Junaid S. Merchant

1.2k total citations
30 papers, 785 citations indexed

About

Junaid S. Merchant is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Junaid S. Merchant has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 785 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Clinical Psychology and 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Junaid S. Merchant's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (8 papers), Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (6 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (6 papers). Junaid S. Merchant is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (8 papers), Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (6 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (6 papers). Junaid S. Merchant collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Junaid S. Merchant's co-authors include Lauren E. Kahn, Paula Goolkasian, Nakia S. Gordon, Fadel Zeidan, Elliot T. Berkman, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, William Moore, Mirella Dapretto, Kathryn F. Jankowski and Matthew D. Lieberman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, American Journal of Epidemiology and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Junaid S. Merchant

28 papers receiving 757 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Junaid S. Merchant United States	10	369	352	232	144	71	30	785
Qingsen Ming China	16	312 0.8×	261 0.7×	180 0.8×	166 1.2×	99 1.4×	31	850
Tara L. White United States	17	264 0.7×	339 1.0×	212 0.9×	182 1.3×	130 1.8×	26	1.0k
John C. Flournoy United States	18	251 0.7×	332 0.9×	261 1.1×	159 1.1×	74 1.0×	45	838
Einat Levy‐Gigi Israel	16	567 1.5×	318 0.9×	258 1.1×	226 1.6×	112 1.6×	60	1.1k
Iman Alaie Sweden	19	495 1.3×	245 0.7×	292 1.3×	126 0.9×	148 2.1×	34	989
Namik Kirlić United States	17	413 1.1×	316 0.9×	284 1.2×	134 0.9×	72 1.0×	48	881
Kirstin Greaves‐Lord Netherlands	17	425 1.2×	193 0.5×	182 0.8×	131 0.9×	91 1.3×	29	830
Simona Scaini Italy	16	469 1.3×	143 0.4×	296 1.3×	124 0.9×	51 0.7×	62	791
Brandi C. Fink United States	16	381 1.0×	189 0.5×	151 0.7×	189 1.3×	82 1.2×	33	844
Miriam J.J. Lommen Netherlands	17	666 1.8×	329 0.9×	367 1.6×	147 1.0×	75 1.1×	53	1.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Merchant, Junaid S., et al.. (2025). Intersectional inequities in suicide ideation by race, sexual orientation, and gender among US high school students in the pre- and post-2020 waves of the YRBSS: an application of random effects intersectional MAIHDA. American Journal of Epidemiology. 194(9). 2540–2552. 1 indexed citations

Nguyen, Thu T., et al.. (2025). Decoding Digital Discourse Through Multimodal Text and Image Machine Learning Models to Classify Sentiment and Detect Hate Speech in Race- and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Community–Related Posts on Social Media: Quantitative Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27. e72822–e72822.

Ratzki‐Leewing, Alexandria, et al.. (2025). Harnessing Facebook to Investigate Real-World Mentions of Adverse Events of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist (GLP-1 RA) Medications: Observational Study of Facebook Posts From 2022 to 2024. PubMed. 5. e73619–e73619. 1 indexed citations

Merchant, Junaid S., et al.. (2025). Brain bases of real-time social interaction: A meta-analytic investigation of human neuroimaging studies. PubMed. 5.

Hswen, Yulin, et al.. (2024). From Tweets to Streets: Observational Study on the Association Between Twitter Sentiment and Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in New York City from 2019 to 2022. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e53050–e53050. 1 indexed citations

Nguyen, Quynh C., Tolga Taşdizen, Junaid S. Merchant, et al.. (2024). Neighborhood built environment, obesity, and diabetes: A Utah siblings study. SSM - Population Health. 26. 101670–101670. 4 indexed citations

Criss, Shaniece, et al.. (2024). “HIV Stigma Exists” — Exploring ChatGPT’s HIV Advice by Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 12(6). 3622–3635. 1 indexed citations

Criss, Shaniece, et al.. (2024). Not a Monolith: Understanding of Racism and Racialization among Korean, Pacific Islander, South Asian, and Vietnamese Women. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies. 11(2). 58–80. 2 indexed citations

Nguyen, Thu T., Weijun Yu, Junaid S. Merchant, et al.. (2023). Examining Exposure to Messaging, Content, and Hate Speech from Partisan News Social Media Posts on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(4). 3230–3230. 3 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Thu T., Junaid S. Merchant, Shaniece Criss, et al.. (2023). Examining Twitter-Derived Negative Racial Sentiment as Indicators of Cultural Racism: Observational Associations With Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight Among a Multiracial Sample of Mothers, 2011-2021. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25. e44990–e44990. 4 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Thu T., Junaid S. Merchant, Dina Huang, et al.. (2023). A Decade of Tweets: Visualizing Racial Sentiments Towards Minoritized Groups in the United States Between 2011 and 2021. Epidemiology. 35(1). 51–59. 4 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Thu T., Shaniece Criss, Junaid S. Merchant, et al.. (2022). Racism During Pregnancy and Birthing: Experiences from Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, Latina, and Middle Eastern Women. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 10(6). 3007–3017. 27 indexed citations

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You, Xiaozhen, Sufang Li, Junaid S. Merchant, et al.. (2022). Cingulate-Prefrontal Connectivity During Dynamic Cognitive Control Mediates Association Between p Factor and Adaptive Functioning in a Transdiagnostic Pediatric Sample. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 8(2). 189–199. 5 indexed citations

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You, Xiaozhen, J. Bradley C. Cherry, Junaid S. Merchant, et al.. (2021). Neural correlates of schema-dependent episodic memory and association with behavioral flexibility in autism spectrum disorders and typical development. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 13(1). 35–35. 5 indexed citations

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Giuliani, Nicole R., Junaid S. Merchant, Danielle Cosme, & Elliot T. Berkman. (2018). Neural predictors of eating behavior and dietary change. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1428(1). 208–220. 30 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Jennifer H., Caitlin E. V. Mahy, Junaid S. Merchant, et al.. (2017). Neural systems for reflected and direct self-appraisals in Chinese young adults: Exploring the role of the temporal-parietal junction.. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. 23(1). 45–58. 6 indexed citations

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Jankowski, Kathryn F., William Moore, Junaid S. Merchant, Lauren E. Kahn, & Jennifer H. Pfeifer. (2014). But do you think I’m cool?. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 8. 40–54. 71 indexed citations

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Moore, William, Junaid S. Merchant, Lauren E. Kahn, & Jennifer H. Pfeifer. (2013). ‘Like me?’: ventromedial prefrontal cortex is sensitive to both personal relevance and self-similarity during social comparisons. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 9(4). 421–426. 28 indexed citations

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Pfeifer, Jennifer H., Lauren E. Kahn, Junaid S. Merchant, et al.. (2013). Longitudinal Change in the Neural Bases of Adolescent Social Self-Evaluations: Effects of Age and Pubertal Development. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(17). 7415–7419. 97 indexed citations

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Zeidan, Fadel, Nakia S. Gordon, Junaid S. Merchant, & Paula Goolkasian. (2009). The Effects of Brief Mindfulness Meditation Training on Experimentally Induced Pain. Journal of Pain. 11(3). 199–209. 263 indexed citations

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