Yves Sarfati

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Yves Sarfati is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Yves Sarfati has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 16 papers in Philosophy and 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Yves Sarfati's work include Mental Health and Psychiatry (16 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (15 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (8 papers). Yves Sarfati is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health and Psychiatry (16 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (15 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (8 papers). Yves Sarfati collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Switzerland. Yves Sarfati's co-authors include Marie‐Christine Hardy‐Baylé, Éric Brunet-Gouet, Jean Decety, Daniel Widlöcher, Chrystel Besche, Christine Passerieux, Nadine Bazin, Jacqueline Nadel, Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore and Philip Gorwood and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, Biological Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Yves Sarfati

28 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

  1. A PET Investigation of the Attribution of Intentions with a Nonverbal Task
    2000 500 citations Éric Brunet-Gouet, Yves Sarfati et al. NeuroImage profile →

Peers

Yves Sarfati
Marie‐Christine Hardy‐Baylé France
Amélie M. Achim Canada
M. F. Green United States
Joanna M. Fiszdon United States
Paul Broks United Kingdom
Patricia Schothorst Netherlands
Nancy M. Docherty United States
Margherita Bechi Italy
Nadine Revheim United States
Gildas Brébion Spain
Marie‐Christine Hardy‐Baylé France
Yves Sarfati
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yves Sarfati

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

All Works

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Beyls, Christophe, Yves Sarfati, Patricia Besserve, et al.. (2025). The Effect of Vasopressin on 90‐Day Mortality in Patients With Cardiogenic Shock: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Propensity Score‐Weighted Analysis. Cardiovascular Therapeutics. 2025(1). 9920490–9920490. 1 indexed citations
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Fond, Guillaume, et al.. (2020). Le développement psychologique des enfants issus de la procréation médicalement assistée. L Encéphale. 46(3). 167–168. 1 indexed citations
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Hamdani, Nora, Nicolás Ramoz, J. Adès, et al.. (2007). The CNR1 gene as a pharmacogenetic factor for antipsychotics rather than a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 18(1). 34–40. 65 indexed citations
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Sarfati, Yves, et al.. (2006). Elaboration of a rehabilitation method based on a pathogenetic hypothesis of “theory of mind” impairment in schizophrenia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 16(1). 83–95. 74 indexed citations
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Bazin, Nadine, et al.. (2005). Scale for the evaluation of communication disorders in patients with schizophrenia: A validation study. Schizophrenia Research. 77(1). 75–84. 33 indexed citations
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Sarfati, Yves, et al.. (2004). Clinical evolution after self-induced or accidental traumatism: a controlled study of the extent and the specificity of suicidal catharsis. Journal of Affective Disorders. 85(3). 283–292. 25 indexed citations
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Hardy‐Baylé, Marie‐Christine, Yves Sarfati, & Christine Passerieux. (2003). The Cognitive Basis of Disorganization Symptomatology in Schizophrenia and Its Clinical Correlates: Toward a Pathogenetic Approach to Disorganization. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 29(3). 459–471. 121 indexed citations
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Brunet-Gouet, Éric, Yves Sarfati, Marie‐Christine Hardy‐Baylé, & Jean Decety. (2003). Abnormalities of brain function during a nonverbal theory of mind task in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia. 41(12). 1574–1582. 152 indexed citations
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Blakemore, Sarah‐Jayne, Yves Sarfati, Nadine Bazin, & Jean Decety. (2003). The detection of intentional contingencies in simple animations in patients with delusions of persecution. Psychological Medicine. 33(8). 1433–1441. 72 indexed citations
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Gorwood, Philip, et al.. (2002). Association of 5-HT2A receptor gene polymorphism with major affective disorders: the case of a subgroup of bipolar disorder with low suicide risk. Biological Psychiatry. 51(9). 762–765. 50 indexed citations
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Sarfati, Yves & Marie‐Christine Hardy‐Baylé. (2002). Could cognitive vulnerability identify high‐risk subjects for schizophrenia?. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 114(8). 893–897. 9 indexed citations
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Brunet-Gouet, Éric, Yves Sarfati, Marie‐Christine Hardy‐Baylé, & Jean Decety. (2000). A PET Investigation of the Attribution of Intentions with a Nonverbal Task. NeuroImage. 11(2). 157–166. 500 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sarfati, Yves, Christine Passerieux, & Marie‐Christine Hardy‐Baylé. (2000). Can Verbalization Remedy the Theory of Mind Deficit in Schizophrenia?. Psychopathology. 33(5). 246–251. 52 indexed citations
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Sarfati, Yves, et al.. (2000). Aspects cognitifs des hallucinations auditives chez les patients schizophrènes. L Évolution Psychiatrique. 65(2). 325–339. 2 indexed citations
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Sarfati, Yves & Marie‐Christine Hardy‐Baylé. (1999). How do people with schizophrenia explain the behaviour of others? A study of theory of mind and its relationship to thought and speech disorganization in schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine. 29(3). 613–620. 146 indexed citations
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Sarfati, Yves, et al.. (1998). [Meta-process paraphrenia in manic-depressive disorder].. PubMed. 23(6). 459–62.
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Besche, Chrystel, et al.. (1997). Syntactic and semantic processing in schizophrenic patients evaluated by lexical-decision tasks.. Neuropsychology. 11(4). 498–505. 37 indexed citations
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Sarfati, Yves, et al.. (1997). Attribution of intentions to others in people with schizophrenia: a non-verbal exploration with comic strips. Schizophrenia Research. 25(3). 199–209. 227 indexed citations
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Besche, Chrystel, et al.. (1997). Syntactic and semantic processing in schizophrenic patients evaluated by lexical-decision tasks.. Neuropsychology. 11(4). 498–505. 33 indexed citations
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Sarfati, Yves, C. Spadone, Jean‐Marie Vanelle, & H. Lôo. (1996). [Calcium antagonists and lithium in preventive treatment of manic-depressive disorder].. PubMed. 22(2). 149–53. 3 indexed citations

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