2026 Abby J. Fyer: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	85	14697	13843	7435	6885	217	24104

Overview

Abby J. Fyer is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and genetics.

Their work covers several key topics including:

Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Mental Health Research Topics
Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research

Recent publications by Abby J. Fyer include:

"Exome sequencing in obsessive-compulsive disorder reveals a burden of rare damaging coding variants," 2021, Nature Neuroscience
"Genome-wide association study of pediatric obsessive-compulsive traits: shared genetic risk between traits and disorder," 2021, Translational Psychiatry
"Heterogeneity in Fear Processing across and within Anxiety, Eating, and Compulsive Disorders," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
"The multi-generational familial aggregation of interstitial cystitis, other chronic nociplastic pain disorders, depression, and panic disorder," 2023, Psychological Medicine
"A Preliminary Test of Novelty-Facilitated Extinction in Individuals With Pathological Anxiety," 2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Frequently collaborating authors include Gerald Nestadt, Jack Samuels, Benjamin D. Greenberg, James T. McCracken, and Mark A. Riddle.

Their work is published in various venues such as:

Nature Neuroscience
Translational Psychiatry
Psychological Medicine
Journal of Affective Disorders
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Best Publications

The Economic Burden of Anxiety Disorders in the 1990s

Paul E. Greenberg;Tamar Sisitsky;Ronald C. Kessler;Stan N. Finkelstein

1929
Citations
Social phobia. Review of a neglected anxiety disorder

Michael R. Liebowitz;Jack M. Gorman;Abby J. Fyer;Donald F. Klein

936
Citations
Treatment of specific phobia in adults.

Yujuan Choy;Abby J. Fyer;Josh D. Lipsitz

774
Citations
Phenelzine vs atenolol in social phobia: A placebo-controlled comparison.

Michael R. Liebowitz;Frank Schneier;Raphael Campeas;Eric Hollander

655
Citations
Revealing the complex genetic architecture of obsessive-compulsive disorder using meta-analysis

Paul D. Arnold;Kathleen D. Askland;Cristina Barlassina;Laura Bellodi

622
Citations
SCHEDULE FOR AFFECTIVE DISORDERS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA-LIFETIME VERSION MODIFIED FOR THE STUDY OF ANXIETY DISORDERS (SADS-LA): RATIONALE AND CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT

Salvatore Mannuzza;Abby J. Fyer;Donald F. Klein;Jean Endicott

560
Citations
A neuroanatomical hypothesis for panic disorder.

Jack M. Gorman;Michael R. Liebowitz;Abby J. Fyer;Jonathan Stein

499
Citations
Ventilatory physiology of patients with panic disorder.

Jack M. Gorman;Minna R. Fyer;Raymond Goetz;Jeffrey Askanazi

491
Citations
Response to hyperventilation in a group of patients with panic disorder.

Jack M. Gorman;Jeffrey Askanazi;Michael R. Liebowitz;Abby J. Fyer

484
Citations
Lactate Provocation of Panic Attacks: I. Clinical and Behavioral Findings

Michael R. Liebowitz;Abby J. Fyer;Jack M. Gorman;Donald Dillon

481
Citations
Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

S. E. Stewart;D. Yu;J. M. Scharf;B. M. Neale

420
Citations
Lactate provocation of panic attacks. II. Biochemical and physiological findings.

Michael R. Liebowitz;Jack M. Gorman;Abby J. Fyer;Morton Levitt

409
Citations
Generalized social phobia. Reliability and validity.

Salvatore Mannuzza;Franklin R. Schneier;Tim F. Chapman;Michael R. Liebowitz

364
Citations
Genome-wide association study in obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from the OCGAS

Mattheisen M;Samuels Jf;Wang Y;Greenberg Bd

359
Citations
Fluvoxamine Treatment of Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder): A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study

Murray B. Stein;Abby J. Fyer;Jonathan R.T. Davidson;Mark H. Pollack

327
Citations
Signs of central nervous system dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Eric Hollander;Erica Schiffman;Barry Cohen;Maria A. Rivera-Stein

316
Citations
Measurement of lactate-induced panic and anxiety.

Donald J. Dillon;Jack M. Gorman;Michael R. Liebowitz;Abby J. Fyer

311
Citations
An open trial of fluoxetine in the treatment of panic attacks.

Jack M. Gorman;Michael R. Liebowitz;Abby J. Fyer;Deborah Goetz

302
Citations
Specificity in Familial Aggregation of Phobic Disorders

Abby J. Fyer;Salvatore Mannuzza;Tim F. Chapman;Lynn Y. Martin

279
Citations
Hoarding in obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study.

Jack F. Samuels;O. Joseph Bienvenu;Anthony Pinto;Abby J. Fyer

269
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald F. Klein New York University

Michael R. Liebowitz Columbia University

Jack M. Gorman Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Myrna M. Weissman Columbia University

James T. McCracken University of California, Los Angeles

Mark A. Riddle Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Benjamin D. Greenberg Brown University

David L. Pauls Harvard University

John Piacentini University of California, Los Angeles

Gerald Nestadt Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

External Links

Personal website of Abby J. Fyer

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