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D-Index
85
Citations
33606
World Ranking
1174
National Ranking
729

K. Luan Phan 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 K. Luan Phan sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 339 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

K. Luan Phan 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 K. Luan Phan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

K. Luan Phan is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and epidemiology.

Their work concentrates on several main topics including anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes, as well as functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, neural and behavioral psychology studies, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research, and traumatic brain injury research.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Depression and Anxiety

K. Luan Phan has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Olusola Ajilore
  • Stephanie M. Gorka
  • Heide Klumpp
  • Katie L. Burkhouse
  • Scott A. Langenecker

Representative recent publications include:

  • "Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: an ENIGMA-psychiatric genomics consortium PTSD workgroup mega-analysis" (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • "Mega-analysis methods in ENIGMA: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group" (2020, Human Brain Mapping)
  • "Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group" (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • "Resting state functional connectivity correlates of rumination and worry in internalizing psychopathologies" (2021, Depression and Anxiety)
  • "Assessment of brain age in posttraumatic stress disorder: Findings from the ENIGMA PTSD and brain age working groups" (2021, Brain and Behavior)

Best Publications

  • Functional neuroanatomy of emotion: a meta-analysis of emotion activation studies in PET and fMRI.

    K. Luan Phan;Tor D. Wager;Stephan F. Taylor;Israel Liberzon

  • The contextual brain: implications for fear conditioning, extinction and psychopathology

    Stephen Maren;K. Luan Phan;Israel Liberzon

  • Valence, gender, and lateralization of functional brain anatomy in emotion: a meta-analysis of findings from neuroimaging.

    Tor D Wager;K.Luan Phan;Israel Liberzon;Stephan F Taylor

  • Amygdala–frontal connectivity during emotion regulation

    Sarah J. Banks;Kamryn T. Eddy;Mike Angstadt;Pradeep J. Nathan

  • Neural substrates for voluntary suppression of negative affect: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    K. Luan Phan;Daniel A. Fitzgerald;Pradeep J. Nathan;Gregory J. Moore

  • Amygdala and orbitofrontal reactivity to social threat in individuals with impulsive aggression.

    Emil F. Coccaro;Michael S. McCloskey;Daniel A. Fitzgerald;K. Luan Phan

  • Nonstationary cluster-size inference with random field and permutation methods

    Satoru Hayasaka;K. Luan Phan;Israel Liberzon;Keith J. Worsley

  • Effects of childhood poverty and chronic stress on emotion regulatory brain function in adulthood

    Pilyoung Kim;Gary W. Evans;Michael Angstadt;S. Shaun Ho

  • Association between Amygdala Hyperactivity to Harsh Faces and Severity of Social Anxiety in Generalized Social Phobia

    K. Luan Phan;Daniel A. Fitzgerald;Pradeep J. Nathan;Manuel E. Tancer

  • Oxytocin attenuates amygdala reactivity to fear in generalized social anxiety disorder.

    Izelle Labuschagne;K Luan Phan;Amanda Wood;Mike Angstadt

  • Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Human Emotions

    K. Luan Phan;Tor D. Wager;Stephan F. Taylor;Israel Liberzon

  • Beyond threat: Amygdala reactivity across multiple expressions of facial affect

    Daniel A. Fitzgerald;Mike Angstadt;Laura M. Jelsone;Pradeep J. Nathan

  • Neural correlates of individual ratings of emotional salience: a trial-related fMRI study

    K. Luan Phan;K. Luan Phan;Stephan F. Taylor;Robert C. Welsh;Shao Hsuan Ho

  • Subjective rating of emotionally salient stimuli modulates neural activity

    Stephan F Taylor;K.Luan Phan;Laura R Decker;Israel Liberzon;Israel Liberzon

  • Neural correlates of social and nonsocial emotions: An fMRI study

    Jennifer C. Britton;K. Luan Phan;Stephan F. Taylor;Robert C. Welsh

  • Corticolimbic blood flow in posttraumatic stress disorder during script-driven imagery

    Jennifer C. Britton;K. Luan Phan;Stephan F. Taylor;Lorraine M. Fig

  • A functional neuroimaging study of motivation and executive function.

    Stephan F. Taylor;Robert C. Welsh;Tor D. Wager;K. Luan Phan

  • The role of glutamate in anxiety and related disorders.

    Bernadette M Cortese;K Luan Phan

  • Cannabinoid Modulation of Amygdala Reactivity to Social Signals of Threat in Humans

    K. Luan Phan;Mike Angstadt;Jamie Golden;Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi

  • Corticolimbic function in impulsive aggressive behavior.

    Emil F. Coccaro;Chandra Sekhar Sripada;Rachel N. Yanowitch;K. Luan Phan

Frequent Co-Authors

Israel Liberzon
Israel Liberzon Texas A&M University
Pradeep J. Nathan
Pradeep J. Nathan University of Cambridge
Mike Angstadt
Mike Angstadt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Scott A. Langenecker
Scott A. Langenecker University of Utah
Daniel A. Fitzgerald
Daniel A. Fitzgerald University of Illinois at Chicago
Christopher S. Monk
Christopher S. Monk University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kate D. Fitzgerald
Kate D. Fitzgerald Columbia University
Stewart A. Shankman
Stewart A. Shankman Northwestern University
Annmarie MacNamara
Annmarie MacNamara Texas A&M University
Autumn Kujawa
Autumn Kujawa Vanderbilt University

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