Francis McGlone

15.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
141 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Francis McGlone is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francis McGlone has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 40 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 30 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Francis McGlone's work include Tactile and Sensory Interactions (66 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (36 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (24 papers). Francis McGlone is often cited by papers focused on Tactile and Sensory Interactions (66 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (36 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (24 papers). Francis McGlone collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Francis McGlone's co-authors include Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg, India Morrison, Susannah C. Walker, Line S. Löken, Susan Francis, Richard Bowtell, Å. B. Vallbo, David Reilly and Alain Dagher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Francis McGlone

137 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Coding of pleasant touch by unmyelinated afferents in humans

2009 732 citations Francis McGlone, Håkan Olausson et al. profile →
Discriminative and Affective Touch: Sensing and Feeling

2014 694 citations Francis McGlone, Håkan Olausson et al. profile →
Ghrelin Modulates Brain Activity in Areas that Control Appetitive Behavior

2008 508 citations Francis McGlone et al. profile →
Social touch and human development

2018 279 citations Francis McGlone et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francis McGlone United Kingdom	52	6.1k	2.8k	2.7k	1.3k	1.1k	141	10.9k
Darren R. Gitelman United States	59	8.5k 1.4×	1.8k 0.7×	976 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	125	12.3k
Douglas P. Munoz Canada	73	13.3k 2.2×	2.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	2.0k 1.5×	971 0.9×	236	18.3k
José V. Pardo United States	37	5.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	733 0.3×	1.3k 1.0×	472 0.4×	82	9.0k
Paul Pauli Germany	61	6.1k 1.0×	4.2k 1.5×	2.3k 0.9×	836 0.6×	908 0.8×	339	12.5k
Michael Davis United States	55	4.7k 0.8×	994 0.4×	2.3k 0.9×	640 0.5×	861 0.8×	221	12.1k
Ute Habel Germany	56	6.0k 1.0×	3.4k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	703 0.5×	359 0.3×	326	11.8k
Michael Davis United States	76	11.4k 1.8×	3.0k 1.1×	4.6k 1.7×	729 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	203	25.0k
Alfons O. Hamm Germany	54	8.4k 1.4×	5.6k 2.0×	2.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	347 0.3×	209	13.9k
Håkan Olausson Sweden	50	6.0k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	3.4k 1.3×	896 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	136	9.4k
Dieter Vaitl Germany	58	5.8k 0.9×	3.3k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	550 0.4×	365 0.3×	176	9.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Barreto, Gonçalo, et al.. (2024). CT-optimal touch modulates alcohol-cue-elicited heart rate variability in alcohol use disorder patients during early abstinence: A randomized controlled study. Alcohol. 123. 19–26.

McGlone, Francis, et al.. (2024). The impact of early life experiences on inhibitory control and working memory. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1484424–1484424. 1 indexed citations

Puyvelde, Martine Van, et al.. (2024). Sleep, Mental Health, and the Need for Physical and Real-Life Social Contact with (Non-)Family Members during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bayesian Network Analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(13). 3954–3954. 1 indexed citations

Urgesi, Cosimo, et al.. (2024). To touch or to be touched? comparing appraisal of vicarious execution and reception of interpersonal touch. PLoS ONE. 19(5). e0293164–e0293164. 4 indexed citations

Ferreira, Bárbara Roque, et al.. (2023). The Skin-Brain Connection and Pleasant Touch as Supportive Care for Psychocutaneous Disorders. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). e310–e310. 8 indexed citations

McGlone, Francis, et al.. (2023). Social Touch Reduces Pain Perception—An fMRI Study of Cortical Mechanisms. Brain Sciences. 13(3). 393–393. 10 indexed citations

Ali, H. H., María I. Cordero, Andrew Marshall, et al.. (2023). Hold me or stroke me? Individual differences in static and dynamic affective touch. PLoS ONE. 18(5). e0281253–e0281253. 12 indexed citations

Schirmer, Annett, et al.. (2022). Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 17(9). 864–875. 12 indexed citations

Cazzato, Valentina, et al.. (2021). Affective touch topography and body image. PLoS ONE. 16(11). e0243680–e0243680. 14 indexed citations

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Puyvelde, Martine Van, et al.. (2021). Why do we hunger for touch? The impact of daily gentle touch stimulation on maternal‐infant physiological and behavioral regulation and resilience. Infant Mental Health Journal. 42(6). 823–838. 13 indexed citations

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Walker, Susannah C., et al.. (2020). C‐low threshold mechanoafferent targeted dynamic touch modulates stress resilience in rats exposed to chronic mild stress. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55(9-10). 2925–2938. 32 indexed citations

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Trotter, Paula D., et al.. (2020). Effects of Acute Tryptophan Depletion on Human Taste Perception. Chemical Senses. 46. 7 indexed citations

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Malinowski, Peter, et al.. (2019). Autistic traits modulate cortical responses to affective but not discriminative touch. European Journal of Neuroscience. 51(8). 1844–1855. 31 indexed citations

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Nagi, Saad S., Andrew Marshall, Ewa Jarocka, et al.. (2019). An ultrafast system for signaling mechanical pain in human skin. Science Advances. 5(7). eaaw1297–eaaw1297. 84 indexed citations

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Trotter, Paula D., Francis McGlone, Renate Reniers, & J.F.W. Deakin. (2018). Construction and Validation of the Touch Experiences and Attitudes Questionnaire (TEAQ): A Self-report Measure to Determine Attitudes Toward and Experiences of Positive Touch. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 42(4). 379–416. 63 indexed citations

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Roberts, Carl, Stephen Fairclough, Francis McGlone, John E. Fisk, & Catharine Montgomery. (2013). Electrophysiological evidence of atypical processing underlying mental set shifting in ecstasy polydrug and polydrug users.. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 21(6). 507–515. 6 indexed citations

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Puts, Nicolaas A.J., Richard A.E. Edden, John Evans, Francis McGlone, & David J. McGonigle. (2011). Regionally Specific Human GABA Concentration Correlates with Tactile Discrimination Thresholds. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(46). 16556–16560. 133 indexed citations

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Mourão-Miranda, Janaı́na, Emanuelle Reynaud, Francis McGlone, Gemma A. Calvert, & Michael Brammer. (2006). The impact of temporal compression and space selection on SVM analysis of single-subject and multi-subject fMRI data. NeuroImage. 33(4). 1055–1065. 101 indexed citations

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Hagen, Matthew C., et al.. (2002). Tactile motion activates the human middle temporal/V5 (MT/V5) complex. European Journal of Neuroscience. 16(5). 957–964. 171 indexed citations

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Poliakoff, Ellen, Charles Spence, D.J. O’Boyle, Francis McGlone, & F.W.J. Cody. (2002). Tactile inhibition of return: non-ocular response inhibition and mode of response. Experimental Brain Research. 146(1). 54–59. 26 indexed citations

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