Thomas Wolfers

8.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Wolfers is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Wolfers has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 18 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 15 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Thomas Wolfers's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (27 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (16 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (7 papers). Thomas Wolfers is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (27 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (16 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (7 papers). Thomas Wolfers collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. Thomas Wolfers's co-authors include Christian F. Beckmann, André F. Marquand, Jan K. Buitelaar, Barbara Franke, Seyed Mostafa Kia, Mariam Zabihi, Lars T. Westlye, Ole A. Andreassen, Tobias Kaufmann and Maarten Mennes and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Wolfers

39 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Conceptualizing mental disorders as deviations from normative functioning

2019 185 citations André F. Marquand, Seyed Mostafa Kia et al. Molecular Psychiatry profile →
The normative modeling framework for computational psychiatry

2022 108 citations Saige Rutherford, Seyed Mostafa Kia et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Wolfers Netherlands	21	1.2k	519	441	397	184	43	1.8k
Chad Jackson United States	18	1.2k 1.0×	359 0.7×	516 1.2×	408 1.0×	250 1.4×	20	1.9k
Óscar Miranda-Domínguez United States	19	1.2k 1.0×	286 0.6×	436 1.0×	255 0.6×	165 0.9×	50	1.9k
Crystal Cooper United States	20	1.0k 0.8×	314 0.6×	621 1.4×	378 1.0×	108 0.6×	39	1.7k
Ryan Hopson United States	13	912 0.8×	262 0.5×	404 0.9×	345 0.9×	212 1.2×	14	1.5k
Nils Opel Germany	26	826 0.7×	559 1.1×	295 0.7×	475 1.2×	413 2.2×	77	2.1k
Rastko Ćirić United States	20	2.1k 1.8×	345 0.7×	937 2.1×	569 1.4×	224 1.2×	25	2.7k
Daan van Rooij Netherlands	17	1.5k 1.3×	567 1.1×	390 0.9×	383 1.0×	189 1.0×	49	2.0k
Youjin Zhao China	22	1.0k 0.9×	346 0.7×	548 1.2×	303 0.8×	154 0.8×	58	1.5k
Kelly S. Giovanello United States	28	2.1k 1.7×	453 0.9×	311 0.7×	409 1.0×	102 0.6×	71	2.8k
Sofie L. Valk Germany	24	1.6k 1.4×	300 0.6×	663 1.5×	302 0.8×	210 1.1×	78	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Wolfers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Wolfers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Wolfers 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 Thomas Wolfers. Thomas Wolfers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Korbmacher, Max, Didac Vidal‐Piñeiro, Mengyun Wang, et al.. (2025). Cross‐Sectional Brain Age Assessments Are Limited in Predicting Future Brain Change. Human Brain Mapping. 46(6). e70203–e70203. 2 indexed citations

Haukvik, Unn K., Thomas Wolfers, Natalia Tesli, et al.. (2025). Individual-level deviations from normative brain morphology in violence, psychosis, and psychopathy. Translational Psychiatry. 15(1). 118–118.

Leonardsen, Esten H., Saige Rutherford, Geir Selbæk, et al.. (2024). Mapping cerebellar anatomical heterogeneity in mental and neurological illnesses. Nature Mental Health. 2(10). 1196–1207. 2 indexed citations

Leonardsen, Esten H., Karin Persson, Nicola K. Dinsdale, et al.. (2024). Constructing personalized characterizations of structural brain aberrations in patients with dementia using explainable artificial intelligence. npj Digital Medicine. 7(1). 110–110. 3 indexed citations

Andreassen, Ole A., et al.. (2024). Learning Cortical Anomaly through Masked Encoding for Unsupervised Heterogeneity Mapping. 1–5.

Berthet, Pierre, Beathe Haatveit, Rikka Kjelkenes, et al.. (2024). A 10-Year Longitudinal Study of Brain Cortical Thickness in People with First-Episode Psychosis Using Normative Models. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 51(1). 95–107. 15 indexed citations

Zabihi, Mariam, Seyed Mostafa Kia, Thomas Wolfers, et al.. (2024). Nonlinear latent representations of high-dimensional task-fMRI data: Unveiling cognitive and behavioral insights in heterogeneous spatial maps. PLoS ONE. 19(8). e0308329–e0308329. 2 indexed citations

Leonardsen, Esten H., Didac Vidal‐Piñeiro, James M. Roe, et al.. (2023). Genetic architecture of brain age and its causal relations with brain and mental disorders. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(7). 3111–3120. 19 indexed citations

Haak, Koen V., Thomas Wolfers, Dorothea L. Floris, et al.. (2023). Fine-grained topographic organization within somatosensory cortex during resting-state and emotional face-matching task and its association with ASD traits. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 270–270. 5 indexed citations

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Persson, Karin, Esten H. Leonardsen, Trine Holt Edwin, et al.. (2023). Diagnostic accuracy of brain age prediction in a memory clinic population and comparison with clinically available volumetric measures. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 14957–14957. 3 indexed citations

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Leonardsen, Esten H., Han Peng, Tobias Kaufmann, et al.. (2022). Deep neural networks learn general and clinically relevant representations of the ageing brain. NeuroImage. 256. 119210–119210. 68 indexed citations

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Kia, Seyed Mostafa, Saige Rutherford, Thomas Wolfers, et al.. (2022). Closing the life-cycle of normative modeling using federated hierarchical Bayesian regression. PLoS ONE. 17(12). e0278776–e0278776. 28 indexed citations

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Meer, Dennis van der, Alexey Shadrin, Kevin S. O’Connell, et al.. (2022). Boosting Schizophrenia Genetics by Utilizing Genetic Overlap With Brain Morphology. Biological Psychiatry. 92(4). 291–298. 25 indexed citations

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Kjelkenes, Rikka, Thomas Wolfers, Dag Alnæs, et al.. (2022). Mapping Normative Trajectories of Cognitive Function and Its Relation to Psychopathology Symptoms and Genetic Risk in Youth. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 255–263. 13 indexed citations

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Maximov, Ivan I., Dennis van der Meer, Ann‐Marie G. de Lange, et al.. (2021). Fast qualitY conTrol meThod foR derIved diffUsion Metrics (YTTRIUM) in big data analysis: U.K. Biobank 18,608 example. Human Brain Mapping. 42(10). 3141–3155. 21 indexed citations

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Wolfers, Thomas, Jaroslav Rokicki, Dag Alnæs, et al.. (2021). Replicating extensive brain structural heterogeneity in individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Human Brain Mapping. 42(8). 2546–2555. 33 indexed citations

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Zabihi, Mariam, Dorothea L. Floris, Seyed Mostafa Kia, et al.. (2020). Fractionating autism based on neuroanatomical normative modeling. Translational Psychiatry. 10(1). 384–384. 31 indexed citations

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Rokicki, Jaroslav, Thomas Wolfers, Wibeke Nordhøy, et al.. (2020). Multimodal imaging improves brain age prediction and reveals distinct abnormalities in patients with psychiatric and neurological disorders. Human Brain Mapping. 42(6). 1714–1726. 68 indexed citations

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Marquand, André F., Seyed Mostafa Kia, Mariam Zabihi, et al.. (2019). Conceptualizing mental disorders as deviations from normative functioning. Molecular Psychiatry. 24(10). 1415–1424. 185 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maglanoc, Luigi A., Tobias Kaufmann, Dennis van der Meer, et al.. (2019). Brain Connectome Mapping of Complex Human Traits and Their Polygenic Architecture Using Machine Learning. Biological Psychiatry. 87(8). 717–726. 23 indexed citations

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