B. Alan Wallace

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

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B. Alan Wallace is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Alan Wallace has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Clinical Psychology, 9 papers in Social Psychology and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in B. Alan Wallace's work include Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (17 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (6 papers) and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 papers). B. Alan Wallace is often cited by papers focused on Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (17 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (6 papers) and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 papers). B. Alan Wallace collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Brazil. B. Alan Wallace's co-authors include Shauna L. Shapiro, Erika L. Rosenberg, Phillip R. Shaver, Tonya L. Jacobs, Katherine A. MacLean, Brandon G. King, Stephen Aichele, Clifford D. Saron, Anthony P. Zanesco and David A. Bridwell and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, American Psychologist and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

B. Alan Wallace

29 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Buddhist tradition of Samatha: Methods for refining and examining consciousness

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. Alan Wallace United States	20	1.9k	890	766	729	249	31	2.7k
Katherine Bonus United States	5	2.0k 1.1×	703 0.8×	683 0.9×	458 0.6×	206 0.8×	5	2.6k
John D. Dunne United States	14	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	833 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	305 1.2×	33	3.3k
Adam W. Hanley United States	32	1.8k 1.0×	925 1.0×	677 0.9×	398 0.5×	253 1.0×	100	2.7k
Emily K. Lindsay United States	18	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	673 0.9×	398 0.5×	196 0.8×	20	3.1k
Matthieu Ricard Germany	14	1.3k 0.7×	552 0.6×	839 1.1×	699 1.0×	243 1.0×	45	2.2k
Joelle LeMoult Canada	25	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	428 0.6×	766 1.1×	230 0.9×	90	3.1k
Michael J. Baime United States	11	1.7k 0.9×	718 0.8×	515 0.7×	556 0.8×	231 0.9×	20	2.2k
Willoughby B. Britton United States	30	3.1k 1.6×	1.4k 1.6×	952 1.2×	672 0.9×	428 1.7×	55	3.8k
Erin C. Walsh United States	20	2.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	772 1.0×	547 0.8×	395 1.6×	52	3.4k
Peter Malinowski United Kingdom	24	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	684 0.9×	1.6k 2.1×	212 0.9×	33	3.5k

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Bragin, Anatol, et al.. (2025). Consciousness, mindfulness, and introspection: integrating first- and second-person phenomenological inquiry with experimental and EEG data to study the mind. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1558453–1558453.

Bentley, Kate H., Emily E. Bernstein, B. Alan Wallace, & David Mischoulon. (2021). Treatment for Anxiety and Comorbid Depressive Disorders: Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies. Psychiatric Annals. 51(5). 226–230. 10 indexed citations

Curtiss, Joshua, B. Alan Wallace, Lauren Fisher, et al.. (2020). Change processes in cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing for depression and heavy alcohol use: A network approach. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 3. 100040–100040. 8 indexed citations

Zanesco, Anthony P., Brandon G. King, Katherine A. MacLean, et al.. (2016). Meditation training influences mind wandering and mindless reading.. Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice. 3(1). 12–33. 47 indexed citations

Saggar, Manish, Anthony P. Zanesco, Brandon G. King, et al.. (2015). Mean-field thalamocortical modeling of longitudinal EEG acquired during intensive meditation training. NeuroImage. 114. 88–104. 20 indexed citations

Rosenberg, Erika L., Anthony P. Zanesco, Brandon G. King, et al.. (2015). Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering.. Emotion. 15(6). 775–790. 57 indexed citations

Elliott, J. C., B. Alan Wallace, & Barry Giesbrecht. (2014). A week-long meditation retreat decouples behavioral measures of the alerting and executive attention networks. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 69–69. 33 indexed citations

Turan, Bülent, Carol Foltz, James F. Cavanagh, et al.. (2014). Anticipatory sensitization to repeated stressors: The role of initial cortisol reactivity and meditation/emotion skills training. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 52. 229–238. 29 indexed citations

Jacobs, Tonya L., Phillip R. Shaver, Elissa Epel, et al.. (2013). Self-reported mindfulness and cortisol during a Shamatha meditation retreat.. Health Psychology. 32(10). 1104–1109. 50 indexed citations

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Desbordes, Gaëlle, Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Thaddeus W. W. Pace, et al.. (2012). Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 6. 292–292. 279 indexed citations

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Saggar, Manish, Brandon G. King, Anthony P. Zanesco, et al.. (2012). Intensive training induces longitudinal changes in meditation state-related EEG oscillatory activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 6. 256–256. 94 indexed citations

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Kemeny, Margaret E., Carol Foltz, James F. Cavanagh, et al.. (2011). Contemplative/emotion training reduces negative emotional behavior and promotes prosocial responses.. Emotion. 12(2). 338–350. 249 indexed citations

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Sahdra, Baljinder K., Katherine A. MacLean, Emilio Ferrer, et al.. (2011). Enhanced response inhibition during intensive meditation training predicts improvements in self-reported adaptive socioemotional functioning.. Emotion. 11(2). 299–312. 141 indexed citations

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Saggar, Manish, Stephen Aichele, Tonya L. Jacobs, et al.. (2010). A computational approach to understanding the longitudinal changes in cortical activity associated with intensive meditation training. BMC Neuroscience. 11(S1). 45 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Tonya L., Elissa Epel, Jue Lin, et al.. (2010). Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 36(5). 664–681. 310 indexed citations

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Wallace, B. Alan & Shauna L. Shapiro. (2006). Mental balance and well-being: Building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology.. American Psychologist. 61(7). 690–701. 373 indexed citations

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Wallace, B. Alan, et al.. (1999). Boundless heart : the four immeasurables. 11 indexed citations

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Wallace, B. Alan, et al.. (1998). Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 6 indexed citations

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Wallace, B. Alan, et al.. (1993). Ancient wisdom : Nyingma teachings on dream yoga, meditation and transformation. 20(7). 1091–6. 1 indexed citations

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Lyons, Renée, et al.. (1987). Leisure adjustment to chronic illness and disability; Acquired disability and the leisure adjustment process: a personal perspective.. 14(2). 4–13. 3 indexed citations

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