2026 Mauricio R. Delgado: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	83	1424	1295	716	636	270	31473
Medicine	83	15448	14533	7791	7208	266	31284

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Neuroscience

1424

1295

716

636

270

31473

Medicine

15448

14533

7791

7208

266

31284

Neuroscience

D-Index

Citations

31473

World Ranking

1424

National Ranking

716

Medicine

D-Index

Citations

31284

World Ranking

15448

National Ranking

7791

Overview

Mauricio R. Delgado is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research contributions span the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. The scientist's work also touches on social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and clinical psychology.

The main research topics explored by Mauricio R. Delgado include:

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Mental Health Research Topics
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Recent significant publications by Mauricio R. Delgado include:

"Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams," 2020, Nature
"Blunted medial prefrontal cortico-limbic reward-related effective connectivity and depression," 2020, Brain
"Finding positive meaning in memories of negative events adaptively updates memory," 2021, Nature Communications
"The role of right temporoparietal junction in processing social prediction error across relationship contexts," 2020, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
"Characterizing the mechanisms of social connection," 2023, Neuron

The venues where Mauricio R. Delgado frequently publishes include:

Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Emotion
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature

Frequent collaborators in Mauricio R. Delgado's research are Dominic S. Fareri, Jamil P. Bhanji, Luke J. Chang, Kainan S. Wang, and Emily G. Brudner. These collaborations reflect an active engagement with peers across related domains.

Best Publications

Extinction Learning in Humans: Role of the Amygdala and vmPFC

Elizabeth A. Phelps;Mauricio R. Delgado;Katherine I. Nearing;Joseph E. LeDoux

2252
Citations
The Role of the Dorsal Striatum in Reward and Decision-Making

Bernard W. Balleine;Mauricio R. Delgado;Okihide Hikosaka

1665
Citations
Tracking the Hemodynamic Responses to Reward and Punishment in the Striatum

M. R. Delgado;L. E. Nystrom;C. Fissell;D. C. Noll

1427
Citations
Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Felix Holzmeister;Colin F. Camerer;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber

1128
Citations
Reward-Related Responses in the Human Striatum

Mauricio R. Delgado

947
Citations
Classification and Definition of Disorders Causing Hypertonia in Childhood

Terence D. Sanger;Mauricio R. Delgado;Deborah Gaebler-Spira;Mark Hallett

910
Citations
Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game

Mauricio R. Delgado;Robert H. Frank;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

888
Citations
Neural Circuitry Underlying the Regulation of Conditioned Fear and Its Relation to Extinction

Mauricio R. Delgado;Katherine I. Nearing;Joseph E. LeDoux;Joseph E. LeDoux;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

831
Citations
Modulation of caudate activity by action contingency.

Elizabeth M Tricomi;Mauricio R Delgado;Julie A Fiez

713
Citations
Thinking like a trader selectively reduces individuals' loss aversion

Peter Sokol-Hessner;Ming Hsu;Nina G. Curley;Mauricio R. Delgado

584
Citations
Dorsal striatum responses to reward and punishment: effects of valence and magnitude manipulations.

M. R. Delgado;H. M. Locke;V. A. Stenger;J. A. Fiez

575
Citations
How emotion enhances the feeling of remembering

Tali Sharot;Mauricio R Delgado;Elizabeth A Phelps

563
Citations
Recommendations for the use of botulinum toxin type A in the management of cerebral palsy

H.Kerr Graham;K.Roger Aoki;Ilona Autti-Rämö;Roslyn N Boyd

535
Citations
Genotype/phenotype correlation in 325 individuals referred for a diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis complex in the United States

Kit Sing Au;Aimee T. Williams;E. Steve Roach;Lori Batchelor

512
Citations
Chromosome catastrophes involve replication mechanisms generating complex genomic rearrangements

Pengfei Liu;Ayelet Erez;Sandesh C.Sreenath Nagamani;Shweta U. Dhar

499
Citations
Extending animal models of fear conditioning to humans.

Mauricio Delgado;A. Olsson;E. A. Phelps

485
Citations
Working Memory for Letters, Shapes, and Locations: fMRI Evidence against Stimulus-Based Regional Organization in Human Prefrontal Cortex

Leigh E. Nystrom;Todd S. Braver;Fred W. Sabb;Mauricio R. Delgado

472
Citations
An fMRI study of reward-related probability learning.

M. R. Delgado;M. M. Miller;S. Inati;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

435
Citations
RENAL LESION GROWTH IN CHILDREN WITH TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX

David H. Ewalt;Eugene Sheffield;Steven P. Sparagana;Mauricio R. Delgado

418
Citations
The Inherent Reward of Choice

Lauren A. Leotti;Mauricio R. Delgado

394
Citations