2026 Xiaosi Gu: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	34	9290	8577	3927	3555	74	5900

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Neuroscience

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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

823
Citations
Testing the behavioral interaction and integration of attentional networks.

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

609
Citations
Attention and reality constraints on the neural processes of empathy for pain.

Xiaosi Gu;Shihui Han

456
Citations
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

261
Citations
Anterior insular cortex is necessary for empathetic pain perception.

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

260
Citations
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

252
Citations
Hippocampal contributions to social and cognitive deficits in autism spectrum disorder

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

242
Citations
Cognition–Emotion Integration in the Anterior Insular Cortex

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

231
Citations
Anterior insular cortex plays a critical role in interoceptive attention.

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

186
Citations
Functional Dissociation of the Frontoinsular and Anterior Cingulate Cortices in Empathy for Pain

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

186
Citations
Self as Object: Emerging Trends in Self Research

Jie Sui;Xiaosi Gu

179
Citations
Neural consequences of religious belief on self-referential processing.

Shihui Han;Lihua Mao;Xiaosi Gu;Ying Zhu

178
Citations
Nonpolitical Images Evoke Neural Predictors of Political Ideology

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

168
Citations
Autonomic and brain responses associated with empathy deficits in autism spectrum disorder.

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

124
Citations
Spontaneous Brain Activity Relates to Autonomic Arousal

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

118
Citations
Neural substrates of self-referential processing in Chinese Buddhists

Shihui Han;Xiaosi Gu;Lihua Mao;Jianqiao Ge

112
Citations
Interoceptive inference: homeostasis and decision-making

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

110
Citations
Functional deficits of the attentional networks in autism

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

110
Citations
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

98
Citations
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

89
Citations