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Xiaosi Gu

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Neuroscience

D-Index
34
Citations
5900
World Ranking
9290
National Ranking
3926

Xiaosi Gu 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 Xiaosi Gu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 74 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xiaosi Gu 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 Xiaosi Gu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xiaosi Gu is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of neuroscience and psychology, with a focused interest in cognitive and clinical domains.

The primary fields of study for Xiaosi Gu include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these fields, their subfields of study emphasize:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Social Psychology

The main topics addressed in their research cover:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Xiaosi Gu has an extensive publication record, with several recent papers available. Notable publications include:

  • "Hippocampal contributions to social and cognitive deficits in autism spectrum disorder," 2021, Trends in Neurosciences
  • "Humans use forward thinking to exploit social controllability," 2021, eLife
  • "Emotional adaptation during a crisis: decline in anxiety and depression after the initial weeks of COVID-19 in the United States," 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Dopamine and serotonin in human substantia nigra track social context and value signals during economic exchange," 2024, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Containment of COVID-19: Simulating the impact of different policies and testing capacities for contact tracing, testing, and isolation," 2021, PLoS ONE

The venues where Xiaosi Gu frequently publishes their research include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Nature Mental Health

Collaborative efforts are notable, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Vincenzo G. Fiore
  • Soojung Na
  • Matthew Heflin
  • Kaustubh Kulkarni
  • Daniela Schiller

Best Publications

  • Anterior Insular Cortex and Emotional Awareness

    Xiaosi Gu;Xiaosi Gu;Patrick R. Hof;Karl J. Friston;Jin Fan

  • Testing the behavioral interaction and integration of attentional networks.

    Jin Fan;Xiaosi Gu;Kevin G. Guise;Xun Liu

  • Attention and reality constraints on the neural processes of empathy for pain.

    Xiaosi Gu;Shihui Han

  • Somatic and vicarious pain are represented by dissociable multivariate brain patterns.

    Anjali Krishnan;Anjali Krishnan;Choong-Wan Woo;Luke J Chang;Luke J Chang;Luka Ruzic;Luka Ruzic

  • Anterior insular cortex is necessary for empathetic pain perception.

    Xiaosi Gu;Zhixian Gao;Xingchao Wang;Xun Liu;Xun Liu

  • Association of Callous Traits with Reduced Neural Response to Others’ Pain in Children with Conduct Problems

    Patricia L. Lockwood;Catherine L. Sebastian;Catherine L. Sebastian;Eamon J. McCrory;Zoe H. Hyde

  • Hippocampal contributions to social and cognitive deficits in autism spectrum disorder

    Sarah M. Banker;Xiaosi Gu;Daniela Schiller;Jennifer H. Foss-Feig

  • Cognition–Emotion Integration in the Anterior Insular Cortex

    Xiaosi Gu;Xun Liu;Nicholas T. Van Dam;Patrick R. Hof

  • Anterior insular cortex plays a critical role in interoceptive attention.

    Xingchao Wang;Qiong Wu;Qiong Wu;Laura Egan;Xiaosi Gu;Xiaosi Gu

  • Functional Dissociation of the Frontoinsular and Anterior Cingulate Cortices in Empathy for Pain

    Xiaosi Gu;Xun Liu;Kevin G. Guise;Thomas P. Naidich

  • Self as Object: Emerging Trends in Self Research

    Jie Sui;Xiaosi Gu

  • Neural consequences of religious belief on self-referential processing.

    Shihui Han;Lihua Mao;Xiaosi Gu;Ying Zhu

  • Nonpolitical Images Evoke Neural Predictors of Political Ideology

    Woo Young Ahn;Kenneth T. Kishida;Xiaosi Gu;Xiaosi Gu;Terry Lohrenz

  • Autonomic and brain responses associated with empathy deficits in autism spectrum disorder.

    Xiaosi Gu;Tehila Eilam‐Stock;Tehila Eilam‐Stock;Thomas Zhou;Evdokia Anagnostou

  • Spontaneous Brain Activity Relates to Autonomic Arousal

    Jin Fan;Pengfei Xu;Nicholas T Van Dam;Tehila Eilam-Stock;Tehila Eilam-Stock

  • Neural substrates of self-referential processing in Chinese Buddhists

    Shihui Han;Xiaosi Gu;Lihua Mao;Jianqiao Ge

  • Interoceptive inference: homeostasis and decision-making

    Xiaosi Gu;Xiaosi Gu;Thomas H.B. FitzGerald

  • Functional deficits of the attentional networks in autism

    Jin Fan;Silvia Bernardi;Nicholas T Van Dam;Nicholas T Van Dam;Evdokia Anagnostou

  • Necessary, yet dissociable contributions of the insular and ventromedial prefrontal cortices to norm adaptation: computational and lesion evidence in humans.

    Xiaosi Gu;Xingchao Wang;Andreas Hula;Shiwei Wang

  • Abnormal autonomic and associated brain activities during rest in autism spectrum disorder

    Tehila Eilam-Stock;Tehila Eilam-Stock;Tehila Eilam-Stock;Pengfei Xu;Miao Cao;Xiaosi Gu;Xiaosi Gu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jin Fan
Jin Fan City University of New York
Patrick R. Hof
Patrick R. Hof Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
P. Read Montague
P. Read Montague Virginia Tech
Xun Liu
Xun Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nicholas T. Van Dam
Nicholas T. Van Dam University of Melbourne
Shihui Han
Shihui Han Peking University
Katya Rubia
Katya Rubia King's College London
Latha Soorya
Latha Soorya Rush University Medical Center
Alexander Kolevzon
Alexander Kolevzon Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Evdokia Anagnostou
Evdokia Anagnostou Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

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