Steven Williams

103.8k total citations · 23 hit papers
1.1k papers, 72.3k citations indexed

About

Steven Williams is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Williams has authored 1.1k papers receiving a total of 72.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 424 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 257 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 185 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Steven Williams's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (247 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (151 papers) and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (146 papers). Steven Williams is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (247 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (151 papers) and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (146 papers). Steven Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Steven Williams's co-authors include Edward T. Bullmore, Michael Brammer, Andrew Simmons, Philip McGuire, Robert Howard, Anthony S. David, Karl Friston, R. S. J. Frackowiak, Chris Andrew and Mary L. Phillips and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Steven Williams

1.0k papers receiving 70.5k citations

Hit Papers

Movement‐Related effects ... 1990 2026 2002 2014 1996 1995 1997 1997 1999 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Movement‐Related effects in fMRI time‐series
    1996 2.9k citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  2. Analysis of fMRI Time-Series Revisited
    1995 2.1k citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  3. A specific neural substrate for perceiving facial expressions of disgust
    1997 1.2k citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  4. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts
    1997 1.2k citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  5. Social intelligence in the normal and autistic brain: an fMRI study
    1999 950 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  6. Mapping Motor Inhibition: Conjunctive Brain Activations across Different Versions of Go/No-Go and Stop Tasks
    2001 826 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  7. The amygdala theory of autism
    2000 806 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  8. Hypofrontality in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder During Higher-Order Motor Control: A Study With Functional MRI
    1999 791 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  9. Activation of Auditory Cortex During Silent Lipreading
    1997 748 citations Michael J. Brammer, Steven Williams et al. profile →
  10. Regionally Localized Thinning of the Cerebral Cortex in Schizophrenia
    2003 722 citations Philip McGuire, Steven Williams et al. profile →
  11. Regionally localized thinning of the cerebral cortex in schizophrenia
    2003 696 citations Philip McGuire, Steven Williams et al. profile →
  12. Neural responses to facial and vocal expressions of fear and disgust
    1998 633 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  13. Evidence for cortical “disconnection” as a mechanism of age-related cognitive decline
    2001 632 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  14. Attenuation of the Neural Response to Sad Faces in Major Depressionby Antidepressant Treatment
    2004 622 citations Steven Williams, John Suckling et al. profile →
  15. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med.
    2012 618 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  16. The functional neuroanatomy of social behaviour
    2000 608 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  17. Structural Neuroimaging Studies in Major Depressive Disorder
    2011 593 citations Matthew J. Kempton, Steven Williams et al. profile →
  18. Differential expression of immediate early genes in the hippocampus and spinal cord
    1990 583 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  19. Statistical methods of estimation and inference for functional MR image analysis
    1996 556 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  20. The Neural Correlates of Anhedonia in Major Depressive Disorder
    2005 531 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  21. A differential pattern of neural response toward sad versus happy facial expressions in major depressive disorder
    2004 521 citations Steven Williams et al. profile →
  22. Atlasing location, asymmetry and inter-subject variability of white matter tracts in the human brain with MR diffusion tractography
    2010 508 citations Robin Murray, Steven Williams et al. profile →
  23. Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19
    2021 400 citations Steven Williams, Mitul A. Mehta et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Steven Williams 36.5k 14.3k 13.9k 9.5k 7.3k 1.1k 72.3k
Peter T. Fox 51.7k 1.4× 9.6k 0.7× 17.3k 1.2× 11.7k 1.2× 3.1k 0.4× 591 74.7k
Alan C. Evans 59.8k 1.6× 17.9k 1.2× 30.5k 2.2× 10.2k 1.1× 5.5k 0.7× 711 100.3k
Edward T. Bullmore 71.2k 1.9× 17.6k 1.2× 23.2k 1.7× 16.6k 1.8× 6.0k 0.8× 648 99.0k
Arthur W. Toga 29.5k 0.8× 16.7k 1.2× 19.0k 1.4× 4.0k 0.4× 7.6k 1.0× 805 69.3k
Anders M. Dale 61.8k 1.7× 19.8k 1.4× 31.7k 2.3× 7.9k 0.8× 5.7k 0.8× 610 100.2k
Marcus E. Raichle 72.6k 2.0× 10.9k 0.8× 27.8k 2.0× 12.9k 1.4× 4.7k 0.6× 344 102.9k
Nancy C. Andreasen 22.3k 0.6× 29.2k 2.0× 9.6k 0.7× 7.2k 0.8× 3.9k 0.5× 515 56.9k
Paul M. Thompson 34.1k 0.9× 23.0k 1.6× 25.6k 1.8× 5.5k 0.6× 12.0k 1.6× 2.1k 119.5k
Bruce Fischl 62.3k 1.7× 21.7k 1.5× 37.3k 2.7× 8.7k 0.9× 4.6k 0.6× 328 101.6k
R. S. J. Frackowiak 70.5k 1.9× 17.3k 1.2× 20.4k 1.5× 10.8k 1.1× 5.0k 0.7× 544 110.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steven Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steven Williams 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 Steven Williams. Steven Williams 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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Cole, James H., et al.. (2024). Volume and distribution of white matter hyperintensities in rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis patients. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 32010–32010.
