Megan M. Herting

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
99 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Megan M. Herting is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan M. Herting has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 35 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 23 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Megan M. Herting's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (28 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (24 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (23 papers). Megan M. Herting is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (28 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (24 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (23 papers). Megan M. Herting collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and United Kingdom. Megan M. Herting's co-authors include Elizabeth R. Sowell, Bonnie J. Nagel, Ronald E. Dahl, Christian K. Tamnes, Kathryn L. Mills, Anne‐Lise Goddings, Berna Güroğlu, Armin Raznahan, Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore and Emily C. Maxwell and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Megan M. Herting

89 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Development of the Cerebral Cortex across Adolescence: A Multisample Study of Inter-Related Longitudinal Changes in Cortical Volume, Surface Area, and Thickness

2017 433 citations Christian K. Tamnes, Megan M. Herting et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Structural brain development between childhood and adulthood: Convergence across four longitudinal samples

2016 404 citations Kathryn L. Mills, Anne‐Lise Goddings et al. NeuroImage profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Megan M. Herting United States	36	1.7k	782	728	706	605	99	4.5k
Ryan L. Muetzel Netherlands	41	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	582 0.8×	643 0.9×	1.4k 2.3×	152	5.0k
Simon R. Cox United Kingdom	38	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	660 0.9×	254 0.4×	673 1.1×	173	5.6k
Janie Corley United Kingdom	37	1.1k 0.6×	672 0.9×	608 0.8×	325 0.5×	623 1.0×	92	5.5k
Matthew S. Panizzon United States	36	2.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.3×	294 0.4×	530 0.8×	363 0.6×	171	5.1k
Thomas R. Wójcicki United States	34	2.0k 1.2×	689 0.9×	319 0.4×	671 1.0×	245 0.4×	56	8.1k
Eric Kan United States	24	1.7k 1.0×	694 0.9×	207 0.3×	544 0.8×	1.2k 2.0×	41	3.9k
Emily L. Mailey United States	25	1.5k 0.9×	522 0.7×	254 0.3×	560 0.8×	222 0.4×	63	6.4k
Siobhan M. White United States	20	1.7k 1.0×	542 0.7×	268 0.4×	448 0.6×	225 0.4×	25	6.2k
Jennifer Kim United States	21	2.2k 1.3×	710 0.9×	260 0.4×	419 0.6×	211 0.3×	48	7.3k
Sherif Karama Canada	34	2.0k 1.2×	755 1.0×	120 0.2×	578 0.8×	415 0.7×	79	4.1k

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Szwed, Marcin, Bartosz Kossowski, Hedyeh Ahmadi, et al.. (2025). Air pollution and cortical myelin T1w/T2w ratio estimates in school-age children from the ABCD and NeuroSmog studies.. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 73. 101538–101538. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Chenyang, et al.. (2025). High resolution multi-delay arterial spin labeling with self-supervised deep learning denoising for pediatric choroid plexus perfusion MRI. NeuroImage. 308. 121070–121070. 1 indexed citations

Bottenhorn, Katherine L., Carlos Cardenas‐Iniguez, Rima Habre, et al.. (2025). Sources and components of fine air pollution exposure and brain morphology in preadolescents. The Science of The Total Environment. 979. 179448–179448.

Lynch, Kirsten M., Giuseppe Barisano, Megan M. Herting, et al.. (2025). Effects of one-night partial sleep deprivation on perivascular space volume fraction: Findings from the Stockholm Sleepy Brain Study. Sleep Medicine. 131. 106537–106537.

Herting, Megan M., Katherine L. Bottenhorn, & Devyn L. Cotter. (2024). Outdoor air pollution and brain development in childhood and adolescence. Trends in Neurosciences. 47(8). 593–607. 16 indexed citations

Bottenhorn, Katherine L., Carlos Cardenas‐Iniguez, Jared Schachner, et al.. (2024). Adolescent Neurodevelopmental Variance Across Social Strata. JAMA Network Open. 7(5). e2410441–e2410441.

Shao, Xingfeng, Xuejuan Jiang, Brian T. Gold, et al.. (2024). Age-related decline in blood-brain barrier function is more pronounced in males than females in parietal and temporal regions. eLife. 13. 8 indexed citations

Cotter, Devyn L., Hedyeh Ahmadi, Carlos Cardenas‐Iniguez, et al.. (2024). Exposure to multiple ambient air pollutants changes white matter microstructure during early adolescence with sex-specific differences. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 155–155. 10 indexed citations

Bottenhorn, Katherine L., Carlos Cardenas‐Iniguez, Rima Habre, et al.. (2024). Air pollution from biomass burning disrupts early adolescent cortical microarchitecture development. Environment International. 189. 108769–108769. 7 indexed citations

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Ahmadi, Hedyeh, et al.. (2024). Delay discounting and nucleus accumbens functional connectivity are related to weight status in adolescents from the ABCD study. Pediatric Obesity. 20(4). e13173–e13173.

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Cardenas‐Iniguez, Carlos, Jared Schachner, Ka I Ip, et al.. (2024). Building towards an adolescent neural urbanome: Expanding environmental measures using linked external data (LED) in the ABCD study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 65. 101338–101338. 15 indexed citations

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Marshall, Andrew T., Shana Adise, Carlos Cardenas‐Iniguez, et al.. (2023). Family- and neighborhood-level environmental associations with physical health conditions in 9- and 10-year-olds.. Health Psychology. 42(12). 878–888. 5 indexed citations

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Cotter, Devyn L., Mimi S. Kim, Farzana Choudhury, et al.. (2023). Altered Emotion Perception Linked to Structural Brain Differences in Youth With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 108(10). e1134–e1146. 1 indexed citations

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Alves, Jasmin M., Jennifer Zink, Ting Chow, et al.. (2021). Child physical activity as a modifier of the relationship between prenatal exposure to maternal overweight/obesity and neurocognitive outcomes in offspring. International Journal of Obesity. 45(6). 1310–1320. 4 indexed citations

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Ferschmann, Lia, Marieke Bos, Megan M. Herting, Kathryn L. Mills, & Christian K. Tamnes. (2021). Contextualizing adolescent structural brain development: Environmental determinants and mental health outcomes. Current Opinion in Psychology. 44. 170–176. 39 indexed citations

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Herting, Megan M., et al.. (2020). Brain Differences in the Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala, and Hippocampus in Youth with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 105(4). 1098–1111. 27 indexed citations

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Tamnes, Christian K., Megan M. Herting, Anne‐Lise Goddings, et al.. (2017). Development of the Cerebral Cortex across Adolescence: A Multisample Study of Inter-Related Longitudinal Changes in Cortical Volume, Surface Area, and Thickness. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(12). 3402–3412. 433 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mills, Kathryn L., Anne‐Lise Goddings, Megan M. Herting, et al.. (2016). Structural brain development between childhood and adulthood: Convergence across four longitudinal samples. NeuroImage. 141. 273–281. 404 indexed citations breakdown →

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Herting, Megan M., Kristina A. Uban, Paige L. Williams, et al.. (2015). Default Mode Connectivity in Youth With Perinatally Acquired HIV. Medicine. 94(37). e1417–e1417. 27 indexed citations

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Cservenka, Anita, et al.. (2012). High and low sensation seeking adolescents show distinct patterns of brain activity during reward processing. NeuroImage. 66. 184–193. 57 indexed citations

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