Evangelos Vassos

15.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Evangelos Vassos is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Evangelos Vassos has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 31 papers in Genetics and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Evangelos Vassos's work include Schizophrenia research and treatment (23 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (21 papers) and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (13 papers). Evangelos Vassos is often cited by papers focused on Schizophrenia research and treatment (23 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (21 papers) and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (13 papers). Evangelos Vassos collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Hong Kong. Evangelos Vassos's co-authors include Cathryn M. Lewis, Robin Murray, David Collier, Marta Di Forti, Arianna Marconi, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Seena Fazel, Philip Asherson, Ruth Cooper and Jonna Kuntsi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Evangelos Vassos

64 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Polygenic risk scores: from research tools to clinical instruments

2020 714 citations Cathryn M. Lewis, Evangelos Vassos profile →
Meta-analysis of the Association Between the Level of Cannabis Use and Risk of Psychosis

2016 535 citations Marta Di Forti, Cathryn M. Lewis et al. Schizophrenia Bulletin profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Evangelos Vassos United Kingdom	25	1.0k	983	586	532	431	69	3.2k
Po‐Hsiu Kuo Taiwan	34	893 0.9×	647 0.7×	1.2k 2.1×	544 1.0×	275 0.6×	209	4.3k
Aliza P. Wingo United States	35	544 0.5×	997 1.0×	812 1.4×	1.0k 1.9×	187 0.4×	86	3.6k
Amirhossein Modabbernia Iran	30	331 0.3×	1.2k 1.2×	398 0.7×	527 1.0×	321 0.7×	68	3.5k
Alexandre A. Todorov United States	36	534 0.5×	899 0.9×	634 1.1×	888 1.7×	387 0.9×	102	4.1k
Elisabet Vilella Spain	31	599 0.6×	758 0.8×	934 1.6×	393 0.7×	123 0.3×	164	3.5k
Takuya Saito Japan	26	698 0.7×	983 1.0×	878 1.5×	654 1.2×	201 0.5×	105	3.6k
Marsha Wilcox United States	23	812 0.8×	349 0.4×	1.1k 1.8×	302 0.6×	234 0.5×	54	2.9k
Po See Chen Taiwan	32	341 0.3×	1.3k 1.3×	435 0.7×	465 0.9×	410 1.0×	230	3.6k
W. Maier Germany	31	628 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	606 1.0×	739 1.4×	364 0.8×	84	3.8k
Haim Y. Knobler Israel	29	412 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	384 0.7×	717 1.3×	197 0.5×	60	2.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Evangelos Vassos

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All Works

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Gillett, Alexandra C., Matthew H. Iveson, Chiara Fabbri, et al.. (2025). Antidepressant Switching as a Proxy Phenotype for Drug Nonresponse: Investigating Clinical, Demographic, and Genetic Characteristics. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 5(4). 100502–100502. 3 indexed citations

Vassos, Evangelos, Ka Wang Cheung, Kenneth Chi-Yin Wong, et al.. (2025). The effect of prenatal psychotropic drug exposures on obstetric complications: 19-year population-based study. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 1–10.

Cardno, Alastair G., Judith Allardyce, Steven C. Bakker, et al.. (2024). Associations of psychotic symptom dimensions with clinical and developmental variables in twin and general clinical samples. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 226(1). 16–23. 1 indexed citations

Li, Danyang, et al.. (2024). PREDICTION OF ANTIDEPRESSANT SIDE EFFECTS IN THE GENETIC LINK TO ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION STUDY. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 87. 25–25. 1 indexed citations

Hübel, Christopher, Molly R. Davies, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, et al.. (2023). Genetic examination of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire and its relationship with bipolar disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 192(7-8). 147–160. 7 indexed citations

Vassos, Evangelos, André F. Marquand, James Stone, et al.. (2023). Prediction of transition to psychosis from an at-risk mental state using structural neuroimaging, genetic, and environmental data. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 1086038–1086038. 1 indexed citations

Arathimos, Ryan, Chiara Fabbri, Evangelos Vassos, et al.. (2022). Latent subtypes of manic and/or irritable episode symptoms in two population-based cohorts. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 221(6). 722–731. 4 indexed citations

Austin, Jehannine, et al.. (2022). Research priorities in psychiatric genetic counselling: how to talk to children and adolescents about genetics and psychiatric disorders. European Journal of Human Genetics. 31(3). 262–264. 2 indexed citations

Jermy, Bradley, Kylie P. Glanville, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Cathryn M. Lewis, & Evangelos Vassos. (2021). Exploring the genetic heterogeneity in major depression across diagnostic criteria. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(12). 7337–7345. 19 indexed citations

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Hübel, Christopher, Joel Gelernter, Daniel F. Levey, et al.. (2021). Psychological trauma and the genetic overlap between posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine. 52(16). 3975–3984. 15 indexed citations

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Vassos, Evangelos, Sarah Tosato, Charlotte Dennison, et al.. (2021). Lack of Support for the Genes by Early Environment Interaction Hypothesis in the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 48(1). 20–26. 19 indexed citations

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Vassos, Evangelos, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of Genotype-Based Gene Expression Model Performance: A Cross-Framework and Cross-Dataset Study. Genes. 12(10). 1531–1531. 2 indexed citations

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Glanville, Kylie P., et al.. (2021). Investigating the effects of genetic risk of schizophrenia on behavioural traits. Schizophrenia. 7(1). 2–2. 10 indexed citations

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Prata, Diana, et al.. (2019). Unravelling the genetic basis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with GWAS: A systematic review. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 114. 178–207. 61 indexed citations

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Vassos, Evangelos, Sukhwinder S. Shergill, Colm McDonald, et al.. (2019). Schizophrenia polygenic risk score influence on white matter microstructure. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 121. 62–67. 12 indexed citations

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Quattrone, Diego, Pak C. Sham, Evangelos Vassos, et al.. (2018). 5.4 BIOLOGICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF TRANSDIAGNOSTIC AND SPECIFIC SYMPTOM DIMENSIONS AT PSYCHOSIS ONSET: FINDINGS FROM THE EUGEI STUDY. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 44(suppl_1). S7–S7.

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Trotta, Antonella, Conrad Iyegbe, Marta Di Forti, et al.. (2016). Interplay between Schizophrenia Polygenic Risk Score and Childhood Adversity in First-Presentation Psychotic Disorder: A Pilot Study. PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0163319–e0163319. 45 indexed citations

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Vassos, Evangelos, Esben Agerbo, Ole Mors, & Carsten Bøcker Pedersen. (2015). Urban–rural differences in incidence rates of psychiatric disorders in Denmark. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 208(5). 435–440. 103 indexed citations

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McLysaght, Aoife, Takashi Makino, Hannah M. Grayton, et al.. (2013). Ohnologs are overrepresented in pathogenic copy number mutations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(1). 361–366. 45 indexed citations

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Walshe, Muriel, Evangelos Vassos, Marco Picchioni, et al.. (2012). The Association between COMT, BDNF, and NRG1 and Premorbid Social Functioning in Patients with Psychosis, Their Relatives, and Controls. Scientifica. 2012. 1–6. 6 indexed citations

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