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Zhang, Yiqi, Niall Bourke, Kirsten A. Donald, et al.. (2024). Ultra‐Low‐Field Paediatric MRI in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: Super‐Resolution Using a Multi‐Orientation U‐Net. Human Brain Mapping. 46(1).
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Mosconi, Lisa, Steven Williams, Steven Jett, et al.. (2024). Sex-specific associations of serum cortisol with brain biomarkers of Alzheimer’s risk. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 5519–5519. 3 indexed citations
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Lopes, Renaud, et al.. (2024). Clinical and neuroimaging predictors of benzodiazepine response in catatonia: A machine learning approach. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 172. 300–306. 1 indexed citations
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Dipasquale, Ottavia, Alexander D. Cohen, Daniel Martins, et al.. (2023). Molecular-enriched functional connectivity in the human brain using multiband multi-echo simultaneous ASL/BOLD fMRI. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 11751–11751. 3 indexed citations
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Jett, Steven, Jonathan P. Dyke, Eva Schelbaum, et al.. (2023). Effects of sex and APOE ε4 genotype on brain mitochondrial high-energy phosphates in midlife individuals at risk for Alzheimer’s disease: A 31Phosphorus MR spectroscopy study. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0281302–e0281302. 10 indexed citations
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Martins, Daniel, Mattia Veronese, Federico Turkheimer, et al.. (2021). A candidate neuroimaging biomarker for detection of neurotransmission-related functional alterations and prediction of pharmacological analgesic response in chronic pain. Brain Communications. 4(1). fcab302–fcab302. 14 indexed citations
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Martins, Daniel, Ottavia Dipasquale, Mattia Veronese, et al.. (2021). Transcriptional and cellular signatures of cortical morphometric remodelling in chronic pain. Pain. 163(6). e759–e773. 12 indexed citations
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Williams, Steven, et al.. (2021). A morphological appraisal of the new subfamily Epidesmiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with an overview of all geometrid subfamilies. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193(4). 1205–1233. 6 indexed citations
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Tseng, Chieh-En Jane, Seán Froudist‐Walsh, Jasmin Kroll, et al.. (2019). Verbal Fluency Is Affected by Altered Brain Lateralization in Adults Who Were Born Very Preterm. eNeuro. 6(2). ENEURO.0274–18.2018. 13 indexed citations
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Davies, Cathy, Yannis Paloyelis, Grazia Rutigliano, et al.. (2019). Oxytocin modulates hippocampal perfusion in people at clinical high risk for psychosis. Neuropsychopharmacology. 44(7). 1300–1309. 23 indexed citations
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Deakin, J.F.W., John Suckling, Paola Dazzan, et al.. (2019). Minocycline for negative symptoms of schizophrenia and possible mechanistic actions: the BeneMin RCT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(7). 1–66. 7 indexed citations
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O’Daly, Owen, Alice Egerton, Katrina McMullen, et al.. (2018). Multi-echo fMRI, resting-state connectivity, and high psychometric schizotypy. NeuroImage Clinical. 21. 101603–101603. 24 indexed citations
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Worker, Amanda, Danai Dima, Anna Combes, et al.. (2018). Test–retest reliability and longitudinal analysis of automated hippocampal subregion volumes in healthy ageing andAlzheimer's disease populations. Human Brain Mapping. 39(4). 1743–1754. 39 indexed citations
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Modinos, Gemma, Alice Egerton, Katrina McMullen, et al.. (2018). Increased resting perfusion of the hippocampus in high positive schizotypy: A pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling study. Human Brain Mapping. 39(10). 4055–4064. 25 indexed citations
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Rossom, Rebecca C., Leif I. Solberg, Sanne Magnan, et al.. (2016). Impact of a national collaborative care initiative for patients with depression and diabetes or cardiovascular disease. General Hospital Psychiatry. 44. 77–85. 57 indexed citations
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Mosconi, Lisa, Juha O. Rinne, Wai Hon Tsui, et al.. (2010). Increased fibrillar amyloid-β burden in normal individuals with a family history of late-onset Alzheimer’s. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(13). 5949–5954. 110 indexed citations
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Howard, Matthew A., Steven J. Coen, Tim Buchanan, et al.. (2006). 305 TEST‐RETEST REPRODUCIBILITY OF CEREBRAL AND SUBJECTIVE RESPONSES TO PAINFUL AND NON‐PAINFUL CONTACT‐HEAT EVOKED POTENTIAL STIMULATION (CHEPS). European Journal of Pain. 10(S1). 4 indexed citations
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Shergill, Sukhwinder S., Michael J. Brammer, Ryouichi Fukuda, et al.. (2003). Attenuated engagement of brain areas implicated in processing inner speech in patients with auditory hallucinations. Research Portal (King's College London). 1 indexed citations
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Hawkins, Philip N., W. I. McDonald, T Révész, & Steven Williams. (1990). MYELIN BREAKDOWN PRODUCTS DETECTED BY MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING IN MAN. Research Portal (King's College London). 1 indexed citations

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