J. Douglas Steele

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

J. Douglas Steele is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Douglas Steele has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 22 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in J. Douglas Steele's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (38 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (27 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (23 papers). J. Douglas Steele is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (38 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (27 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (23 papers). J. Douglas Steele collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Singapore. J. Douglas Steele's co-authors include Klaus P. Ebmeier, Stephen M. Lawrie, K. Matthews, Poornima Kumar, Gordon D. Waiter, Ian Reid, Serenella Tolomeo, Trevor Ahearn, Claire Donaghey and Benson Mwangi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

J. Douglas Steele

108 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Functional Specialization within Rostral Prefrontal Cortex (Area 10): A Meta-analysis

2006 578 citations J. Douglas Steele, Stephen M. Lawrie et al. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
J. Douglas Steele United Kingdom	39	3.0k	1.4k	1.3k	743	672	112	5.5k
Indira Tendolkar Netherlands	45	4.1k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	708 1.0×	663 1.0×	176	6.4k
Sergi G. Costafreda United Kingdom	31	3.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	541 0.7×	672 1.0×	71	5.2k
Lingjiang Li China	45	2.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	905 0.7×	1.5k 2.0×	1.1k 1.7×	246	6.6k
Jonathan Savitz United States	48	1.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	2.2k 1.8×	874 1.2×	526 0.8×	131	7.5k
Yasumasa Okamoto Japan	41	3.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	449 0.7×	176	6.2k
Jennifer Keller United States	33	5.4k 1.8×	2.0k 1.5×	1.4k 1.1×	880 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	69	9.0k
Oliver Gruber Germany	46	4.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.7×	677 0.9×	894 1.3×	178	7.1k
Marie‐José van Tol Netherlands	39	2.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	868 0.7×	942 1.3×	594 0.9×	104	4.5k
Matthew J. Kempton United Kingdom	44	2.5k 0.8×	879 0.6×	2.5k 2.0×	960 1.3×	1.2k 1.7×	126	6.3k
Mayuresh S. Korgaonkar Australia	37	3.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	742 1.0×	1.3k 2.0×	119	5.2k

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Tolomeo, Serenella, et al.. (2025). Treatment-resistant recurrent unipolar and bipolar depression: associative learning abnormalities. Brain. 148(10). 3705–3717.

Hayward, David, et al.. (2025). What do general adult psychiatry patients think we should call borderline personality disorder? A cross-sectional study to find the most acceptable diagnostic term. BJPsych Bulletin. 50(1). 31–35.

Morales, Santiago, Norberto Aguirre, Ana Isabel García Pérez, et al.. (2025). Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 20(1). 5 indexed citations

Macfarlane, Jennifer A., et al.. (2024). Impaired value-based decision-making in Parkinson’s disease apathy. Brain. 147(4). 1362–1376. 7 indexed citations

Steele, J. Douglas, Raluca Eftimie, Dumitru Trucu, et al.. (2024). Simulating photodynamic therapy for the treatment of glioblastoma using Monte Carlo radiative transport. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 29(2). 25001–25001. 4 indexed citations

Shen, Xueyi, Claire Green, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2023). Structural brain correlates of childhood trauma with replication across two large, independent community-based samples. European Psychiatry. 66(1). e19–e19. 9 indexed citations

Steele, J. Douglas, et al.. (2023). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Signatures of Pavlovian and Instrumental Valuation Systems during a Modified Orthogonalized Go/No-go Task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 35(12). 2089–2109. 2 indexed citations

Currie, James, Gordon D. Waiter, Blair Johnston, Nick Feltovich, & J. Douglas Steele. (2022). Blunted neuroeconomic loss aversion in schizophrenia. Brain Research. 1789. 147957–147957. 3 indexed citations

Shenkin, Susan D., Andrew M. McIntosh, Mark E. Bastin, et al.. (2021). Early life predictors of late life cerebral small vessel disease in four prospective cohort studies. Brain. 144(12). 3769–3778. 26 indexed citations

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Shen, Xueyi, Aleks Stolicyn, Laura de Nooij, et al.. (2021). Spectral clustering based on structural magnetic resonance imaging and its relationship with major depressive disorder and cognitive ability. European Journal of Neuroscience. 54(6). 6281–6303. 5 indexed citations

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Barbu, Miruna C., Mathew A. Harris, Xueyi Shen, et al.. (2021). Epigenome-wide association study of global cortical volumes in generation Scotland: Scottish family health study. Epigenetics. 17(10). 1143–1158. 3 indexed citations

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Huys, Quentin J. M., et al.. (2020). Abnormal reward valuation and event-related connectivity in unmedicated major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine. 51(5). 795–803. 17 indexed citations

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Ma, Shuo, et al.. (2019). Neurosurgical treatment for addiction: lessons from an untold story in China and a path forward. National Science Review. 7(3). 702–712. 17 indexed citations

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Mocking, Roel J. T., Caroline Figueroa, P.F.C. Groot, et al.. (2019). Impaired reward-related learning signals in remitted unmedicated patients with recurrent depression. Brain. 142(8). 2510–2522. 43 indexed citations

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Romaniuk, Liana, Anca‐Larisa Sandu, Gordon D. Waiter, et al.. (2018). The Neurobiology of Personal Control During Reward Learning and Its Relationship to Mood. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 4(2). 190–199. 17 indexed citations

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Johnston, Blair, Serenella Tolomeo, Victoria B. Gradin, et al.. (2015). Failure of hippocampal deactivation during loss events in treatment-resistant depression. Brain. 138(9). 2766–2776. 41 indexed citations

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Brydges, Nichola M., Heather C. Whalley, Maurits A. Jansen, et al.. (2013). Imaging Conditioned Fear Circuitry Using Awake Rodent fMRI. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e54197–e54197. 52 indexed citations

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Perrin, Jennifer S., Daniel Bennett, James Currie, et al.. (2012). Electroconvulsive therapy reduces frontal cortical connectivity in severe depressive disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(14). 5464–5468. 172 indexed citations

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Mwangi, Benson, Klaus P. Ebmeier, K. Matthews, & J. Douglas Steele. (2012). Multi-centre diagnostic classification of individual structural neuroimaging scans from patients with major depressive disorder. Brain. 135(5). 1508–1521. 153 indexed citations

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Sprengelmeyer, Reiner, J. Douglas Steele, Benson Mwangi, et al.. (2011). The insular cortex and the neuroanatomy of major depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. 133(1-2). 120–127. 140 indexed citations

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