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Frank Van Overwalle

Frank Van Overwalle

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
12961
World Ranking
6552
National Ranking
88

Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
12938
World Ranking
6808
National Ranking
83

Frank Van Overwalle 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 Frank Van Overwalle sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 166 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Frank Van Overwalle 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 Frank Van Overwalle sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Frank Van Overwalle is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience and Psychology, with a strong emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, and Social Psychology. They have published extensively in these fields, contributing notably to studies surrounding brain function and social cognition.

The scientist's work addresses key topics such as Vestibular and auditory disorders, Action Observation and Synchronization, and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies. Their research also explores Neural dynamics and brain function, Muscle activation and electromyography studies, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments.

Recent publications include:

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Social Cognition (2020), published in The Cerebellum
  • The posterior crus II cerebellum is specialized for social mentalizing and emotional self-experiences: a meta-analysis (2020), published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • New Horizons on Non-invasive Brain Stimulation of the Social and Affective Cerebellum (2021), published in The Cerebellum
  • The posterior cerebellum supports the explicit sequence learning linked to trait attribution (2020), published in Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • The Role of the Cerebellum in Social and Non-Social Action Sequences: A Preliminary LF-rTMS Study (2021), published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cerebellum
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
  • Brain stimulation

Collaborations have involved several frequent co-authors, such as Chris Baeken, Natacha Deroost, Kris Baetens, Elien Heleven, and Qianying Ma.

Best Publications

  • Social cognition and the brain: a meta-analysis.

    Frank Van Overwalle

  • The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

    David P. Schmitt;Jüri Allik;Robert R. McCrae;Verónica Benet-Martínez

  • Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: a meta-analysis.

    Frank Van Overwalle;Kris Baetens

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Emotion

    M Adamaszek;Federico D'Agata;R. Ferrucci;C. Habas

  • Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs

    David P. Schmitt;Lidia Alcalay;Melissa Allensworth;Jüri Allik

  • Social cognition and the cerebellum: a meta-analysis of over 350 fMRI studies.

    Frank Van Overwalle;Kris Baetens;Peter Mariën;Marie Vandekerckhove

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Social Cognition

    Frank Van Overwalle;Mario Manto;Zaira Cattaneo;Silvia Clausi

  • A dissociation between social mentalizing and general reasoning.

    Frank Van Overwalle

  • The Cerebellar Cognitive Affective/Schmahmann Syndrome: a Task Force Paper

    Georgios P D Argyropoulos;Kim van Dun;Michael Adamaszek;Maria Leggio

  • Social cognition and the cerebellum: A meta‐analytic connectivity analysis

    Frank Van Overwalle;Tine D'aes;Peter Mariën

  • Counterfactual thinking: an fMRI study on changing the past for a better future

    Nicole Van Hoeck;Ning Ma;Lisa Ampe;Kris Baetens

  • Computing the Social Brain Connectome Across Systems and States.

    Daniel Alcala-Lopez;Jonathan Smallwood;Elizabeth Alice Jefferies;Frank Van Overwalle

  • Structural modelling of the relationships between attributional dimensions, emotions, and performance of college freshmen

    Frank Van Overwalle;Ivan Mervielde;Joris De Schuyter

  • Functional connectivity between the cerebrum and cerebellum in social cognition: A multi-study analysis

    Frank Van Overwalle;Peter Mariën

  • A Connectionist Model of Attitude Formation and Change

    Frank Van Overwalle;Frank Siebler

  • Involvement of the mentalizing network in social and non-social high construal

    Kris Baetens;Ning Ma;Johan Steen;Frank Van Overwalle

  • THE EFFECTS OF ATTRIBUTION‐BASED INTERVENTION AND STUDY STRATEGY TRAINING ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN COLLEGE FRESHMEN

    Frank Van Overwalle;Machteld De Metsenaere

  • The posterior crus II cerebellum is specialized for social mentalizing and emotional self-experiences: a meta-analysis.

    Frank Van Overwalle;Qianying Ma;Elien Heleven

  • An Adaptive Connectionist Model of Cognitive Dissonance

    Frank Van Overwalle;Karen Jordens

  • Implicit and explicit social mentalizing: dual processes driven by a shared neural network

    Frank Van Overwalle;Marie Vandekerckhove

  • Spontaneous and intentional trait inferences recruit a common mentalizing network to a different degree: Spontaneous inferences activate only its core areas

    Ning Ma;Marie Vandekerckhove;Frank Van Overwalle;Ruth Seurinck

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie Vandekerckhove
Marie Vandekerckhove Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Peter Mariën
Peter Mariën Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Chris Baeken
Chris Baeken Ghent University
Mario Manto
Mario Manto University of Mons
Raymond Cluydts
Raymond Cluydts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Astrid Schütz
Astrid Schütz University of Bamberg
Willibald Ruch
Willibald Ruch University of Zurich
David P. Schmitt
David P. Schmitt Kansas State University
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham University of Louisville
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis

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