2026 Justin A. Harris: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	39	8546	7980	503	492	147	6762
Neuroscience	40	8069	7452	235	222	151	6854

Justin A. Harris 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 Justin A. Harris sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 887+

This scientist: 151 publications — 43rd percentile

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

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

Justin A. Harris 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 Justin A. Harris sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Justin A. Harris is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics in Harris's work cover Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Motor Control and Adaptation, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Action Observation and Synchronization, and Neuroscience and Music Perception.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Harris include Evan J. Livesey, Dominic Tran, Nicolas A. McNair, Nahian Chowdhury, and Kirsten Barnes.

Harris has published in several venues, most notably in the Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, Brain Stimulation, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Neurophysiology, and NeuroImage.

Key publications include:

"Pavlovian conditioning under partial reinforcement: The effects of nonreinforced trials versus cumulative conditioned stimulus duration." (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition)
"Expected TMS excites the motor system less effectively than unexpected stimulation" (2020, NeuroImage)
"Stop Signal Task Training Strengthens GABA-mediated Neurotransmission within the Primary Motor Cortex" (2020, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)
"Linking cortical and behavioural inhibition: Testing the parameter specificity of a transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol" (2020, Brain Stimulation)
"In anticipation of pain: expectancy modulates corticospinal excitability, autonomic response, and pain perception" (2021, Pain)

Best Publications

Using c-fos as a Neural Marker of Pain

Justin A Harris

634
Citations
Modelling non-invasive brain stimulation in cognitive neuroscience.

Carlo Miniussi;Justin A. Harris;Manuela Ruzzoli

600
Citations
Transient storage of a tactile memory trace in primary somatosensory cortex.

Justin A. Harris;Carlo Miniussi;Irina M. Harris;Mathew E. Diamond

341
Citations
Contextual control over conditioned responding in an extinction paradigm.

J A Harris;M L Jones;G K Bailey;R F Westbrook

274
Citations
Evidence that GABA transmission mediates context-specific extinction of learned fear

Harris Ja;Westbrook Rf

225
Citations
Elemental Representations of Stimuli in Associative Learning.

Justin A. Harris

203
Citations
Reinstatement of fear to an extinguished conditioned stimulus: two roles for context

R. Frederick Westbrook;Mihaela Iordanova;Gavan McNally;Rick Richardson

193
Citations
The topography of tactile learning in humans.

Justin A. Harris;Irina M. Harris;Mathew E. Diamond

189
Citations
Conditioned fear to context is associated with increased Fos expression in the caudal ventrolateral region of the midbrain periaqueductal gray.

P Carrive;P Leung;J Harris;G Paxinos

183
Citations
The functional effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation: Signal suppression or neural noise generation?

Justin A. Harris;Colin W. G. Clifford;Carlo Miniussi

153
Citations
Distribution of tactile learning and its neural basis

Justin A. Harris;Rasmus S. Petersen;Mathew E. Diamond

153
Citations
UPREGULATION OF SPINAL GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS IN CHRONIC PAIN

J.A Harris;M Corsi;M Quartaroli;R Arban

151
Citations
The Topography of Tactile Working Memory

Justin A. Harris;Irina M. Harris;Mathew E. Diamond

135
Citations
Contextual control over conditioned responding in a latent inhibition paradigm.

R. Frederick Westbrook;Megan L. Jones;Glynis K. Bailey;Justin A. Harris

132
Citations
Pathological Gambling and Motor Impulsivity: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis

Nahian S. Chowdhury;Evan J. Livesey;Alex Blaszczynski;Justin A. Harris

129
Citations
Effects of benzodiazepine microinjection into the amygdala or periaqueductal gray on the expression of conditioned fear and hypoalgesia in rats.

J A Harris;R F Westbrook

124
Citations
Descending antinociceptive mechanisms in the brainstem: Their role in the animal's defensive system

J.A. Harris

96
Citations
Improving Visual Sensitivity with Subthreshold Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Arman Abrahamyan;Colin W.G. Clifford;Ehsan Arabzadeh;Justin A Harris

90
Citations
Getting technical about awareness

Colin W.G. Clifford;Ehsan Arabzadeh;Justin A. Harris

87
Citations
Motivational state regulates the content of learned flavor preferences.

Harris Ja;Gorissen Mc;Bailey Gk;Westbrook Rf

78
Citations
Object Orientation Agnosia: A Failure to Find the Axis?

Irina M. Harris;Justin A. Harris;Diana Caine

70
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin W. G. Clifford University of New South Wales

Mathew E. Diamond International School for Advanced Studies

R. Frederick Westbrook University of New South Wales

Carlo Miniussi University of Trento

Robert A. Boakes University of Sydney

Alex Blaszczynski University of Sydney

Ben Colagiuri University of Sydney

Michael Breakspear University of Newcastle Australia

Marina Bentivoglio University of Verona

Carlo Alberto Marzi University of Verona

External Links

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