James Blair

38.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
313 papers, 26.5k citations indexed

About

James Blair is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Blair has authored 313 papers receiving a total of 26.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 177 papers in Clinical Psychology, 152 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 77 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in James Blair's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (92 papers), Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (92 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (65 papers). James Blair is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (92 papers), Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (92 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (65 papers). James Blair collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. James Blair's co-authors include Derek Mitchell, Daniel S. Pine, Abigail A. Marsh, Ellen Leibenluft, Karina S. Blair, Essi Colledge, Salima Budhani, Monique Ernst, Eric E. Nelson and Elizabeth Finger and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

James Blair

303 papers receiving 25.4k citations

Hit Papers

Dissociable neural responses to facial expressions of sad... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2005 2000 2007 2008 250 500 750
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.

  1. Dissociable neural responses to facial expressions of sadness and anger
    1999 913 citations James Blair et al. profile →
  2. Responding to the emotions of others: Dissociating forms of empathy through the study of typical and psychiatric populations
    2005 887 citations James Blair profile →
  3. Impaired social response reversal: A case of `acquired sociopathy'
    2000 678 citations James Blair profile →
  4. Deficits in facial affect recognition among antisocial populations: A meta-analysis
    2007 630 citations James Blair et al. profile →
  5. Reduced Amygdala Response to Fearful Expressions in Children and Adolescents With Callous-Unemotional Traits and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
    2008 591 citations Derek Mitchell, Ellen Leibenluft et al. profile →
  6. A Selective Impairment in the Processing of Sad and Fearful Expressions in Children with Psychopathic Tendencies
    2001 533 citations James Blair, Derek Mitchell et al. profile →
  7. Evidence for substantial genetic risk for psychopathy in 7‐year‐olds
    2005 529 citations Essi Viding, James Blair et al. profile →
  8. The neurobiology of psychopathic traits in youths
    2013 425 citations James Blair profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Blair United States 87 14.5k 11.6k 7.3k 5.8k 4.5k 313 26.5k
Adrian Raine United States 80 14.3k 1.0× 5.0k 0.4× 6.3k 0.9× 3.8k 0.6× 4.5k 1.0× 408 22.4k
Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore United Kingdom 83 8.0k 0.5× 14.7k 1.3× 10.0k 1.4× 5.2k 0.9× 4.1k 0.9× 214 31.0k
Ronald E. Dahl United States 99 13.2k 0.9× 10.4k 0.9× 5.5k 0.7× 12.4k 2.1× 4.8k 1.1× 336 32.9k
Kevin N. Ochsner United States 79 9.0k 0.6× 17.5k 1.5× 9.7k 1.3× 13.1k 2.3× 4.9k 1.1× 203 33.7k
Matthew D. Lieberman United States 82 6.1k 0.4× 10.3k 0.9× 8.9k 1.2× 6.9k 1.2× 3.0k 0.7× 197 23.2k
Eveline A. Crone Netherlands 76 5.6k 0.4× 10.8k 0.9× 4.7k 0.6× 5.2k 0.9× 2.3k 0.5× 270 21.2k
Nathan A. Fox United States 109 21.7k 1.5× 11.8k 1.0× 9.5k 1.3× 9.9k 1.7× 3.8k 0.8× 606 39.3k
B.J. Casey United States 66 6.3k 0.4× 11.7k 1.0× 3.5k 0.5× 5.2k 0.9× 4.5k 1.0× 145 23.3k
Tania Singer Germany 70 5.9k 0.4× 11.9k 1.0× 10.3k 1.4× 6.5k 1.1× 5.7k 1.3× 200 24.3k
Greg Hajcak United States 94 11.2k 0.8× 20.5k 1.8× 4.0k 0.5× 15.0k 2.6× 3.7k 0.8× 380 31.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Parvaz, Muhammad A., et al.. (2024). Methamphetamine‐related working memory difficulties underpinned by reduced frontoparietal responses. Addiction Biology. 29(10). e13444–e13444. 5 indexed citations
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Dobbertin, Matthew, Karina S. Blair, Joseph Aloi, et al.. (2024). Neural correlates of automatic emotion regulation and their association with suicidal ideation in adolescents during the first 90-days of residential care. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 54–54.
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Blair, James, et al.. (2024). Graph Neural Networks for Analyzing Trauma-Related Brain Structure in Children and Adolescents: A Pilot Study. Applied Sciences. 15(1). 277–277. 1 indexed citations
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Blair, James, et al.. (2024). Using Machine Learning to Determine a Functional Classifier of Retaliation and Its Association With Aggression. PubMed. 3(1). 137–146. 1 indexed citations
