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35
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12009
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9670
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18

Francisco Esteves 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 Francisco Esteves sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 152 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Francisco Esteves 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 Francisco Esteves 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: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Francisco Esteves is affiliated with the Catholic University of Portugal in Portugal. Their research focuses primarily on the field of psychology, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, organizational behavior and human resource management, public health, environmental and occupational health, social psychology, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their recent publications cover a diverse range of topics related to psychology and health. These include:

  • Empathy development from adolescence to adulthood and its consistency across targets (2022, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Can you be a follower even when you do not follow the leader? Yes, you can (2021, Leadership)
  • Editorial: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): The Impact and Role of Mass Media During the Pandemic (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Children's Attitudes and Behaviors about Oral Health and Dental Practices (2021, Healthcare)
  • Validity and reliability of the WHOQOL-BREF in a pregnant population (2023, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes)

Francisco Esteves has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Patrícia Arriaga
  • Teresa Caldas de Almeida
  • Nelson Ramalho
  • Sofia Petisca
  • Ana Paiva

The scientist's work has been published multiple times in various venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Hematology Transfusion and Cell Therapy
  • Revista Ibero-Americana de Humanidades, Ciências e Educação
  • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
  • Leadership

The main topics that characterize Francisco Esteves's research include:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Best Publications

  • Emotion drives attention: detecting the snake in the grass.

    Arne Öhman;Anders Flykt;Francisco Esteves

  • The face in the crowd revisited: a threat advantage with schematic stimuli.

    Arne Öhman;Daniel Lundqvist;Francisco Esteves

  • Emotion drives attention: Detecting the snake in the grass.

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  • Nonconscious associative learning: Pavlovian conditioning of skin conductance responses to masked fear relevant facial stimuli.

    Francisco Esteves;Cristina Parra;Ulf Dimberg;Arne Öhman

  • Automatically elicited fear: Conditioned skin conductance responses to masked facial expressions

    Francisco Esteves;Ulf Dimberg;Arne öhman

  • Fear appears fast: temporal course of startle reflex potentiation in animal fearful subjects.

    Jutta Globisch;Alfons O. Hamm;Francisco Esteves;Arne Öhman

  • Masking the face: Recognition of emotional facial expressions as a function of the parameters of backward masking

    Francisco Esteves;Arne Öhman

  • The Face of Wrath: Critical Features for Conveying Facial Threat

    Daniel Lundqvist;Francisco Esteves;Arne Öhman

  • Violent computer games and their effects on state hostility and Physiological arousal

    Patricia Arriaga;Francisco G. Esteves;Paula Carneiro;Maria Benedicta Monteiro

  • Evolutionary derived modulations of attention to two common fear stimuli: Serpents and hostile humans

    Arne Öhman;Sandra C. Soares;Pernilla Juth;Björn Lindström

  • Preattentive activation of aversive emotions

    Arne Öhman;Ulf Dimberg;Francisco Esteves

  • Versão reduzida da escala portuguesa de afeto positivo e negativo - PANAS-VRP: Análise fatorial confirmatória e invariância temporal

    Iolanda Costa Galinha;Iolanda Costa Galinha;Cí­cero Roberto Pereira;Francisco Esteves;Francisco Esteves

  • Preparedness and preattentive associative learning: Electrodermal conditioning to masked stimuli.

    Arne Öhman;Francisco Esteves;Joaquim J. F. Soares

  • Psychological effects of subthreshold exposure to the putative human pheromone 4,16-androstadien-3-one.

    Johan N Lundström;Miguel Gonçalves;Francisco Esteves;Mats J Olsson

  • The Hidden Snake in the Grass: Superior Detection of Snakes in Challenging Attentional Conditions

    Sandra C. Soares;Björn Lindström;Francisco G. Esteves;Arne Ohman

  • Skin conductance responses to masked conditioned stimuli: phylogenetic/ontogenetic factors versus direction of threat?

    Anders Flykt;Francisco Esteves;Francisco Esteves;Arne Öhman

  • The face of wrath: The role of features and configurations in conveying social threat.

    Daniel Lundqvist;Francisco Esteves;Arne Öhman

  • Providing preoperative information for children undergoing surgery: a randomized study testing different types of educational material to reduce children’s preoperative worries

    Sara Costa Fernandes;Patrícia Arriaga;Francisco Esteves

  • Some animal specific fears are more specific than others: Evidence from attention and emotion measures.

    Sandra C. Soares;Francisco Esteves;Daniel Lundqvist;Arne Öhman;Arne Öhman;Arne Öhman

  • Detection of emotional faces: low perceptual threshold and wide attentional span

    Manuel G. Calvo;Francisco Esteves

  • Clinical profiles of stigma experiences, self-esteem and social relationships among people with schizophrenia, depressive, and bipolar disorders.

    Sandra E.H. Oliveira;Francisco Esteves;Helena Carvalho

Frequent Co-Authors

Arne Öhman
Arne Öhman Karolinska Institute
Christine Deruelle
Christine Deruelle Aix-Marseille University
Johan N. Lundström
Johan N. Lundström Karolinska Institute
Alexandra Reis
Alexandra Reis University of Algarve
Ulf Dimberg
Ulf Dimberg Uppsala University
Ana Paiva
Ana Paiva Instituto Superior Técnico
Shigehiro Oishi
Shigehiro Oishi University of Chicago
Paulo P. P. Machado
Paulo P. P. Machado University of Minho
Marina Pavlova
Marina Pavlova University of Tübingen
Pablo Fernández-Berrocal
Pablo Fernández-Berrocal University of Malaga

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