Erno J. Hermans

11.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Erno J. Hermans is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Erno J. Hermans has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 49 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience and 39 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Erno J. Hermans's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (49 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (25 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (25 papers). Erno J. Hermans is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (49 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (25 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (25 papers). Erno J. Hermans collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Erno J. Hermans's co-authors include Guillén Fernández, Jack van Honk, Peter Putman, Shaozheng Qin, Hein J. F. van Marle, Marloes J. A. G. Henckens, Marian Joëls, Nick F. Ramsey, Lindsey Ossewaarde and Guido van Wingen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Erno J. Hermans

99 papers receiving 7.6k citations

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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.

Dynamic adaptation of large-scale brain networks in response to acute stressors

2014 645 citations Erno J. Hermans, Marloes J. A. G. Henckens et al. Trends in Neurosciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erno J. Hermans Netherlands	48	4.0k	2.7k	2.5k	2.0k	1.2k	102	7.8k
Tony W. Buchanan United States	36	3.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	67	6.2k
Lars Schwabe Germany	51	4.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	4.1k 1.6×	2.4k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	186	9.3k
Guido van Wingen Netherlands	50	3.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	188	7.0k
Jack van Honk Netherlands	64	4.3k 1.1×	4.3k 1.6×	1.8k 0.7×	3.6k 1.8×	2.0k 1.7×	174	10.5k
Karin Roelofs Netherlands	57	3.5k 0.9×	3.1k 1.1×	1.6k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	2.7k 2.3×	211	9.4k
Turhan Canli United States	46	4.7k 1.2×	3.0k 1.1×	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.6×	81	8.8k
Peter Zwanzger Germany	50	2.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	897 0.5×	1.8k 1.5×	211	7.4k
Larry Cahill United States	59	7.5k 1.9×	1.9k 0.7×	4.2k 1.7×	3.1k 1.6×	1.5k 1.3×	105	13.3k
Sarah Whittle Australia	53	3.5k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	3.0k 2.5×	222	8.5k
Tanja Jovanović United States	59	3.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	4.6k 1.8×	2.0k 1.0×	5.3k 4.5×	287	12.0k

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Jansen, Stefan, et al.. (2025). Resilience frameworks, measurement tools, and transmission processes in the context of man-made collective trauma: a meta-synthesis and multilevel meta-analysis. European journal of psychotraumatology. 16(1). 2582455–2582455.

Pamplona, Gustavo Santo Pedro, Jana Zweerings, Lydia Hellrung, et al.. (2025). Neural Mechanisms of Feedback Processing and Regulation Recalibration During Neurofeedback Training. Human Brain Mapping. 46(10). e70279–e70279.

Bögemann, Sophie, Judith van Leeuwen, Jeroen Weermeijer, et al.. (2024). Real-time analysis of psychological and physiological stress signals to trigger emotion-regulation interventions in daily life. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 160. 106721–106721.

Geurts, Dirk E. M., et al.. (2023). Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effects of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction on stress regulation and associated neurocognitive mechanisms in stressed university students: the MindRest study. BMC Psychology. 11(1). 194–194. 2 indexed citations

Heuvel, Martijn P. van den, et al.. (2022). Early-life stress exposure and large-scale covariance brain networks in extremely preterm-born infants. Translational Psychiatry. 12(1). 256–256. 12 indexed citations

Musanabaganwa, Clarisse, Stefan Jansen, Agaz H. Wani, et al.. (2022). Community Engagement in Epigenomic and Neurocognitive Research on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Rwandans Exposed to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi: Lessons Learned. Epigenomics. 14(15). 887–895. 2 indexed citations

Voogd, Lycia D. de, et al.. (2021). Mild early‐life stress exaggerates the impact of acute stress on corticolimbic resting‐state functional connectivity. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55(9-10). 2122–2141. 6 indexed citations

Musanabaganwa, Clarisse, Agaz H. Wani, Segun Fatumo, et al.. (2021). Leukocyte Methylomic Imprints of Exposure to the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda: a Pilot Epigenome-Wide Analysis. Epigenomics. 14(1). 11–25. 14 indexed citations

Hermans, Erno J., Jonathan W. Kanen, Arielle Tambini, et al.. (2016). Persistence of Amygdala–Hippocampal Connectivity and Multi-Voxel Correlation Structures During Awake Rest After Fear Learning Predicts Long-Term Expression of Fear. Cerebral Cortex. 27(5). bhw145–bhw145. 68 indexed citations

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Hermans, Erno J., Marloes J. A. G. Henckens, Marian Joëls, & Guillén Fernández. (2014). Dynamic adaptation of large-scale brain networks in response to acute stressors. Trends in Neurosciences. 37(6). 304–314. 645 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marle, Hein J. F. van, Erno J. Hermans, Shaozheng Qin, Sebastiaan Overeem, & Guillén Fernández. (2013). The effect of exogenous cortisol during sleep on the behavioral and neural correlates of emotional memory consolidation in humans. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 38(9). 1639–1649. 32 indexed citations

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Bos, Peter A., Jack van Honk, Nick F. Ramsey, Dan J. Stein, & Erno J. Hermans. (2012). Testosterone administration in women increases amygdala responses to fearful and happy faces. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 38(6). 808–817. 67 indexed citations

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Qin, Shaozheng, Erno J. Hermans, Hein J. F. van Marle, & Guillén Fernández. (2012). Understanding Low Reliability of Memories for Neutral Information Encoded under Stress: Alterations in Memory-Related Activation in the Hippocampus and Midbrain. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(12). 4032–4041. 68 indexed citations

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Qin, Shaozheng, Hein J. F. van Marle, Erno J. Hermans, & Guillén Fernández. (2011). Subjective Sense of Memory Strength and the Objective Amount of Information Accurately Remembered Are Related to Distinct Neural Correlates at Encoding. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(24). 8920–8927. 44 indexed citations

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Cousijn, Helena, Mark Rijpkema, Shaozheng Qin, et al.. (2010). Acute stress modulates genotype effects on amygdala processing in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(21). 9867–9872. 89 indexed citations

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Morgan, Barak, et al.. (2009). Gray's BIS/BAS dimensions in non-comorbid, non-medicated social anxiety disorder. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. 10(4-3). 925–928. 13 indexed citations

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Qin, Shaozheng, Mark Rijpkema, Indira Tendolkar, et al.. (2009). Dissecting medial temporal lobe contributions to item and associative memory formation. NeuroImage. 46(3). 874–881. 40 indexed citations

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Roelofs, Karin, Patricia Bakvis, Erno J. Hermans, Jos van Pelt, & Jack van Honk. (2007). The effects of social stress and cortisol responses on the preconscious selective attention to social threat.. Biological Psychiatry. 75. 1–7. 9 indexed citations

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Hermans, Erno J., Nick F. Ramsey, & Jack van Honk. (2007). Exogenous Testosterone Enhances Responsiveness to Social Threat in the Neural Circuitry of Social Aggression in Humans. Biological Psychiatry. 63(3). 263–270. 271 indexed citations

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Hermans, Erno J., Peter Putman, Johanna M.P. Baas, H. P. F. Koppeschaar, & Jack van Honk. (2006). A Single Administration of Testosterone Reduces Fear-Potentiated Startle in Humans. Biological Psychiatry. 59(9). 872–874. 180 indexed citations

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