Martin P. Paulus

55.4k total citations · 13 hit papers
592 papers, 34.8k citations indexed

About

Martin P. Paulus is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin P. Paulus has authored 592 papers receiving a total of 34.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 307 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 224 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 142 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Martin P. Paulus's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (160 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (156 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (152 papers). Martin P. Paulus is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (160 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (156 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (152 papers). Martin P. Paulus collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Martin P. Paulus's co-authors include Murray B. Stein, Alan N. Simmons, Susan F. Tapert, Justin S. Feinstein, Mark A. Geyer, Marc Wittmann, Jennifer L. Stewart, Lewis L. Judd, Scott C. Matthews and Lawrence R. Frank and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Martin P. Paulus

571 papers receiving 34.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

An Insular View of Anxiety

2006 1.0k citations Martin P. Paulus et al. profile →
Association between physical exercise and mental health in 1·2 million individuals in the USA between 2011 and 2015: a cross-sectional study

2018 722 citations Martin P. Paulus, John H. Krystal et al. profile →
Increased Amygdala and Insula Activation During Emotion Processing in Anxiety-Prone Subjects

2007 670 citations Alan N. Simmons, Justin S. Feinstein et al. profile →
Interoception in anxiety and depression

2010 658 citations Martin P. Paulus et al. profile →
New insights into symptoms and neurocircuit function of anorexia nervosa

2009 598 citations Martin P. Paulus et al. profile →
A Prospective 12-Year Study of Subsyndromal and Syndromal Depressive Symptoms in Unipolar Major Depressive Disorders

1998 597 citations Martin P. Paulus et al. profile →
Increased activation in the right insula during risk-taking decision making is related to harm avoidance and neuroticism

2003 596 citations Martin P. Paulus, Alan N. Simmons et al. profile →
Demographic, physical and mental health assessments in the adolescent brain and cognitive development study: Rationale and description

2017 499 citations Susan F. Tapert, Martin P. Paulus et al. profile →
Executive function and PTSD: Disengaging from trauma

2011 490 citations Martin P. Paulus et al. profile →
Interoception, contemplative practice, and health

2015 395 citations Martin P. Paulus et al. profile →
An Active Inference Approach to Interoceptive Psychopathology

2019 218 citations Martin P. Paulus, Justin S. Feinstein et al. profile →
Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field

2023 133 citations Martin P. Paulus, John H. Krystal et al. profile →
Illusory generalizability of clinical prediction models

2024 111 citations Adam M. Chekroud, Matt Hawrilenko et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martin P. Paulus United States	99	14.9k	10.2k	8.2k	7.3k	4.9k	592	34.8k
Antoine Bechara United States	91	23.0k 1.5×	10.3k 1.0×	9.7k 1.2×	7.5k 1.0×	7.7k 1.6×	301	44.9k
Andreas Heinz Germany	99	13.4k 0.9×	6.0k 0.6×	7.6k 0.9×	8.6k 1.2×	9.3k 1.9×	907	36.3k
Ruben C. Gur United States	115	25.8k 1.7×	10.7k 1.0×	7.2k 0.9×	12.5k 1.7×	3.0k 0.6×	687	47.6k
Matcheri S. Keshavan United States	98	16.5k 1.1×	6.5k 0.6×	8.9k 1.1×	18.0k 2.5×	3.8k 0.8×	911	42.0k
Deanna M. Barch United States	91	28.2k 1.9×	9.9k 1.0×	6.3k 0.8×	11.0k 1.5×	3.1k 0.6×	530	42.1k
Leanne M. Williams Australia	92	14.5k 1.0×	6.6k 0.6×	5.6k 0.7×	5.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.4×	415	26.5k
Raquel E. Gur United States	107	22.0k 1.5×	7.8k 0.8×	6.0k 0.7×	13.5k 1.9×	3.5k 0.7×	620	42.3k
Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg Germany	96	15.5k 1.0×	6.5k 0.6×	5.2k 0.6×	7.1k 1.0×	5.0k 1.0×	459	34.8k
Helen S. Mayberg United States	88	18.0k 1.2×	6.8k 0.7×	5.3k 0.7×	5.5k 0.7×	6.1k 1.3×	304	36.0k
Jay N. Giedd United States	106	24.6k 1.7×	5.9k 0.6×	8.0k 1.0×	12.2k 1.7×	4.1k 0.8×	263	48.4k

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Hawrilenko, Matt, Emily Ward, Millard Brown, et al.. (2025). Return on Investment of Enhanced Behavioral Health Services. JAMA Network Open. 8(2). e2457834–e2457834. 7 indexed citations

