2026 Stephen W. Porges: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	90	937	819	592	507	270	44789

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Stephen W. Porges is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with substantial contributions to Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neurology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The researcher's work covers main topics including Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control, Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, and Neuroscience of Respiration and Sleep.

Stephen W. Porges has published extensively, with frequent publications in venues such as UNC Libraries, Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, Frontiers in Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy.

Their recent papers include the following:

"Polyvagal Theory: A Science of Safety," 2022, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
"A new measure of feeling safe: Developing psychometric properties of the Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS)," 2022, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
"Polyvagal Theory: A biobehavioral journey to sociality," 2021, Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology
"Is Oxytocin 'Nature's Medicine'?" 2020, Pharmacological Reviews
"Family nurture intervention in the NICU increases autonomic regulation in mothers and children at 4-5 years of age: Follow-up results from a randomized controlled trial," 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephen W. Porges include:

Jacek Kołacz
Gregory F. Lewis
Keri J. Heilman
Lourdes P. Dale
William M. Kenkel

Stephen W. Porges has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 2002.

Best Publications

Heart rate variability: Origins, methods, and interpretive caveats

Gary G. Berntson;J. Thomas Bigger;Dwain L. Eckberg;Paul Grossman

5076
Citations
The polyvagal perspective

Stephen W. Porges

4293
Citations
The polyvagal theory: phylogenetic substrates of a social nervous system

Stephen W. Porges

2416
Citations
Orienting in a defensive world: Mammalian modifications of our evolutionary heritage. A Polyvagal Theory

Stephen W. Porges

2317
Citations
Cardiac vagal tone: a physiological index of stress.

Stephen W. Porges

1308
Citations
The Polyvagal Theory: phylogenetic contributions to social behavior.

Stephen W. Porges

1167
Citations
The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation

Stephen W. Porges

1158
Citations
The polyvagal theory: New insights into adaptive reactions of the autonomic nervous system

Stephen W. Porges

1035
Citations
VAGAL TONE AND THE PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATION OF EMOTION

Stephen W. Porges;Jane A. Doussard-Roosevelt;Ajit K. Maiti

996
Citations
Vagal tone: a physiologic marker of stress vulnerability.

Stephen W. Porges

782
Citations
Psychophysiology : systems, processes, and applications

Michael G. H. Coles;Emanuel Donchin;Stephen W. Porges

772
Citations
Infant regulation of the vagal "brake" predicts child behavior problems: a psychobiological model of social behavior

Stephen W. Porges;Jane A. Doussard-Roosevelt;A. Lourdes Portales;Stanley I. Greenspan

768
Citations
Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Relations to Eye Gaze and Autonomic State

Elgiz Bal;Emily Harden;Damon Lamb;Damon Lamb;Amy Vaughan Van Hecke;Amy Vaughan Van Hecke

751
Citations
Social engagement and attachment: a phylogenetic perspective.

Stephen W. Porges

729
Citations
The Early Development of the Autonomic Nervous System Provides a Neural Platform for Social Behaviour: A Polyvagal Perspective

Stephen W. Porges;Senta A. Furman

699
Citations
Emotion: an evolutionary by-product of the neural regulation of the autonomic nervous system.

Stephen W. Porges

698
Citations
Love: an emergent property of the mammalian autonomic nervous system

Stephen W. Porges

586
Citations
Method and apparatus for evaluating rhythmic oscillations in aperiodic physiological response systems.

Stephen W Porges

533
Citations
Vagal tone : an autonomic mediator of affect

Sw. Porges

531
Citations
Oxytocin, vasopressin and sociality.

C. Sue Carter;Angela J. Grippo;Hossein Pournajafi-Nazarloo;Michael G. Ruscio

475
Citations
Frontal activation asymmetry and social competence at four years of age.

Nathan A. Fox;Kenneth H. Rubin;Susan D. Calkins;Timothy R. Marshall

463
Citations
Methodological issues in the quantification of respiratory sinus arrhythmia

John W. Denver;Shawn F. Reed;Stephen W. Porges

449
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet A. DiPietro Johns Hopkins University

Kenneth M. Heilman University of Florida

Michael G. H. Coles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bradley D. Hatfield University of Maryland, College Park

Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge

Fritz Drasgow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park

Hiram E. Fitzgerald Michigan State University

Tedra A. Walden Vanderbilt University

Per Jensen Linköping University

External Links

Personal website of Stephen W. Porges Google Scholar page

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