Michael Wagner

43.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
472 papers, 17.9k citations indexed

About

Michael Wagner is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Wagner has authored 472 papers receiving a total of 17.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 99 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 87 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Wagner's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (90 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (76 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (39 papers). Michael Wagner is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (90 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (76 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (39 papers). Michael Wagner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Michael Wagner's co-authors include M. Fuchs, Wolfgang Maier, Frank Jessen, Jörn Kastner, Boris B. Quednow, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Gäebel, Steffen Wolfsgruber, John S. Ebersole and Susan M. Hawes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Michael Wagner

443 papers receiving 17.4k 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.

A standardized boundary element method volume conductor model

2002 843 citations Michael Wagner et al. profile →
The characterisation of subjective cognitive decline

2020 799 citations Frank Jessen, Steffen Wolfsgruber et al. profile →
Oxytocin Enhances Amygdala-Dependent, Socially Reinforced Learning and Emotional Empathy in Humans

2010 578 citations Michael Wagner, Wolfgang Maier et al. profile →
AD dementia risk in late MCI, in early MCI, and in subjective memory impairment

2013 392 citations Frank Jessen, Steffen Wolfsgruber et al. Alzheimer s & Dementia profile →
Implementation of subjective cognitive decline criteria in research studies

2016 375 citations Michael Wagner, Frank Jessen et al. Alzheimer s & Dementia profile →
Psychische Störungen in der Allgemeinbevölkerung

2014 364 citations Wolfgang Gäebel, Michael Wagner et al. profile →
Twelve‐month prevalence, comorbidity and correlates of mental disorders in Germany: the Mental Health Module of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults (DEGS1‐MH)

2014 349 citations Wolfgang Gäebel, Wolfgang Maier et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Wagner	6.4k	5.9k	2.9k	2.6k	1.9k	472	17.9k
Glenda MacQueen	6.8k 1.1×	4.3k 0.7×	3.2k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	270	19.4k
Paolo Brambilla	6.7k 1.0×	5.6k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	625	21.0k
Dolores Malaspina	5.8k 0.9×	3.9k 0.7×	3.2k 1.1×	4.1k 1.6×	1.2k 0.7×	306	16.6k
Robert K. Heaton	12.0k 1.9×	6.9k 1.2×	3.2k 1.1×	3.6k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	335	24.2k
Jelle Jolles	5.8k 0.9×	6.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	353	19.0k
Igor Grant	7.6k 1.2×	4.4k 0.7×	3.4k 1.2×	2.9k 1.1×	2.6k 1.4×	657	35.4k
Hans‐Jürgen Möller	9.5k 1.5×	2.9k 0.5×	3.1k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	323	17.1k
Donald Goff	9.5k 1.5×	5.5k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	2.8k 1.5×	285	20.1k
Jordan W. Smoller	5.5k 0.9×	8.9k 1.5×	4.4k 1.5×	3.3k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	321	24.0k
David C. Steffens	9.2k 1.4×	4.8k 0.8×	3.1k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	3.4k 1.8×	406	23.4k

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Müller, Julia, Moritz Elsaeßer, W.‐U. Müller, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Loneliness on Late-Life Depression and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 33(7). 717–729. 1 indexed citations

Zacharias, Norman, Barbara Hollunder, Kerstin Ritter, et al.. (2025). Machine Learning Classification of Smoking Behaviours—From Social Environment to the Prefrontal Cortex. Addiction Biology. 30(8). e70056–e70056. 1 indexed citations

Wehling, Martin, Christel Weiß, Kathrin Heser, et al.. (2024). Validation of MyFORTA: An Automated Tool to Improve Medications in Older People Based on the FORTA List. Drugs & Aging. 41(6). 555–564. 1 indexed citations

Bewernick, Bettina H., Katharina Domschke, Moritz Elsaeßer, et al.. (2024). Perceived Physical Health and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs Supportive Psychotherapy Outcomes in Adults With Late-Life Depression. JAMA Network Open. 7(4). e245841–e245841. 4 indexed citations

Foo, Jerome C., Fabian Streit, Josef Frank, et al.. (2024). Polygenic risk scores for nicotine use and family history of smoking are associated with smoking behaviour. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 263. 112415–112415.

