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David R. Vago 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 David R. Vago sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 53 publications — 1st percentile

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David R. Vago 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 R. Vago 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.

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Overview

David R. Vago is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their academic work is situated within the broad field of psychology, focusing predominantly on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics of their research include mindfulness and compassion interventions, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, COVID-19 and mental health, music therapy and health, functional brain connectivity studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and sleep and related disorders.

David R. Vago has published extensively in several academic journals. Notably, the most frequent publication venues include:

  • Mindfulness
  • Mental Health and Physical Activity
  • National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Journal
  • Harvard Review of Psychiatry
  • Neuropsychology Review

Their recent papers cover a range of topics relevant to mindfulness and its effects, including:

  • "Mindfulness and Behavior Change" (2020, Harvard Review of Psychiatry)
  • "The Effect of Mindfulness-based Programs on Cognitive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" (2021, Neuropsychology Review)
  • "From Self-Esteem to Selflessness: An Evidence (Gap) Map of Self-Related Processes as Mechanisms of Mindfulness-Based Interventions" (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Meta-analytic evidence that mindfulness training alters resting state default mode network connectivity" (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • "The (In)flexible self: Psychopathology, mindfulness, and neuroscience" (2023, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology)

David R. Vago frequently collaborates with a group of researchers including:

  • Sara W. Lazar
  • Kirk Warren Brown
  • Rebecca L. Acabchuk
  • Willoughby B. Britton
  • Ethan Moitra

The research undertaken by David R. Vago intersects various disciplines within psychology, emphasizing mechanisms and interventions related to mindfulness, cognitive function, and mental health disorders. Their contributions span empirical studies, meta-analyses, and theoretical frameworks that address cognitive and affective processes and the neurobiological substrates of mindfulness training.

Best Publications

  • How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective

    Britta K. Hölzel;Sara W. Lazar;Tim Gard;Zev Schuman-Olivier

  • Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness.

    David Ronald Vago;David A. Silbersweig

  • Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation:

    Nicholas T Van Dam;Marieke K van Vugt;David R Vago;Laura Schmalzl

  • The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience:

    David Bryce Yaden;Jonathan Haidt;Ralph W. Hood;David R. Vago

  • Potential self-regulatory mechanisms of yoga for psychological health

    Tim Gard;Jessica J. Noggle;Crystal L. Park;David R. Vago

  • Moving Beyond Mindfulness: Defining Equanimity as an Outcome Measure in Meditation and Contemplative Research

    Gaëlle Desbordes;Tim Gard;Elizabeth A. Hoge;Britta K. Hölzel

  • Contemplative Practices and Mental Training: Prospects for American Education

    Richard J. Davidson;John Dunne;Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Adam Engle

  • Mindfulness and Behavior Change.

    Zev Schuman-Olivier;Marcelo Trombka;David A. Lovas;Judson A. Brewer

  • Mindfulness meditation-based pain relief: a mechanistic account.

    Fadel Zeidan;David R. Vago

  • The brain on silent: mind wandering, mindful awareness, and states of mental tranquility.

    David R. Vago;Fadel Zeidan

  • The Effect of Mindfulness-based Programs on Cognitive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Tim Whitfield;Thorsten Barnhofer;Rebecca Acabchuk;Avi Cohen

  • Future directions in meditation research: Recommendations for expanding the field of contemplative science.

    Cassandra Vieten;Helané Wahbeh;B. Rael Cahn;Katherine MacLean

  • Intrahippocampal Scopolamine Impairs Both Acquisition and Consolidation of Contextual Fear Conditioning

    Gene V. Wallenstein;David R. Vago

  • A neural circuit framework for somatosensory amplification in somatoform disorders.

    David L. Perez;Arthur J. Barsky;David R. Vago;Gaston Baslet

  • Selective Attentional Bias Towards Pain-Related Threat in Fibromyalgia: Preliminary Evidence for Effects of Mindfulness Meditation Training

    David R. Vago;Yoshio Nakamura

  • Mapping modalities of self-awareness in mindfulness practice: a potential mechanism for clarifying habits of mind

    David R. Vago

  • The role of the direct perforant path input to the CA1 subregion of the dorsal hippocampus in memory retention and retrieval

    David R. Vago;Adam Bevan;Raymond P. Kesner

  • The neural chronometry of threat-related attentional bias: Event-related potential (ERP) evidence for early and late stages of selective attentional processing

    Resh S. Gupta;Autumn Kujawa;David R. Vago

  • Disruption of the direct perforant path input to the CA1 subregion of the dorsal hippocampus interferes with spatial working memory and novelty detection

    David R. Vago;Raymond P. Kesner

  • Frontolimbic neural circuit changes in emotional processing and inhibitory control associated with clinical improvement following transference-focused psychotherapy in borderline personality disorder

    David L. Perez;David R. Vago;Hong Pan;James Root

Frequent Co-Authors

Willoughby B. Britton
Willoughby B. Britton Brown University
David Silbersweig
David Silbersweig Brigham and Women's Hospital
David E. Meyer
David E. Meyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nicholas T. Van Dam
Nicholas T. Van Dam University of Melbourne
Emily Stern
Emily Stern Brigham and Women's Hospital
Clifford D. Saron
Clifford D. Saron University of California, Davis
Raymond P. Kesner
Raymond P. Kesner University of Utah
Thorsten Barnhofer
Thorsten Barnhofer University of Surrey
Judson A. Brewer
Judson A. Brewer Brown University
Robert W. Roeser
Robert W. Roeser Pennsylvania State University

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