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Elizabeth A. Phelps

Elizabeth A. Phelps

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Psychology 105 484 421 310 262 263 57707
Neuroscience 105 643 579 359 315 258 57661

Elizabeth A. Phelps publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Elizabeth A. Phelps between 1986 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Elizabeth A. Phelps published across 40 years, from 1986 to 2025, averaging 7.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 18 publications in 2017. 14 of the 284 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1986 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 18. Peak 18 publications in 2017. 1986: 1 publication 1987: 1 publication 1988: 5 publications 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 1 publication 1993: 0 publications 1994: 2 publications 1995: 2 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 5 publications 1998: 7 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 6 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 10 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 11 publications 2008: 14 publications 2009: 11 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 17 publications 2012: 13 publications 2013: 13 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 17 publications 2016: 14 publications 2017: 18 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 10 publications 2020: 8 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 13 publications 2023: 2 publications 2024: 9 publications 2025: 5 publications
1986 2025

284 publications in total across all disciplines

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Elizabeth A. Phelps: publications per year, 1986 to 2025
Year Publications
1986 1
1987 1
1988 5
1989 1
1990 0
1991 1
1992 1
1993 0
1994 2
1995 2
1996 0
1997 5
1998 7
1999 4
2000 5
2001 6
2002 2
2003 2
2004 9
2005 10
2006 7
2007 11
2008 14
2009 11
2010 10
2011 17
2012 13
2013 13
2014 12
2015 17
2016 14
2017 18
2018 9
2019 10
2020 8
2021 7
2022 13
2023 2
2024 9
2025 5
Total 284
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Elizabeth A. Phelps 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 Elizabeth A. Phelps sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 69 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 31–40 to 705+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 736. Most scientists, 736, have 101–110 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 261–270 publications, is where this scientist sits. 31–40 publications: 6 scientists 41–50 publications: 52 scientists 51–60 publications: 138 scientists 61–70 publications: 299 scientists 71–80 publications: 461 scientists 81–90 publications: 605 scientists 91–100 publications: 713 scientists 101–110 publications: 736 scientists 111–120 publications: 686 scientists 121–130 publications: 670 scientists 131–140 publications: 644 scientists 141–150 publications: 597 scientists 151–160 publications: 576 scientists 161–170 publications: 477 scientists 171–180 publications: 450 scientists 181–190 publications: 397 scientists 191–200 publications: 343 scientists 201–210 publications: 328 scientists 211–220 publications: 313 scientists 221–230 publications: 283 scientists 231–240 publications: 226 scientists 241–250 publications: 196 scientists 251–260 publications: 201 scientists 261–270 publications: 171 scientists 271–280 publications: 151 scientists 281–290 publications: 139 scientists 291–300 publications: 113 scientists 301–310 publications: 102 scientists 311–320 publications: 100 scientists 321–330 publications: 76 scientists 331–340 publications: 92 scientists 341–350 publications: 85 scientists 351–360 publications: 69 scientists 361–370 publications: 71 scientists 371–380 publications: 63 scientists 381–390 publications: 58 scientists 391–400 publications: 57 scientists 401–410 publications: 43 scientists 411–420 publications: 33 scientists 421–430 publications: 50 scientists 431–440 publications: 41 scientists 441–450 publications: 32 scientists 451–460 publications: 27 scientists 461–470 publications: 28 scientists 471–480 publications: 25 scientists 481–490 publications: 28 scientists 491–500 publications: 20 scientists 501–510 publications: 23 scientists 511–520 publications: 26 scientists 521–530 publications: 17 scientists 531–540 publications: 21 scientists 541–550 publications: 14 scientists 551–560 publications: 16 scientists 561–570 publications: 10 scientists 571–580 publications: 22 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 14 scientists 601–610 publications: 9 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 4 scientists 631–640 publications: 7 scientists 641–650 publications: 5 scientists 651–660 publications: 10 scientists 661–670 publications: 8 scientists 671–680 publications: 8 scientists 681–690 publications: 4 scientists 691–700 publications: 3 scientists 701–704 publications: 4 scientists 705+ publications: 100 scientists
31–40 publications 705+

