2026 Claire M. Gillan: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	38	8747	8170	24	23	159	8917

Overview

Claire M. Gillan is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Their research primarily centers on psychology, with a significant focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry, and mental health. The scope of their work encompasses various aspects of mental health, encompassing topics such as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, functional brain connectivity studies, digital mental health interventions, schizophrenia research and treatment, as well as health, environment, and cognitive aging.

They have published extensively, with numerous contributions to key academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

Biological Psychiatry
Alzheimer s & Dementia
eLife
Scientific Reports
Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Claire M. Gillan include:

"How Local and Global Metacognition Shape Mental Health," 2021, Biological Psychiatry
"Transdiagnostic Phenotyping Reveals a Host of Metacognitive Deficits Implicated in Compulsivity," 2020, Scientific Reports
"Improving the Reliability of Computational Analyses: Model-Based Planning and Its Relationship With Compulsivity," 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
"Smartphones and the Neuroscience of Mental Health," 2021, Annual Review of Neuroscience
"Identifying Transdiagnostic Mechanisms in Mental Health Using Computational Factor Modeling," 2022, Biological Psychiatry

Claire M. Gillan's research collaborations include frequent coauthors such as:

Tricia X. F. Seow
Chi Tak Lee
Eoghan Gallagher
Siobhán Harty
Veronica O'Keane

Their scientific contributions concentrate on integrating computational methods with mental health research, particularly through studies focused on metacognition, compulsivity, and the application of digital tools like smartphones in neuroscience contexts. Their work spans diverse areas that intersect psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling, supporting a transdiagnostic approach to understanding and addressing mental health challenges.

Best Publications

Neurocognitive endophenotypes of impulsivity and compulsivity: towards dimensional psychiatry

Trevor W. Robbins;Claire M. Gillan;Dana G. Smith;Sanne de Wit

1095
Citations
Disruption in the balance between goal-directed behavior and habit learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Claire M. Gillan;Martina Papmeyer;Sharon Morein-Zamir;Barbara J. Sahakian

729
Citations
Disorders of compulsivity: a common bias towards learning habits

Valerie Voon;K Derbyshire;C Rück;MA Irvine

674
Citations
Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-directed control

Claire M Gillan;Claire M Gillan;Michal Kosinski;Robert Whelan;Elizabeth A Phelps;Elizabeth A Phelps;Elizabeth A Phelps

620
Citations
New Developments in Human Neurocognition: Clinical, Genetic, and Brain Imaging Correlates of Impulsivity and Compulsivity

Naomi A Fineberg;Samuel R. Chamberlain;Anna E. Goudriaan;Dan J. Stein

503
Citations
Enhanced avoidance habits in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Claire M. Gillan;Sharon Morein-Zamir;Gonzalo P. Urcelay;Akeem Sule;Akeem Sule

449
Citations
Goal-directed learning and obsessive–compulsive disorder

Claire M. Gillan;Trevor W. Robbins

377
Citations
Psychiatric symptom dimensions are associated with dissociable shifts in metacognition but not task performance

Marion Rouault;Tricia Seow;Claire M. Gillan;Stephen M. Fleming

330
Citations
Model-based learning protects against forming habits

Claire M. Gillan;Claire M. Gillan;A. Ross Otto;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Nathaniel D. Daw

281
Citations
Functional Neuroimaging of Avoidance Habits in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Claire M. Gillan;Annemieke M. Apergis-Schoute;Sharon Morein-Zamir;Gonzalo P. Urcelay

280
Citations
Carrots and sticks fail to change behavior in cocaine addiction.

Karen D. Ersche;Claire M. Gillan;Claire M. Gillan;P. Simon Jones;Guy B. Williams

268
Citations
The role of habit in compulsivity

Claire M. Gillan;Claire M. Gillan;Trevor W. Robbins;Barbara J. Sahakian;Odile A. van den Heuvel;Odile A. van den Heuvel

246
Citations
Shifting the balance between goals and habits: Five failures in experimental habit induction.

Sanne de Wit;Merel Kindt;Sarah L. Knot;Aukje A. C. Verhoeven

226
Citations
Neural basis of impaired safety signaling in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Annemieke M. Apergis-Schoute;Claire M. Gillan;Naomi A. Fineberg;Naomi A. Fineberg;Emilio Fernandez-Egea

161
Citations
Mapping Compulsivity in the DSM-5 Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders: Cognitive Domains, Neural Circuitry, and Treatment.

Naomi A. Fineberg;Naomi A. Fineberg;Naomi A. Fineberg;Annemieke M. Apergis-Schoute;Matilde M. Vaghi;Paula Banca

159
Citations
A trans-diagnostic perspective on obsessive-compulsive disorder

C. M. Gillan;Naomi Fineberg;T. W. Robbins

155
Citations
How local and global metacognition shape mental health

Tricia X.F. Seow;Marion Rouault;Claire M. Gillan;Stephen M. Fleming

135
Citations
Transdiagnostic Phenotyping Reveals a Host of Metacognitive Deficits Implicated in Compulsivity

Tricia X. F. Seow;Claire M. Gillan

120
Citations
Taking Psychiatry Research Online

Claire M. Gillan;Claire M. Gillan;Nathaniel D. Daw

114
Citations
What big data can do for treatment in psychiatry

Claire M .Gillan;Robert Whelan

100
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire

Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge

Barbara J. Sahakian University of Cambridge

Sharon Morein-Zamir Anglia Ruskin University

Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University

Sanne de Wit University of Amsterdam

Samuel R. Chamberlain University of Southampton

Robert Whelan Trinity College Dublin

Luke Clark University of British Columbia

Rebecca B. Price University of Pittsburgh

External Links

Personal website of Claire M. Gillan

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