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Tracey J. Shors

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
75
Citations
23162
World Ranking
1996
National Ranking
956

Tracey J. Shors 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 Tracey J. Shors sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 137 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tracey J. Shors 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 Tracey J. Shors sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 75 D-Index — 80th percentile

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Overview

Tracey J. Shors is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields including Psychology, Neuroscience, and Medicine, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The major areas of their scholarly work involve Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, studies on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes, as well as addressing Healthcare Professionals' Stress and Burnout, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, and Schizophrenia research and treatment.

Several of their recent publications include:

  • MAP Train My Brain: Meditation Combined with Aerobic Exercise Reduces Stress and Rumination While Enhancing Quality of Life in Medical Students (2020, The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine)
  • How mental health relates to everyday stress, rumination, trauma and interoception in women living with HIV: A factor analytic study (2020, Learning and Motivation)
  • Mental and physical training with meditation and aerobic exercise improved mental health and well-being in teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
  • Meditation and Aerobic Exercise Enhance Mental Health Outcomes and Pattern Separation Learning Without Changing Heart Rate Variability in Women with HIV (2022, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback)
  • The Feeling of Time Passing Is Associated with Recurrent Sustained Activity and Theta Rhythms Across the Cortex (2023, Brain Connectivity)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tracey J. Shors include:

  • Emma M. Millon
  • Paul Lavadera
  • Docia Demmin
  • Steven M. Silverstein
  • Paul M. Lehrer

Their published work appears consistently in notable venues such as:

  • The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Learning and Motivation
  • Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
  • Brain Connectivity

Best Publications

  • Learning enhances adult neurogenesis in the hippocampal formation.

    Elizabeth Gould;Anna Beylin;Patima Tanapat;Alison Reeves

  • Neurogenesis in the adult is involved in the formation of trace memories

    Tracey J. Shors;George Miesegaes;Anna Beylin;Mingrui Zhao

  • Neurogenesis may relate to some but not all types of hippocampal-dependent learning.

    Tracey J. Shors;David A. Townsend;Mingrui Zhao;Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy

  • Is there a link between adult neurogenesis and learning

    Benedetta Leuner;Elizabeth Gould;Tracey J. Shors

  • Sex Differences and Opposite Effects of Stress on Dendritic Spine Density in the Male Versus Female Hippocampus

    Tracey J. Shors;Chadrick Chua;Jacqueline Falduto

  • Neurogenesis in adulthood: a possible role in learning

    Elizabeth Gould;Patima Tanapat;Nicholas B. Hastings;Tracey J. Shors

  • Inescapable versus escapable shock modulates long-term potentiation in the rat hippocampus.

    Tracey J. Shors;Thomas B. Seib;Seymour Levine;Richard F. Thompson

  • Associative Memory Formation Increases the Observation of Dendritic Spines in the Hippocampus

    Benedetta Leuner;Jacqueline Falduto;Tracey J. Shors

  • Long-term potentiation: What's learning got to do with it?

    Tracey J. Shors;Louis D. Matzel

  • Stress Facilitates Classical Conditioning in Males, but Impairs Classical Conditioning in Females through Activational Effects of Ovarian Hormones

    Gwendolyn E. Wood;Tracey J. Shors

  • Sex differences in learning processes of classical and operant conditioning

    Christina Dalla;Tracey J. Shors

  • Stress-induced facilitation of classical conditioning.

    Tracey J. Shors;Craig Weiss;Richard F. Thompson

  • Learning Enhances the Survival of New Neurons beyond the Time when the Hippocampus Is Required for Memory

    Bendetta Leuner;Sabrina Mendolia-Loffredo;Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy;Deanna Samburg

  • Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor-Induced Gene Expression Reveals Novel Actions of VGF in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity

    Janet Alder;Smita Thakker-Varia;Debra A. Bangasser;May Kuroiwa

  • The role of the hippocampus in trace conditioning: Temporal discontinuity or task difficulty?

    Anna V. Beylin;Chetan C. Gandhi;Gwendolyn E. Wood;Andrew C. Talk

  • Stress, anxiety, and dendritic spines: What are the connections?

    B. Leuner;T.J. Shors

  • Learning During Stressful Times

    Tracey J. Shors

  • Stressful experience and learning across the lifespan.

    Tracey J. Shors

  • Training Your Brain: Do Mental and Physical (MAP) Training Enhance Cognition Through the Process of Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus?

    D. M. Curlik;T. J. Shors

  • Acute stress rapidly and persistently enhances memory formation in the male rat.

    Tracey J. Shors

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard F. Thompson
Richard F. Thompson University of Southern California
Elizabeth Gould
Elizabeth Gould Princeton University
Debra A. Bangasser
Debra A. Bangasser Georgia State University
Christina Dalla
Christina Dalla National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Richard J. Servatius
Richard J. Servatius SUNY Upstate Medical University
Louis D. Matzel
Louis D. Matzel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Georgia E. Hodes
Georgia E. Hodes Virginia Tech
Ira B. Black
Ira B. Black Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Seymour Levine
Seymour Levine Stanford University
Marsha E. Bates
Marsha E. Bates Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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