This scientist: 263 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Psychology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 11,416 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
31–40 6
41–50 52
51–60 138
61–70 299
71–80 461
81–90 605
91–100 713
101–110 736
111–120 686
121–130 670
131–140 644
141–150 597
151–160 576
161–170 477
171–180 450
181–190 397
191–200 343
201–210 328
211–220 313
221–230 283
231–240 226
241–250 196
251–260 201
261–270 171 263
271–280 151
281–290 139
291–300 113
301–310 102
311–320 100
321–330 76
331–340 92
341–350 85
351–360 69
361–370 71
371–380 63
381–390 58
391–400 57
401–410 43
411–420 33
421–430 50
431–440 41
441–450 32
451–460 27
461–470 28
471–480 25
481–490 28
491–500 20
501–510 23
511–520 26
521–530 17
531–540 21
541–550 14
551–560 16
561–570 10
571–580 22
581–590 9
591–600 14
601–610 9
611–620 11
621–630 4
631–640 7
641–650 5
651–660 10
661–670 8
671–680 8
681–690 4
691–700 3
701–704 4
705+ 100
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Elizabeth A. Phelps 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 Elizabeth A. Phelps sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 144+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 702. Most scientists, 702, have 32–33 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 104–105 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 398 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 702 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 671 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 659 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 641 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 671 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 617 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 558 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 495 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 487 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 445 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 390 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 408 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 345 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 325 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 321 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 248 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 290 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 218 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 219 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 215 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 183 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 169 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 132 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 137 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 120 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 112 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 86 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 101 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 83 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 77 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 70 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 78 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 58 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 53 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 57 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 48 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 53 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 46 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 24 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 35 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 27 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 31 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 22 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 24 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 11 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 19 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 10 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 16 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 10 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 5 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 12 scientists 144+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30–31 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Psychology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 11,416 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 398
32–33 702
34–35 671
36–37 659
38–39 641
40–41 671
42–43 617
44–45 558
46–47 495
48–49 487
50–51 445
52–53 390
54–55 408
56–57 345
58–59 325
60–61 321
62–63 248
64–65 290
66–67 218
68–69 219
70–71 215
72–73 183
74–75 169
76–77 132
78–79 137
80–81 120
82–83 112
84–85 86
86–87 101
88–89 83
90–91 77
92–93 70
94–95 78
96–97 58
98–99 53
100–101 57
102–103 48
104–105 53 105
106–107 46
108–109 24
110–111 35
112–113 27
114–115 32
116–117 31
118–119 22
120–121 16
122–123 24
124–125 18
126–127 11
128–129 19
130–131 10
132–133 16
134–135 10
136–137 12
138–139 8
140–141 5
142–143 12
144+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Elizabeth A. Phelps is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology as key subfields.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Elizabeth A. Phelps has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals and frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Neuropsychopharmacology

Some recent notable papers include:

  • Prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and threat processing: implications for PTSD, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Tag and capture: how salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory, 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Temporally and anatomically specific contributions of the human amygdala to threat and safety learning, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Trait somatic anxiety is associated with reduced directed exploration and underestimation of uncertainty, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Survival of the salient: Aversive learning rescues otherwise forgettable memories via neural reactivation and post-encoding hippocampal connectivity, 2021, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Joseph E. Dunsmoor
  • Lila Davachi
  • Lindsey Drayton
  • Rolf Van Der Sanden
  • Patrick Scheffmann

Awards received by Elizabeth A. Phelps include:

  • William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA), 2019
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2002

Best Publications

  • Contributions of the Amygdala to Emotion Processing: From Animal Models to Human Behavior

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • Emotion and Cognition: Insights from Studies of the Human Amygdala

    Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Extinction Learning in Humans: Role of the Amygdala and vmPFC

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Mauricio R. Delgado;Katherine I. Nearing;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • Human emotion and memory: interactions of the amygdala and hippocampal complex.

    Elizabeth A Phelps

  • Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events

    Adam K. Anderson;Adam K. Anderson;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • HUMAN AMYGDALA ACTIVATION DURING CONDITIONED FEAR ACQUISITION AND EXTINCTION : A MIXED-TRIAL FMRI STUDY

    Kevin S LaBar;J.Christopher Gatenby;John C Gore;Joseph E LeDoux

  • Neurocircuitry models of posttraumatic stress disorder and extinction: human neuroimaging research--past, present, and future.

    Scott L. Rauch;Lisa M. Shin;Lisa M. Shin;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Performance on Indirect Measures of Race Evaluation Predicts Amygdala Activation

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Kevin J. O'Connor;William A. Cunningham;E. Sumie Funayama

  • Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms

    Daniela Schiller;Marie H. Monfils;Marie H. Monfils;Candace M. Raio;David C. Johnson

  • Classical fear conditioning in the anxiety disorders : a meta-analysis

    Shmuel Lissek;Alice S. Powers;Erin B. McClure;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Activation of the left amygdala to a cognitive representation of fear

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Kevin J. O'Connor;J. Christopher Gatenby;John C. Gore

  • Recognition of facial emotion in nine individuals with bilateral amygdala damage.

    R Adolphs;D Tranel;S Hamann;A.W Young

  • Emotion Facilitates Perception and Potentiates the Perceptual Benefits of Attention

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Sam Ling;Marisa Carrasco

  • Impaired fear conditioning following unilateral temporal lobectomy in humans

    Kevin S. LaBar;Joseph E. LeDoux;Dennis D. Spencer;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Neural mechanisms mediating optimism bias.

    Tali Sharot;Tali Sharot;Alison M. Riccardi;Candace M. Raio;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game

    Mauricio R. Delgado;Robert H. Frank;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Neural Circuitry Underlying the Regulation of Conditioned Fear and Its Relation to Extinction

    Mauricio R. Delgado;Katherine I. Nearing;Joseph E. LeDoux;Joseph E. LeDoux;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Emotional networks in the brain

    Joseph E. LeDoux;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Social learning of fear.

    Andreas Olsson;Elizabeth A Phelps

  • Memory deficits for implicit contextual information in amnesic subjects with hippocampal damage.

    Marvin M. Chun;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph E. LeDoux
Joseph E. LeDoux New York University
Mauricio R. Delgado
Mauricio R. Delgado The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Daniela Schiller
Daniela Schiller Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Joseph E. Dunsmoor
Joseph E. Dunsmoor The University of Texas at Austin
Marisa Carrasco
Marisa Carrasco New York University
Nathaniel D. Daw
Nathaniel D. Daw Princeton University
Lila Davachi
Lila Davachi Columbia University
Catherine A. Hartley
Catherine A. Hartley New York University
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University
Kevin S. LaBar
Kevin S. LaBar Duke University

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