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37
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4315
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9287
National Ranking
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Ruolei Gu 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 Ruolei Gu sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 131 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ruolei Gu 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 Ruolei Gu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ruolei Gu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and conducts research primarily within the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, applied psychology, and clinical psychology.

Their research focuses extensively on neural and behavioral psychology studies, with notable attention to the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, functional brain connectivity, and the intersections of anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional topics addressed in their work include behavioral health and interventions, mental health research, and aspects of decision-making and behavioral economics.

Ruolei Gu has contributed to various academic journals with frequent publications appearing in NeuroImage, the International Journal of Psychophysiology, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping, and Cerebral Cortex.

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Ruolei Gu include:

  • Neural correlates of negative expectancy and impaired social feedback processing in social anxiety, 2020, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Differentiating the abnormalities of social and monetary reward processing associated with depressive symptoms, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • The Neural Mechanism of the Social Framing Effect: Evidence from fMRI and tDCS Studies, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Prediction of trust propensity from intrinsic brain morphology and functional connectome, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Demystifying signal processing techniques to extract resting-state EEG features for psychologists, 2020, Brain Science Advances

Ruolei Gu collaborates frequently with a number of researchers in related areas. Some of their most common coauthors include Yuejia Luo, Chunliang Feng, Wenbo Luo, Fang Cui, and Dandan Zhang.

Best Publications

  • Anxious brain networks: A coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity studies in anxiety

    Jie Xu;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Chunliang Feng;Chunliang Feng;Yuejia Luo

  • Three stages of emotional word processing: an ERP study with rapid serial visual presentation

    Dandan Zhang;Weiqi He;Ting Wang;Wenbo Luo

  • Different topological organization of human brain functional networks with eyes open versus eyes closed

    Pengfei Xu;Ruiwang Huang;Ruiwang Huang;Jinhui Wang;Nicholas T. Van Dam

  • Anxiety and feedback negativity.

    Ruolei Gu;Yu-Xia Huang;Yue-Jia Luo

  • Anxiety and outcome evaluation: the good, the bad and the ambiguous.

    Ruolei Gu;Yue Ge;Yang Jiang;Yue-jia Luo;Yue-jia Luo

  • Love is analogous to money in human brain: Coordinate-based and functional connectivity meta-analyses of social and monetary reward anticipation.

    Ruolei Gu;Wenhao Huang;Julia Camilleri;Pengfei Xu

  • Beyond valence and magnitude: A flexible evaluative coding system in the brain

    Ruolei Gu;Zhihui Lei;Lucas Broster;Tingting Wu

  • Neural basis of emotional decision making in trait anxiety

    Pengfei Xu;Ruolei Gu;Lucas S Broster;Runguo Wu

  • The impact of anxiety on social decision-making: Behavioral and electrodermal findings

    Tingting Wu;Yi Luo;Lucas S. Broster;Ruolei Gu

  • Diffusion of Responsibility Attenuates Altruistic Punishment: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Effective Connectivity Study

    Chunliang Feng;Chunliang Feng;Gopikrishna Deshpande;Gopikrishna Deshpande;Chao Liu;Ruolei Gu

  • Arousal modulates valence effects on both early and late stages of affective picture processing in a passive viewing task

    Chunliang Feng;Wanqing Li;Tengxiang Tian;Yi Luo

  • The temporal course of the influence of anxiety on fairness considerations.

    Yi Luo;Tingting Wu;Tingting Wu;Lucas S. Broster;Chunliang Feng

  • Anxious Individuals Are Impulsive Decision-Makers in the Delay Discounting Task: An ERP Study.

    Lisheng Xia;Ruolei Gu;Dandan Zhang;Yuejia Luo

  • How Do Amusement, Anger and Fear Influence Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability?

    Yan Wu;Ruolei Gu;Qiwei Yang;Yue-jia Luo

  • Individualized prediction of trait narcissism from whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity

    Chunliang Feng;Chunliang Feng;Jie Yuan;Haiyang Geng;Ruolei Gu

  • Decreased Intra- and Inter-Salience Network Functional Connectivity is Related to Trait Anxiety in Adolescents

    Haiyang Geng;Haiyang Geng;Xuebing Li;Jie Chen;Xinying Li

  • Implicit emotion regulation affects outcome evaluation

    Qiwei Yang;Ping Tang;Ruolei Gu;Wenbo Luo

  • An electrophysiological index of changes in risk decision-making strategies.

    Dandan Zhang;Ruolei Gu;Tingting Wu;Lucas S. Broster

  • Altered brain activation and connectivity during anticipation of uncertain threat in trait anxiety

    Haiyang Geng;Yi Wang;Ruolei Gu;Yue-Jia Luo

  • Differentiating the abnormalities of social and monetary reward processing associated with depressive symptoms.

    Dandan Zhang;Junshi Shen;Rong Bi;Yueyao Zhang

  • Unexpected Acceptance? Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder Manifest their Social Expectancy in ERPs During Social Feedback Processing.

    Jianqin Cao;Ruolei Gu;Xuejing Bi;Xiangru Zhu

  • Impulsive personality dimensions are associated with altered behavioral performance and neural responses in the monetary incentive delay task

    Ruolei Gu;Yang Jiang;Seth Kiser;Chelsea L. Black

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuejia Luo
Yuejia Luo Shenzhen University
Huajian Cai
Huajian Cai University of Oklahoma
Nicholas T. Van Dam
Nicholas T. Van Dam University of Melbourne
Frank Krueger
Frank Krueger George Mason University
Gopikrishna Deshpande
Gopikrishna Deshpande Auburn University
Li Hu
Li Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Xun Liu
Xun Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jin Fan
Jin Fan City University of New York
Ruiwang Huang
Ruiwang Huang South China Normal University

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