 1.0×	2.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	580 0.6×	68	9.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin Becker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Becker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Benjamin Becker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Benjamin Becker based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Benjamin Becker. Benjamin Becker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Fu, Kun, Zheng Zhang, Dan Liu, et al.. (2025). Oxytocin Reduces Subjective Fear in Naturalistic Social Contexts via Enhancing Top‐Down Middle Cingulate Amygdala Regulation and Brain‐Wide Fear Representations. Advanced Science. 12(38). e03251–e03251. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Junjie, Jialin Li, Xiaolei Xu, et al.. (2024). Neural Basis of Pain Empathy Dysregulations in Mental Disorders: A Preregistered Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 10(2). 127–137. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaodong, Chunmei Lan, Xiaolu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Neural underpinnings of a two-phase memory suppression process in the neural response to self-related and observed perspective views. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 24(4). 100509–100509.

Zhou, Xinqi, Qi Liu, Lan Wang, et al.. (2024). The neuroanatomical correlates of daily habitual tendencies and mediating effect on the association between daily habitual tendencies and symptoms of behavioral addictions. Computers in Human Behavior. 158. 108310–108310.

Chen, Zhiyi, Ting Xu, Xuerong Liu, et al.. (2024). Cortical gradient perturbation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder correlates with neurotransmitter‐, cell type‐specific and chromosome‐ transcriptomic signatures. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 78(5). 309–321. 2 indexed citations

Becker, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). A nontraditional presentation and treatment for emphysematous cystitis. Urology Case Reports. 46. 102321–102321. 5 indexed citations

Yu, Gechang, Zhaowen Liu, Xinran Wu, et al.. (2023). Common and disorder-specific cortical thickness alterations in internalizing, externalizing and thought disorders during early adolescence: an Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 48(5). E345–E356. 7 indexed citations

Liu, Xiqin, Lan Wang, Ting Xu, et al.. (2023). Distinct neurofunctional alterations during motivational and hedonic processing of natural and monetary rewards in depression – a neuroimaging meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine. 54(4). 639–651. 10 indexed citations

Zhuang, Qian, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Shuxia Yao, et al.. (2022). Oral Administration of Oxytocin, Like Intranasal Administration, Decreases Top-Down Social Attention. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 25(11). 912–923. 16 indexed citations

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Ferraro, Stefania, Anna Nigri, Luca Giani, et al.. (2022). Mesocorticolimbic system abnormalities in chronic cluster headache patients: A neural signature?. Cephalalgia. 42(10). 1039–1049. 11 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xinqi, et al.. (2022). Age-dependent changes in the dynamic functional organization of the brain at rest: a cross-cultural replication approach. Cerebral Cortex. 33(10). 6394–6406. 5 indexed citations

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Lan, Chunmei, Congcong Liu, Keshuang Li, et al.. (2022). Oxytocinergic Modulation of Stress-Associated Amygdala-Hippocampus Pathways in Humans Is Mediated by Serotonergic Mechanisms. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 25(10). 807–817. 9 indexed citations

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Klugah‐Brown, Benjamin, Pan Wang, Yuan Jiang, et al.. (2022). Structural–functional connectivity mapping of the insular cortex: a combined data-driven and meta-analytic topic mapping. Cerebral Cortex. 33(5). 1726–1738. 7 indexed citations

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Klugah‐Brown, Benjamin, Xinqi Zhou, Basant Pradhan, et al.. (2021). Common neurofunctional dysregulations characterize obsessive–compulsive, substance use, and gaming disorders—An activation likelihood meta‐analysis of functional imaging studies. Addiction Biology. 26(4). e12997–e12997. 36 indexed citations

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Kendrick, Keith M., Jörg Daumann, Daniel Wagner, et al.. (2021). A prospective longitudinal study shows putamen volume is associated with moderate amphetamine use and resultant cognitive impairments. PubMed. 1(1). 3–12. 4 indexed citations

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Demichelis, Greta, Chiara Pinardi, Luca Giani, et al.. (2021). Chronic cluster headache: A study of the telencephalic and cerebellar cortical thickness. Cephalalgia. 42(6). 444–454. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Lei, Taylor Bolt, Jason S. Nomi, et al.. (2020). Inter-subject phase synchronization differentiates neural networks underlying physical pain empathy. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 15(2). 225–233. 16 indexed citations

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Sariyska, Rayna, Bernd Lachmann, Qianqian Wang, et al.. (2020). Convergent cross‐sectional and longitudinal evidence for gaming‐cue specific posterior parietal dysregulations in early stages of internet gaming disorder. Addiction Biology. 26(3). e12933–e12933. 15 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiaolei, Congcong Liu, Xinqi Zhou, et al.. (2019). Oxytocin Facilitates Self-Serving Rather Than Altruistic Tendencies in Competitive Social Interactions Via Orbitofrontal Cortex. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 22(8). 501–512. 20 indexed citations

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Xin, Fei, Feng Zhou, Xinqi Zhou, et al.. (2018). Oxytocin Modulates the Intrinsic Dynamics Between Attention-Related Large-Scale Networks. Cerebral Cortex. 31(3). 1848–1860. 27 indexed citations

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