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Tomas Furmark

Tomas Furmark

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
62
Citations
13972
World Ranking
3243
National Ranking
30

Tomas Furmark 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 Tomas Furmark sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 256 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tomas Furmark 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 Tomas Furmark sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tomas Furmark is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has a significant research focus in psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience, with additional contributions to clinical psychology, molecular biology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The main topics of Furmark's research include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Their work also covers mental health research topics, functional brain connectivity studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, neural dynamics and brain function, treatment of major depression, and studies on perfectionism, procrastination, and anxiety.

Furmark has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Biological Psychiatry and Translational Psychiatry, with four publications each. They have also contributed to PLoS ONE, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University.

Several recent papers demonstrate the scope of their research:

  • Higher- and lower-order personality traits and cluster subtypes in social anxiety disorder (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Moment-to-Moment Brain Signal Variability Reliably Predicts Psychiatric Treatment Outcome (2021, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Expectancy effects on serotonin and dopamine transporters during SSRI treatment of social anxiety disorder: a randomized clinical trial (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Volume of subcortical brain regions in social anxiety disorder: mega-analytic results from 37 samples in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group (2023, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Baseline Severity as a Moderator of the Waiting List-Controlled Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Symptom Change in Social Anxiety Disorder (2023, JAMA Psychiatry)

Collaboration has been an important aspect of Furmark's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Kristoffer Månsson
  • Andreas Frick
  • Olof Hjorth
  • Vanda Faria
  • Johannes Björkstrand

Best Publications

  • Common Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients With Social Phobia Treated With Citalopram or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

    Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors;Ina Marteinsdottir;Håkan Fischer

  • Internet-based self-help with therapist feedback and in vivo group exposure for social phobia: A randomized controlled trial.

    Gerhard Andersson;Per Carlbring;Annelie Holmström;Elisabeth Sparthan

  • Social phobia in the general population: Prevalence and sociodemographic profile.

    Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors;PO Everz;I Marteinsdottir

  • Social phobia: overview of community surveys.

    Tomas Furmark

  • Size and burden of social phobia in Europe

    Lydia Fehm;Antoine Pelissolo;Thomas Furmark;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • Cerebral blood flow in subjects with social phobia during stressful speaking tasks: a PET study.

    Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Ina Marteinsdottir;Håkan Fischer

  • Disruption of Reconsolidation Erases a Fear Memory Trace in the Human Amygdala

    Thomas Agren;Jonas Engman;Andreas Frick;Johannes Björkstrand

  • Treatment of social phobia: randomised trial of internet-delivered cognitive-behavioural therapy with telephone support.

    Per Carlbring;Magdalena Gunnarsdóttir;Linda Hedensjö;Gerhard Andersson

  • Guided internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain patients: A randomized controlled trial

    Monica Buhrman;Astrid Skoglund;Josefin Husell;Kristina Bergström

  • Guided and unguided self-help for social anxiety disorder: randomised controlled trial.

    Tomas Furmark;Per Carlbring;Erik Hedman;Annika Sonnenstein

  • Serotonin transporter polymorphism related to amygdala excitability and symptom severity in patients with social phobia

    Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors;Maria Tillfors;Håkan Garpenstrand;Ina Marteinsdottir

  • Cerebral blood flow during anticipation of public speaking in social phobia: a PET study.

    Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Ina Marteinsdottir;Mats Fredrikson

  • A Link between Serotonin-Related Gene Polymorphisms, Amygdala Activity, and Placebo-Induced Relief from Social Anxiety

    Tomas Furmark;Lieuwe Appel;Susanne Henningsson;Fredrik Åhs

  • Internet administration of self-report measures commonly used in research on social anxiety disorder: A psychometric evaluation

    Erik Hedman;Brjánn Ljótsson;Christian Rück;Tomas Furmark

  • Cerebral Blood Flow Changes After Treatment of Social Phobia with the Neurokinin-1 Antagonist GR205171, Citalopram, or Placebo

    Tomas Furmark;Lieuwe Appel;Åsa Michelgård;Kurt Wahlstedt

  • Therapeutic alliance in guided internet-delivered cognitive behavioural treatment of depression, generalized anxiety disorder and social anxiety disorder.

    Gerhard Andersson;Björn Paxling;Maria Wiwe;Kristofer Vernmark

  • Functional neuroanatomical correlates of electrodermal activity: A positron emission tomographic study

    Mats Fredrikson;Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors Olsson;Håkan Fischer

  • The amygdala and individual differences in human fear conditioning

    Tomas Furmark;Håkan Fischer;Gustav Wik;Mattias Larsson

  • The Negative Effects Questionnaire: psychometric properties of an instrument for assessing negative effects in psychological treatments.

    Alexander Rozental;Alexander Rozental;Anders Kottorp;David Forsstrom;Kristoffer N.T. Månsson;Kristoffer N.T. Månsson;Kristoffer N.T. Månsson

  • Therapist Experience and Knowledge Acquisition in Internet-Delivered CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Gerhard Andersson;Gerhard Andersson;Per Carlbring;Tomas Furmark

  • Treating university students with social phobia and public speaking fears: Internet delivered self-help with or without live group exposure sessions.

    Maria Tillfors;Per Carlbring;Tomas Furmark;Susanne Lewenhaupt

Frequent Co-Authors

Mats Fredrikson
Mats Fredrikson Uppsala University
Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Per Carlbring
Per Carlbring Stockholm University
Håkan Fischer
Håkan Fischer Stockholm University
Clas Linnman
Clas Linnman Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Maria Tillfors
Maria Tillfors Karlstad University
Lisa Ekselius
Lisa Ekselius Uppsala University
Bengt Långström
Bengt Långström Uppsala University
Elias Eriksson
Elias Eriksson University of Gothenburg
Elna-Marie Larsson
Elna-Marie Larsson Uppsala University

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