2026 Gene A. Brewer: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	54	2135	1941	1029	923	206	13295

Overview

Gene A. Brewer is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has a substantial body of work focused primarily on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Their research intersects multiple fields and topics related to brain function, memory, and public administration.

The main fields of study for Brewer include:

Neuroscience

They have specialized further into subfields such as:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Artificial Intelligence
Public Administration
Psychiatry and Mental Health

Among the main research topics covered by Brewer's work are:

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Cognitive Functions and Memory
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
Memory Processes and Influences
Public Policy and Administration Research
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Brewer has published frequently in several academic venues, with multiple articles appearing in:

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
Memory & Cognition
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Their recent papers include:

"Street-Level bureaucracy in public administration: A systematic literature review" (2022) in Public Management Review
"Individual differences in working memory capacity and the regulation of arousal" (2020) in Attention Perception & Psychophysics
"Examining the effects of goal-setting, feedback, and incentives on sustained attention." (2021) in Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
"Individual differences in value-directed remembering" (2020) in Cognition
"Convergent thinking and insight problem solving relate to semantic memory network structure" (2023) in Thinking Skills and Creativity

Frequent collaborators in Brewer's research include:

Matthew K. Robison
Samuel M. McClure
Alexis Torres
Derek M. Ellis
Xavier Celaya

Best Publications

Whistle Blowers in the Federal Civil Service: New Evidence of the Public Service Ethic

Gene A. Brewer;Sally Coleman Selden

1220
Citations
Why Elephants Gallop: Assessing and Predicting Organizational Performance in Federal Agencies

Gene A. Brewer;Sally Coleman Selden

1097
Citations
Individual Conceptions of Public Service Motivation

Gene A. Brewer;Sally Coleman Selden;Rex L. Facer

1000
Citations
Public Service Motivation: A Systematic Literature Review and Outlook

Adrian Ritz;Gene A. Brewer;Oliver Neumann

915
Citations
Building Social Capital: Civic Attitudes and Behavior of Public Servants

Gene A. Brewer

497
Citations
In the Eye of the Storm: Frontline Supervisors and Federal Agency Performance

Gene A. Brewer

315
Citations
Variation in verbal fluency: a latent variable analysis of clustering, switching, and overall performance.

Nash Unsworth;Gregory J. Spillers;Gene A. Brewer

263
Citations
Market Orientation and Public Service Performance: New Public Management Gone Mad?

Richard M. Walker;Gene A. Brewer;George A. Boyne;Claudia N. Avellaneda

256
Citations
Public Management and Performance: Research Directions

Richard M. Walker;George Alexander Boyne;Gene A. Brewer

250
Citations
The Impact of Red Tape on Governmental Performance: An Empirical Analysis

Gene A. Brewer;Richard M. Walker

219
Citations
Reconciling Competing Values in Public Administration: Understanding the Administrative Role Concept

Sally Coleman Selden;Gene A. Brewer;Jeffrey L. Brudney

216
Citations
Everyday attention failures: an individual differences investigation.

Nash Unsworth;Brittany D. McMillan;Gene A. Brewer;Gregory J. Spillers

206
Citations
Past, present, and future of public service motivation research

Wouter Vandenabeele;Gene A. Brewer;Adrian Ritz

203
Citations
Designing and Implementing E-Government Systems: Critical Implications for Public Administration and Democracy

Gene A. Brewer;Bruce J. Neubauer;Karin Geiselhart

184
Citations
Comparative physical mapping links conservation of microsynteny to chromosome structure and recombination in grasses.

John E. Bowers;Miguel A. Arias;Rochelle Asher;Jennifer A. Avise

182
Citations
Working memory capacity and retrieval from long-term memory: the role of controlled search

Nash Unsworth;Gene A. Brewer;Gregory J. Spillers

180
Citations
Variation in Cognitive Failures: An Individual Differences Investigation of Everyday Attention and Memory Failures.

Nash Unsworth;Gene A. Brewer;Gregory J. Spillers

170
Citations
Individual differences in event-based prospective memory: Evidence for multiple processes supporting cue detection

Gene A. Brewer;Justin B. Knight;Richard L. Marsh;Nash Unsworth

156
Citations
Costly Signaling Increases Trust, Even Across Religious Affiliations

Deborah L. Hall;Adam B. Cohen;Kaitlin K. Meyer;Allison H. Varley

153
Citations
Individual differences in the effects of retrieval from long-term memory

Gene A. Brewer;Nash Unsworth

149
Citations
The Emotion Dysregulation Model of Anxiety: A preliminary path analytic examination

Cynthia Suveg;Diana Morelen;Gene A. Brewer;Kristel Thomassin

145
Citations
Introduction: Public Management and Performance: Research Directions

Richard M. Walker;George A. Boyne;Gene A. Brewer

14
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nash Unsworth University of Oregon

Richard L. Marsh University of Georgia

Jason L. Hicks Louisiana State University

Paul Karoly Arizona State University

Leslie C. Baxter Mayo Clinic

A.B. Cohen Arizona State University

Daniel W. Bliss Arizona State University

Cynthia Suveg University of Georgia

Samuel M. McClure Arizona State University

Andrew H. Paterson University of Georgia

External Links

Personal website of Gene A. Brewer Google Scholar page

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