2026 Beatriz Luna: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	91	1059	950	555	486	255	36615

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Overview

Beatriz Luna is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cellular and molecular neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Neural dynamics and brain function
Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Biological Psychiatry
Nature

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Beatriz Luna include:

"Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals," 2022, Nature
"QSIPrep: an integrative platform for preprocessing and reconstructing diffusion MRI data," 2021, Nature Methods
"Towards Reproducible Brain-Wide Association Studies," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"Inter-individual variability in structural brain development from late childhood to young adulthood," 2021, NeuroImage
"Consortium neuroscience of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder: The ENIGMA adventure," 2020, Human Brain Mapping

Collaborations feature prominently in their research, with frequent co-authors including:

Finnegan J. Calabro
Will Foran
Ashley C. Parr
Brenden Tervo-Clemmens
William Foran

Best Publications

The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism

A Di Martino;C-G Yan;Q Li;E Denio

2883
Citations
Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals

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2576
Citations
Maturation of Cognitive Processes From Late Childhood to Adulthood

Beatriz Luna;Krista E. Garver;Trinity A. Urban;Nicole A. Lazar

1713
Citations
Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

Donald J. Hagler;Sean N. Hatton;M. Daniela Cornejo;Carolina Makowski

1152
Citations
What has fMRI told us about the development of cognitive control through adolescence

Beatriz Luna;Aarthi Padmanabhan;Kirsten O’Hearn

1112
Citations
Maturation of widely distributed brain function subserves cognitive development.

Beatriz Luna;Keith R. Thulborn;Douglas P. Munoz;Elisha P. Merriam

1024
Citations
The nuisance of nuisance regression: spectral misspecification in a common approach to resting-state fMRI preprocessing reintroduces noise and obscures functional connectivity.

Michael N. Hallquist;Kai Hwang;Beatriz Luna

767
Citations
Adolescence as a neurobiological critical period for the development of higher-order cognition.

Bart Larsen;Beatriz Luna

753
Citations
Enhancing studies of the connectome in autism using the autism brain imaging data exchange II

Adriana Di Martino;David O'Connor;David O'Connor;Bosi Chen;Kaat Alaerts

688
Citations
The Emergence of Collaborative Brain Function: fMRI Studies of the Development of Response Inhibition

Beatriz Luna;John A. Sweeney

680
Citations
White Matter Development in Adolescence: A DTI Study

M. R. Asato;R. Terwilliger;J. Woo;B. Luna

623
Citations
An Integrative Model of the Maturation of Cognitive Control

Beatriz Luna;Scott Marek;Bart Larsen;Brenden Tervo-Clemmens

570
Citations
Distinct neural signatures detected for ADHD subtypes after controlling for micro-movements in resting state functional connectivity MRI data.

Damien A. Fair;Joel T. Nigg;Swathi Iyer;Deepti Bathula;Deepti Bathula

537
Citations
Developmental Stages and Sex Differences of White Matter and Behavioral Development through Adolescence: A Longitudinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Study

Daniel J. Simmonds;Michael N. Hallquist;Miya Asato;Beatriz Luna

508
Citations
Immaturities in Reward Processing and Its Influence on Inhibitory Control in Adolescence

C.F. Geier;R. Terwilliger;T. Teslovich;K. Velanova

497
Citations
Neocortical system abnormalities in autism: An fMRI study of spatial working memory

B. Luna;N. J. Minshew;K. E. Garver;N. A. Lazar

496
Citations
An open science resource for establishing reliability and reproducibility in functional connectomics

Xi Nian Zuo;Jeffrey S. Anderson;Pierre Bellec;Rasmus M. Birn

485
Citations
Developmental changes in cognitive control through adolescence.

Beatriz Luna

476
Citations
Visual category-selectivity for faces, places and objects emerges along different developmental trajectories.

K. Suzanne Scherf;Marlene Behrmann;Kate Humphreys;Beatriz Luna

475
Citations
Maturation of Executive Function in Autism

Beatriz Luna;Sara K. Doll;Stephen J. Hegedus;Nancy J. Minshew

456
Citations
Dorsal cortical regions subserving visually guided saccades in humans: an fMRI study.

Beatriz Luna;Keith R. Thulborn;Magdalena H. Strojwas;Benjamin J. McCurtain

447
Citations