2026 Daniel L. Schacter: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	182	575	530	363	328	685	139861
Neuroscience	185	50	42	34	27	673	149097
Psychology	185	19	17	8	7	672	149097

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

11799
Citations
Implicit memory: History and current status

Daniel L. Schacter

5326
Citations
Priming and human memory systems

Endel Tulving;Daniel L. Schacter

4033
Citations
Searching For Memory: The Brain, The Mind, And The Past

Daniel L. Schacter

3709
Citations
Implicit and explicit memory for new associations in normal and amnesic subjects.

Peter Graf;Daniel L. Schacter

2979
Citations
Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain

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

2904
Citations
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

2472
Citations
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

Daniel L. Schacter

2465
Citations
The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future

Daniel L Schacter;Donna Rose Addis

2280
Citations
Building Memories: Remembering and Forgetting of Verbal Experiences as Predicted by Brain Activity

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

2126
Citations
Priming and multiple memory systems: Perceptual mechanisms of implicit memory

Daniel L. Schacter

2116
Citations
Top-down facilitation of visual recognition

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

1959
Citations
The seven sins of memory. Insights from psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Daniel L. Schacter

1748
Citations
Priming effects in word-fragment completion are independent of recognition memory.

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

1701
Citations
The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain

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

1581
Citations
Overdependence on degraded gist memory in Alzheimer's disease.

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

1499
Citations
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

1385
Citations
THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF CONSTRUCTIVE MEMORY

Daniel L. Schacter;Kenneth Andrew Norman;Wilma Koutstaal

1379
Citations
The Evolution of Multiple Memory Systems

David F. Sherry;Daniel L. Schacter

1352
Citations
Priming and the Brain

Daniel L Schacter;Randy L Buckner

1145
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Donna Rose Addis University of Toronto

Andrew E. Budson Boston University

Randy L. Buckner Harvard University

Wilma Koutstaal University of Minnesota

Karl K. Szpunar Toronto Metropolitan University

Anthony D. Wagner Stanford University

Elizabeth A. Kensinger Boston College

Kirk R. Daffner Brigham and Women's Hospital

Tim Curran University of Colorado Boulder

Reisa A. Sperling Brigham and Women's Hospital

External Links

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