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Stephen W. Porges

Stephen W. Porges

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
90
Citations
44789
World Ranking
936
National Ranking
592

Stephen W. Porges 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 Stephen W. Porges sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 270 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen W. Porges 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 Stephen W. Porges sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • The polyvagal perspective

    Stephen W. Porges

  • The polyvagal theory: phylogenetic substrates of a social nervous system

    Stephen W. Porges

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

    Stephen W. Porges

  • Cardiac vagal tone: a physiological index of stress.

    Stephen W. Porges

  • The Polyvagal Theory: phylogenetic contributions to social behavior.

    Stephen W. Porges

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

    Stephen W. Porges

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

    Stephen W. Porges

  • VAGAL TONE AND THE PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATION OF EMOTION

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

  • Vagal tone: a physiologic marker of stress vulnerability.

    Stephen W. Porges

  • Psychophysiology : systems, processes, and applications

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Social engagement and attachment: a phylogenetic perspective.

    Stephen W. Porges

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

    Stephen W. Porges;Senta A. Furman

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

    Stephen W. Porges

  • Love: an emergent property of the mammalian autonomic nervous system

    Stephen W. Porges

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

    Stephen W Porges

  • Vagal tone : an autonomic mediator of affect

    Sw. Porges

  • Oxytocin, vasopressin and sociality.

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

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

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

  • Methodological issues in the quantification of respiratory sinus arrhythmia

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

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Sue Carter
C. Sue Carter Indiana University
Janet A. DiPietro
Janet A. DiPietro Johns Hopkins University
Bradley D. Hatfield
Bradley D. Hatfield University of Maryland, College Park
Kenneth M. Heilman
Kenneth M. Heilman University of Florida
Michael G. H. Coles
Michael G. H. Coles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael E. Lamb
Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge
Hiram E. Fitzgerald
Hiram E. Fitzgerald Michigan State University
Fritz Drasgow
Fritz Drasgow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Elizabeth Berry-Kravis
Elizabeth Berry-Kravis Rush University Medical Center

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