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Daniel L. Schacter

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D-Index
182
Citations
139861
World Ranking
575
National Ranking
363

Psychology

D-Index
185
Citations
149097
World Ranking
19
National Ranking
8

Neuroscience

D-Index
185
Citations
149097
World Ranking
50
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34

Daniel L. Schacter publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 672 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniel L. Schacter 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 Daniel L. Schacter sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 185 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1998 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1991 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his investigations of the amnesic syndrome and of explicit versus implicit memory, major steps toward a neuro-psychological analysis of the functions of consciousness.

Overview

Daniel L. Schacter is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Neuroscience and Psychology, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. The work also touches on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Social Psychology as significant subfields of study.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Schacter has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several academic venues. These include:

  • Memory
  • Annual Review of Psychology
  • Creativity Research Journal
  • Cortex
  • UNC Libraries

Their notable recent papers feature:

  • "Aging in an Era of Fake News" (2020) published in Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "Research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science" (2020) published in British Journal of Psychology
  • "The role of memory in creative ideation" (2023) published in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "Deliberating trade-offs with the future" (2020) published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Modulation of hippocampal brain networks produces changes in episodic simulation and divergent thinking" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Preston P. Thakral
  • William Orwig
  • Susan T. Fiske
  • Sarah E. Kalinowski
  • Roger E. Beaty

Among awards received are:

  • William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (2017)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)
  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (2012)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1998)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996)
  • Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences (1991) for investigations of amnesic syndrome and explicit versus implicit memory contributing to neuro-psychological analysis of consciousness functions

Best Publications

  • The Brain's Default Network Anatomy, Function, and Relevance to Disease

    Randy L. Buckner;Jessica R. Andrews‐Hanna;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Implicit memory: History and current status

    Daniel L. Schacter

  • Priming and human memory systems

    Endel Tulving;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Searching For Memory: The Brain, The Mind, And The Past

    Daniel L. Schacter

  • Implicit and explicit memory for new associations in normal and amnesic subjects.

    Peter Graf;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain

    Daniel L. Schacter;Donna Rose Addis;Randy L. Buckner;Randy L. Buckner

  • Remembering the past and imagining the future: common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration

    Donna Rose Addis;Alana T. Wong;Alana T. Wong;Daniel L. Schacter;Daniel L. Schacter

  • The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

    Daniel L. Schacter

  • The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future

    Daniel L Schacter;Donna Rose Addis

  • Building Memories: Remembering and Forgetting of Verbal Experiences as Predicted by Brain Activity

    Anthony D. Wagner;Daniel L. Schacter;Michael Rotte;Wilma Koutstaal

  • Priming and multiple memory systems: Perceptual mechanisms of implicit memory

    Daniel L. Schacter

  • Top-down facilitation of visual recognition

    M. Bar;K. S. Kassam;A. S. Ghuman;J. Boshyan

  • The seven sins of memory. Insights from psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

    Daniel L. Schacter

  • Priming effects in word-fragment completion are independent of recognition memory.

    Endel Tulving;Daniel L. Schacter;Heather A. Stark

  • The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain

    Daniel L. Schacter;Donna Rose Addis;Demis Hassabis;Victoria C. Martin

  • Overdependence on degraded gist memory in Alzheimer's disease.

    David A. Gallo;Kameron R. Shahid;Meredith A. Olson;Todd M. Solomon

  • Default network activity, coupled with the frontoparietal control network, supports goal-directed cognition.

    R. Nathan Spreng;W. Dale Stevens;Jon P. Chamberlain;Adrian W. Gilmore

  • THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF CONSTRUCTIVE MEMORY

    Daniel L. Schacter;Kenneth Andrew Norman;Wilma Koutstaal

  • The Evolution of Multiple Memory Systems

    David F. Sherry;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Priming and the Brain

    Daniel L Schacter;Randy L Buckner

Frequent Co-Authors

Donna Rose Addis
Donna Rose Addis University of Toronto
Andrew E. Budson
Andrew E. Budson Boston University
Randy L. Buckner
Randy L. Buckner Harvard University
Wilma Koutstaal
Wilma Koutstaal University of Minnesota
Karl K. Szpunar
Karl K. Szpunar Toronto Metropolitan University
Anthony D. Wagner
Anthony D. Wagner Stanford University
Kirk R. Daffner
Kirk R. Daffner Brigham and Women's Hospital
Tim Curran
Tim Curran University of Colorado Boulder
Reisa A. Sperling
Reisa A. Sperling Brigham and Women's Hospital

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