Simon Evans

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Simon Evans is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Evans has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 15 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Simon Evans's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (16 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (11 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (8 papers). Simon Evans is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (16 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (11 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (8 papers). Simon Evans collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Brazil. Simon Evans's co-authors include Bruno B. Averbeck, Sukhwinder S. Shergill, Erkan Alkan, Harriet R. Tenenbaum, Terry Ng‐Knight, Jennifer Rusted, Sarah L. King, Nicholas G. Dowell, Naji Tabet and Ray Norbury and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Simon Evans

47 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on mental health, wellbeing, sleep, and alcohol use in a UK student sample

2021 227 citations Simon Evans, Erkan Alkan et al. Psychiatry Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Evans United Kingdom	21	374	372	347	346	294	49	1.4k
Zhe Li China	25	214 0.6×	595 1.6×	374 1.1×	609 1.8×	286 1.0×	107	2.0k
Najmeh Khalili‐Mahani Canada	20	258 0.7×	310 0.8×	266 0.8×	748 2.2×	140 0.5×	34	1.8k
Enda M. Byrne Australia	24	137 0.4×	339 0.9×	488 1.4×	245 0.7×	280 1.0×	76	1.9k
Shinji Shimodera Japan	27	385 1.0×	854 2.3×	456 1.3×	261 0.8×	712 2.4×	83	2.1k
Lotte Gerritsen Netherlands	24	367 1.0×	905 2.4×	365 1.1×	527 1.5×	421 1.4×	55	2.6k
Mohammad Reza Mohammadi Iran	24	295 0.8×	869 2.3×	244 0.7×	283 0.8×	565 1.9×	99	2.0k
Hugo Cogo‐Moreira Brazil	23	210 0.6×	506 1.4×	186 0.5×	288 0.8×	340 1.2×	157	1.9k
Natália Bezerra Mota Brazil	16	275 0.7×	379 1.0×	434 1.3×	622 1.8×	568 1.9×	51	1.5k
Smita N. Deshpande India	26	328 0.9×	515 1.4×	180 0.5×	354 1.0×	776 2.6×	130	1.9k
Robert Keers United Kingdom	22	228 0.6×	827 2.2×	322 0.9×	194 0.6×	434 1.5×	46	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Evans

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Alkan, Erkan, Veena Kumari, & Simon Evans. (2024). Frontal brain volume correlates of impaired executive function in schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 178. 397–404. 2 indexed citations

Evans, Simon & Erkan Alkan. (2024). Personality Risk Factors for Vape Use amongst Young Adults and Its Consequences for Sleep and Mental Health. Healthcare. 12(4). 423–423. 1 indexed citations

Alkan, Erkan, et al.. (2024). Effects of glycaemic control on memory performance, hippocampal volumes and depressive symptomology. Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome. 16(1). 219–219. 2 indexed citations

Mougouei, Davoud, Jaime Simão Sichman, Hoa Khanh Dam, et al.. (2023). Beyond fear and anger: A global analysis of emotional response to Covid-19 news on Twitter. PubMed. 36. 100253–100253. 5 indexed citations

Evans, Simon, et al.. (2023). Training in new forms of human-AI interaction improves complex working memory and switching skills of language professionals. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 6. 1253940–1253940. 1 indexed citations

Evans, Simon, et al.. (2023). The Emotional Impact of COVID-19 News Reporting: A Longitudinal Study Using Natural Language Processing. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. 2023. 1–16. 6 indexed citations

Alkan, Erkan & Simon Evans. (2022). Relationships between cognitive performance, clinical insight and regional brain volumes in schizophrenia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 33–33. 2 indexed citations

Evans, Simon, Mario André Leocádio-Miguel, Andréa R. V. R. Horimoto, et al.. (2021). Evening preference correlates with regional brain volumes in the anterior occipital lobe. Chronobiology International. 38(8). 1135–1142. 8 indexed citations

Evans, Simon, et al.. (2021). Risk factors for depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study in middle-aged and older adults. BJPsych Open. 7(5). e161–e161. 26 indexed citations

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Benedito‐Silva, Ana Amélia, Simon Evans, Bruno da Silva Brandão Gonçalves, et al.. (2020). Association between light exposure and metabolic syndrome in a rural Brazilian town. PLoS ONE. 15(9). e0238772–e0238772. 20 indexed citations

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Piano, Marianne, Ramin Nilforooshan, & Simon Evans. (2020). Binocular Vision, Visual Function, and Pupil Dynamics in People Living With Dementia and Their Relation to the Rate of Cognitive Decline and Structural Changes Within the Brain: Protocol for an Observational Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 9(8). e16089–e16089. 1 indexed citations

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Evans, Simon, et al.. (2020). Mid age APOE ε4 carriers show memory-related functional differences and disrupted structure-function relationships in hippocampal regions. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 3110–3110. 16 indexed citations

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Davies, Geoff, Mark Hayward, Simon Evans, & Oliver Mason. (2020). A systematic review of structural MRI investigations within borderline personality disorder: Identification of key psychological variables of interest going forward. Psychiatry Research. 286. 112864–112864. 19 indexed citations

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Alkan, Erkan, Annette Sterr, Malcolm von Schantz, et al.. (2019). Metabolic syndrome alters relationships between cardiometabolic variables, cognition and white matter hyperintensity load. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4356–4356. 14 indexed citations

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Evans, Simon, Nicholas G. Dowell, Naji Tabet, et al.. (2018). Using event-related fMRI to examine sustained attention processes and effects of APOE ε4 in young adults. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0198312–e0198312. 6 indexed citations

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Norbury, Ray & Simon Evans. (2018). Time to think: Subjective sleep quality, trait anxiety and university start time.. Psychiatry Research. 271. 214–219. 57 indexed citations

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Evans, Simon, Olga Dal Monte, Pamela L. Noble, & Bruno B. Averbeck. (2013). Intranasal oxytocin effects on social cognition: A critique. Brain Research. 1580. 69–77. 70 indexed citations

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Rusted, Jennifer, Simon Evans, Sarah L. King, et al.. (2012). APOE e4 polymorphism in young adults is associated with improved attention and indexed by distinct neural signatures. NeuroImage. 65. 364–373. 81 indexed citations

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Averbeck, Bruno B., et al.. (2011). Emotion recognition and oxytocin in patients with schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine. 42(2). 259–266. 115 indexed citations

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Evans, Simon, Sukhwinder S. Shergill, & Bruno B. Averbeck. (2010). Oxytocin Decreases Aversion to Angry Faces in an Associative Learning Task. Neuropsychopharmacology. 35(13). 2502–2509. 71 indexed citations

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