Stephan Geuter

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
20 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Stephan Geuter is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Geuter has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Physiology and 4 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Stephan Geuter's work include Pain Management and Placebo Effect (18 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (12 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (4 papers). Stephan Geuter is often cited by papers focused on Pain Management and Placebo Effect (18 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (12 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (4 papers). Stephan Geuter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Stephan Geuter's co-authors include Christian Büchel, Falk Eippert, Tor D. Wager, Christian Sprenger, Leonie Koban, Martin A. Lindquist, Brian Caffo, Sabrina Boll, Jürgen Finsterbusch and Alexandra Tinnermann and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Geuter

19 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Placebo Analgesia: A Predictive Coding Perspective 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2021 100 200 300
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. Placebo Analgesia: A Predictive Coding Perspective
    2014 336 citations Christian Büchel, Stephan Geuter et al. Neuron profile →
  2. Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain
    2021 145 citations Yoni K. Ashar, Alan Gordon et al. JAMA Psychiatry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephan Geuter United States 17 1.2k 574 401 298 186 20 1.6k
Christian Sprenger Germany 19 1.1k 0.9× 716 1.2× 368 0.9× 319 1.1× 157 0.8× 32 1.6k
Yiheng Tu China 26 1.3k 1.1× 489 0.9× 522 1.3× 334 1.1× 210 1.1× 73 2.2k
Étienne Vachon‐Presseau Canada 20 894 0.7× 730 1.3× 501 1.2× 522 1.8× 76 0.4× 48 1.8k
Jason G. Craggs United States 22 891 0.7× 672 1.2× 791 2.0× 648 2.2× 231 1.2× 45 2.0k
Brandall Y. Suyenobu United States 22 894 0.7× 866 1.5× 378 0.9× 210 0.7× 173 0.9× 29 2.5k
Sergio Vighetti Italy 22 1.9k 1.5× 866 1.5× 632 1.6× 306 1.0× 377 2.0× 43 2.7k
Pei‐Chi Tu Taiwan 19 809 0.7× 237 0.4× 449 1.1× 266 0.9× 77 0.4× 59 1.7k
Sara Palermo Italy 18 736 0.6× 284 0.5× 392 1.0× 136 0.5× 58 0.3× 66 1.3k
Yawei Zeng China 21 1.1k 0.9× 196 0.3× 535 1.3× 154 0.5× 511 2.7× 45 1.7k
Rachael L. Bosma Canada 23 710 0.6× 492 0.9× 276 0.7× 375 1.3× 22 0.1× 59 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephan Geuter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephan Geuter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Geuter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephan Geuter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephan Geuter based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Stephan Geuter. Stephan Geuter is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Botvinik‐Nezer, Rotem, et al.. (2025). Expectation generation and its effect on subsequent pain and visual perception. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(5). e1013053–e1013053.
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Petre, Bogdan, Philip A. Kragel, Lauren Y. Atlas, et al.. (2022). A multistudy analysis reveals that evoked pain intensity representation is distributed across brain systems. PLoS Biology. 20(5). e3001620–e3001620. 11 indexed citations
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Atlas, Lauren Y., Christian Büchel, Jason T. Buhle, et al.. (2022). Individual variability in brain representations of pain. Nature Neuroscience. 25(6). 749–759. 35 indexed citations
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Ashar, Yoni K., Alan Gordon, Howard Schubiner, et al.. (2021). Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain. JAMA Psychiatry. 79(1). 13–13. 145 indexed citations breakdown →
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Geuter, Stephan, Elizabeth A. Reynolds Losin, Mathieu Roy, et al.. (2020). Multiple Brain Networks Mediating Stimulus–Pain Relationships in Humans. Cerebral Cortex. 30(7). 4204–4219. 39 indexed citations
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Lindquist, Martin A., Stephan Geuter, Tor D. Wager, & Brian Caffo. (2019). Modular preprocessing pipelines can reintroduce artifacts into fMRI data. Human Brain Mapping. 40(8). 2358–2376. 128 indexed citations
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Seminowicz, David A., Bethany Remeniuk, Samuel R. Krimmel, et al.. (2019). Pain-related nucleus accumbens function: modulation by reward and sleep disruption. Pain. 160(5). 1196–1207. 47 indexed citations
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López‐Solà, Marina, Stephan Geuter, Leonie Koban, James A. Coan, & Tor D. Wager. (2019). Brain mechanisms of social touch-induced analgesia in females. Pain. 160(9). 2072–2085. 76 indexed citations
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Tinnermann, Alexandra, Stephan Geuter, Christian Sprenger, Jürgen Finsterbusch, & Christian Büchel. (2017). Interactions between brain and spinal cord mediate value effects in nocebo hyperalgesia. Science. 358(6359). 105–108. 136 indexed citations
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Koban, Leonie, Marieke Jepma, Stephan Geuter, & Tor D. Wager. (2017). What’s in a word? How instructions, suggestions, and social information change pain and emotion. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 81(Pt A). 29–42. 75 indexed citations
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Geuter, Stephan, et al.. (2017). Mechanisms of placebo analgesia: A dual-process model informed by insights from cross-species comparisons. Progress in Neurobiology. 160. 101–122. 44 indexed citations
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Geuter, Stephan, Sabrina Boll, Falk Eippert, & Christian Büchel. (2017). Functional dissociation of stimulus intensity encoding and predictive coding of pain in the insula. eLife. 6. 125 indexed citations
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Geuter, Stephan, Leonie Koban, & Tor D. Wager. (2017). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Placebo Effects: Concepts, Predictions, and Physiology. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 40(1). 167–188. 104 indexed citations
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Geuter, Stephan, et al.. (2016). Disentangling opposing effects of motivational states on pain perception. PAIN Reports. 1(3). e574–e574. 6 indexed citations
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Geuter, Stephan, Matthias Gamer, Selim Onat, & Christian Büchel. (2014). Parametric trial-by-trial prediction of pain by easily available physiological measures. Pain. 155(5). 994–1001. 44 indexed citations
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Büchel, Christian, Stephan Geuter, Christian Sprenger, & Falk Eippert. (2014). Placebo Analgesia: A Predictive Coding Perspective. Neuron. 81(6). 1223–1239. 336 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schenk, Lieven A., Christian Sprenger, Stephan Geuter, & Christian Büchel. (2013). Expectation requires treatment to boost pain relief: An fMRI study. Pain. 155(1). 150–157. 60 indexed citations
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Geuter, Stephan & Christian Büchel. (2013). Facilitation of Pain in the Human Spinal Cord by Nocebo Treatment. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(34). 13784–13790. 93 indexed citations
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Geuter, Stephan, Falk Eippert, Catherine Hindi Attar, & Christian Büchel. (2012). Cortical and subcortical responses to high and low effective placebo treatments. NeuroImage. 67. 227–236. 94 indexed citations
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Kietzmann, Tim C., Stephan Geuter, & Peter König. (2011). Overt Visual Attention as a Causal Factor of Perceptual Awareness. PLoS ONE. 6(7). e22614–e22614. 36 indexed citations

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