Researcher profile

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 City. 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, clinical trials, epidemiology, psychopharmacology, meta-analyses, and the interface between physical health and mental health. He has authored or co-authored over 1,200 journal articles that have been cited more than 120,000 times and received over 40 research awards for his work. In September 2026, his H-index was 170 in Google Scholar. Since 2014, the beginning 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 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 April 2024 ranked as number one among world experts for the following areas: 1. Central nervous system depressants, out of 259,989 ranked scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/central+nervous+system+depressants) 2. Psychotropic drugs, out of 138,731 scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/psychotropic+drugs) 3. Schizophrenia, out of 101,038 scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/schizophrenia) 4. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders, out of 121,673 scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/schizophrenia+spectrum+and+other+psychotic+disorders) 5. Antipsychotics, out of 56,247 scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/antipsychotics) 6. Olanzapine, out of 10,235 scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/olanzapine) 7. Delayed Action Preparations, out of 69,531 scientists (https://expertscape.com/ex/delayed-action+preparations) 8. Tranquilizing agents, out of 72,377 scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/tranquilizing agents) 9. Weight gain, out of 76,380 scientists (http://expertscape.com/ex/weight+gain)