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Ellen Leibenluft 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 Ellen Leibenluft sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 491 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ellen Leibenluft 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 Ellen Leibenluft sits on this spectrum.

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 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 113 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Defining Clinical Phenotypes of Juvenile Mania

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

  • Microduplications of 16p11.2 are Associated with Schizophrenia

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

  • 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

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

    Ellen Leibenluft

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

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

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

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

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

    Argyris Stringaris;Robert Goodman;Sumudu Ferdinando;Varun Razdan

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Management of Bipolar Disorder During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

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

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

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

  • Choice selection and reward anticipation: an fMRI study.

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

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

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

  • 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

  • A developmental examination of amygdala response to facial expressions

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Melissa A. Brotman
Melissa A. Brotman National Institutes of Health
Argyris Stringaris
Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health
Katharina Kircanski
Katharina Kircanski University of Southern California
Daniel P. Dickstein
Daniel P. Dickstein Harvard Medical School
Monique Ernst
Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Eric E. Nelson
Eric E. Nelson The Ohio State University
Brendan A. Rich
Brendan A. Rich Catholic University of America
Gang Chen
Gang Chen National Institutes of Health

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