2026 Tracey J. Shors: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	75	1996	1823	956	855	137	23162

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Neuroscience

1996

1823

956

855

137

23162

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

2785
Citations
Neurogenesis in the adult is involved in the formation of trace memories

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

2634
Citations
Neurogenesis may relate to some but not all types of hippocampal-dependent learning.

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

1095
Citations
Is there a link between adult neurogenesis and learning

Benedetta Leuner;Elizabeth Gould;Tracey J. Shors

751
Citations
Sex Differences and Opposite Effects of Stress on Dendritic Spine Density in the Male Versus Female Hippocampus

Tracey J. Shors;Chadrick Chua;Jacqueline Falduto

609
Citations
Neurogenesis in adulthood: a possible role in learning

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

577
Citations
Inescapable versus escapable shock modulates long-term potentiation in the rat hippocampus.

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

546
Citations
Associative Memory Formation Increases the Observation of Dendritic Spines in the Hippocampus

Benedetta Leuner;Jacqueline Falduto;Tracey J. Shors

493
Citations
Long-term potentiation: What's learning got to do with it?

Tracey J. Shors;Louis D. Matzel

468
Citations
Stress Facilitates Classical Conditioning in Males, but Impairs Classical Conditioning in Females through Activational Effects of Ovarian Hormones

Gwendolyn E. Wood;Tracey J. Shors

456
Citations
Sex differences in learning processes of classical and operant conditioning

Christina Dalla;Tracey J. Shors

415
Citations
Stress-induced facilitation of classical conditioning.

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

383
Citations
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

383
Citations
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

345
Citations
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

340
Citations
Stress, anxiety, and dendritic spines: What are the connections?

B. Leuner;T.J. Shors

325
Citations
Learning During Stressful Times

Tracey J. Shors

317
Citations
Stressful experience and learning across the lifespan.

Tracey J. Shors

288
Citations
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

276
Citations
Acute stress rapidly and persistently enhances memory formation in the male rat.

Tracey J. Shors

265
Citations