Ralph Adolphs

67.3k total citations · 22 hit papers
283 papers, 40.4k citations indexed

About

Ralph Adolphs is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph Adolphs has authored 283 papers receiving a total of 40.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 233 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 67 papers in Social Psychology and 56 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ralph Adolphs's work include Face Recognition and Perception (83 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (78 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (49 papers). Ralph Adolphs is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (83 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (78 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (49 papers). Ralph Adolphs collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Ralph Adolphs's co-authors include Daniel Tranel, António R. Damásio, H. Damasio, Hanna Damásio, Luiz Pessoa, Daniel P. Kennedy, Tony W. Buchanan, Joseph Piven, Michael Spezio and Lynn K. Paul and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ralph Adolphs

277 papers receiving 39.0k citations

Hit Papers

Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions fol... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 2002 2010 2008 2003 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. Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala
    1994 1.6k citations Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel et al. Nature profile →
  2. Neural systems for recognizing emotion
    2002 1.5k citations Ralph Adolphs profile →
  3. Emotion processing and the amygdala: from a 'low road' to 'many roads' of evaluating biological significance
    2010 1.3k citations Ralph Adolphs et al. profile →
  4. The Social Brain: Neural Basis of Social Knowledge
    2008 1.2k citations Ralph Adolphs profile →
  5. Cognitive neuroscience of human social behaviour
    2003 1.1k citations Ralph Adolphs profile →
  6. The neurobiology of social cognition
    2001 1.1k citations Ralph Adolphs profile →
  7. Recognizing Emotion from Facial Expressions: Psychological and Neurological Mechanisms
    2002 1.0k citations Ralph Adolphs profile →
  8. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
    2007 1.0k citations Michael Koenigs, Liane Young et al. Nature profile →
  9. A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage
    2005 962 citations Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel et al. Nature profile →
  10. Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements
    2019 940 citations Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ralph Adolphs et al. profile →
  11. Double Dissociation of Conditioning and Declarative Knowledge Relative to the Amygdala and Hippocampus in Humans
    1995 939 citations Daniel Tranel, Ralph Adolphs et al. Science profile →
  12. Fear and the human amygdala
    1995 832 citations Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  13. A Role for Somatosensory Cortices in the Visual Recognition of Emotion as Revealed by Three-Dimensional Lesion Mapping
    2000 800 citations Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  14. The human amygdala in social judgment
    1998 769 citations Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel et al. Nature profile →
  15. What does the amygdala contribute to social cognition?
    2010 630 citations Ralph Adolphs profile →
  16. Social cognition and the human brain
    1999 629 citations Ralph Adolphs et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
  17. Cortical Systems for the Recognition of Emotion in Facial Expressions
    1996 596 citations Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  18. Agenesis of the corpus callosum: genetic, developmental and functional aspects of connectivity
    2007 588 citations Lynn K. Paul, Ralph Adolphs et al. profile →
  19. The social brain in psychiatric and neurological disorders
    2012 539 citations Daniel P. Kennedy, Ralph Adolphs Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
  20. Neural systems behind word and concept retrieval
    2004 532 citations H. Damasio, Daniel Tranel et al. profile →
  21. Building a Science of Individual Differences from fMRI
    2016 429 citations Julien Dubois, Ralph Adolphs Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
  22. A Framework for Studying Emotions across Species
    2014 416 citations Ralph Adolphs 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
Ralph Adolphs United States 100 28.9k 10.5k 9.5k 4.8k 4.7k 283 40.4k
Daniel Tranel United States 101 29.3k 1.0× 9.4k 0.9× 9.6k 1.0× 7.0k 1.5× 4.6k 1.0× 426 42.4k
António R. Damásio United States 97 35.1k 1.2× 13.3k 1.3× 12.2k 1.3× 8.5k 1.8× 6.8k 1.4× 262 58.1k
Ruben C. Gur United States 115 25.8k 0.9× 5.1k 0.5× 10.7k 1.1× 12.5k 2.6× 7.2k 1.5× 687 47.6k
Simon B. Eickhoff Germany 115 46.4k 1.6× 8.0k 0.8× 11.3k 1.2× 8.9k 1.8× 4.2k 0.9× 699 60.8k
Russell A. Poldrack United States 109 37.1k 1.3× 4.6k 0.4× 8.1k 0.8× 5.4k 1.1× 3.3k 0.7× 319 49.2k
Tor D. Wager United States 95 37.3k 1.3× 7.6k 0.7× 15.4k 1.6× 10.0k 2.1× 7.9k 1.7× 319 57.6k
Ulman Lindenberger Germany 100 21.7k 0.8× 5.5k 0.5× 9.4k 1.0× 6.7k 1.4× 2.0k 0.4× 480 40.4k
John D. E. Gabrieli United States 135 42.6k 1.5× 6.4k 0.6× 12.2k 1.3× 8.0k 1.7× 5.1k 1.1× 497 59.2k
