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David A. Gallo

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
12568
World Ranking
8388
National Ranking
4475

David A. Gallo publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 97 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David A. Gallo 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 David A. Gallo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David A. Gallo is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience, medicine, and psychology, with particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, oncology, and clinical psychology.

Their work explores topics including memory processes and influences, cancer-related molecular pathways, memory and neural mechanisms, psychedelics and drug studies, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, and deception detection and forensic psychology.

Recent publications by Gallo include:

  • The acute effects of psychoactive drugs on emotional episodic memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval: A comprehensive review (2023) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Unique effects of sedatives, dissociatives, psychedelics, stimulants, and cannabinoids on episodic memory: A review and reanalysis of acute drug effects on recollection, familiarity, and metamemory. (2023) in Psychological Review
  • Foreign language reduces false memories by increasing memory monitoring. (2023) in Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Unique Effects of Sedatives, Dissociatives, Psychedelics, Stimulants, and Cannabinoids on Episodic Memory: A Review and Reanalysis of Acute Drug Effects on Recollection, Familiarity, and Metamemory (2022) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Adaptive measurement of cognitive function based on multidimensional item response theory (2024) in Alzheimer's & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions

Frequent collaborators in Gallo's research include:

  • Jimmy Fourtounis
  • Rino Stocco
  • Anne Roulston
  • Manoj K. Doss
  • Harriet de Wit

Common venues for publication are:

  • Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
  • Revista médica (Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos de Guatemala)
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Psychological Review

Best Publications

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

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

  • Factors that determine false recall: a multiple regression analysis.

    Henry L. Roediger;Jason M. Watson;Kathleen B. McDermott;David A. Gallo

  • False memories and fantastic beliefs: 15 years of the DRM illusion

    David A. Gallo

  • Associative Illusions of Memory: False Memory Research in DRM and Related Tasks

    David A. Gallo

  • Remembering words not presented in lists: Can we avoid creating false memories?

    David A. Gallo;Meredith J. Roberts;John G. Seamon

  • Variability among word lists in eliciting memory illusions: evidence for associative activation and monitoring

    David A. Gallo;Henry L. Roediger

  • Processing approaches to cognition: the impetus from the levels-of-processing framework.

    Henry L. Roediger;David A. Gallo;Lisa Geraci

  • Modality effects in false recall and false recognition.

    David A. Gallo;Kathleen B. McDermott;Jenny M. Percer;Henry L. Roediger

  • Associative false recognition occurs without strategic criterion shifts.

    David A. Gallo;Henry L. Roediger;Kathleen B. McDermott

  • Creating False Memories of Words With or Without Recognition of List Items: Evidence for Nonconscious Processes

    John G. Seamon;Chun R. Luo;David A. Gallo

  • Using Recall to Reduce False Recognition: Diagnostic and Disqualifying Monitoring.

    David A. Gallo

  • Associative recognition in Alzheimer's disease: evidence for impaired recall-to-reject.

    David A. Gallo;Alison L. Sullivan;Kirk R. Daffner;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Two types of recollection-based monitoring in younger and older adults: Recall-to-reject and the distinctiveness heuristic

    David A. Gallo;Deborah M. Bell;Jonathan S. Beier;Daniel L. Schacter

  • The effects of associations and aging on illusory recollection.

    David A. Gallo;Henry L. Roediger

  • Reducing false recognition with criterial recollection tests: Distinctiveness heuristic versus criterion shifts

    David A. Gallo;Jonathan A. Weiss;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Deep levels of processing elicit a distinctiveness heuristic: Evidence from the criterial recollection task

    David A. Gallo;Nathaniel G. Meadow;Elizabeth L. Johnson;Katherine T. Foster

  • Age-related positivity effects and autobiographical memory detail: evidence from a past/future source memory task.

    David A. Gallo;Laura E. Korthauer;Ian M. McDonough;Salom Teshale

  • Reduced False Memory after Sleep.

    Kimberly M. Fenn;David A. Gallo;Daniel Margoliash;Henry L. Roediger

  • Elevated false recollection of emotional pictures in young and older adults.

    David A. Gallo;Katherine T. Foster;Elizabeth L. Johnson

  • False memory propensity in people reporting recovered memories of past lives.

    Cynthia A. Meyersburg;Ryan Bogdan;David A. Gallo;Richard J. McNally

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry L. Roediger
Henry L. Roediger Washington University in St. Louis
Harriet de Wit
Harriet de Wit University of Chicago
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Leo E. Otterbein
Leo E. Otterbein Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Andrew E. Budson
Andrew E. Budson Boston University
Kathleen B. McDermott
Kathleen B. McDermott Washington University in St. Louis
Stanley Finger
Stanley Finger Washington University in St. Louis
Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Elizabeth A. Kensinger Boston College
Ryan Bogdan
Ryan Bogdan Washington University in St. Louis
Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally Harvard University

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