Peter J. Hellyer

7.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
81 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Peter J. Hellyer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter J. Hellyer has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 17 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Peter J. Hellyer's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (21 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (19 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers). Peter J. Hellyer is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (21 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (19 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers). Peter J. Hellyer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Peter J. Hellyer's co-authors include Robert Leech, David Sharp, Murray Shanahan, Gregory Scott, Adam Hampshire, William Trender, Robin Carhart‐Harris, David Nutt, Enzo Tagliazucchi and Dante R. Chialvo and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Peter J. Hellyer

77 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2021 2014 2024 200 400 600
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.

  1. The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs
    2014 694 citations Robin Carhart‐Harris, Robert Leech et al. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience profile →
  2. Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19
    2021 400 citations Adam Hampshire, William Trender et al. EClinicalMedicine profile →
  3. Homological scaffolds of brain functional networks
    2014 389 citations Federico Turkheimer, Peter J. Hellyer et al. profile →
  4. Cognition and Memory after Covid-19 in a Large Community Sample
    2024 91 citations Adam Hampshire, Adriana Azor et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter J. Hellyer United Kingdom 30 1.4k 1.0k 999 606 558 81 4.0k
Vanessa Raymont United Kingdom 32 894 0.6× 679 0.7× 775 0.8× 645 1.1× 334 0.6× 104 3.7k
Basant K. Puri United Kingdom 50 861 0.6× 550 0.5× 637 0.6× 291 0.5× 531 1.0× 249 6.5k
Adeel Razi United Kingdom 34 3.0k 2.1× 382 0.4× 429 0.4× 127 0.2× 1.1k 1.9× 100 4.6k
George A. Mashour United States 58 4.7k 3.3× 569 0.6× 379 0.4× 458 0.8× 592 1.1× 247 9.5k
Emmanuel A. Stamatakis United Kingdom 51 4.9k 3.5× 416 0.4× 589 0.6× 581 1.0× 1.1k 2.0× 152 8.2k
Gwenn S. Smith United States 46 2.1k 1.5× 1.5k 1.5× 706 0.7× 290 0.5× 1.1k 2.1× 131 7.6k
Mario Masellis Canada 46 1.0k 0.7× 1.5k 1.4× 660 0.7× 260 0.4× 790 1.4× 184 6.6k
Gary Price United Kingdom 40 639 0.5× 842 0.8× 497 0.5× 189 0.3× 609 1.1× 92 5.3k
Albert C. Yang Taiwan 43 2.1k 1.5× 407 0.4× 445 0.4× 414 0.7× 500 0.9× 224 6.5k
Stephen M. LaConte United States 31 2.4k 1.7× 347 0.3× 163 0.2× 508 0.8× 1.2k 2.2× 83 4.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter J. Hellyer

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All Works

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Liu, Chang, Samuel R. Chamberlain, Konstantinos Ioannidis, et al.. (2025). Transdiagnostic Compulsivity Traits in Problematic Use of the Internet Among UK Residents: Cross-Sectional Network Analysis Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27. e66191–e66191. 1 indexed citations
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Giunchiglia, Valentina, Soma Banerjee, Joseph Kwan, et al.. (2025). Mitigating the impact of motor impairment on self-administered digital tests: a longitudinal cohort study in stroke. EClinicalMedicine. 88. 103469–103469.
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Sharpe, Benjamin T., Marcus S. Smith, Steven Williams, et al.. (2025). Beyond certification: Improving lifeguard drowning detection through validated tools and specialized training. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. 107. 103741–103741. 2 indexed citations
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Moura, Alexandra, Valentina Giunchiglia, William Trender, et al.. (2025). Large-scale online assessment uncovers a distinct Multiple Sclerosis subtype with selective cognitive impairment. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6938–6938. 1 indexed citations
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Trender, William, Peter J. Hellyer, Adam Hampshire, et al.. (2024). Remote digital cognitive assessment reveals cognitive deficits related to hippocampal atrophy in autoimmune limbic encephalitis: a cross-sectional validation study. EClinicalMedicine. 69. 102437–102437. 5 indexed citations
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Giunchiglia, Valentina, et al.. (2024). An iterative approach for estimating domain-specific cognitive abilities from large scale online cognitive data. npj Digital Medicine. 7(1). 4 indexed citations
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Hampshire, Adam, Adriana Azor, Christina Atchison, et al.. (2024). Cognition and Memory after Covid-19 in a Large Community Sample. New England Journal of Medicine. 390(9). 806–818. 91 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Chang, Lucy Albertella, Christine Löchner, et al.. (2023). Conceptualising compulsivity through network analysis: A two-sample study. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 127. 152429–152429. 3 indexed citations
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Sharpe, Benjamin T., Marcus S. Smith, Steven Williams, et al.. (2023). Cognition and lifeguard detection performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 38(1). 6 indexed citations
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Bourke, Niall, William Trender, Adam Hampshire, et al.. (2022). Assessing prospective and retrospective metacognitive accuracy following traumatic brain injury remotely across cognitive domains. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 33(4). 574–591. 2 indexed citations
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Azor, Adriana, David Sharp, Amy Jolly, Niall Bourke, & Peter J. Hellyer. (2022). Automation and standardization of subject-specific region-of-interest segmentation for investigation of diffusion imaging in clinical populations. PLoS ONE. 17(12). e0268233–e0268233. 1 indexed citations
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Dafflon, Jessica, Pedro F. da Costa, František Váša, et al.. (2022). A guided multiverse study of neuroimaging analyses. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3758–3758. 37 indexed citations
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Hellyer, Peter J., Keng Siang Lee, Robert Leech, et al.. (2021). “It’s not rocket science” and “It’s not brain surgery”—“It’s a walk in the park”: prospective comparative study. BMJ. 375. e067883–e067883. 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Sijia, Peter J. Hellyer, William Trender, et al.. (2021). Rapid vigilance and episodic memory decrements in COVID-19 survivors. Brain Communications. 4(1). fcab295–fcab295. 78 indexed citations
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Dafflon, Jessica, Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya, Federico Turkheimer, et al.. (2020). An automated machine learning approach to predict brain age from cortical anatomical measures. Human Brain Mapping. 41(13). 3555–3566. 35 indexed citations
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Scott, Gregory, Anil Ramlackhansingh, Paul Edison, et al.. (2016). Amyloid pathology and axonal injury after brain trauma. Neurology. 86(9). 821–828. 110 indexed citations
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Hellyer, Peter J., Gregory Scott, Murray Shanahan, David Sharp, & Robert Leech. (2015). Cognitive Flexibility through Metastable Neural Dynamics Is Disrupted by Damage to the Structural Connectome. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(24). 9050–9063. 130 indexed citations
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Carhart‐Harris, Robin, Robert Leech, Peter J. Hellyer, et al.. (2014). The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 20–20. 694 indexed citations breakdown →

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