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Francis McGlone publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francis McGlone sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 244 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Francis McGlone D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francis McGlone sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 75 D-Index — 80th percentile

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

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Overview

Francis McGlone is affiliated with Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and psychology, with a substantial body of work in cognitive neuroscience and social psychology.

McGlone's research topics cover areas such as tactile and sensory interactions, action observation and synchronization, multisensory perception and integration, olfactory and sensory function studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, as well as neural dynamics and brain function and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Frequent co-authors in McGlone's work include Adarsh Makdani, Susannah C. Walker, Paula D. Trotter, Andrew Marshall, and Håkan Olausson.

McGlone's publications often appear in several recurring venues, notably:

  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • Neuroscience

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by McGlone include:

  • "The body comes first. Embodied reparation and the co-creation of infant bodily-self," 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "The Effects of Ageing on Tactile Function in Humans," 2021, Neuroscience
  • "Childhood Adversity and Affective Touch Perception: A Comparison of United Kingdom Care Leavers and Non-care Leavers," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "C-low threshold mechanoafferent targeted dynamic touch modulates stress resilience in rats exposed to chronic mild stress," 2020, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • "The role of C-tactile nerve fibers in human social development," 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

In terms of disciplinary focus, McGlone has contributed extensively to neuroscience (64 publications) and psychology (46 publications), with notable emphasis on cognitive neuroscience (48 publications), social psychology (20 publications), experimental and cognitive psychology (19 publications), sensory systems (10 publications), and psychiatry and mental health (9 publications).

Best Publications

  • Coding of pleasant touch by unmyelinated afferents in humans

    Line S Löken;Johan Wessberg;India Morrison;India Morrison;Francis McGlone

  • Discriminative and Affective Touch: Sensing and Feeling

    Francis McGlone;Francis McGlone;Johan Wessberg;Håkan Olausson

  • Representation of pleasant and aversive taste in the human brain.

    J. O'Doherty;E. T. Rolls;S. Francis;R. Bowtell

  • Ghrelin Modulates Brain Activity in Areas that Control Appetitive Behavior

    Saima Malik;Francis McGlone;Diane Bedrossian;Alain Dagher

  • Taste-olfactory convergence, and the representation of the pleasantness of flavour, in the human brain

    Ivan E T de Araujo;Edmund T Rolls;Morten L Kringelbach;Morten L Kringelbach;Francis McGlone

  • Representations of Pleasant and Painful Touch in the Human Orbitofrontal and Cingulate Cortices

    E.T. Rolls;J. O’Doherty;M.L. Kringelbach;S. Francis

  • Sensory-specific satiety-related olfactory activation of the human orbitofrontal cortex

    J O'Doherty;E T Rolls;S Francis;R Bowtell

  • The neurophysiology of unmyelinated tactile afferents

    Håkan Olausson;Johan Wessberg;India Morrison;Francis McGlone

  • The role of spatial attention in the processing of facial expression: an ERP study of rapid brain responses to six basic emotions.

    Martin Eimer;Amanda Holmes;Francis P. McGlone

  • The representation of pleasant touch in the brain and its relationship with taste and olfactory areas.

    S Francis;E T Rolls;R Bowtell;F McGlone

  • The cutaneous sensory system.

    Francis McGlone;David Reilly

  • Tactile Perception in Adults with Autism: a Multidimensional Psychophysical Study

    Carissa Cascio;Francis McGlone;Stephen Folger;Stephen Folger;Vinay Tannan

  • Amygdala Responses to Fearful and Happy Facial Expressions under Conditions of Binocular Suppression

    Mark A. Williams;Adam P. Morris;Adam P. Morris;Francis McGlone;David F. Abbott

  • Social touch and human development

    Carissa J. Cascio;Carissa J. Cascio;David Moore;Francis McGlone

  • Human Cortical Responses to Water in the Mouth, and the Effects of Thirst

    Ivan E.T. de Araujo;Morten L. Kringelbach;Morten L. Kringelbach;Edmund T. Rolls;Francis McGlone

  • Quantitative assessment of pleasant touch.

    Gregory K Essick;Francis McGlone;Chris Dancer;David Fabricant

  • Discriminative touch and emotional touch.

    Francis McGlone;Åke Vallbo;Håkan Olausson;Line Sofie Löken

  • Dopamine Transmission in the Human Striatum during Monetary Reward Tasks

    David H. Zald;Isabelle Boileau;Wael El-Dearedy;Roger Gunn

  • Touching and feeling: differences in pleasant touch processing between glabrous and hairy skin in humans

    F. McGlone;H. Olausson;J. A. Boyle;M. Jones-Gotman

  • Lingual tactile acuity, taste perception, and the density and diameter of fungiform papillae in female subjects

    Gregory K Essick;Anita Chopra;Steve Guest;Francis McGlone

  • Sensory-specific satiety-related olfactory activation of the human orbitofrontal cortex.

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Frequent Co-Authors

Håkan Olausson
Håkan Olausson Linköping University
Richard Bowtell
Richard Bowtell University of Nottingham
Charles Spence
Charles Spence University of Oxford
Donna M. Lloyd
Donna M. Lloyd University of Leeds
Johan Wessberg
Johan Wessberg University of Gothenburg
Edmund T. Rolls
Edmund T. Rolls University of Warwick
Mark A. Williams
Mark A. Williams Macquarie University
Jason B. Mattingley
Jason B. Mattingley University of Queensland
Gil Yosipovitch
Gil Yosipovitch University of Miami
Ronald T. Verrillo
Ronald T. Verrillo Syracuse University

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