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Ashley N. Gearhardt publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ashley N. Gearhardt sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 223 publications — 75th percentile

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Ashley N. Gearhardt D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ashley N. Gearhardt sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 60 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Ashley N. Gearhardt is a researcher affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with significant contributions to clinical psychology and public health-related disciplines.

Their research extensively covers topics related to eating disorders and behaviors, obesity, physical activity, and diet. Additional areas of focus include consumer attitudes and food labeling, the impact of technology on adolescents, child nutrition and feeding issues, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and nutritional studies and diet.

Among recent notable publications authored or co-authored by Gearhardt are:

  • Is Food Addictive? A Review of the Science (2021), published in Annual Review of Nutrition
  • Highly processed foods can be considered addictive substances based on established scientific criteria (2022), published in Addiction

Gearhardt frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Alison L. Miller, Lindsey Parnarouskis, Jenna R. Cummings, Julie C. Lumeng, and Julia A. Wolfson. These collaborations appear in various publications, contributing to a broad and interdisciplinary approach.

Their research is often published in scientific journals such as Appetite, where they have 22 publications, Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity and Nutrients, each with 7 publications. Other frequent venues include the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition with 6 articles and the PsycTESTS Dataset with 5 entries.

Notable papers by other authors related to similar research topics but not authored by Gearhardt include works published in 2021 and 2022 examining the prevalence of food addiction and the role of food insecurity in ultra-processed food consumption.

Best Publications

  • Preliminary validation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;William R. Corbin;Kelly D. Brownell

  • Neural Correlates of Food Addiction

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;Sonja Yokum;Patrick T. Orr;Eric Stice

  • Development of the Yale Food Addiction Scale Version 2.0.

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;William R. Corbin;Kelly D. Brownell

  • Which Foods May Be Addictive? The Roles of Processing, Fat Content, and Glycemic Load

    Erica M. Schulte;Nicole M. Avena;Ashley N. Gearhardt

  • An examination of the food addiction construct in obese patients with binge eating disorder

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;Marney A. White;Robin M. Masheb;Peter T. Morgan

  • The Prevalence of Food Addiction as Assessed by the Yale Food Addiction Scale: A Systematic Review

    Kirrilly M. Pursey;Peter Stanwell;Ashley N. Gearhardt;Clare E. Collins

  • Food addiction: an examination of the diagnostic criteria for dependence.

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;William R. Corbin;Kelly D. Brownell

  • Can Food be Addictive? Public Health and Policy Implications

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;Carlos M. Grilo;Ralph J. DiLeone;Kelly D. Brownell

  • The addiction potential of hyperpalatable foods.

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;Caroline Davis;Rachel Kuschner;Kelly D. Brownell

  • Binge eating disorder and food addiction.

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;Marney A. White;Marc N. Potenza

  • Shared and unique mechanisms underlying binge eating disorder and addictive disorders.

    Erica M. Schulte;Carlos M. Grilo;Ashley N. Gearhardt

  • The association of "food addiction" with disordered eating and body mass index.

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;Rebecca G. Boswell;Marney A. White

  • Food addiction in the light of DSM-5.

    Adrian Meule;Ashley N. Gearhardt

  • An examination of food addiction in a racially diverse sample of obese patients with binge eating disorder in primary care settings

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;Marney A. White;Robin M. Masheb;Carlos M. Grilo

  • Development of the Modified Yale Food Addiction Scale Version 2.0.

    Erica M. Schulte;Ashley N. Gearhardt

  • Preliminary validation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale for children.

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;Christina A. Roberto;Marissa J. Seamans;William R. Corbin

  • Food-addiction scale measurement in 2 cohorts of middle-aged and older women

    Alan J Flint;Ashley N Gearhardt;William R Corbin;Kelly D Brownell

  • Five years of the Yale Food Addiction Scale : Taking stock and moving forward

    Adrian Meule;Adrian Meule;Ashley N. Gearhardt

  • Relation of obesity to neural activation in response to food commercials

    Ashley N. Gearhardt;Sonja Yokum;Eric Stice;Jennifer L. Harris

  • Development and validation of the Problematic Media Use Measure: A parent report measure of screen media “addiction” in children.

    Sarah E. Domoff;Kristen Harrison;Ashley N. Gearhardt;Douglas A. Gentile

  • Is Food Addictive? A Review of the Science.

    Ashley N Gearhardt;Erica M Schulte

  • Individual differences in striatum activity to food commercials predict weight gain in adolescents.

    Sonja Yokum;Ashley N. Gearhardt;Jennifer L. Harris;Kelly D. Brownell

Frequent Co-Authors

Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona
José M. Menchón
José M. Menchón University of Barcelona
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Kelly D. Brownell
Kelly D. Brownell Duke University
Roser Granero
Roser Granero Autonomous University of Barcelona
William R. Corbin
William R. Corbin Arizona State University
Alison L. Miller
Alison L. Miller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Julie C. Lumeng
Julie C. Lumeng University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Zaida Agüera
Zaida Agüera University of Barcelona
Carlos Dieguez
Carlos Dieguez University of Santiago de Compostela

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