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Richard E. Harris 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 Richard E. Harris sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 203 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard E. Harris 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 Richard E. Harris sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Richard E. Harris is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a notable concentration in subfields such as Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Genetics.

Harris has contributed extensively to topics including Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research, Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research, and Pelvic Floor Disorders Treatments.

The scientist has published frequently in several prominent venues, especially:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Blood
  • Pain Medicine

Recent published papers by Richard E. Harris cover a range of topics related to pain and neuroscience:

  • Chronic nociplastic pain affecting the musculoskeletal system: clinical criteria and grading system (2021, Pain)
  • Predicting chronic postsurgical pain: current evidence and a novel program to develop predictive biomarker signatures (2023, Pain)
  • Greater Somatosensory Afference With Acupuncture Increases Primary Somatosensory Connectivity and Alleviates Fibromyalgia Pain via Insular γ-Aminobutyric Acid: A Randomized Neuroimaging Trial (2020, Arthritis & Rheumatology)
  • Classical and non-classical psychedelic drugs induce common network changes in human cortex (2023, NeuroImage)
  • Neural Correlates of the Shamanic State of Consciousness (2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)

Among frequent co-authors in their research, Harris collaborates with:

  • Steven E. Harte
  • Daniel J. Clauw
  • Andrew Schrepf
  • Eric Ichesco
  • David A. Williams

Best Publications

  • Intrinsic Brain Connectivity in Fibromyalgia is Associated with Chronic Pain Intensity

    Vitaly J. Napadow;Lauren LaCount;Kyungmo Park;Sawsan As-Sanie

  • Decreased Central μ-Opioid Receptor Availability in Fibromyalgia

    Richard E. Harris;Daniel J. Clauw;David J. Scott;Samuel A. McLean

  • Subgrouping of fibromyalgia patients on the basis of pressure-pain thresholds and psychological factors.

    Thorsten Giesecke;David A. Williams;Richard E. Harris;Thomas R. Cupps

  • Chronic nociplastic pain affecting the musculoskeletal system: clinical criteria and grading system.

    Eva Kosek;Eva Kosek;Daniel Clauw;Jo Nijs;Jo Nijs;Ralf Baron

  • Traditional Chinese Acupuncture and Placebo (Sham) Acupuncture Are Differentiated by Their Effects on μ-Opioid Receptors (MORs)

    Richard E. Harris;Jon Kar Zubieta;David J. Scott;Vitaly Napadow

  • Elevated insular glutamate in fibromyalgia is associated with experimental pain.

    Richard E. Harris;Pia C. Sundgren;A. D. Craig;Eric Kirshenbaum

  • Decreased intrinsic brain connectivity is associated with reduced clinical pain in fibromyalgia.

    Vitaly J. Napadow;Jieun Kim;Daniel J. Clauw;Richard E. Harris

  • The neurobiology of central sensitization

    Steven E. Harte;Richard E. Harris;Daniel J. Clauw

  • Paradoxes in Acupuncture Research: Strategies for Moving Forward

    Helene M Langevin;Peter Michael Wayne;Hugh MacPherson;Rosa Schnyer

  • Changes in regional gray matter volume in women with chronic pelvic pain: a voxel-based morphometry study.

    Sawsan As-Sanie;Richard E. Harris;Vitaly J. Napadow;Jieun Kim

  • Pregabalin rectifies aberrant brain chemistry, connectivity, and functional response in chronic pain patients.

    Richard E. Harris;Vitaly Napadow;John P. Huggins;Lynne Pauer

  • Fibromyalgia: An Afferent Processing Disorder Leading to a Complex Pain Generalized Syndrome

    Howard S. Smith;Richard Harris;Daniel Clauw

  • Dynamic levels of glutamate within the insula are associated with improvements in multiple pain domains in fibromyalgia.

    Richard E. Harris;Pia C. Sundgren;Yuxi Pang;Michael Hsu

  • Momentary relationship between cortisol secretion and symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia

    Samuel A. McLean;David A. Williams;Richard E. Harris;Willem J. Kop

  • Reduced Insular γ-Aminobutyric Acid in Fibromyalgia

    Bradley R. Foerster;Myria Petrou;Richard A. E. Edden;Pia C. Sundgren

  • Functional Connectivity Is Associated With Altered Brain Chemistry in Women With Endometriosis-Associated Chronic Pelvic Pain

    Sawsan As-Sanie;Jieun Kim;Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke;Pia C. Sundgren

  • The Status and Future of Acupuncture Mechanism Research

    Vitaly Napadow;Andrew Ahn;John Longhurst;Lixing Lao

  • Disrupted Brain Circuitry for Pain‐Related Reward/Punishment in Fibromyalgia

    Marco Luciano Loggia;Chantal Berna;Jieun Kim;Christine M. Cahalan

  • Grasshopper, a long terminal repeat (LTR) retroelement in the phytopathogenic fungus Magnaporthe grisea

    K F Dobinson;R E Harris;J E Hamer

  • Treatment of fibromyalgia with formula acupuncture: investigation of needle placement, needle stimulation, and treatment frequency.

    Richard E. Harris;Xiaoming Tian;David A. Williams;Thomas X. Tian

  • Traditional Chinese acupuncture and placebo (sham) acupuncture are differentiated by their effects on μ-opioid receptors (MORs)

    Johannes Fleckenstein;R.E. Harris;J.K. Zubieta;D.J. Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Clauw
Daniel J. Clauw University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Vitaly Napadow
Vitaly Napadow Harvard University
Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke
Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke Ruhr University Bochum
Richard H. Gracely
Richard H. Gracely University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Emeran A. Mayer
Emeran A. Mayer University of California, Los Angeles
Sean Mackey
Sean Mackey Stanford University
David A. Williams
David A. Williams Boston Children's Hospital
A. Vania Apkarian
A. Vania Apkarian Northwestern University
Jennifer S. Labus
Jennifer S. Labus University of California, Los Angeles
Scott Peltier
Scott Peltier University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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