Nora D. Volkow

132.7k total citations · 50 hit papers
902 papers, 91.3k citations indexed

About

Nora D. Volkow is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nora D. Volkow has authored 902 papers receiving a total of 91.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 398 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 283 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 149 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nora D. Volkow's work include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (340 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (158 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (140 papers). Nora D. Volkow is often cited by papers focused on Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (340 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (158 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (140 papers). Nora D. Volkow collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Nora D. Volkow's co-authors include Joanna S. Fowler, Gene‐Jack Wang, George F. Koob, Dardo Tomasi, Rita Z. Goldstein, Rubén Baler, Jean Logan, Frank Telang, Peter W. Kalivas and Wilson M. Compton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Nora D. Volkow

881 papers receiving 89.0k citations

Hit Papers

Neurocircuitry of Addiction 1990 2026 2002 2014 2009 2016 2005 2002 2014 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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.

  1. Neurocircuitry of Addiction
    2009 3.8k citations George F. Koob, Nora D. Volkow Neuropsychopharmacology profile →
  2. Neurobiology of addiction: a neurocircuitry analysis
    2016 2.2k citations George F. Koob, Nora D. Volkow The Lancet Psychiatry profile →
  3. The Neural Basis of Addiction: A Pathology of Motivation and Choice
    2005 2.0k citations Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →
  4. Drug Addiction and Its Underlying Neurobiological Basis: Neuroimaging Evidence for the Involvement of the Frontal Cortex
    2002 2.0k citations Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →
  5. Adverse Health Effects of Marijuana Use
    2014 1.9k citations Nora D. Volkow, Rubén Baler et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  6. Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex in addiction: neuroimaging findings and clinical implications
    2011 1.9k citations Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →
  7. Brain dopamine and obesity
    2001 1.4k citations Gene‐Jack Wang, Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →
  8. Distribution Volume Ratios without Blood Sampling from Graphical Analysis of PET Data
    1996 1.2k citations Nora D. Volkow, Gene‐Jack Wang et al. profile →
  9. Graphical Analysis of Reversible Radioligand Binding from Time—Activity Measurements Applied to [N-11C-Methyl]-(−)-Cocaine PET Studies in Human Subjects
    1990 1.1k citations Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →
  10. Neurobiologic Advances from the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
    2016 1.0k citations Nora D. Volkow, George F. Koob et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  11. Reward, dopamine and the control of food intake: implications for obesity
    2010 950 citations Nora D. Volkow, Gene‐Jack Wang et al. profile →
  12. Opioid Abuse in Chronic Pain — Misconceptions and Mitigation Strategies
    2016 907 citations Nora D. Volkow, A. Thomas McLellan New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  13. The Brain on Drugs: From Reward to Addiction
    2015 872 citations Nora D. Volkow, Marisela Morales Cell profile →
  14. Cocaine Cues and Dopamine in Dorsal Striatum: Mechanism of Craving in Cocaine Addiction
    2006 868 citations Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →
  15. How can drug addiction help us understand obesity?
    2005 783 citations Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →
  16. Medication-Assisted Therapies — Tackling the Opioid-Overdose Epidemic
    2014 757 citations Nora D. Volkow et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  17. Addiction: Beyond dopamine reward circuitry
    2011 668 citations Nora D. Volkow, Gene‐Jack Wang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  18. Decreased striatal dopaminergic responsiveness in detoxified cocaine-dependent subjects
    1997 664 citations Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →
  19. Imaging dopamine's role in drug abuse and addiction
    2008 653 citations Nora D. Volkow, Rubén Baler et al. profile →
  20. Characteristics of Opioid Prescriptions in 2009
    2011 641 citations Nora D. Volkow profile →
  21. The addicted human brain: insights from imaging studies
    2003 630 citations Nora D. Volkow, Gene‐Jack Wang et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →
  22. Major increases in opioid analgesic abuse in the United States: Concerns and strategies
    2005 630 citations Wilson M. Compton, Nora D. Volkow profile →
  23. The dopamine motive system: implications for drug and food addiction
    2017 628 citations Nora D. Volkow, Rubén Baler et al. profile →
  24. β-Amyloid accumulation in the human brain after one night of sleep deprivation
    2018 612 citations Ehsan Shokri‐Kojori, Gene‐Jack Wang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  25. Therapeutic Doses of Oral Methylphenidate Significantly Increase Extracellular Dopamine in the Human Brain
