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Leah H. Somerville

Leah H. Somerville

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
17561
World Ranking
4713
National Ranking
2616

Leah H. Somerville 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 Leah H. Somerville sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 100 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Leah H. Somerville 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 Leah H. Somerville sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Leah H. Somerville is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with extensive research contributions across several subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's research focuses on a range of topics within psychology and neuroscience. These include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Mental Health Research Topics, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, and Behavioral Health and Interventions.

Several recent papers illustrate their research interests and contributions. These papers include:

  • Low Emotional Awareness as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism Underlying Psychopathology in Adolescence (2020, Clinical Psychological Science)
  • Graded Variation in T1w/T2w Ratio during Adolescence: Measurement, Caveats, and Implications for Development of Cortical Myelin (2022, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Linguistic measures of psychological distance track symptom levels and treatment outcomes in a large set of psychotherapy transcripts (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Age-related differences in resting-state functional connectivity from childhood to adolescence (2023, Cerebral Cortex)
  • How adolescents and adults translate motivational value to action: Age-related shifts in strategic physical effort exertion for monetary rewards (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General)

Leah H. Somerville frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Deanna M. Barch
  • Erik C Nook
  • Patrick Mair
  • Juliet Y. Davidow
  • John C. Flournoy

The scientist regularly publishes in a range of academic venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Emotion
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Developmental Science
  • NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • A time of change: behavioral and neural correlates of adolescent sensitivity to appetitive and aversive environmental cues.

    Leah H. Somerville;Rebecca M. Jones;B.J. Casey

  • Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later

    B. J. Casey;Leah H. Somerville;Ian H. Gotlib;Ozlem Ayduk

  • Human Amygdala Responsivity to Masked Fearful Eye Whites

    Paul J. Whalen;Jerome Kagan;Robert G. Cook;F. Caroline Davis

  • The Teenage Brain: Sensitivity to Social Evaluation

    Leah H. Somerville

  • Braking and Accelerating of the Adolescent Brain

    B. J. Casey;Rebecca M. Jones;Leah H. Somerville

  • Developmental neurobiology of cognitive control and motivational systems

    Leah H Somerville;BJ Casey

  • A Genetic Variant BDNF Polymorphism Alters Extinction Learning in Both Mouse and Human

    Fatima Soliman;Charles E. Glatt;Kevin G. Bath;Liat Levita

  • The storm and stress of adolescence: Insights from human imaging and mouse genetics

    B.J. Casey;Rebecca M. Jones;Liat Levita;Victoria Libby

  • Frontostriatal maturation predicts cognitive control failure to appetitive cues in adolescents

    Leah H. Somerville;Todd Hare;B. J. Casey

  • Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: Imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects

    Michael P. Harms;Leah H. Somerville;Beau M. Ances;Jesper Andersson

  • Anterior cingulate cortex responds differentially to expectancy violation and social rejection.

    Leah H Somerville;Todd F Heatherton;William M Kelley

  • Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: Challenges and opportunities

    Todd S. Braver;Marie K. Krug;Kimberly S. Chiew;Wouter Kool

  • Contextual Modulation of Amygdala Responsivity to Surprised Faces

    Hackjin Kim;Leah H. Somerville;Tom Johnstone;Sara Polis

  • Inverse amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to surprised faces.

    Hackjin Kim;Leah H. Somerville;Tom Johnstone;Andrew L. Alexander

  • The Medial Prefrontal Cortex and the Emergence of Self-Conscious Emotion in Adolescence

    Leah H Somerville;Rebecca M Jones;Erika J Ruberry;Jonathan P Dyke

  • The Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Aging: An overview.

    Susan Y. Bookheimer;David H. Salat;Melissa Terpstra;Beau M. Ances

  • Human Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Indexes Hypervigilant Threat Monitoring

    Leah H. Somerville;Paul J. Whalen;William M. Kelley

  • The Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Development: A large-scale study of brain connectivity development in 5-21 year olds.

    Leah H. Somerville;Susan Y. Bookheimer;Randy L. Buckner;Gregory C. Burgess

  • Human amygdala responses during presentation of happy and neutral faces: correlations with state anxiety

    Leah H Somerville;Hackjin Kim;Tom Johnstone;Andrew L Alexander

  • Self-esteem Modulates Medial Prefrontal Cortical Responses to Evaluative Social Feedback

    Leah H. Somerville;William M. Kelley;Todd F. Heatherton

  • MGH-USC Human Connectome Project datasets with ultra-high b-value diffusion MRI.

    Qiuyun Fan;Thomas Witzel;Aapo Nummenmaa;Koene R. A. Van Dijk

Frequent Co-Authors

B. J. Casey
B. J. Casey Barnard College
Margaret A. Sheridan
Margaret A. Sheridan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tom Johnstone
Tom Johnstone Swinburne University of Technology
Katie A. McLaughlin
Katie A. McLaughlin University of Oregon
William M. Kelley
William M. Kelley Dartmouth College
Andrew L. Alexander
Andrew L. Alexander University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gary H. Glover
Gary H. Glover Stanford University
Randy L. Buckner
Randy L. Buckner Harvard University
Todd F. Heatherton
Todd F. Heatherton Dartmouth College
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis

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