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D-Index
90
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42861
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938
National Ranking
594

Jonathan W. Schooler 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 Jonathan W. Schooler sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 307 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jonathan W. Schooler 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 Jonathan W. Schooler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jonathan W. Schooler is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with significant contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional subfields include Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics in Schooler's work focus on areas such as mind wandering and attention, sleep and wakefulness research, creativity in education and neuroscience, neural and behavioral psychology studies, as well as psychological dimensions related to anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, moral and emotional judgment, and studies on perfectionism, procrastination, and anxiety.

Frequent coauthors in their research include John Protzko, Madeleine E. Gross, Alissa J. Mrazek, Claire M. Zedelius, and Michael D. Mrazek.

Schooler has published multiple articles in several well-regarded scientific venues. Notable frequent publication outlets include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Education Sciences

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Schooler are:

  • The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought, 2021, iScience
  • Cultivating an understanding of curiosity as a seed for creativity, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Reductions in task positive neural systems occur with the passage of time and are associated with changes in ongoing thought, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Getting a grip on insight: real-time and embodied Aha experiences predict correct solutions, 2021, Cognition & Emotion
  • What's in a Task? Complications in the Study of the Task-Unrelated-Thought Variety of Mind Wandering, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science

Schooler's academic contributions also include book publications with Cambridge University Press and Open Agenda Publishing eBooks. Their works include the 2024 book The Emergence of Insight and the 2021 publication Mind-Wandering and Meta-Awareness.

Best Publications

  • The restless mind

    Jonathan Smallwood;Jonathan W. Schooler

  • Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering

    Kalina Christoff;Alan M. Gordon;Jonathan Smallwood;Rachelle Smith

  • Thinking too much: introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions

    Timothy D. Wilson;Jonathan W. Schooler

  • The Science of Mind Wandering: Empirically Navigating the Stream of Consciousness

    Jonathan Smallwood;Jonathan W. Schooler

  • Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering

    Michael D. Mrazek;Michael S. Franklin;Dawa Tarchin Phillips;Benjamin Baird

  • Inspired by Distraction Mind Wandering Facilitates Creative Incubation

    Benjamin Baird;Jonathan Smallwood;Michael D. Mrazek;Julia W. Y. Kam

  • Verbal overshadowing of visual memories: some things are better left unsaid.

    Jonathan W Schooler;Tonya Y Engstler-Schooler;Tonya Y Engstler-Schooler

  • Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind

    Jonathan W. Schooler;Jonathan Smallwood;Kalina Christoff;Todd C. Handy

  • The value of believing in free will: encouraging a belief in determinism increases cheating.

    Kathleen D. Vohs;Jonathan W. Schooler

  • Thoughts beyond words : When language overshadows insight

    Jonathan W. Schooler;Stellan Ohlsson;Kevin Brooks

  • Deciphering the Enigmatic Face: The Importance of Facial Dynamics in Interpreting Subtle Facial Expressions

    Zara Ambadar;Jonathan W. Schooler;Jeffrey F. Cohn

  • Introspecting about Reasons can Reduce Post-Choice Satisfaction

    Timothy D. Wilson;Douglas J. Lisle;Jonathan W. Schooler;Sara D. Hodges

  • The costs and benefits of mind-wandering: a review

    Benjamin W. Mooneyham;Jonathan W. Schooler

  • Mindfulness and mind-wandering: finding convergence through opposing constructs.

    Michael D. Mrazek;Jonathan Smallwood;Jonathan W. Schooler

  • Re-representing consciousness: Dissociations between experience and meta-consciousness

    Jonathan W. Schooler

  • Back to the future: Autobiographical planning and the functionality of mind-wandering

    Benjamin Baird;Jonathan Smallwood;Jonathan W. Schooler

  • Going awol in the brain: Mind wandering reduces cortical analysis of external events

    Jonathan Smallwood;Emily Beach;Jonathan W. Schooler;Todd C. Handy

  • The ineffability of insight.

    Jonathan W. Schooler;Joseph Melcher

  • When attention matters: The curious incident of the wandering mind

    Jonathan Smallwood;Merrill McSpadden;Jonathan W. Schooler

  • Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: how mental simulations serve the animal-culture interface.

    Roy F. Baumeister;E. J. Masicampo

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Smallwood
Jonathan Smallwood Queen's University
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine
Paul Seli
Paul Seli Duke University
Stephen M. Fiore
Stephen M. Fiore University of Central Florida
Kathleen D. Vohs
Kathleen D. Vohs University of Minnesota
Michael A. Sayette
Michael A. Sayette University of Pittsburgh
Daniel Smilek
Daniel Smilek University of Waterloo
Erik D. Reichle
Erik D. Reichle Macquarie University
Marko Jelicic
Marko Jelicic Maastricht University
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University

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