Adami, Pamela V. Martino, Madhurima Chatterjee, Luca Kleineidam, et al.. (2024). Prognostic value of Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers in the oldest-old: a prospective primary care-based study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 45. 101030–101030. 3 indexed citations

Żakowiecki, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Development and Evaluation of Lactose-Free Single-Unit and Multiple-Unit Preparations of a BCS Class II Drug, Rivaroxaban. Pharmaceutics. 16(11). 1485–1485.

Müller, Julia, Moritz Elsaeßer, W.‐U. Müller, et al.. (2024). Differential Psychological Treatment Effects in Patients With Late-Life Depression and a History of Childhood Maltreatment. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 32(11). 1325–1336. 3 indexed citations

Campos-Martín, Rafael, Katharina Bey, Benedikt Reuter, et al.. (2023). Epigenome-wide analysis identifies methylome profiles linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder, disease severity, and treatment response. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(10). 4321–4330. 4 indexed citations

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Bewernick, Bettina H., Katharina Domschke, Moritz Elsaeßer, et al.. (2023). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Late-Life Depression (CBTlate): Results of a Multicenter, Randomized, Observer-Blinded, Controlled Trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 92(3). 180–192. 14 indexed citations

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Lent, Debora Melo van, Sarah Egert, Steffen Wolfsgruber, et al.. (2022). Low Serum Vitamin D Status Is Associated with Incident Alzheimer’s Dementia in the Oldest Old. Nutrients. 15(1). 61–61. 7 indexed citations

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Müller, Hendrik, Linda T. Betz, Joseph Kambeitz, et al.. (2022). Bridging the phenomenological gap between predictive basic-symptoms and attenuated positive symptoms: a cross-sectional network analysis. Schizophrenia. 8(1). 68–68. 2 indexed citations

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Heinzel, Stephan, Katharina Bey, Rosa Grützmann, et al.. (2021). Spatial working memory performance in people with obsessive–compulsive disorder, their unaffected first-degree relatives and healthy controls. BJPsych Open. 7(6). 2 indexed citations

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Yoneda, Tomiko, Nathan A. Lewis, Jonathan Rush, et al.. (2020). The Importance of Engaging in Physical Activity in Older Adulthood for Transitions Between Cognitive Status Categories and Death: A Coordinated Analysis of 14 Longitudinal Studies. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 76(9). 1661–1667. 23 indexed citations

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Thoma, Myriam V., Luca Kleineidam, Simon Forstmeier, et al.. (2020). Associations and correlates of general versus specific successful ageing components. European Journal of Ageing. 18(4). 549–563. 11 indexed citations

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Hohls, Johanna Katharina, Hans‐Helmut König, Marion Eisele, et al.. (2020). Help-seeking for psychological distress and its association with anxiety in the oldest old – results from the AgeQualiDe cohort study. Aging & Mental Health. 25(5). 923–929. 9 indexed citations

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Bey, Katharina, Leonhard Lennertz, Sebastian Markett, et al.. (2015). Replication of the association between CHRNA4 rs1044396 and harm avoidance in a large population-based sample. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 26(1). 150–155. 1 indexed citations

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Rietschel, Liz, Martin Lambert, Anne Karow, et al.. (2015). Clinical high risk for psychosis: gender differences in symptoms and social functioning. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 11(4). 306–313. 52 indexed citations

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Jessen, Frank, Steffen Wolfsgruber, Birgitt Wiese, et al.. (2013). AD dementia risk in late MCI, in early MCI, and in subjective memory impairment. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 10(1). 76–83. 392 indexed citations breakdown →

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Delorme, Richard, Daniel Moreno‐De‐Luca, Wolfgang Maier, et al.. (2010). Search for copy number variants in chromosomes 15q11-q13 and 22q11.2 in obsessive compulsive disorder. BMC Medical Genetics. 11(1). 100–100. 12 indexed citations

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