    2001 597 citations Nora D. Volkow, Gene‐Jack Wang et al. profile →
  26. Effects of Cannabis Use on Human Behavior, Including Cognition, Motivation, and Psychosis: A Review
    2016 578 citations Nora D. Volkow, Rubén Baler et al. profile →
  27. Overlapping neuronal circuits in addiction and obesity: evidence of systems pathology
    2008 575 citations Nora D. Volkow, Gene‐Jack Wang et al. profile →
  28. Collision of the COVID-19 and Addiction Epidemics
    2020 555 citations Nora D. Volkow profile →
  29. Obesity and addiction: neurobiological overlaps
    2012 551 citations Nora D. Volkow, Dardo Tomasi et al. profile →
  30. Functional connectivity density mapping
    2010 540 citations Dardo Tomasi, Nora D. Volkow Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  31. Inhibition of monoamine oxidase B in the brains of smokers
    1996 533 citations Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →
  32. The Neuroscience of Drug Reward and Addiction
    2019 468 citations Nora D. Volkow, Michael Michaelides et al. profile →
  33. COVID-19 risk and outcomes in patients with substance use disorders: analyses from electronic health records in the United States
    2020 434 citations David C. Kaelber, Rong Xu et al. profile →
  34. Reversible and regionally selective downregulation of brain cannabinoid CB1 receptors in chronic daily cannabis smokers
    2011 424 citations Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →
  35. Prevention and Treatment of Opioid Misuse and Addiction
    2018 419 citations Nora D. Volkow, Emily B. Einstein et al. profile →
  36. Energetic cost of brain functional connectivity
    2013 415 citations Dardo Tomasi, Gene‐Jack Wang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  37. Increased risk of COVID‐19 infection and mortality in people with mental disorders: analysis from electronic health records in the United States
    2020 405 citations Rong Xu, Nora D. Volkow et al. World Psychiatry profile →
  38. The Role of Science in Addressing the Opioid Crisis
    2017 394 citations Nora D. Volkow et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  39. Opioid use disorder
    2020 354 citations Nora D. Volkow, George F. Koob et al. profile →
  40. Self-reported Medical and Nonmedical Cannabis Use Among Pregnant Women in the United States
    2019 297 citations Nora D. Volkow, Beth Han et al. profile →
  41. Management of opioid use disorder in the USA: present status and future directions
    2019 293 citations Carlos Blanco, Nora D. Volkow profile →
  42. The changing opioid crisis: development, challenges and opportunities
    2020 264 citations Nora D. Volkow, Carlos Blanco profile →
  43. Brain default-mode network dysfunction in addiction
    2019 249 citations Rui Zhang, Nora D. Volkow profile →
  44. Methamphetamine Use, Methamphetamine Use Disorder, and Associated Overdose Deaths Among US Adults
    2021 194 citations Beth Han, Wilson M. Compton et al. profile →
  45. Substance use disorders: a comprehensive update of classification, epidemiology, neurobiology, clinical aspects, treatment and prevention
    2023 139 citations Nora D. Volkow, Carlos Blanco World Psychiatry profile →
  46. Association of semaglutide with risk of suicidal ideation in a real-world cohort
    2024 136 citations Nora D. Volkow, David C. Kaelber et al. profile →
  47. Associations of semaglutide with incidence and recurrence of alcohol use disorder in real-world population
    2024 72 citations Nora D. Volkow, David C. Kaelber et al. profile →
  48. Associations of semaglutide with first‐time diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in patients with type 2 diabetes: Target trial emulation using nationwide real‐world data in the US
    2024 61 citations William Yang Wang, Xin Qi et al. profile →
  49. Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Population Estimates — United States, 2022
    2024 60 citations Christopher M. Jones, Beth Han et al. profile →
  50. Association of semaglutide with reduced incidence and relapse of cannabis use disorder in real-world populations: a retrospective cohort study
    2024 44 citations William Yang Wang, Nora D. Volkow et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nora D. Volkow United States 146 35.1k 27.3k 14.0k 13.5k 13.3k 902 91.3k
Bruce S. McEwen United States 193 31.3k 0.9× 18.5k 0.7× 17.7k 1.3× 18.4k 1.4× 9.0k 0.7× 1.0k 158.6k
George F. Koob United States 149 50.9k 1.4× 16.5k 0.6× 24.2k 1.7× 6.0k 0.4× 4.4k 0.3× 749 84.1k
John H. Krystal United States 133 20.5k 0.6× 17.0k 0.6× 7.8k 0.6× 11.5k 0.9× 11.3k 0.9× 651 60.2k
Dennis S. Charney United States 151 19.3k 0.5× 16.8k 0.6× 6.8k 0.5× 27.1k 2.0× 16.0k 1.2× 582 84.3k
Charles B. Nemeroff United States 137 15.9k 0.5× 7.5k 0.3× 11.1k 0.8× 15.8k 1.2× 10.3k 0.8× 974 77.0k
Trevor W. Robbins United Kingdom 213 60.6k 1.7× 74.4k 2.7× 19.9k 1.4× 20.7k 1.5× 24.6k 1.9× 1.1k 140.3k
Robin Murray United Kingdom 154 9.7k 0.3× 20.7k 0.8× 7.1k 0.5× 19.3k 1.4× 42.1k 3.2× 1.6k 89.9k
David Goldman United States 102 14.5k 0.4× 8.6k 0.3× 12.8k 0.9× 7.6k 0.6× 7.0k 0.5× 651 48.6k
Jeffrey L. Cummings United States 141 7.4k 0.2× 21.9k 0.8× 11.7k 0.8× 6.1k 0.5× 45.3k 3.4× 994 104.0k
Daniel R. Weinberger United States 141 22.7k 0.6× 33.9k 1.2× 17.1k 1.2× 8.8k 0.7× 25.5k 1.9× 719 83.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nora D. Volkow

