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Dana L. McMakin 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 Dana L. McMakin sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 94 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Dana L. McMakin 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 Dana L. McMakin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Dana L. McMakin is affiliated with Florida International University in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research primarily spans experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology, with additional contributions to education and social psychology.

The central research topics covered by Dana L. McMakin include:

  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

They have published in a variety of notable journals and venues, with the most frequent outlets being:

  • SLEEP
  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology

Among their recent papers are:

  • Associations between brain structure and sleep patterns across adolescent development, 2021, SLEEP
  • Association of Neural Reward Circuitry Function With Response to Psychotherapy in Youths With Anxiety Disorders, 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Sleep to Internalizing Pathway in Young Adolescents (SIPYA): A proposed neurodevelopmental model, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Negative overgeneralization is associated with anxiety and mechanisms of pattern completion in peripubertal youth, 2021, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Viewing Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescence Through a Developmental Neuroscience Lens: The Impact of Neural Sensitivity to Socioaffective Pain and Reward, 2021, Clinical Psychological Science

Dana L. McMakin's research collaborations include frequent co-authorship with Erika E. Forbes, Cecile D. Ladouceur, Neal D. Ryan, Jennifer S. Silk, and Ronald E. Dahl, reflecting productive partnerships within the fields of developmental and clinical neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Anhedonia Predicts Poorer Recovery among Youth with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Dana L. McMakin;Thomas M. Olino;Giovanna Porta;Laura J. Dietz

  • Protecting Adolescents From Self-Harm: A Critical Review of Intervention Studies

    David A. Brent;Dana L. McMakin;Betsy D. Kennard;Tina R. Goldstein

  • Relationship Processes in Youth Psychotherapy: Measuring Alliance, Alliance Building Behaviors, and Client Involvement

    Marc Karver;Stephen Shirk;Jessica B. Handelsman;Sherecce Fields

  • Machine learning of neural representations of suicide and emotion concepts identifies suicidal youth.

    Marcel Adam Just;Lisa Pan;Vladimir L. Cherkassky;Dana L. McMakin

  • Sleep and anxiety in late childhood and early adolescence.

    Dana L. McMakin;Candice A. Alfano

  • Neural response to reward as a predictor of increases in depressive symptoms in adolescence.

    Judith K. Morgan;Thomas M. Olino;Dana L. McMakin;Neal D. Ryan

  • Why do anxious children become depressed teenagers? The role of social evaluative threat and reward processing

    Jennifer S. Silk;Stephanie Davis;Dana L. McMakin;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Alliance and outcome in cognitive-behavioral therapy for adolescent depression.

    Stephen R. Shirk;Gretchen Gudmundsen;Heather Crisp Kaplinski;Dana L. McMakin

  • Reduced reward anticipation in youth at high-risk for unipolar depression: a preliminary study.

    Thomas M. Olino;Dana L. McMakin;Judith K. Morgan;Jennifer S. Silk

  • Positive Affect Stimulation and Sustainment (PASS) Module for Depressed Mood: A Preliminary Investigation of Treatment-Related Effects

    Dana L. McMakin;Dana L. McMakin;Greg J. Siegle;Stephen R. Shirk

  • As Safe as Possible (ASAP): A Brief App-Supported Inpatient Intervention to Prevent Postdischarge Suicidal Behavior in Hospitalized, Suicidal Adolescents.

    Betsy D. Kennard;Tina Goldstein;Aleksandra A. Foxwell;Dana L. McMakin

  • A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Child-Centered Therapy for Child Anxiety Disorders

    Jennifer S Silk;Patricia Z Tan;Cecile D Ladouceur;Suzanne Meller

  • The impact of experimental sleep restriction on affective functioning in social and nonsocial contexts among adolescents

    Dana L. McMakin;Dana L. McMakin;Ronald E. Dahl;Daniel J. Buysse;Jennifer C. Cousins

  • Adolescent development of inhibition as a function of SES and gender: Converging evidence from behavior and fMRI

    Jeffrey M. Spielberg;Ezequiel M. Galarce;Cecile D. Ladouceur;Dana L. McMakin

  • "I won, but I'm not getting my hopes up": depression moderates the relationship of outcomes and reward anticipation.

    Thomas M. Olino;Dana L. McMakin;Ronald E. Dahl;Neal D. Ryan

  • Polyunsaturated fatty acid status and aggression in cocaine addicts.

    Laure Buydens-Branchey;Laure Buydens-Branchey;Marc Branchey;Marc Branchey;Dana L. McMakin;Joseph R. Hibbeln

  • Comparisons across depression assessment instruments in adolescence and young adulthood: an item response theory study using two linking methods.

    Thomas M. Olino;Lan Yu;Dana L. McMakin;Erika E. Forbes

  • Polyunsaturated fatty acid status and relapse vulnerability in cocaine addicts.

    Laure Buydens-Branchey;Marc Branchey;Dana L. McMakin;Joseph R. Hibbeln

  • Developing a Brief Suicide Prevention Intervention and Mobile Phone Application: A Qualitative Report

    Beth D. Kennard;Candice Biernesser;Kristin L. Wolfe;Aleksandra A. Foxwell

  • The Time Course of Positive and Negative Emotion in Dysphoria.

    Dana L. McMakin;Catherine D. Santiago;Stephen R. Shirk

  • A cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based group sleep intervention improves behavior problems in at-risk adolescents by improving perceived sleep quality

    Matthew J. Blake;Lian Snoep;Monika Raniti;Orli Schwartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Erika E. Forbes
Erika E. Forbes University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer S. Silk
Jennifer S. Silk University of Pittsburgh
Neal D. Ryan
Neal D. Ryan University of Pittsburgh
Greg J. Siegle
Greg J. Siegle University of Pittsburgh
Cecile D. Ladouceur
Cecile D. Ladouceur University of Pittsburgh
Thomas M. Olino
Thomas M. Olino Temple University
Tina R. Goldstein
Tina R. Goldstein University of Pittsburgh
Philip C. Kendall
Philip C. Kendall Temple University
Nicholas B. Allen
Nicholas B. Allen University of Oregon

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