Paul C. Fletcher

45.1k total citations · 11 hit papers
266 papers, 30.3k citations indexed

About

Paul C. Fletcher is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul C. Fletcher has authored 266 papers receiving a total of 30.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 59 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 30 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Paul C. Fletcher's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (66 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (51 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (46 papers). Paul C. Fletcher is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (66 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (51 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (46 papers). Paul C. Fletcher collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Paul C. Fletcher's co-authors include Chris Frith, Raymond J. Dolan, Philip R. Corlett, R. S. J. Frackowiak, Edward T. Bullmore, Karl Friston, Trevor W. Robbins, Tim Shallice, G.D. Honey and Paul M. Grasby and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul C. Fletcher

264 papers receiving 29.5k citations

Hit Papers

Event-Related fMRI: Characterizing Differential Responses 1994 2026 2004 2015 1998 2003 2001 1995 2000 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Event-Related fMRI: Characterizing Differential Responses
    1998 1.7k citations Paul C. Fletcher et al. NeuroImage profile →
  2. Stop-signal inhibition disrupted by damage to right inferior frontal gyrus in humans
    2003 1.4k citations Paul C. Fletcher, Edward T. Bullmore et al. profile →
  3. Frontal lobes and human memory: Insights from functional neuroimaging
    2001 1.1k citations Paul C. Fletcher profile →
  4. Other minds in the brain: a functional imaging study of “theory of mind” in story comprehension
    1995 1.1k citations Paul C. Fletcher profile →
  5. Reading the mind in cartoons and stories: an fMRI study of ‘theory of mind’ in verbal and nonverbal tasks
    2000 1.1k citations Paul C. Fletcher, Chris Frith et al. profile →
  6. Perceiving is believing: a Bayesian approach to explaining the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
    2008 970 citations Paul C. Fletcher, Chris Frith profile →
  7. Brain regions associated with acquisition and retrieval of verbal episodic memory
    1994 727 citations Tim Shallice, Paul C. Fletcher et al. profile →
  8. Changing Human Behavior to Prevent Disease: The Importance of Targeting Automatic Processes
    2012 556 citations Theresa M. Marteau, Gareth J Hollands et al. Science profile →
  9. The Mind's Eye—Precuneus Activation in Memory-Related Imagery
    1995 554 citations Paul C. Fletcher, Chris Frith et al. NeuroImage profile →
  10. The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis
    2018 484 citations Paul C. Fletcher, Chris Frith et al. Biological Psychiatry profile →
  11. Hallucinations and Strong Priors
    2018 326 citations Philip R. Corlett, Paul C. Fletcher 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
Paul C. Fletcher United Kingdom 89 20.7k 6.4k 4.2k 3.3k 3.3k 266 30.3k
Jordan Grafman United States 97 21.6k 1.0× 6.5k 1.0× 5.5k 1.3× 5.9k 1.8× 2.9k 0.9× 506 38.3k
Adrian M. Owen United Kingdom 90 25.2k 1.2× 7.3k 1.2× 5.1k 1.2× 2.5k 0.8× 4.0k 1.2× 352 38.9k
Michael Brammer United Kingdom 94 21.3k 1.0× 8.2k 1.3× 7.2k 1.7× 3.0k 0.9× 2.3k 0.7× 257 30.4k
John A. Sweeney United States 97 18.4k 0.9× 14.0k 2.2× 4.7k 1.1× 2.1k 0.6× 2.8k 0.8× 613 33.5k
Georg Northoff Canada 78 16.2k 0.8× 6.6k 1.0× 6.0k 1.5× 3.8k 1.2× 1.6k 0.5× 546 24.6k
Cameron S. Carter United States 80 34.1k 1.6× 7.9k 1.2× 9.5k 2.3× 3.9k 1.2× 3.5k 1.1× 236 42.8k
Klaas Ε. Stephan United Kingdom 87 23.8k 1.1× 3.7k 0.6× 5.4k 1.3× 3.1k 0.9× 2.4k 0.7× 246 30.6k
Peter F. Liddle United Kingdom 74 14.7k 0.7× 6.8k 1.1× 2.7k 0.7× 1.5k 0.5× 2.1k 0.6× 253 21.4k
Christian Büchel Germany 93 21.5k 1.0× 5.0k 0.8× 6.8k 1.6× 4.1k 1.2× 3.2k 1.0× 315 32.5k
Deanna M. Barch United States 91 28.2k 1.4× 11.0k 1.7× 9.9k 2.4× 3.2k 1.0× 3.1k 0.9× 530 42.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wolpe, Noham, Richard Holton, & Paul C. Fletcher. (2024). What Is Mental Effort: A Clinical Perspective. Biological Psychiatry. 95(11). 1030–1037. 15 indexed citations
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Wolpe, Noham, et al.. (2024). A new predictive coding model for a more comprehensive account of delusions. The Lancet Psychiatry. 11(4). 295–302. 9 indexed citations
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Watson, Emily, et al.. (2023). The Use of Immersive Virtual Reality in Sensory Sessions on a Specialist Dementia Unit: Service Evaluation of Feasibility and Acceptability. Occupational Therapy In Health Care. 38(2). 317–330. 3 indexed citations