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Blair, James, et al.. (2023). A Shared Multivariate Brain-Behavior Relationship in a Transdiagnostic Sample of Adolescents. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 9(4). 377–386. 4 indexed citations
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Hwang, Soonjo, Un‐Sun Chung, Yongmin Chang, et al.. (2021). Neural Responses to Fluoxetine in Youths with Disruptive Behavior and Trauma Exposure: A Pilot Study. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 31(8). 562–571. 6 indexed citations
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Brito, Stéphane A. De, Adelle E. Forth, Arielle Baskin–Sommers, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Psychopathy. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 7(1). 71–71. 1 indexed citations
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Blair, James, Ru Zhang, Ellen Leibenluft, et al.. (2020). Temporal Discounting Impulsivity and Its Association with Conduct Disorder and Irritability. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 30(9). 542–548. 11 indexed citations
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Lago, Tiffany R., et al.. (2019). Threat‐of‐shock decreases emotional interference on affective stroop performance in healthy controls and anxiety patients. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55(9-10). 2519–2528. 5 indexed citations
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Blair, James, Stuart F. White, Patrick M. Tyler, et al.. (2019). Threat Responsiveness as a Function of Cannabis and Alcohol Use Disorder Severity. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 29(7). 526–534. 18 indexed citations
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Fani, Negar, Tricia Z. King, Abigail Powers, et al.. (2018). Cognitive and neural facets of dissociation in a traumatized population.. Emotion. 19(5). 863–875. 20 indexed citations
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Luo, Qian, Tom Holroyd, Derek Mitchell, et al.. (2017). Heightened amygdala responsiveness in s-carriers of 5-HTTLPR genetic polymorphism reflects enhanced cortical rather than subcortical inputs: An MEG study. Human Brain Mapping. 38(9). 4313–4321. 1 indexed citations
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Blair, James. (2015). The Neurobiology of Impulsive Aggression. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 26(1). 4–9. 152 indexed citations
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Luo, Qian, Xi Cheng, Tom Holroyd, et al.. (2014). Theta band activity in response to emotional expressions and its relationship with gamma band activity as revealed by MEG and advanced beamformer source imaging. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 940–940. 24 indexed citations
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Wakschlag, Lauren S., David B. Henry, James Blair, et al.. (2011). Unpacking the association: Individual differences in the relation of prenatal exposure to cigarettes and disruptive behavior phenotypes. Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 33(1). 145–154. 23 indexed citations
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Hasler, Gregor, Krystal Mondillo, Wayne C. Drevets, & James Blair. (2009). Impairments of Probabilistic Response Reversal and Passive Avoidance Following Catecholamine Depletion. Neuropsychopharmacology. 34(13). 2691–2698. 22 indexed citations
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Rau, Geoff, Karina S. Blair, Lisa H. Berghorst, et al.. (2008). Processing of Differentially Valued Rewards and Punishments in Youths with Bipolar Disorder or Severe Mood Dysregulation. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 18(2). 185–196. 21 indexed citations
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Roberson‐Nay, Roxann, Erin B. McClure, Christopher S. Monk, et al.. (2006). Increased Amygdala Activity During Successful Memory Encoding in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder: An fMRI Study. Biological Psychiatry. 60(9). 966–973. 109 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Derek, Rebecca A. Richell, Alan Leonard, & James Blair. (2006). Emotion at the expense of cognition: Psychopathic individuals outperform controls on an operant response task.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 115(3). 559–566. 94 indexed citations
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Blair, James & Frank Spellacy. (1989). Employer Acceptability of Behavioral Changes with Traumatic Brain Injury. Journal of rehabilitation. 55(3). 46. 2 indexed citations

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