2026 Ellen Leibenluft: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	110	894	854	544	515	492	43638
Neuroscience	113	489	443	285	253	491	46048
Psychology	113	359	313	226	193	491	46090

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2018 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Ellen Leibenluft is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans Psychology and Medicine, with particular focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health as well as Clinical Psychology. Additional subfields relevant to their work include Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's research topics extensively cover Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes. Other areas of focus include Mental Health Research Topics and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues.

Some of the frequent co-authors collaborating with Ellen Leibenluft include James Blair, Raquel E. Gur, Deanna M. Barch, Murray B. Stein, and Anissa Abi-Dargham.

Publication venues where Ellen Leibenluft has contributed multiple papers include Biological Psychiatry, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), American Journal of Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine.

Selected recent publications by Ellen Leibenluft are:

Age Differences in the Neural Correlates of Anxiety Disorders: An fMRI Study of Response to Learned Threat, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
Mega-analysis methods in ENIGMA: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
Irritability in Youths: A Critical Integrative Review, 2024, American Journal of Psychiatry
Phasic Versus Tonic Irritability: Differential Associations With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms, 2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

In 2018, Ellen Leibenluft was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

Best Publications

Emotion dysregulation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Philip Shaw;Argyris Stringaris;Joel Nigg;Ellen Leibenluft

1522
Citations
The social re-orientation of adolescence: a neuroscience perspective on the process and its relation to psychopathology.

Eric E. Nelson;Ellen Leibenluft;Erin B. McCLURE;Daniel S. Pine

1419
Citations
Attention Bias Modification Treatment: A Meta-Analysis Toward the Establishment of Novel Treatment for Anxiety

Yuko Hakamata;Shmuel Lissek;Yair Bar-Haim;Jennifer C. Britton

1137
Citations
Reduced Amygdala Response to Fearful Expressions in Children and Adolescents With Callous-Unemotional Traits and Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Abigail A. Marsh;Elizabeth C. Finger;Derek G.V. Mitchell;Marguerite E. Reid

1008
Citations
Defining Clinical Phenotypes of Juvenile Mania

Ellen Leibenluft;Dennis S. Charney;Kenneth E. Towbin;Robinder K. Bhangoo

908
Citations
Microduplications of 16p11.2 are Associated with Schizophrenia

Shane E. McCarthy;Vladimir Makarov;George Kirov;Anjene M. Addington

845
Citations
Amygdala and nucleus accumbens in responses to receipt and omission of gains in adults and adolescents

Monique Ernst;Eric E. Nelson;Sandra Jazbec;Erin B. McClure

832
Citations
Severe Mood Dysregulation, Irritability, and the Diagnostic Boundaries of Bipolar Disorder in Youths

Ellen Leibenluft

683
Citations
Prevalence, Clinical Correlates, and Longitudinal Course of Severe Mood Dysregulation in Children

Melissa A. Brotman;Mariana Schmajuk;Brendan A. Rich;Daniel P. Dickstein

640
Citations
Adolescent immaturity in attention-related brain engagement to emotional facial expressions

Christopher S Monk;Erin B McClure;Eric E Nelson;Eric Zarahn

638
Citations
The Affective Reactivity Index: a concise irritability scale for clinical and research settings

Argyris Stringaris;Robert Goodman;Sumudu Ferdinando;Varun Razdan

633
Citations
Mothers' neural activation in response to pictures of their children and other children.

Ellen Leibenluft;M.Ida Gobbini;Tara Harrison;James V. Haxby

621
Citations
Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation and Attentional Bias in Response to Angry Faces in Adolescents With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Christopher S Monk;Eric E Nelson;Erin B McClure;Karin Mogg

580
Citations
Adult Outcomes of Youth Irritability: A 20-Year Prospective Community-Based Study

Argyris Stringaris;Patricia Cohen;Daniel S. Pine;Ellen Leibenluft

575
Citations
Management of Bipolar Disorder During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

Kimberly A. Yonkers;Katherine L. Wisner;Zachary Stowe;Ellen Leibenluft

563
Citations
Abnormal Attention Modulation of Fear Circuit Function in Pediatric Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Erin B. McClure;Christopher S. Monk;Eric E. Nelson;Jessica M. Parrish

540
Citations
Choice selection and reward anticipation: an fMRI study.

Monique Ernst;Eric E. Nelson;Erin B. McClure;Christopher S. Monk

516
Citations
The Status of Irritability in Psychiatry: A Conceptual and Quantitative Review.

Pablo Vidal-Ribas;Melissa A. Brotman;Isabel Valdivieso;Ellen Leibenluft

477
Citations
Reward Processing in Depression: A Conceptual and Meta-Analytic Review Across fMRI and EEG Studies.

Hanna Keren;Georgia O’Callaghan;Pablo Vidal-Ribas;George A. Buzzell

472
Citations
A developmental examination of amygdala response to facial expressions

Amanda E. Guyer;Christopher S. Monk;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Eric E. Nelson

453
Citations
Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex function during anticipated peer evaluation in pediatric social anxiety

Amanda E. Guyer;Jennifer Y. F. Lau;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Jessica Parrish

453
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health

Melissa A. Brotman National Institutes of Health

Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health

Katharina Kircanski University of Southern California

Daniel P. Dickstein Harvard Medical School

Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health

Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park

Eric E. Nelson The Ohio State University

Brendan A. Rich Catholic University of America

Gang Chen National Institutes of Health

External Links

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