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Marc N. Potenza

Marc N. Potenza

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
140
Citations
77453
World Ranking
196
National Ranking
127

Marc N. Potenza 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 Marc N. Potenza sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 929 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Marc N. Potenza 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 Marc N. Potenza sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 140 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Marc N. Potenza is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of psychology and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology and related subfields, including cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their academic output spans a broad range of topics that explore the impact of technology, mental health, and behavioral patterns.

Potenza's work extensively covers the following main research topics:

  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Their recent scholarly publications include studies on internet use and behavioral addictions, addressing contemporary issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on problematic internet behaviors. Notable papers include:

  • "Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Consensus guidance," 2020, Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • "Problematic online gaming and the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • "Relationships between Severity of Internet Gaming Disorder, Severity of Problematic Social Media Use, Sleep Quality and Psychological Distress," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Do men become addicted to internet gaming and women to social media? A meta-analysis examining gender-related differences in specific internet addiction," 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • "Which conditions should be considered as disorders in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) designation of 'other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors'?" 2020, Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Potenza frequently publishes in specialized journals that focus on addiction and psychiatric research. The primary venues where they have contributed multiple works include:

  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Current Addiction Reports
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors who have appeared frequently across their publications. The most frequent co-authors are:

  • Zsolt Demetrovics
  • Chung-Ying Lin
  • Shane W. Kraus
  • Gemma Mestre-Bach
  • Beáta Bőthe

Best Publications

  • Developmental Neurocircuitry of Motivation in Adolescence: A Critical Period of Addiction Vulnerability

    R. Andrew Chambers;Jane R. Taylor;Marc N. Potenza

  • Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model.

    Matthias Brand;Matthias Brand;Kimberly S. Young;Christian Laier;Klaus Wölfling

  • Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study of 3090 Patients

    Daniel Weintraub;Juergen Koester;Marc N. Potenza;Andrew D. Siderowf

  • Introduction to Behavioral Addictions

    Jon E. Grant;Marc N. Potenza;Aviv Weinstein;David A. Gorelick

  • The Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model for addictive behaviors: Update, generalization to addictive behaviors beyond internet-use disorders, and specification of the process character of addictive behaviors.

    Matthias Brand;Matthias Brand;Elisa Wegmann;Rudolf Stark;Astrid Müller

  • Should addictive disorders include non‐substance‐related conditions?

    Marc N. Potenza

  • Association of dopamine agonist use with impulse control disorders in Parkinson disease.

    Daniel Weintraub;Andrew D. Siderowf;Marc N. Potenza;Joseph Goveas

  • Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Consensus guidance.

    Orsolya Király;Marc N. Potenza;Dan J. Stein;Daniel L. King

  • Probing compulsive and impulsive behaviors, from animal models to endophenotypes: a narrative review.

    Naomi A Fineberg;Naomi A Fineberg;Naomi A Fineberg;Marc N Potenza;Samuel R Chamberlain;Samuel R Chamberlain;Heather A Berlin

  • The neurobiology of pathological gambling and drug addiction: an overview and new findings

    Marc N Potenza

  • Stress and eating behaviors.

    Yvonne H. C. Yau;Marc N. Potenza

  • The neurobiology and genetics of impulse control disorders: relationships to drug addictions.

    Judson A. Brewer;Marc N. Potenza

  • Gender-Related Differences in the Characteristics of Problem Gamblers Using a Gambling Helpline

    Marc N. Potenza;Marvin A. Steinberg;Susan D. McLaughlin;Ran Wu

  • Validation of the Questionnaire for Impulsive-Compulsive Disorders in Parkinson's Disease

    Daniel Weintraub;Staci Hoops;Judy A. Shea;Judy A. Shea;Kelly E. Lyons

  • Gambling urges in pathological gambling: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Marc N. Potenza;Marvin A. Steinberg;Pawel Skudlarski;Robert K. Fulbright

  • A cognitive-behavioral model of Internet gaming disorder: Theoretical underpinnings and clinical implications

    Guangheng Dong;Marc N. Potenza

  • Video-Gaming Among High School Students: Health Correlates, Gender Differences, and Problematic Gaming

    Rani A. Desai;Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin;Dana Cavallo;Marc N. Potenza

  • Similarities and differences between pathological gambling and substance use disorders: a focus on impulsivity and compulsivity

    Robert F. Leeman;Marc N. Potenza

  • New Developments in Human Neurocognition: Clinical, Genetic, and Brain Imaging Correlates of Impulsivity and Compulsivity

    Naomi A Fineberg;Samuel R. Chamberlain;Anna E. Goudriaan;Dan J. Stein

  • Neurodevelopment, impulsivity, and adolescent gambling.

    R. Andrew Chambers;Marc N. Potenza

  • The neurobiology of substance and behavioral addictions.

    Jon E. Grant;Judson A. Brewer;Marc N. Potenza

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University
Jon E. Grant
Jon E. Grant University of Chicago
Iris M. Balodis
Iris M. Balodis McMaster University
Godfrey D. Pearlson
Godfrey D. Pearlson Yale University
Kathleen M. Carroll
Kathleen M. Carroll Yale University
Shane W. Kraus
Shane W. Kraus University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Rajita Sinha
Rajita Sinha Yale University
Hedy Kober
Hedy Kober Yale University
Matthias Brand
Matthias Brand University of Duisburg-Essen

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