Michael Sheard

4.9k total citations
74 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Michael Sheard is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Sheard has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 20 papers in Social Psychology and 12 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Sheard's work include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (18 papers), Sport Psychology and Performance (10 papers) and Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (9 papers). Michael Sheard is often cited by papers focused on Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (18 papers), Sport Psychology and Performance (10 papers) and Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (9 papers). Michael Sheard collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Serbia. Michael Sheard's co-authors include Jim Golby, George K. Aghajanian, Warren E. Foote, Anna van Wersch, Joel Ehrenkranz, Eugene L. Bliss, Michael T. Davis, Harvey M. Friedman, John A. Rosecrans and Michael Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Trends in Neurosciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Sheard

71 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Sheard United States 31 1.1k 1.1k 763 632 478 74 3.5k
Ian Mitchell United Kingdom 44 2.5k 2.4× 416 0.4× 660 0.9× 153 0.2× 653 1.4× 134 5.6k
George Singer Australia 40 1.1k 1.0× 514 0.5× 2.0k 2.7× 710 1.1× 404 0.8× 189 5.0k
James E. Barrett United States 39 1.9k 1.8× 1.3k 1.2× 1.7k 2.2× 569 0.9× 1.2k 2.6× 205 7.0k
Don R. Cherek United States 35 1.1k 1.0× 851 0.8× 1.2k 1.6× 339 0.5× 243 0.5× 114 4.0k
Roelof Eikelboom Canada 24 1.8k 1.7× 355 0.3× 349 0.5× 152 0.2× 625 1.3× 45 3.4k
Peter E. Nathan United States 35 686 0.6× 549 0.5× 1.7k 2.2× 391 0.6× 144 0.3× 142 4.4k
Richard J. Katz United States 45 1.7k 1.6× 1.0k 0.9× 1.0k 1.4× 85 0.1× 1.0k 2.1× 225 7.2k
Hidehiko Takahashi Japan 41 1.1k 1.0× 997 0.9× 875 1.1× 217 0.3× 539 1.1× 285 6.5k
Patrick K. Randall United States 45 2.0k 1.9× 693 0.7× 1.0k 1.3× 55 0.1× 1000 2.1× 130 6.0k
John Corbit Canada 21 842 0.8× 698 0.7× 333 0.4× 517 0.8× 371 0.8× 47 3.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Sheard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Dopsaj, Milivoj, et al.. (2024). Mental toughness and empathy as match performance predictors of high-level female basketball players. Biomedical Human Kinetics. 16(1). 131–138. 2 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael. (2013). Mental Toughness: The Mindset Behind Sporting Achievement. Sport & Exercise Psychology Review. 9(2). 103–104. 58 indexed citations
3.
Sheard, Michael & Jim Golby. (2009). Investigating the ‘rigid persistence paradox’ in professional rugby union football. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 7(1). 101–114. 4 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael, Jim Golby, & Anna van Wersch. (2009). Progress Toward Construct Validation of the Sports Mental Toughness Questionnaire (SMTQ). European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 25(3). 186–193. 211 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael & Jim Golby. (2006). The Efficacy of an Outdoor Adventure Education Curriculum on Selected Aspects of Positive Psychological Development. Journal of Experiential Education. 29(2). 187–209. 62 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael & Jim Golby. (2006). Effect of a psychological skills training program on swimming performance and positive psychological development. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 4(2). 149–169. 154 indexed citations
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Golby, Jim & Michael Sheard. (2003). Mental toughness and hardiness at different levels of rugby league. Personality and Individual Differences. 37(5). 933–942. 151 indexed citations
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Golby, Jim, Michael Sheard, & David Lavallee. (2003). A cognitive-behavioural analysis of mental toughness in national rugby league football teams.. PubMed. 96(2). 455–62. 53 indexed citations
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Friedman, Harvey M. & Michael Sheard. (1995). Elementary descent recursion and proof theory. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 71(1). 1–45. 30 indexed citations
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Friedman, Harvey M. & Michael Sheard. (1989). The equivalence of the disjunction and existence properties for modal arithmetic. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 54(4). 1456–1459. 2 indexed citations
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Friedman, Harvey M. & Michael Sheard. (1988). The disjunction and existence properties for axiomatic systems of truth. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 40(1). 1–10. 8 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael, et al.. (1986). Best monotone approximations in L1[0, 1]. Journal of Approximation Theory. 47(1). 85–91. 13 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael. (1984). Review. Clinical Neuropharmacology. 7(3). 173–184. 50 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael. (1983). Indecomposable ultrafilters over small large cardinals. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 48(4). 1000–1007. 3 indexed citations
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Swann, Alan C., George R. Heninger, James L. Marini, Michael Sheard, & James W. Maas. (1980). Lithium effects on high-affinity tryptophan uptake: evidence against a stabilization mechanism. Brain Research. 194(1). 287–292. 13 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael, David I. Astrachan, & Michael Davis. (1975). Effect of noise on shock-elicited aggression in rats. Nature. 257(5521). 43–44. 7 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael. (1975). LITHIUM IN THE TREATMENT OF AGGRESSION. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 160(2). 108–118. 83 indexed citations
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Davis, Michael & Michael Sheard. (1974). Habituation and sensitization of the rat startle response: Effects of raphe lesions☆. Physiology & Behavior. 12(3). 425–431. 99 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael, James B. Appel, & Daniel X. Freedman. (1967). The effect of central nervous system lesions on brain monoamines and behavior. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 5(3). 237–242. 8 indexed citations
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Sheard, Michael. (1964). THE INFLUENCE OF PATIENTS' ATTITUDES ON THEIR RESPONSE TO ANTIDEPRESSANT MEDICATION. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 139(2). 195–197. 4 indexed citations

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