Prof. Christoph U. Correll

Christoph U. Correll is Professor of Psychiatry at The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York, USA, and also Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany. He completed his medical studies at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, and Dundee University Medical School in Scotland. He is board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, having completed both residencies at The Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York. Since 1997, he has been working and conducting research in New York, USA, and since 2017 he is also working in Germany again.

Professor Correll focuses on the identification and treatment of youth and adults with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, mood disorders, aggression-spectrum disorders and eating disorders, clinical trials, epidemiology, psychopharmacology, meta-analyses, and the interface between physical health and mental health.

He has authored or co-authored over 900 journal articles that have been cited more than 82.000 times and received over 40 research awards for his work. In October 2024, his h-index was 146 in Google Scholar, with an h-index >100 in the last 5 years alone.

Since 2014, he has been listed annually by Clarivate/Web of Science as one of the “most influential scientific minds” and “top 1% cited scientists in the area of psychiatry”.

https://publons.com/researcher/2796036/christoph-u-correll/

Additionally, he has been holding numerous Expertscape rankings based on the number of publications and citations in the past 10 years, i.e., for 15 topics as “Expert” (among the top 1% cited scientists), and 24 topics as “World Expert” (among the top 0.1% cited scientists), including in September 2024 ranked as number one among world experts for the following areas:

1. Central nervous system agents, out of 308,311 scientists (https://expertscape.com/ex/central+nervous+system+agents)
2. Psychotropic drugs, out of 131,808 scientists (https://expertscape.com/ex/psychotropic+drugs)
3. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders, out of 94,268 scientists (https://expertscape.com/ex/schizophrenia+spectrum+and+other+psychotic+disorders)
4. Schizophrenia, out of 90,874 scientists (https://expertscape.com/ex/schizophrenia)
5. Tranquilizing agents, out of 71,122 scientists (https://expertscape.com/ex/tranquilizing agents)
6. Weight gain, out of 68,578 scientists (https://expertscape.com/ex/weight+gain)
7. Delayed-action preparations out of 68,517 ranked scientists (https://expertscape.com/ex/delayed-action+preparations)
8. Antipsychotics, out of 60,313 scientists (https://expertscape.com/ex/antipsychotics)