Gereon R. Fink Germany 113 36.2k 1.3× 11.4k 1.1× 7.0k 0.7× 6.9k 1.4× 2.7k 0.6× 940 58.2k
David I. Perrett United Kingdom 107 22.1k 0.8× 8.9k 0.9× 17.6k 1.8× 2.0k 0.4× 5.6k 1.2× 524 41.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lin, Chujun, et al.. (2024). How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(1). 208–226. 1 indexed citations
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He, Junfeng, Qianying Wu, Kai Kohlhoff, et al.. (2024). Smartphone‐based gaze estimation for in‐home autism research. Autism Research. 17(6). 1140–1148. 1 indexed citations
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Dubois, Julien, et al.. (2024). Domain-specific representation of social inference by neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus. Science Advances. 10(49). eado6166–eado6166.
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Adolphs, Ralph, Damian M. Stanley, Gideon Yaffe, et al.. (2021). Introduction to the COVID Dynamic Dataset. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Minxha, Juri, Ralph Adolphs, Stefano Fusi, Adam N. Mamelak, & Ueli Rutishauser. (2020). Flexible recruitment of memory-based choice representations by the human medial frontal cortex. Science. 368(6498). 68 indexed citations
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Dubois, Julien, Frederick Eberhardt, Lynn K. Paul, & Ralph Adolphs. (2020). Personality beyond taxonomy. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(11). 1110–1117. 14 indexed citations
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Adolphs, Ralph, Leonard Mlodinow, & Lisa Feldman Barrett. (2019). What is an emotion?. Current Biology. 29(20). R1060–R1064. 62 indexed citations
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Dubois, Julien, Paola Galdi, Lynn K. Paul, & Ralph Adolphs. (2018). A distributed brain network predicts general intelligence from resting-state human neuroimaging data. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1756). 20170284–20170284. 186 indexed citations
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Wu, Daw‐An, Ian B. Ross, Jeffrey M. Chung, et al.. (2018). Single-Neuron Correlates of Error Monitoring and Post-Error Adjustments in Human Medial Frontal Cortex. Neuron. 101(1). 165–177.e5. 78 indexed citations
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Minxha, Juri, Clayton P. Mosher, Adam N. Mamelak, et al.. (2017). Fixations Gate Species-Specific Responses to Free Viewing of Faces in the Human and Macaque Amygdala. Cell Reports. 18(4). 878–891. 57 indexed citations
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Haun, Andrew, Masafumi Oizumi, Christopher K. Kovach, et al.. (2017). Conscious Perception as Integrated Information Patterns in Human Electrocorticography. eNeuro. 4(5). ENEURO.0085–17.2017. 22 indexed citations
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Tyszka, J. Michael, Daniel P. Kennedy, Lynn K. Paul, & Ralph Adolphs. (2013). Largely Typical Patterns of Resting-State Functional Connectivity in High-Functioning Adults with Autism. Cerebral Cortex. 24(7). 1894–1905. 152 indexed citations
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Tyszka, J. Michael, Daniel P. Kennedy, Ralph Adolphs, & Lynn K. Paul. (2011). Intact Bilateral Resting-State Networks in the Absence of the Corpus Callosum. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(42). 15154–15162. 137 indexed citations
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Gläscher, Jan, David Rudrauf, Roberto Colom, et al.. (2010). Distributed neural system for general intelligence revealed by lesion mapping. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(10). 4705–4709. 212 indexed citations
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Philippi, Carissa L., Sonya Mehta, Thomas J. Grabowski, Ralph Adolphs, & David Rudrauf. (2009). Damage to Association Fiber Tracts Impairs Recognition of the Facial Expression of Emotion. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(48). 15089–15099. 192 indexed citations
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Koenigs, Michael, Liane Young, Ralph Adolphs, et al.. (2007). Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements. Nature. 446(7138). 908–911. 1003 indexed citations breakdown →
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Young, Liane, Fiery Cushman, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, & Michael A. Hauser. (2006). Does emotion mediate the effect of an action's moral status on its intentional status? Neuropsychological evidence. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 102(2). 211–8. 24 indexed citations
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Adolphs, Ralph & Michael Spezio. (2006). Role of the amygdala in processing visual social stimuli. Progress in brain research. 156. 363–378. 193 indexed citations
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Dailey, Matthew N., Garrison W. Cottrell, & Ralph Adolphs. (2000). A Six-Unit Network is All You Need to Discover Happiness. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 22(22). 14 indexed citations
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Adolphs, Ralph, et al.. (1999). Social cognition and the human brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 3(12). 469–479. 629 indexed citations breakdown →

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