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Norrie, Caroline, Liz Riley, James Shearer, et al.. (2023). Gambling Harms in Adult Social Care: Developing an ‘Introductory’ Question to Identify Gambling Harms Among Service Users. The British Journal of Social Work. 53(8). 3584–3607. 2 indexed citations
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Brocklebank, Laura, Anna Blackwell, Theresa M. Marteau, et al.. (2021). Straight-sided beer and cider glasses to reduce alcohol sales for on-site consumption: A randomised crossover trial in bars. Social Science & Medicine. 278. 113911–113911. 1 indexed citations
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Knolle, Franziska, Azucena Justicia, Edward T. Bullmore, et al.. (2018). Abnormal reward prediction-error signalling in antipsychotic naive individuals with first-episode psychosis or clinical risk for psychosis. Neuropsychopharmacology. 43(8). 1691–1699. 64 indexed citations
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Ziauddeen, Hisham, Liam J. Nestor, Naresh Subramaniam, et al.. (2016). Opioid Antagonists and the A118G Polymorphism in the μ-Opioid Receptor Gene: Effects of GSK1521498 and Naltrexone in Healthy Drinkers Stratified by OPRM1 Genotype. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(11). 2647–2657. 15 indexed citations
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Teufel, Christoph, Naresh Subramaniam, Veronika Dobler, et al.. (2015). Shift toward prior knowledge confers a perceptual advantage in early psychosis and psychosis-prone healthy individuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(43). 13401–13406. 172 indexed citations
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Murray, Graham K., Javier Bernácer, Philip R. Corlett, et al.. (2011). METHAMPHETAMINE INDUCES MILD PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS AND MODULATES MESOSTRIATAL FUNCTION DURING REWARD ANTICIPATION IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 37. 127–127. 2 indexed citations
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Craig, Michael, Michael J. Brammer, Pauline M. Maki, et al.. (2010). The interactive effect of acute ovarian suppression and the cholinergic system on visuospatial working memory in young women. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 35(7). 987–1000. 24 indexed citations
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Morcom, Alexa M., et al.. (2009). Memory Encoding and Dopamine in the Aging Brain: A Psychopharmacological Neuroimaging Study. Cerebral Cortex. 20(3). 743–757. 45 indexed citations
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Wit, Sanne de, Philip R. Corlett, Michael R. F. Aitken, Anthony Dickinson, & Paul C. Fletcher. (2009). Differential Engagement of the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex by Goal-Directed and Habitual Behavior toward Food Pictures in Humans. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(36). 11330–11338. 163 indexed citations
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Farooqi, I. Sadaf, Edward T. Bullmore, Julia M. Keogh, et al.. (2007). Leptin Regulates Striatal Regions and Human Eating Behavior. Science. 317(5843). 1355–1355. 446 indexed citations
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Honey, G.D., R.A.E. Honey, S R Sharar, et al.. (2004). Ketamine Disrupts Frontal and Hippocampal Contribution to Encoding and Retrieval of Episodic Memory: An fMRI Study. Cerebral Cortex. 15(6). 749–759. 90 indexed citations
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Henson, Richard N., Tim Shallice, Michael D. Rugg, Paul C. Fletcher, & Raymond J. Dolan. (2001). 15. Functional imaging dissociations within right prefrontal cortex during episodic memory retrieval. UCL Discovery (University College London). 5 indexed citations
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Rugg, Michael D., Paul C. Fletcher, Kevin Allan, et al.. (1998). Neural Correlates of Memory Retrieval during Recognition Memory and Cued Recall. NeuroImage. 8(3). 262–273. 123 indexed citations
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Dolan, Raymond J., Paul C. Fletcher, J S Morris, et al.. (1996). Neural Activation during Covert Processing of Positive Emotional Facial Expressions. NeuroImage. 4(3). 194–200. 184 indexed citations
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Sugerman, H J, et al.. (1992). Gastric bypass for treating severe obesity. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 55(2). 560S–566S. 258 indexed citations
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Brennan, D. & Paul C. Fletcher. (1959). The atomization of hydrogen on tungsten. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 250(1262). 389–408. 34 indexed citations

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