2026 Yair Bar-Haim: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	74	1870	1687	12	10	238	23316

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Yair Bar-Haim is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research spans psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on clinical and cognitive domains.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Psychology
Neuroscience

Their subfields of study encompass:

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Clinical Psychology
Epidemiology
Psychiatry and Mental Health

Yair Bar-Haim's work addresses a range of topics, prominently covering:

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Mental Health Research Topics
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Their frequent co-authors include:

Amit Lazarov
Daniel S. Pine
Rany Abend
Nitzan Censor

Yair Bar-Haim has published frequently in the following venues:

Psychological Medicine
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
American Journal of Psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yair Bar-Haim include:

"On the validity of the centrality hypothesis in cross-sectional between-subject networks of psychopathology" (2020, BMC Medicine)
"Aberrant attentional bias to sad faces in depression and the role of stressful life events: Evidence from an eye-tracking paradigm" (2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy)
"Social Distancing During A COVID-19 Lockdown Contributes to The Maintenance of Social Anxiety: A Natural Experiment" (2021, Cognitive Therapy and Research)
"From cognitive targets to symptom reduction: overview of attention and interpretation bias modification research" (2020, Evidence-Based Mental Health)
"A randomized controlled trial of gaze-contingent music reward therapy for major depressive disorder" (2020, Depression and Anxiety)

Best Publications

Threat-related attentional bias in anxious and nonanxious individuals: a meta-analytic study.

Yair Bar-Haim;Dominique Lamy;Lee Pergamin;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

4879
Citations
Attention Bias Modification Treatment: A Meta-Analysis Toward the Establishment of Novel Treatment for Anxiety

Yuko Hakamata;Shmuel Lissek;Yair Bar-Haim;Jennifer C. Britton

1137
Citations
Nature and Nurture in Own-Race Face Processing

Yair Bar-Haim;Talee Ziv;Dominique Lamy;Richard M. Hodes

783
Citations
Development of the EEG from 5 months to 4 years of age

Peter J Marshall;Yair Bar-Haim;Nathan A Fox

755
Citations
Research Review: attention bias modification (ABM): a novel treatment for anxiety disorders

Yair Bar-Haim

736
Citations
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety disorders.

Eli R. Lebowitz;Joseph Woolston;Yair Bar-Haim;Lisa Calvocoressi

412
Citations
Attentional bias in anxiety: a behavioral and ERP study.

Yair Bar-Haim;Dominique Lamy;Shlomit Glickman

407
Citations
Attention biases to threat and behavioral inhibition in early childhood shape adolescent social withdrawal.

Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Yair Bar-Haim;Jennifer Martin McDermott;Andrea Chronis-Tuscano

382
Citations
Sleep in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis of polysomnographic studies.

Avi Sadeh;Lee Pergamin;Yair Bar-Haim

310
Citations
When time slows down: The influence of threat on time perception in anxiety

Yair Bar-Haim;Aya Kerem;Dominique Lamy;Dan Zakay

280
Citations
Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Sharon Eldar;Alan Apter;Daniel Lotan;Koraly Perez Edgar

274
Citations
Attention biases, anxiety, and development: Toward or away from threats or rewards?

Tomer Shechner;Jennifer C. Britton;Koraly Pérez-Edgar;Yair Bar-Haim

270
Citations
Predicting school adjustment from motor abilities in kindergarten

Orit Bart;Dov Hajami;Yair Bar-Haim

268
Citations
Neural plasticity in response to attention training in anxiety.

S. Eldar;Y. Bar-Haim

265
Citations
Developmental changes in heart period and high-frequency heart period variability from 4 months to 4 years of age.

Yair Bar-Haim;Peter J. Marshall;Nathan A. Fox

264
Citations
Enhanced neural reactivity and selective attention to threat in anxiety

Sharon Eldar;Roni Yankelevitch;Dominique Lamy;Yair Bar-Haim

244
Citations
Life-Threatening Danger and Suppression of Attention Bias to Threat

Yair Bar-Haim;Yael Holoshitz;Sharon Eldar;Tahl I. Frenkel

242
Citations
Challenges in developing novel treatments for childhood disorders: lessons from research on anxiety.

Daniel S Pine;Sarah M Helfinstein;Yair Bar-Haim;Eric Nelson

240
Citations
Reliability, validity and sensitivity of a computerized visual analog scale measuring state anxiety

Rany Abend;Orrie Dan;Keren Maoz;Sivan Raz

240
Citations
Plasticity in attention: Implications for stress response in children.

Sharon Eldar;Tsameret Ricon;Yair Bar-Haim

237
Citations
Training anxious children to disengage attention from threat: a randomized controlled trial.

Yair Bar-Haim;Inbar Morag;Shlomit Glickman

216
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health

Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park

Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health

Koraly Pérez-Edgar Pennsylvania State University

Jennifer C. Britton University of Miami

Dominique Lamy Tel Aviv University

Wendy K. Silverman Yale University

Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health

Jeremy W. Pettit Florida International University

Giovanni Abrahão Salum Child Mind Institute

External Links

Personal website of Yair Bar-Haim

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