Jan Wacker

3.3k total citations
64 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Jan Wacker is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Wacker has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 11 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Jan Wacker's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (35 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (17 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (13 papers). Jan Wacker is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (35 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (17 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (13 papers). Jan Wacker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United States. Jan Wacker's co-authors include Gerhard Stemmler, Diego A. Pizzagalli, Mira‐Lynn Chavanon, Daniel G. Dillon, Erik M. Mueller, Luke D. Smillie, Marcus Heldmann, Anja Leue, Jürgen Hennig and Cornelia A. Pauls and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jan Wacker

62 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan Wacker Germany 27 1.2k 772 352 324 220 64 2.1k
Henk van Steenbergen Netherlands 26 1.7k 1.4× 928 1.2× 263 0.7× 516 1.6× 113 0.5× 75 2.7k
Ewald Naumann Germany 29 1.6k 1.3× 832 1.1× 382 1.1× 437 1.3× 123 0.6× 65 2.8k
Eliza Congdon United States 30 1.5k 1.2× 766 1.0× 487 1.4× 400 1.2× 414 1.9× 60 3.2k
Brian R. Cornwell United States 23 1.4k 1.2× 806 1.0× 393 1.1× 232 0.7× 393 1.8× 37 2.5k
Alfonso Barrós‐Loscertales Spain 25 1.1k 0.9× 635 0.8× 317 0.9× 400 1.2× 345 1.6× 63 2.1k
Gennady G. Knyazev Russia 25 2.8k 2.3× 1.1k 1.4× 594 1.7× 637 2.0× 270 1.2× 109 3.9k
Sanjay Manohar United Kingdom 32 1.9k 1.6× 509 0.7× 212 0.6× 242 0.7× 477 2.2× 141 3.2k
Alexandre Schaefer United Kingdom 24 1.4k 1.1× 878 1.1× 291 0.8× 471 1.5× 43 0.2× 51 2.2k
Michiko Sakaki Japan 24 1.5k 1.2× 785 1.0× 204 0.6× 403 1.2× 177 0.8× 80 2.7k
Ken Graap United States 20 840 0.7× 398 0.5× 737 2.1× 320 1.0× 371 1.7× 27 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jan Wacker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Wacker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jan Wacker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jan Wacker 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 Jan Wacker. Jan Wacker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Beauducel, André, Jürgen Hennig, Johannes Hewig, et al.. (2024). The association of dispositional anxiety with the NoGo N2 under relaxation instruction vs. speed/accuracy instruction. Biological Psychology. 192. 108850–108850. 3 indexed citations
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Paul, Katharina, et al.. (2024). Can personality traits be predicted from resting-state EEG oscillations? A replication study. Biological Psychology. 193. 108955–108955. 2 indexed citations
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Paul, Katharina, André Beauducel, Jürgen Hennig, et al.. (2022). The methodology and dataset of the coscience eeg-personality project – a large-scale, multi-laboratory project grounded in cooperative forking paths analysis. Kölner Universitäts PublikationsServer (Universität zu Köln). 3. 9 indexed citations
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Wacker, Jan & Katharina Paul. (2021). An unsatisfactory status quo and promising perspectives: why links between brain activity and personality remain elusive and what we need to change to do better. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 43. 224–229. 3 indexed citations
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Smillie, Luke D., et al.. (2019). Extraversion and reward-processing: Consolidating evidence from an electroencephalographic index of reward-prediction-error. Biological Psychology. 146. 107735–107735. 26 indexed citations
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Smillie, Luke D. & Jan Wacker. (2014). Dopaminergic foundations of personality and individual differences. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 874–874. 33 indexed citations
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Panitz, Christian, Jan Wacker, Gerhard Stemmler, & Erik M. Mueller. (2013). Brain–heart coupling at the P300 latency is linked to anterior cingulate cortex and insula—A cardio-electroencephalographic covariance tracing study. Biological Psychology. 94(1). 185–191. 17 indexed citations
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Mueller, Erik M., et al.. (2012). Acute tryptophan depletion attenuates brain-heart coupling following external feedback. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 6. 77–77. 11 indexed citations
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Mueller, Erik M., Scott Makeig, Gerhard Stemmler, Jürgen Hennig, & Jan Wacker. (2011). Dopamine Effects on Human Error Processing Depend on Catechol-O-Methyltransferase VAL158MET Genotype. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(44). 15818–15825. 50 indexed citations
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Mueller, Erik M., Gerhard Stemmler, & Jan Wacker. (2009). Single-trial electroencephalogram predicts cardiac acceleration: a time-lagged P-correlation approach for studying neurovisceral connectivity. Neuroscience. 166(2). 491–500. 19 indexed citations
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Leue, Anja, Mira‐Lynn Chavanon, Jan Wacker, & Gerhard Stemmler. (2009). On the differentiation of N2 components in an appetitive choice task: Evidence for the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory. Psychophysiology. 46(6). 1244–1257. 13 indexed citations
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Wacker, Jan, Daniel G. Dillon, & Diego A. Pizzagalli. (2009). The role of the nucleus accumbens and rostral anterior cingulate cortex in anhedonia: Integration of resting EEG, fMRI, and volumetric techniques. NeuroImage. 46(1). 327–337. 314 indexed citations
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Pauls, Cornelia A., et al.. (2008). Defensiveness and anxiety predict frontal EEG asymmetry only in specific situational contexts. Biological Psychology. 78(1). 43–52. 45 indexed citations
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Kemper, Christoph J., Anja Leue, Jan Wacker, et al.. (2008). Agentic extraversion as a predictor of effort-related cardiovascular response. Biological Psychology. 78(2). 191–199. 24 indexed citations
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Wacker, Jan, Mira‐Lynn Chavanon, & Gerhard Stemmler. (2006). Investigating the dopaminergic basis of extraversion in humans: A multilevel approach.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 91(1). 171–187. 86 indexed citations
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Wacker, Jan & Gerhard Stemmler. (2006). Agentic extraversion modulates the cardiovascular effects of the dopamine D2 agonist bromocriptine. Psychophysiology. 43(4). 372–381. 15 indexed citations
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Wacker, Jan, Martin Reuter, Jürgen Hennig, & Gerhard Stemmler. (2005). Sexually dimorphic link between dopamine D2 receptor gene and neuroticism-anxiety. Neuroreport. 16(6). 611–614. 27 indexed citations
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Wacker, Jan, Marcus Heldmann, & Gerhard Stemmler. (2003). Separating emotion and motivational direction in fear and anger: Effects on frontal asymmetry.. Emotion. 3(2). 167–193. 112 indexed citations

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