Niall W. Duncan

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Niall W. Duncan is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Niall W. Duncan has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Niall W. Duncan's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (45 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (22 papers) and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (12 papers). Niall W. Duncan is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (45 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (22 papers) and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (12 papers). Niall W. Duncan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Taiwan and China. Niall W. Duncan's co-authors include Georg Northoff, Moritz de Greck, Yan Fan, Christine Wiebking, Dave J. Hayes, Pengmin Qin, Claus Tempelmann, Xuchu Weng, Zirui Huang and Malek Bajbouj and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Niall W. Duncan

57 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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Is there a core neural network in empathy? An fMRI based quantitative meta-analysis

2010 694 citations Yan Fan, Niall W. Duncan et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niall W. Duncan Canada	27	2.2k	815	664	526	508	58	3.1k
Susan Whitfield‐Gabrieli United States	35	3.2k 1.5×	871 1.1×	934 1.4×	568 1.1×	346 0.7×	79	4.6k
Jong H. Yoon United States	32	2.4k 1.1×	947 1.2×	503 0.8×	464 0.9×	208 0.4×	62	3.4k
Choong‐Wan Woo South Korea	25	3.2k 1.5×	892 1.1×	873 1.3×	495 0.9×	525 1.0×	49	4.7k
James L. Reilly United States	37	1.4k 0.6×	1.7k 2.1×	493 0.7×	371 0.7×	334 0.7×	104	3.5k
Tetsuya Iidaka Japan	37	2.8k 1.3×	644 0.8×	1.0k 1.5×	385 0.7×	845 1.7×	92	4.2k
Mié Matsui Japan	33	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	369 0.6×	1.1k 2.1×	269 0.5×	119	4.0k
Desmond J. Oathes United States	24	2.4k 1.1×	593 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	649 1.2×	220 0.4×	61	3.6k
Shane McKie United Kingdom	35	2.2k 1.0×	774 0.9×	936 1.4×	394 0.7×	551 1.1×	87	4.0k
Jennifer E. McDowell United States	33	2.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	542 0.8×	345 0.7×	197 0.4×	118	4.0k
Marie‐José van Tol Netherlands	39	2.5k 1.1×	868 1.1×	1.4k 2.1×	594 1.1×	302 0.6×	104	4.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Duncan, Niall W., et al.. (2025). A working model linking the psychopathology and pathophysiology of major depressive disorder - an umbrella review of neuroimaging studies and a conceptual framework. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(12). 6007–6019.

Bhagwat, Nikhil, R. D. Wilkinson, Niall W. Duncan, et al.. (2024). Measuring and reducing the carbon footprint of fMRI preprocessing in fMRIPrep. Human Brain Mapping. 45(12). e70003–e70003. 4 indexed citations

Lee, Hsin‐Chien, et al.. (2024). Structural alterations in a rumination-related network in patients with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 345. 111911–111911. 2 indexed citations

Haroon, Hamied, et al.. (2024). Hippocampal and limbic microstructure changes associated with stress across the lifespan: a UK biobank study. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 21735–21735. 1 indexed citations

Borghesani, Valentina, Milan Klöwer, Marie‐Eve Hoeppli, et al.. (2023). How can we reduce the climate costs of OHBM? A vision for a more sustainable meeting. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 7 indexed citations

Hsu, Tzu‐Yu, et al.. (2021). Depressive rumination is correlated with brain responses during self-related processing. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 46(5). E518–E527. 4 indexed citations

Truong, Vuong, et al.. (2020). Occipital gamma-aminobutyric acid and glutamate-glutamine alterations in major depressive disorder: An mrs study and meta-analysis. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 308. 111238–111238. 19 indexed citations

Duncan, Niall W., et al.. (2020). Intrinsic activity temporal structure reactivity to behavioural state change is correlated with depressive symptoms. European Journal of Neuroscience. 52(12). 4840–4850. 4 indexed citations

Qin, Pengmin, Niall W. Duncan, David Yen-Ting Chen, et al.. (2018). Vascular-metabolic and GABAergic Inhibitory Correlates of Neural Variability Modulation. A Combined fMRI and PET Study. Neuroscience. 379. 142–151. 5 indexed citations

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Wu, Jinsong, et al.. (2017). How much is enough—Can resting state fMRI provide a demarcation for neurosurgical resection in glioma?. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 84. 245–261. 45 indexed citations

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Martino, Matteo, Paola Magioncalda, Yu Hua, et al.. (2017). Abnormal Resting-State Connectivity in a Substantia Nigra-Related Striato-Thalamo-Cortical Network in a Large Sample of First-Episode Drug-Naïve Patients With Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 44(2). 419–431. 76 indexed citations

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Lane, Timothy, et al.. (2016). The Trajectory of Self. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 20(7). 481–482. 9 indexed citations

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Qin, Pengmin, Simone Grimm, Niall W. Duncan, et al.. (2016). Spontaneous activity in default-mode network predicts ascription of self-relatedness to stimuli. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 11(4). 693–702. 33 indexed citations

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Duncan, Niall W., Dave J. Hayes, Christine Wiebking, et al.. (2015). Negative childhood experiences alter a prefrontal‐insular‐motor cortical network in healthy adults: A preliminary multimodal rsfMRI‐fMRI‐MRS‐dMRI study. Human Brain Mapping. 36(11). 4622–4637. 59 indexed citations

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Huang, Zirui, Jianfeng Zhang, André Longtin, et al.. (2015). Is There a Nonadditive Interaction Between Spontaneous and Evoked Activity? Phase-Dependence and Its Relation to the Temporal Structure of Scale-Free Brain Activity. Cerebral Cortex. 27(2). bhv288–bhv288. 110 indexed citations

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Duncan, Niall W., Paul Gravel, Christine Wiebking, Andrew J. Reader, & Georg Northoff. (2013). Grey matter density and GABAA binding potential show a positive linear relationship across cortical regions. Neuroscience. 235. 226–231. 9 indexed citations

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Hayes, Dave J., Niall W. Duncan, Christine Wiebking, et al.. (2013). GABAA Receptors Predict Aversion-Related Brain Responses: An fMRI-PET Investigation in Healthy Humans. Neuropsychopharmacology. 38(8). 1438–1450. 19 indexed citations

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Qin, Pengmin, Niall W. Duncan, Jia Guo, et al.. (2013). Self-Specific Stimuli Interact Differently than Non-Self-Specific Stimuli with Eyes-Open Versus Eyes-Closed Spontaneous Activity in Auditory Cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 437–437. 9 indexed citations

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Wiebking, Christine, André Bauer, Moritz de Greck, et al.. (2010). Abnormal body perception and neural activity in the insula in depression: An fMRI study of the depressed “material me”. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. 11(3). 538–549. 115 indexed citations

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Fan, Yan, Niall W. Duncan, Moritz de Greck, & Georg Northoff. (2010). Is there a core neural network in empathy? An fMRI based quantitative meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 35(3). 903–911. 694 indexed citations breakdown →

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