2026 Michael C. Anderson: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	62	3183	2929	340	322	119	20205

Michael C. Anderson 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 Michael C. Anderson sits on this spectrum.

31 publications 705+

This scientist: 119 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael C. Anderson 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 Michael C. Anderson sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael C. Anderson is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with an emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work integrates various subfields, including public health, environmental and occupational health, sociology, political science, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main topics of Michael C. Anderson's research include:

Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Memory Processes and Influences
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function
Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

The scientist has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

Active Forgetting: Adaptation of Memory by Prefrontal Control, 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
Prefrontal-hippocampal interactions supporting the extinction of emotional memories: the retrieval stopping model, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
Dynamic targeting enables domain-general inhibitory control over action and thought by the prefrontal cortex, 2022, Nature Communications
Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control, 2023, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Losing Control: Sleep Deprivation Impairs the Suppression of Unwanted Thoughts, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science

Michael C. Anderson frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including:

Dace Apšvalka
Justin C. Hulbert
Catarina S. Ferreira
Taylor W. Schmitz
James B. Rowe

Their publications appear repeatedly in prominent venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Scientific Reports
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Nature Communications
Journal of Neuroscience

In addition to journal articles, Michael C. Anderson has contributed to book publishing. They have authored a work titled Transforming Education, published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Academic eBooks.

Best Publications

Remembering can cause forgetting: retrieval dynamics in long-term memory

Michael C. Anderson;Robert A. Bjork;Elizabeth L. Bjork

2131
Citations
Suppressing unwanted memories by executive control

Michael C. Anderson;Collin Green

1558
Citations
Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories

Michael C. Anderson;Kevin N. Ochsner;Brice Kuhl;Jeffrey Cooper

1502
Citations
Rethinking interference theory: Executive control and the mechanisms of forgetting.

Michael C. Anderson

1236
Citations
On the status of inhibitory mechanisms in cognition: Memory retrieval as a model case

Michael C. Anderson;Barbara A. Spellman

1183
Citations
Interference and inhibition in memory retrieval.

Michael C. Anderson;James H. Neely

702
Citations
Inhibitory processes and the control of memory retrieval

Benjamin J. Levy;Michael C. Anderson

595
Citations
Retrieval-induced forgetting: evidence for a recall-specific mechanism.

Michael C. Anderson;Elizabeth L. Bjork;Robert A. Bjork

589
Citations
Neural mechanisms of motivated forgetting

Michael C. Anderson;Michael C. Anderson;Simon Hanslmayr

584
Citations
Opposing Mechanisms Support the Voluntary Forgetting of Unwanted Memories

Roland G. Benoit;Michael C. Anderson

390
Citations
Mechanisms of inhibition in long-term memory: A new taxonomy.

Michael C. Anderson;Robert A. Bjork

362
Citations
Inhibiting Your Native Language The Role of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting During Second-Language Acquisition

Benjamin J. Levy;Nathan D. McVeigh;Alejandra Marful;Michael C. Anderson

347
Citations
Integration as a general boundary condition on retrieval-induced forgetting

Michael C. Anderson;Kathleen C. McCulloch

347
Citations
Suppressing Unwanted Memories

Michael C. Anderson;Benjamin J. Levy

325
Citations
Retrieval Induces Adaptive Forgetting of Competing Memories via Cortical Pattern Suppression

Maria Wimber;Arjen Alink;Ian Charest;Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

317
Citations
Individual differences in the suppression of unwanted memories: the executive deficit hypothesis.

Benjamin J. Levy;Michael C. Anderson

316
Citations
Varieties of goal-directed forgetting.

Elizabeth Ligon Bjork;Robert A. Bjork;Michael C. Anderson

314
Citations
The prefrontal cortex achieves inhibitory control by facilitating subcortical motor pathway connectivity.

Charlotte L. Rae;Laura E. Hughes;Michael C. Anderson;James B. Rowe

305
Citations
Prefrontal-hippocampal pathways underlying inhibitory control over memory.

Michael C. Anderson;Jamie G. Bunce;Helen Barbas

280
Citations
Forgetting our facts: the role of inhibitory processes in the loss of propositional knowledge.

Michael C. Anderson;Theodore Bell

260
Citations
Similarity and inhibition in long-term memory: evidence for a two-factor theory.

Michael C. Anderson;Collin Green;Kathleen C. McCulloch

245
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Shields Toshiba (Japan)

James B. Rowe University of Cambridge

Robert A. Bjork University of California, Los Angeles

Michael W. Eysenck Royal Holloway University of London

Silvia A. Bunge University of California, Berkeley

Alan D. Baddeley University of York

David A. Ritchie University of Cambridge

Taylor W. Schmitz University of Western Ontario

Richard N. Henson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Mikael Johansson Royal Institute of Technology

External Links

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