Gregor Kohls

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Gregor Kohls is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregor Kohls has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Clinical Psychology and 21 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Gregor Kohls's work include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (19 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (18 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (18 papers). Gregor Kohls is often cited by papers focused on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (19 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (18 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (18 papers). Gregor Kohls collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Gregor Kohls's co-authors include Robert T. Schultz, Vanessa Troiani, Coralie Chevallier, Edward S. Brodkin, Kerstin Konrad, Beate Herpertz‐Dahlmann, Gerhard Gründer, Katja N. Spreckelmeyer, Sören Krach and Lena Rademacher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Gregor Kohls

51 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

The social motivation theory of autism

2012 1.4k citations Coralie Chevallier, Gregor Kohls et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregor Kohls Germany	22	2.7k	1.1k	735	679	675	56	3.5k
Chris Ashwin United Kingdom	29	3.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	706 1.0×	600 0.9×	454 0.7×	69	3.8k
John D. Herrington United States	34	3.7k 1.4×	1.6k 1.4×	503 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	443 0.7×	80	4.7k
Vanessa Troiani United States	21	2.7k 1.0×	670 0.6×	737 1.0×	520 0.8×	481 0.7×	62	3.3k
Elizabeth Redcay United States	32	3.9k 1.5×	571 0.5×	828 1.1×	696 1.0×	991 1.5×	74	4.8k
Gabriel S. Dichter United States	45	4.3k 1.6×	1.6k 1.5×	619 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	598 0.9×	114	6.1k
Inge‐Marie Eigsti United States	36	3.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.4×	1.8k 2.4×	1.0k 1.5×	395 0.6×	105	5.0k
Dima Amso United States	32	2.4k 0.9×	724 0.7×	1.8k 2.5×	552 0.8×	595 0.9×	85	5.0k
Carl Feinstein United States	33	2.8k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	506 0.7×	858 1.3×	697 1.0×	59	4.4k
Ofer Golan Israel	29	2.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	878 1.2×	420 0.6×	453 0.7×	68	3.2k
Hillary S. Schaefer United States	15	2.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	309 0.4×	593 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	22	4.5k

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Kohls, Gregor, Peter Tiňo, Graeme Fairchild, et al.. (2025). Machine learning reveals sex differences in distinguishing between conduct-disordered and neurotypical youth based on emotion processing dysfunction. BMC Psychiatry. 25(1). 105–105.

Pauli, Ruth, Graeme Fairchild, Sarah Baumann, et al.. (2025). Altered Neural Responses to Punishment Learning in Conduct Disorder. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 10(9). 936–943.

Pauli, Ruth, Inti A. Brazil, Gregor Kohls, et al.. (2025). Conduct Disorder Is Associated With Heightened Action Initiation and Reduced Learning From Punishment but Not Reward. Biological Psychiatry. 98(12). 904–914. 1 indexed citations

Kohls, Gregor, Anka Bernhard, Graeme Fairchild, et al.. (2025). Psychopathy traits and their link to emotion recognition impairments in conduct disorder. JCPP Advances.

Raschle, Nora Maria, Eva Unternäehrer, Gregor Kohls, et al.. (2024). Losing Control: Prefrontal Emotion Regulation Is Related to Symptom Severity and Predicts Treatment-Related Symptom Change in Adolescent Girls With Conduct Disorder. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 10(1). 80–93.

Kohls, Gregor, Jack Rogers, Ruth Pauli, et al.. (2023). Emotion processing in maltreated boys and girls: Evidence for latent vulnerability. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 32(12). 2523–2536. 1 indexed citations

Cubillo, Ana, Helena Oldenhof, Eva Unternäehrer, et al.. (2023). Linking heart rate variability to psychological health and brain structure in adolescents with and without conduct disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1101064–1101064. 3 indexed citations

Stadler, Christina, Christine M. Freitag, Arne Popma, et al.. (2023). START NOW : a cognitive behavioral skills training for adolescent girls with conduct or oppositional defiant disorder – a randomized clinical trial. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 65(3). 316–327. 3 indexed citations

Staginnus, Marlene, Nicola Toschi, Areti Smaragdi, et al.. (2023). Testing the Ecophenotype Model: Cortical Structure Alterations in Conduct Disorder With Versus Without Childhood Maltreatment. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 8(6). 609–619. 6 indexed citations

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Toschi, Nicola, Catherine Hamilton‐Giachritsis, Marlene Staginnus, et al.. (2023). Identifying structural brain markers of resilience to adversity in young people using voxel-based morphometry. Development and Psychopathology. 35(5). 2302–2314. 9 indexed citations

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Mack, Judith T., Nicole Wolff, Gregor Kohls, et al.. (2021). Social and Nonsocial Autism Symptom Domains in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Insights into Their Symptomatological Interplay. Psychopathology. 56(1-2). 8–16. 4 indexed citations

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Villemonteix, Thomas, Jack Rogers, Karen González-Madruga, et al.. (2021). Sex matters: association between callous-unemotional traits and uncinate fasciculus microstructure in youths with conduct disorder. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 16(1). 263–269. 3 indexed citations

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González-Madruga, Karen, Jack Rogers, Nicola Toschi, et al.. (2019). White matter microstructure of the extended limbic system in male and female youth with conduct disorder. Psychological Medicine. 50(1). 58–67. 9 indexed citations

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Kohls, Gregor, et al.. (2018). Altered reward system reactivity for personalized circumscribed interests in autism. Molecular Autism. 9(1). 9–9. 72 indexed citations

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Kohls, Gregor, et al.. (2018). Altered neural processing of reward and punishment in adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. 232. 23–33. 29 indexed citations

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Greimel, Ellen, et al.. (2018). Sex differences in the neural underpinnings of social and monetary incentive processing during adolescence. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 18(2). 296–312. 28 indexed citations

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Herpertz‐Dahlmann, Beate, et al.. (2014). Responsivity to familiar versus unfamiliar social reward in children with autism. Journal of Neural Transmission. 121(9). 1199–1210. 21 indexed citations

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Kohls, Gregor, Martin Schulte‐Rüther, K.-M. Müller, et al.. (2012). Reward system dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 8(5). 565–572. 203 indexed citations

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Greimel, Ellen, Gereon R. Fink, Juraj Kukolja, et al.. (2012). Neural mechanisms of encoding social and non-social context information in autism spectrum disorder. Neuropsychologia. 50(14). 3440–3449. 24 indexed citations

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Chevallier, Coralie, Gregor Kohls, Vanessa Troiani, Edward S. Brodkin, & Robert T. Schultz. (2012). The social motivation theory of autism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 16(4). 231–239. 1407 indexed citations breakdown →

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