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All Works

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Gowin, Joshua L., Jarrod M. Ellingson, Hollis C. Karoly, et al.. (2025). Brain Function Outcomes of Recent and Lifetime Cannabis Use. JAMA Network Open. 8(1). e2457069–e2457069. 5 indexed citations
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Chaudhary, Shefali, et al.. (2025). Prediction of alcohol intake patterns with olfactory and gustatory brain connectivity networks. Neuropsychopharmacology. 50(7). 1167–1175. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, William Yang, Pamela B. Davis, Xin Qi, et al.. (2025). Associations of semaglutide with Alzheimer's disease-related dementias in patients with type 2 diabetes: A real-world target trial emulation study. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 106(4). 1509–1522. 4 indexed citations
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Han, Beth, Christopher M. Jones, Nora D. Volkow, et al.. (2025). Prevalence of cannabis consumption methods among people with medically recommended and nonmedical cannabis use in the United States. Addiction. 120(5). 962–974.
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Volkow, Nora D., et al.. (2024). Associations of cannabis use, use frequency, and cannabis use disorder with violent behavior among young adults in the United States. International Journal of Drug Policy. 128. 104431–104431. 2 indexed citations
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Montoya, Iván D. & Nora D. Volkow. (2024). IUPHAR Review: New strategies for medications to treat substance use disorders. Pharmacological Research. 200. 107078–107078. 10 indexed citations
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Yan, Weizheng, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Zening Fu, et al.. (2023). A Brainwide Risk Score for Psychiatric Disorder Evaluated in a Large Adolescent Population Reveals Increased Divergence Among Higher-Risk Groups Relative to Control Participants. Biological Psychiatry. 95(7). 699–708. 14 indexed citations
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Satterlee, John S., Jonathan D. Pollock, & Nora D. Volkow. (2023). The NIDA Avenir award in genetics or epigenetics of substance use disorders. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 127. 103899–103899. 1 indexed citations
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Tomasi, Dardo, Peter Manza, Weizheng Yan, et al.. (2023). Examining the role of dopamine in methylphenidate’s effects on resting brain function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(52). e2314596120–e2314596120. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Guanya, Yaqi Zhang, Yaqi Zhang, et al.. (2023). Preterm birth associated alterations in brain structure, cognitive functioning and behavior in children from the ABCD dataset. Psychological Medicine. 54(2). 409–418. 14 indexed citations
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Volkow, Nora D. & Carlos Blanco. (2023). Substance use disorders: a comprehensive update of classification, epidemiology, neurobiology, clinical aspects, treatment and prevention. World Psychiatry. 22(2). 203–229. 139 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tyler, Ryan E., Sung Won Kim, Min Guo, et al.. (2019). Detecting neuroinflammation in the brain following chronic alcohol exposure in rats: A comparison between in vivo and in vitro TSPO radioligand binding. European Journal of Neuroscience. 50(1). 1831–1842. 25 indexed citations
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Volkow, Nora D. & A. Thomas McLellan. (2016). Opioid Abuse in Chronic Pain — Misconceptions and Mitigation Strategies. New England Journal of Medicine. 374(13). 1253–1263. 907 indexed citations breakdown →
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Koob, George F. & Nora D. Volkow. (2016). Neurobiology of addiction: a neurocircuitry analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry. 3(8). 760–773. 2211 indexed citations breakdown →
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Volkow, Nora D. & Marisela Morales. (2015). The Brain on Drugs: From Reward to Addiction. Cell. 162(4). 712–725. 872 indexed citations breakdown →
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López, Alan D, Thomas N. Williams, Adeera Levin, et al.. (2014). Remembering the forgotten non-communicable diseases. BMC Medicine. 12(1). 200–200. 75 indexed citations
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Anderson, Sarah, Michael Michaelides, Yanhua Ren, et al.. (2013). Impaired periamygdaloid-cortex prodynorphin is characteristic of opiate addiction and depression. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 123(12). 5334–5341. 43 indexed citations
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Volkow, Nora D., Gene‐Jack Wang, Dardo Tomasi, & Rubén Baler. (2013). The Addictive Dimensionality of Obesity. Biological Psychiatry. 73(9). 811–818. 260 indexed citations
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Ferré, Sergi, Rubén Baler, Michel Bouvier, et al.. (2009). Building a new conceptual framework for receptor heteromers. Nature Chemical Biology. 5(3). 131–134. 312 indexed citations

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