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Erika E. Forbes 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 Erika E. Forbes sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 248 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Erika E. Forbes 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 Erika E. Forbes sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Erika E. Forbes is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and psychiatry and mental health. The main topics covered in their work include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, sleep and wakefulness research, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

The scientist has contributed numerous publications to several academic journals. The most frequent venues for their work include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Erika E. Forbes has coauthored extensively with multiple researchers. Their frequent collaborators are:

  • Jennifer S. Silk
  • Neal D. Ryan
  • Kristen Eckstrand
  • Cecile D. Ladouceur
  • Ronald E. Dahl

Among recent papers, their contributions include the following works:

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action. (2020, American Psychologist)
  • Parents still matter! Parental warmth predicts adolescent brain function and anxiety and depressive symptoms 2 years later. (2020, Development and Psychopathology)
  • Beyond family-level adversities: Exploring the developmental timing of neighborhood disadvantage effects on the brain. (2020, Developmental Science)
  • Mind-Wandering in Adolescents Predicts Worse Affect and Is Linked to Aberrant Default Mode Network-Salience Network Connectivity. (2020, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • Associations between brain structure and sleep patterns across adolescent development. (2021, SLEEP)

Best Publications

  • Altered Striatal Activation Predicting Real-World Positive Affect in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder

    Erika E. Forbes;Ahmad R. Hariri;B.A. Samantha L. Martin;Jennifer S. Silk

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.

    June Gruber;Mitchell J. Prinstein;Lee Anna Clark;Jonathan Rottenberg

  • Pubertal development and behavior: hormonal activation of social and motivational tendencies.

    Erika E. Forbes;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Genetic variation in components of dopamine neurotransmission impacts ventral striatal reactivity associated with impulsivity.

    E E Forbes;S M Brown;M Kimak;R E Ferrell

  • Healthy Adolescents' Neural Response to Reward: Associations With Puberty, Positive Affect, and Depressive Symptoms

    Erika E. Forbes;Neal D. Ryan;Mary Louise Phillips;Stephen B. Manuck

  • Research Review: altered reward function in adolescent depression: what, when and how?

    Erika E. Forbes;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Reward‐related decision‐making in pediatric major depressive disorder: an fMRI study

    Erika E. Forbes;J. Christopher May;Greg J. Siegle;Cecile D. Ladouceur

  • Neural systems of positive affect: relevance to understanding child and adolescent depression?

    Erika E. Forbes;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Puberty Influences Medial Temporal Lobe and Cortical Gray Matter Maturation Differently in Boys Than Girls Matched for Sexual Maturity

    Jennifer E. Bramen;Jennifer A. Hranilovich;Ronald E. Dahl;Erika E. Forbes

  • Resilience among children and adolescents at risk for depression: Mediation and moderation across social and neurobiological contexts

    Jennifer S. Silk;Ella Vanderbilt-Adriance;Daniel S. Shaw;Erika E. Forbes

  • Maternal depression and child internalizing: the moderating role of child emotion regulation.

    Jennifer S. Silk;Daniel S. Shaw;Erika E. Forbes;Tonya L. Lane

  • Daily Emotional Dynamics in Depressed Youth: A Cell Phone Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

    Jennifer S. Silk;Erika E. Forbes;Diana J. Whalen;Jennifer L. Jakubcak

  • Waiting to win: elevated striatal and orbitofrontal cortical activity during reward anticipation in euthymic bipolar disorder adults.

    Robin R. Nusslock;Robin R. Nusslock;Jorge R.C. Almeida;Erika E. Forbes;Amelia Versace

  • Objective sleep in pediatric anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder.

    Erika E. Forbes;Michele A. Bertocci;Alice M. Gregory;Neal D. Ryan

  • Alterations in reward-related decision making in boys with recent and future depression.

    Erika E. Forbes;Daniel S. Shaw;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Reward-related brain function and sleep in pre/early pubertal and mid/late pubertal adolescents.

    Stephanie M. Holm;Erika E. Forbes;Neal D. Ryan;Mary Louise Phillips;Mary Louise Phillips

  • Impact of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms on Addiction Vulnerability in Adolescents

    Ryan W. Logan;Brant P. Hasler;Erika E. Forbes;Peter L. Franzen

  • Sex matters during adolescence: Testosterone-related cortical thickness maturation differs between boys and girls

    Jennifer E. Bramen;Jennifer A. Hranilovich;Ronald E. Dahl;Jessie Chen

  • Reward-related brain function as a predictor of treatment response in adolescents with major depressive disorder

    Erika E. Forbes;Thomas M. Olino;Neal D. Ryan;Boris Birmaher

  • Emotional reactivity and regulation in anxious and nonanxious youth: a cell-phone ecological momentary assessment study.

    Patricia Z. Tan;Erika E. Forbes;Ronald E. Dahl;Ronald E. Dahl;Neal D. Ryan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer S. Silk
Jennifer S. Silk University of Pittsburgh
Neal D. Ryan
Neal D. Ryan University of Pittsburgh
Daniel S. Shaw
Daniel S. Shaw University of Pittsburgh
Cecile D. Ladouceur
Cecile D. Ladouceur University of Pittsburgh
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh
Dana L. McMakin
Dana L. McMakin Florida International University
Greg J. Siegle
Greg J. Siegle University of Pittsburgh
Thomas M. Olino
Thomas M. Olino Temple University
Alison E. Hipwell
Alison E. Hipwell University of Pittsburgh

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