Ganesan, Saampras, Masaya Misaki, Evan J. White, et al.. (2025). Increased insular functional connectivity during repetitive negative thinking in major depression and healthy volunteers. Psychological Medicine. 55. e268–e268. 2 indexed citations

Ironside, Maria, Rayus Kuplicki, Robin L. Aupperle, et al.. (2024). The unique face of comorbid anxiety and depression: Increased frontal, insula and cingulate cortex response during Pavlovian fear-conditioning. Journal of Affective Disorders. 366. 98–105. 1 indexed citations

Forthman, Katherine L., Rayus Kuplicki, Hung‐Wen Yeh, et al.. (2023). Transdiagnostic behavioral and genetic contributors to repetitive negative thinking: A machine learning approach. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 162. 207–213. 6 indexed citations

Kalivas, Peter W., Shannon L. Gourley, & Martin P. Paulus. (2023). Intrusive thinking: Circuit and synaptic mechanisms of a transdiagnostic psychiatric symptom. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 150. 105196–105196. 6 indexed citations

Burrows, Kaiping, et al.. (2023). Impaired eating behaviors but intact metabolic hormone levels in individuals with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 168. 193–203. 3 indexed citations

Paulus, Martin P., Yihong Zhao, Marc N. Potenza, et al.. (2023). Screen media activity in youth: A critical review of mental health and neuroscience findings. PubMed. 3. 100018–100018. 12 indexed citations

White, Evan J., et al.. (2022). Five recommendations for using large-scale publicly available data to advance health among American Indian peoples: the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) StudySM as an illustrative case. Neuropsychopharmacology. 48(2). 263–269. 12 indexed citations

Park, Heekyeong, Rayus Kuplicki, Aki Tsuchiyagaito, et al.. (2022). Attenuated interoceptive processing in individuals with major depressive disorder and high repetitive negative thinking. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 156. 237–244. 14 indexed citations

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Tsuchiyagaito, Aki, Vadim Zotev, Masaya Misaki, et al.. (2021). Real-time fMRI neurofeedback amygdala training may influence kynurenine pathway metabolism in major depressive disorder. NeuroImage Clinical. 29. 102559–102559. 21 indexed citations

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Smith, Ryan, Rayus Kuplicki, Justin S. Feinstein, et al.. (2020). A Bayesian computational model reveals a failure to adapt interoceptive precision estimates across depression, anxiety, eating, and substance use disorders. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(12). e1008484–e1008484. 107 indexed citations

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Paulus, Martin P., et al.. (2020). Toll-Like Receptor Signaling in Depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 121. 104843–104843. 79 indexed citations

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Tsuchiyagaito, Aki, et al.. (2020). Prevent breaking bad: A proof of concept study of rebalancing the brain's rumination circuit with real‐time fMRI functional connectivity neurofeedback. Human Brain Mapping. 42(4). 922–940. 14 indexed citations

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Burrows, Kaiping, Jennifer L. Stewart, Rayus Kuplicki, et al.. (2019). Association of poorer dietary quality and higher dietary inflammation with greater symptom severity in depressed individuals with appetite loss. Journal of Affective Disorders. 263. 99–106. 16 indexed citations

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Gowin, Joshua L., Monique Ernst, Tali M. Ball, et al.. (2019). Using neuroimaging to predict relapse in stimulant dependence: A comparison of linear and machine learning models. NeuroImage Clinical. 21. 101676–101676. 19 indexed citations

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Ford, Bart N., Robert H. Yolken, Faith Dickerson, et al.. (2018). Reduced immunity to measles in adults with major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine. 49(2). 243–249. 27 indexed citations

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Huang, He & Martin P. Paulus. (2016). Learning under uncertainty: a comparison between R-W and Bayesian approach. Neural Information Processing Systems. 29. 2730–2738. 1 indexed citations

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Sacchet, Matthew D., Tiffany C. Ho, Colm G. Connolly, et al.. (2016). Large-Scale Hypoconnectivity Between Resting-State Functional Networks in Unmedicated Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(12). 2951–2960. 67 indexed citations

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Huang, He, Javier R. Movellan, Martin P. Paulus, & Katia M. Harlé. (2015). The Influence of Depression on Cognitive Control: Disambiguating Approach and Avoidance Tendencies. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0143714–e0143714. 13 indexed citations

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Matthews, Scott C., Irina A. Strigo, Alan N. Simmons, Tony T. Yang, & Martin P. Paulus. (2008). Decreased functional coupling of the amygdala and supragenual cingulate is related to increased depression in unmedicated individuals with current major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. 111(1). 13–20. 146 indexed citations

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