CHRISTOPH CORRELL 

Prof. Dr. med Christoph Correll is Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, CampusVirchow, Berlin, Germany. Furthermore, he is Professor of Psychiatry at The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York, USA. 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 City. Since 1997, he has been working and conducting research in New York, USA.

Professor Correll’s research and clinical work focus on the identification, characterization and treatment of youth and adults with severe mental illness, including psychotic and mood disorders, spanning all disease stages from the prodrome to first and multi-episode illness and up to refractory illness. He further focuses on psychopharmacology, epidemiology, comparative effectiveness, meta-analyses, the risk–benefit evaluation of psychotropic medications, and the interface between physical health and mental health.

He has authored or co-authored over 600 journal articles, and in July 2020, his H-index in Web of Science was 78 (Google Scholar: 102). He has served on several expert consensus panels on the use of antipsychotics across a range of psychiatric disorders, is a reviewer for over 70 peer-reviewed journals and an editorial board member of 12 scientific journals. Professor Correll has been the Principal Investigator or Steering Committee member of several large, federally funded grants. He has received over 40 national and international research awards and fellowships for his work.

Since 2014, the year of inception of this metric, he has been listed every year by Clarivate/Web of Science as one of the “most influential scientific minds” and “top 1% cited scientists in the area of psychiatry” (https://hcr.clarivate.com).

Additionally, he has been holding numerous Expertscape rankings, such as 15 topics ranked as “Expert” (among the top 1% cited scientists), and 24 topics ranked as “World Expert” (among the top 0.1% cited scientists), including in July 2020 for example:

1. Ranked number 1 among world’s experts on the topic of central nervous system agents, out of 294,017 ranked scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/central+nervous+system+agents)

2. Ranked number 1 among world’s experts on the topic of central nervous system depressants, out of 214,006 ranked scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/central+nervous+system+depressants)
3. Ranked number 1 among world’s experts on the topic of psychotropic drugs, out of 123,422 ranked scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/psychotropic+drugs)
4. Ranked number 1 among world’s experts on the topic of Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders, out of 87,796 ranked scientists
(http://expertscape.com/ex/schizophrenia+spectrum+and+other+psychotic+disorders)
5. Ranked number 1 among world’s experts on the topic of schizophrenia, out of 84,271 ranked scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/schizophrenia)
6. Ranked number 1 among world’s experts on the topic of tranquilizing agents, out of 67,324 ranked scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/tranquilizing agents)
7. Ranked number 1 among world’s experts on the topic of weight gain, out of 63,492 ranked scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/weight+gain)
8. Ranked number 1 among world’s experts on the topic of antipsychotics, out of 54,959 ranked scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/antipsychotics)

PubMed Link to the Bibliography: click HERE