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Tom Beckers

Tom Beckers

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
8663
World Ranking
5483
National Ranking
77

Tom Beckers 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 Tom Beckers sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 301 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tom Beckers 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 Tom Beckers sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tom Beckers is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and conducts research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and social psychology.

The main topics addressed in their research cover areas such as memory and neural mechanisms, stress responses and cortisol, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Other focal points include neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and mental health research topics.

Beckers' publication record includes articles in notable venues with the highest number of publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and Behaviour Research and Therapy, followed by Cortex, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and Nature Reviews Psychology.

  • Frequent publication venues:
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Cortex
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Nature Reviews Psychology

Recent papers by Beckers include:

  • Understanding clinical fear and anxiety through the lens of human fear conditioning, 2023, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Dopamine: from prediction error to psychotherapy, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • No persistent attenuation of fear memories in humans: A registered replication of the reactivation-extinction effect, 2020, Cortex
  • The continued need for animals to advance brain research, 2021, Neuron
  • Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms: A verification report of Schiller et al. (2010), 2020, Cortex

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their scientific activity. Frequent co-authors include Laura Luyten, Bram Vervliet, Natalie Schroyens, Alba López-Moraga, and Lukas Van Oudenhove.

  • Frequent co-authors:
  • Laura Luyten
  • Bram Vervliet
  • Natalie Schroyens
  • Alba López-Moraga
  • Lukas Van Oudenhove

Overall, Beckers' work integrates multidisciplinary approaches within neuroscience and psychology to explore complex neural, cognitive, and behavioral mechanisms relevant to mental health and neurobiological functions.

Best Publications

  • Avoidance Learning: A Review of Theoretical Models and Recent Developments

    Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos;Marieke Effting;Merel Kindt;Tom Beckers

  • Prediction Error Governs Pharmacologically Induced Amnesia for Learned Fear

    Dieuwke Sevenster;Tom Beckers;Tom Beckers;Merel Kindt

  • What's wrong with fear conditioning?

    Tom Beckers;Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos;Yannick Boddez;Marieke Effting

  • Retrieval per se is not sufficient to trigger reconsolidation of human fear memory

    Dieuwke Sevenster;Tom Beckers;Tom Beckers;Merel Kindt

  • A review of recent developments in research and theories on human contingency learning.

    Jan De Houwer;Tom Beckers

  • Rating data are underrated: validity of US expectancy in human fear conditioning.

    Yannick Boddez;Frank Baeyens;Laura Luyten;Debora Vansteenwegen

  • Return of fear in a human differential conditioning paradigm caused by a return to the original acquistion context.

    Debora Vansteenwegen;Dirk Hermans;Bram Vervliet;Geert Francken

  • Reasoning rats: forward blocking in Pavlovian animal conditioning is sensitive to constraints of causal inference.

    Tom Beckers;Ralph R. Miller;Jan De Houwer;Kouji Urushihara

  • Outcome and cue properties modulate blocking.

    Jan De Houwer;Tom Beckers;Steven Glautier

  • Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions

    Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;Daniel David;Daniel David;Tom Beckers;Peter Muris

  • Outcome additivity and outcome maximality influence cue competition in human causal learning.

    Tom Beckers;Jan De Houwer;Oskar Pineño;Ralph R. Miller

  • Prediction error demarcates the transition from retrieval, to reconsolidation, to new learning.

    Dieuwke Sevenster;Tom Beckers;Merel Kindt

  • Memory reconsolidation interference as an emerging treatment for emotional disorders: Strengths, limitations, challenges and opportunities

    Tom Beckers;Merel Kindt

  • Concomitant deficits in working memory and fear extinction are functionally dissociated from reduced anxiety in metabotropic glutamate receptor 7-deficient mice.

    Zsuzsanna Callaerts-Vegh;Tom Beckers;Simon M. Ball;Frank Baeyens

  • Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research

    Tina B Lonsdorf;Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens;Marta Andreatta;Marta Andreatta;Tom Beckers

  • Understanding clinical fear and anxiety through the lens of human fear conditioning

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  • Novel attitudes can be faked on the Implicit Association Test

    Jan De Houwer;Tom Beckers;Agnes Moors

  • Fear conditioning of SCR but not the startle reflex requires conscious discrimination of threat and safety

    Dieuwke Sevenster;Tom Beckers;Tom Beckers;Merel Kindt

  • Evidence for the role of higher order reasoning processes in cue competition and other learning phenomena.

    Jan De Houwer;Tom Beckers;Stefaan Vandorpe

  • Secondary task difficulty modulates forward blocking in human contingency learning.

    Jan De Houwer;Tom Beckers

  • Counterconditioning reduces cue-induced craving and actual cue-elicited consumption.

    Dinska Van Gucht;Frank Baeyens;Debora Vansteenwegen;Dirk Hermans

Frequent Co-Authors

Merel Kindt
Merel Kindt University of Amsterdam
Frank Baeyens
Frank Baeyens KU Leuven
Dirk Hermans
Dirk Hermans KU Leuven
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Bram Vervliet
Bram Vervliet KU Leuven
Rudi D'Hooge
Rudi D'Hooge KU Leuven
Ralph R. Miller
Ralph R. Miller Binghamton University

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