2026 Tor D. Wager: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	126	311	279	186	164	438	106526

Tor D. Wager publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tor D. Wager sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 887+

This scientist: 438 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Tor D. Wager D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tor D. Wager sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 126 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tor D. Wager is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has a significant publication record primarily in medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans a variety of subfields including cognitive neuroscience, physiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry, mental health, and pharmacology.

Wager's recent papers reflect an emphasis on pain research and its neurological underpinnings. Notable papers include:

Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities (2020), published in Nature Reviews Neurology
Gender Biases in Estimation of Others' Pain (2021), published in Journal of Pain
Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain (2021), published in JAMA Psychiatry
The self in context: brain systems linking mental and physical health (2021), published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
A neuroimaging biomarker for sustained experimental and clinical pain (2021), published in Nature Medicine

The topics covered in Wager's research are diverse but largely focus on pain and brain function. These include:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Pain Management and Placebo Effect
Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function
Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

They have frequently collaborated with several researchers, prominently including:

Martin A. Lindquist
Philip A. Kragel
Yoni K. Ashar
Choong-Wan Woo
Leonie Koban

Wager's work has been published extensively across several venues, especially those focusing on neuroscience and pain research. The most frequent publication platforms include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Pain
Pain
NeuroImage
Nature Communications

Best Publications

The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "Frontal Lobe" tasks: a latent variable analysis.

Akira Miyake;Naomi P. Friedman;Michael J. Emerson;Alexander H. Witzki

20039
Citations
Functional neuroanatomy of emotion: a meta-analysis of emotion activation studies in PET and fMRI.

K. Luan Phan;Tor D. Wager;Stephan F. Taylor;Israel Liberzon

4622
Citations
Functional Neuroimaging of Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Emotional Processing in PTSD, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Specific Phobia

Amit Etkin;Tor D. Wager

4078
Citations
Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data

Tal Yarkoni;Russell A Poldrack;Thomas E Nichols;David C Van Essen

4035
Citations
A meta-analysis of heart rate variability and neuroimaging studies: implications for heart rate variability as a marker of stress and health.

Julian F. Thayer;Julian F. Thayer;Fredrik Åhs;Mats Fredrikson;John J. Sollers

3607
Citations
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review

Kristen A. Lindquist;Tor D. Wager;Hedy Kober;Eliza Bliss-Moreau

2755
Citations
Neuroimaging studies of working memory: a meta-analysis.

Tor D. Wager;Edward E. Smith

2730
Citations
Placebo-induced changes in FMRI in the anticipation and experience of pain.

Tor D. Wager;James K. Rilling;Edward E. Smith;Alex Sokolik

2485
Citations
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study: Imaging acquisition across 21 sites.

B.J. Casey;B.J. Casey;Tariq Cannonier;May I. Conley;May I. Conley;Alexandra O. Cohen

2211
Citations
Large-Scale Network Dysfunction in Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-analysis of Resting-State Functional Connectivity.

Roselinde H. Kaiser;Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna;Tor D. Wager;Diego A. Pizzagalli

2206
Citations
Valid conjunction inference with the minimum statistic.

Thomas E. Nichols;Matthew Brett;Jesper L. R. Andersson;Tor D. Wager

2078
Citations
Cognitive Reappraisal of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Human Neuroimaging Studies

Jason T. Buhle;Jennifer A. Silvers;Tor D. Wager;Richard Lopez

2073
Citations
Prefrontal-subcortical pathways mediating successful emotion regulation.

Tor D. Wager;Matthew L. Davidson;Brent L. Hughes;Martin A. Lindquist

1914
Citations
Fmri-based neurologic signature of physical pain

Tor Wager;Martin Lindquist

1799
Citations
Valence, gender, and lateralization of functional brain anatomy in emotion: a meta-analysis of findings from neuroimaging.

Tor D Wager;K.Luan Phan;Israel Liberzon;Stephan F Taylor

1502
Citations
Functional grouping and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

Hedy Kober;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Joshua W. Joseph;Eliza Bliss-Moreau

1383
Citations
Cluster-extent based thresholding in fMRI analyses: Pitfalls and recommendations

Choong-Wan Woo;Anjali Krishnan;Tor D. Wager

1280
Citations
Neurobiological Mechanisms of the Placebo Effect

Fabrizio Benedetti;Helen S. Mayberg;Tor D. Wager;Christian S. Stohler

1103
Citations
Building better biomarkers: brain models in translational neuroimaging

Choong Wan Woo;Luke J. Chang;Martin A. Lindquist;Tor D. Wager

1091
Citations
Interference resolution: Insights from a meta-analysis of neuroimaging tasks

Derek Evan Nee;Tor D. Wager;John Jonides

1016
Citations
Mind matters: placebo enhances reward learning in Parkinson's disease

Liane Schmidt;Erin Kendall Braun;Tor D Wager;Daphna Shohamy

92
Citations