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Psychology

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47
Citations
25360
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6011
National Ranking
412

Neuroscience

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47
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Kalina Christoff 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 Kalina Christoff sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 89 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kalina Christoff 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 Kalina Christoff sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kalina Christoff is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and primarily works in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their research covers a range of topics centered on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and clinical psychology.

The main areas of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

More specifically, their subfields of study involve:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Nutrition and Dietetics

The primary research topics explored by Christoff include:

  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

The scientist's work has been published in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • NeuroImage
  • Nature Mental Health
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Scientific Reports

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Christoff include:

  • "Updating the dynamic framework of thought: Creativity and psychedelics" (2020, NeuroImage)
  • "Prefrontal contributions to the stability and variability of thought and conscious experience" (2021, Neuropsychopharmacology)
  • "Recent advances in the neuroscience of spontaneous and off-task thought: implications for mental health" (2023, Nature Mental Health)
  • "The think aloud paradigm reveals differences in the content, dynamics and conceptual scope of resting state thought in trait brooding" (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • "How task-unrelated and freely moving thought relate to affect: Evidence for dissociable patterns in everyday life." (2021, Emotion)

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their research efforts. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Caitlin Mills
  • Andre Zamani
  • Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna
  • Manesh Girn
  • Robin Carhart-Harris

Best Publications

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

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

  • Mind-wandering as spontaneous thought: a dynamic framework

    Kalina Christoff;Zachary C. Irving;Kieran C. R. Fox;R. Nathan Spreng

  • Dissociated neural representations of intensity and valence in human olfaction

    A.K. Anderson;K. Christoff;I. Stappen;D. Panitz

  • Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind

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

  • Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners

    Kieran C.R. Fox;Savannah Nijeboer;Matthew L. Dixon;James L. Floman

  • The frontopolar cortex and human cognition: Evidence for a rostrocaudal hierarchical organization within the human prefrontal cortex.

    Kalina Christoff;John D. E. Gabrieli

  • Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Involvement in Relational Integration during Reasoning

    Kalina Christoff;Vivek Prabhakaran;Jennifer Dorfman;Zuo Zhao

  • Neural Correlates of the Automatic Processing of Threat Facial Signals

    Adam K. Anderson;Kalina Christoff;David Panitz;Eve De Rosa

  • The wandering brain: meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of mind-wandering and related spontaneous thought processes.

    Kieran C. R. Fox;R. Nathan Spreng;Melissa Ellamil;Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna

  • Emotion and the prefrontal cortex: An integrative review.

    Matthew L. Dixon;Ravi Thiruchselvam;Rebecca Todd;Kalina Christoff

  • Evaluative and generative modes of thought during the creative process

    Melissa Ellamil;Charles Dobson;Mark Beeman;Kalina Christoff

  • Functional neuroanatomy of meditation: A review and meta-analysis of 78 functional neuroimaging investigations

    Kieran C. R. Fox;Matthew L. Dixon;Savannah Nijeboer;Manesh Girn

  • Heterogeneity within the frontoparietal control network and its relationship to the default and dorsal attention networks.

    Matthew L. Dixon;Alejandro De La Vega;Caitlin Mills;Jessica Andrews-Hanna

  • Learned regulation of spatially localized brain activation using real-time fMRI.

    R.Christopher deCharms;Kalina Christoff;Gary H Glover;John M Pauly

  • Evaluating self-generated information: anterior prefrontal contributions to human cognition.

    Kalina Christoff;Justin M. Ream;Leo P. T. Geddes;John D. E. Gabrieli

  • Dreaming as mind wandering: evidence from functional neuroimaging and first-person content reports

    Kieran C. R. Fox;Savannah Nijeboer;Elizaveta Solomonova;Elizaveta Solomonova;G. William Domhoff

  • Specifying the self for cognitive neuroscience.

    Kalina Christoff;Diego Cosmelli;Dorothée Legrand;Evan Thompson

  • Using the talairach atlas with the MNI template

    Matthew Brett;Kalina Christoff;Rhodri Cusack;Jack Lancaster

  • Neural basis of spontaneous thought processes.

    Kalina Christoff;Justin M. Ream;John D.E. Gabrieli

  • Undirected thought: neural determinants and correlates.

    Kalina Christoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Caitlin Mills
Caitlin Mills University of Minnesota
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna University of Arizona
R. Nathan Spreng
R. Nathan Spreng McGill University
Evan Thompson
Evan Thompson University of British Columbia
Jonathan Smallwood
Jonathan Smallwood Queen's University
Jonathan W. Schooler
Jonathan W. Schooler University of California, Santa Barbara
Iroise Dumontheil
Iroise Dumontheil Birkbeck, University of London
Peter Sedlmeier
Peter Sedlmeier Chemnitz University of Technology
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London

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