Mathieu Roy

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Mathieu Roy is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mathieu Roy has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 papers in Physiology and 19 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Mathieu Roy's work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (21 papers), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (19 papers) and Pain Management and Placebo Effect (18 papers). Mathieu Roy is often cited by papers focused on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (21 papers), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (19 papers) and Pain Management and Placebo Effect (18 papers). Mathieu Roy collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Mathieu Roy's co-authors include Tor D. Wager, Daphna Shohamy, Pierre Rainville, Isabelle Peretz, Sonia Lupien, Simone Dalla Bella, S. Khalfa, Jen-I Chen, Mathieu Piché and Étienne Vachon‐Presseau and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Mathieu Roy

60 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Ventromedial prefrontal-subcortical systems and the gener... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 200 400 600
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. Ventromedial prefrontal-subcortical systems and the generation of affective meaning
    2012 635 citations Mathieu Roy, Daphna Shohamy et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mathieu Roy Canada 22 1.7k 776 604 550 509 67 2.9k
Siri Leknes Norway 26 1.2k 0.7× 795 1.0× 741 1.2× 661 1.2× 363 0.7× 47 2.8k
Alessandro Angrilli Italy 36 2.5k 1.5× 581 0.7× 1.0k 1.7× 207 0.4× 409 0.8× 100 3.8k
S. Khalfa France 25 2.1k 1.2× 596 0.8× 738 1.2× 65 0.1× 313 0.6× 57 3.0k
Jason T. Buhle United States 15 2.5k 1.5× 615 0.8× 1.6k 2.7× 324 0.6× 609 1.2× 17 4.1k
Ilse Van Diest Belgium 38 1.5k 0.8× 555 0.7× 1.7k 2.8× 658 1.2× 1.7k 3.3× 195 5.0k
Jamie L. Rhudy United States 34 1.8k 1.0× 440 0.6× 907 1.5× 1.9k 3.4× 831 1.6× 138 4.3k
Pedro Ribeiro Brazil 32 1.9k 1.1× 361 0.5× 431 0.7× 303 0.6× 555 1.1× 205 3.7k
Catherine M. Bushnell Canada 22 1.4k 0.8× 322 0.4× 300 0.5× 1.4k 2.6× 574 1.1× 24 3.1k
Vilfredo De Pascalis Italy 29 2.1k 1.2× 534 0.7× 934 1.5× 280 0.5× 503 1.0× 123 3.4k
Jana Strahler Germany 26 358 0.2× 598 0.8× 377 0.6× 190 0.3× 337 0.7× 85 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mathieu Roy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mathieu Roy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mathieu Roy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mathieu Roy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mathieu Roy. Mathieu Roy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Bobeuf, Florian, Eleonora Gentile, Timothy H. Wideman, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the pain trajectory in chronic low back pain patients during a physical exercise training program. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 29(1). 42–50.
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Parisien, Marc, Bogdan Petre, Andrey V. Bortsov, et al.. (2025). Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(8). 1710–1725. 3 indexed citations
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Coll, Michel‐Pierre, Véronique L. Taylor, Pierre Rainville, et al.. (2024). Pain reflects the informational value of nociceptive inputs. Pain. 165(10). e115–e125. 2 indexed citations
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Vachon‐Presseau, Étienne, et al.. (2024). Starting the pill during adolescence: Age of onset and duration of use influence morphology of the hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. 60(8). 5876–5899. 3 indexed citations
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Sandra, Dasha A., Jay A. Olson, Ellen J. Langer, & Mathieu Roy. (2023). Presenting a sham treatment as personalised increases the placebo effect in a randomised controlled trial. eLife. 12. 7 indexed citations
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Baillet, Sylvain, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneous Cortical Effects of Spinal Cord Stimulation. Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface. 26(5). 950–960. 3 indexed citations
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Fonseca, Adriana Angarita, M. Gabrielle Pagé, Carolina B. Meloto, et al.. (2022). The Canadian version of the National Institutes of Health minimum dataset for chronic low back pain research: reference values from the Quebec Low Back Pain Study. Pain. 164(2). 325–335. 8 indexed citations
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Coll, Michel‐Pierre, Choong‐Wan Woo, Tor D. Wager, et al.. (2022). The neural signature of the decision value of future pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(23). e2119931119–e2119931119. 9 indexed citations
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Taylor, Véronique A., Maxime Lussier, Kristina Martinu, et al.. (2021). Effects of Brief Mindfulness Interventions on the Interference Induced by Experimental Heat Pain on Cognition in Healthy Individuals. Frontiers in Pain Research. 2. 673027–673027. 2 indexed citations
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Khalili‐Mahani, Najmeh, Sandra L. Woods, Rilla Khaled, et al.. (2021). Play the Pain: A Digital Strategy for Play-Oriented Research and Action. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12. 746477–746477. 5 indexed citations
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Plante, Isabelle, et al.. (2020). The Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia: Structural Validation among Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis Undergoing Spinal Fusion Surgery. Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics. 40(5). 546–556. 13 indexed citations
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Taschereau‐Dumouchel, Vincent & Mathieu Roy. (2020). Could Brain Decoding Machines Change Our Minds?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 24(11). 856–858. 5 indexed citations
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Taylor, Véronique A., et al.. (2018). Reduced Fear-Conditioned Pain Modulation in Experienced Meditators: A Preliminary Study. Psychosomatic Medicine. 80(9). 799–806. 12 indexed citations
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Roy, Mathieu, Daphna Shohamy, Nathaniel D. Daw, et al.. (2014). Representation of aversive prediction errors in the human periaqueductal gray. Nature Neuroscience. 17(11). 1607–1612. 182 indexed citations
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Vachon‐Presseau, Étienne, Mathieu Roy, Marc O. Martel, et al.. (2013). The stress model of chronic pain: evidence from basal cortisol and hippocampal structure and function in humans. Brain. 136(3). 815–827. 209 indexed citations
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Vachon‐Presseau, Étienne, Mathieu Roy, Marc O. Martel, et al.. (2012). Neural processing of sensory and emotional-communicative information associated with the perception of vicarious pain. NeuroImage. 63(1). 54–62. 55 indexed citations
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Vieillard, Sandrine, Mathieu Roy, & Isabelle Peretz. (2011). Expressiveness in musical emotions. Psychological Research. 76(5). 641–653. 21 indexed citations

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