Nathan A. Fox

63.2k total citations · 10 hit papers
606 papers, 39.3k citations indexed

About

Nathan A. Fox is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan A. Fox has authored 606 papers receiving a total of 39.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 354 papers in Clinical Psychology, 163 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 152 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nathan A. Fox's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (284 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (128 papers) and Child Welfare and Adoption (108 papers). Nathan A. Fox is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (284 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (128 papers) and Child Welfare and Adoption (108 papers). Nathan A. Fox collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Israel. Nathan A. Fox's co-authors include Charles H. Zeanah, Charles A. Nelson, Daniel S. Pine, Richard J. Davidson, Heather A. Henderson, Peter J. Marshall, Susan D. Calkins, Kathryn A. Degnan, Kenneth H. Rubin and Yair Bar‐Haim and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nathan A. Fox

586 papers receiving 37.6k citations

Hit Papers

Social Perception in Infants 1985 2026 1998 2012 1985 2004 2010 2007 2001 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Social Perception in Infants
    1985 825 citations Nathan A. Fox et al. profile →
  2. Behavioral Inhibition: Linking Biology and Behavior within a Developmental Framework
    2004 713 citations Nathan A. Fox, Heather A. Henderson et al. profile →
  3. Attention Bias Modification Treatment: A Meta-Analysis Toward the Establishment of Novel Treatment for Anxiety
    2010 670 citations Nathan A. Fox, Daniel S. Pine et al. profile →
  4. Cognitive Recovery in Socially Deprived Young Children: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project
    2007 662 citations Charles A. Nelson, Charles H. Zeanah et al. profile →
  5. Continuity and Discontinuity of Behavioral Inhibition and Exuberance: Psychophysiological and Behavioral Influences across the First Four Years of Life
    2001 652 citations Nathan A. Fox, Heather A. Henderson et al. profile →
  6. NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function
    2013 605 citations Nathan A. Fox et al. profile →
  7. Guidelines for the recording and quantitative analysis of electroencephalographic activity in research contexts
    1993 553 citations Nathan A. Fox et al. Psychophysiology profile →
  8. Causal effects of the early caregiving environment on development of stress response systems in children
    2015 325 citations Katie A. McLaughlin, Margaret A. Sheridan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity
    2022 173 citations Sonya V. Troller‐Renfree, Molly A. Costanzo et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  10. Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research
    2024 46 citations Enda Tan, Sonya V. Troller‐Renfree et al. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nathan A. Fox United States 109 21.7k 11.8k 9.9k 9.5k 5.7k 606 39.3k
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn Netherlands 112 36.5k 1.7× 5.6k 0.5× 7.9k 0.8× 23.0k 2.4× 8.8k 1.5× 755 57.5k
Richard E. Tremblay Canada 102 21.1k 1.0× 3.6k 0.3× 4.8k 0.5× 9.3k 1.0× 7.8k 1.4× 692 36.3k
Marian J. Bakermans‐Kranenburg Netherlands 94 25.9k 1.2× 4.4k 0.4× 6.4k 0.6× 16.0k 1.7× 4.1k 0.7× 504 38.5k
Frank C. Verhulst Netherlands 109 24.3k 1.1× 4.9k 0.4× 5.3k 0.5× 7.3k 0.8× 7.6k 1.3× 767 44.0k
Robert Goodman United States 94 30.2k 1.4× 8.6k 0.7× 3.7k 0.4× 5.8k 0.6× 11.0k 1.9× 349 53.3k
Thomas M. Achenbach United States 76 29.2k 1.3× 4.5k 0.4× 4.6k 0.5× 7.1k 0.7× 9.9k 1.7× 195 40.2k
Adrian Angold United States 93 27.1k 1.2× 3.9k 0.3× 5.9k 0.6× 6.3k 0.7× 7.5k 1.3× 174 36.8k
Dante Cicchetti United States 122 47.8k 2.2× 4.0k 0.3× 4.3k 0.4× 15.5k 1.6× 9.4k 1.6× 546 60.4k
Rolf Loeber United States 113 32.5k 1.5× 3.7k 0.3× 3.5k 0.4× 10.8k 1.1× 6.7k 1.2× 400 43.9k
Mary K. Rothbart United States 76 18.7k 0.9× 6.8k 0.6× 6.7k 0.7× 8.1k 0.9× 7.8k 1.4× 158 30.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lurie, Lucy A., Meredith A. Gruhn, Katie A. McLaughlin, et al.. (2025). Caregiving Quality and Adolescent Cortical Structure: A 16‐Year Longitudinal Study of Institutionally Reared Youth. Developmental Science. 28(5). e70043–e70043. 1 indexed citations
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Jopling, Ellen, Stacy S. Drury, Nathan A. Fox, Charles H. Zeanah, & Charles A. Nelson. (2025). The epigenetic impacts of pubertal acceleration following early caregiver disruptions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(27). e2504216122–e2504216122.
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Duncan, Greg J., Lisa A. Gennetian, Katherine Magnuson, et al.. (2024). Unconditional cash transfers and maternal employment: Evidence from the Baby’s First Years study. Journal of Public Economics. 236. 105159–105159. 3 indexed citations
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Fox, Nathan A., et al.. (2024). Complexity and enumeration in models of genome rearrangement. Theoretical Computer Science. 1022. 114880–114880.
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Sania, Ayesha, Maureen E. Bowers, Stephanie C. Leach, et al.. (2024). Examining the impact of prenatal maternal internalizing symptoms and socioeconomic status on children's frontal alpha asymmetry and psychopathology. Developmental Psychobiology. 66(3). e22476–e22476. 3 indexed citations
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Valadez, Emilio A., Santiago Morales, Sonya V. Troller‐Renfree, et al.. (2024). Longitudinal relations among temperament, cognitive control, and anxiety: From toddlerhood to late adolescence.. Developmental Psychology. 60(8). 1524–1532.
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Rayson, Holly, et al.. (2023). Bursting with Potential: How Sensorimotor Beta Bursts Develop from Infancy to Adulthood. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(49). 8487–8503. 17 indexed citations
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Troller‐Renfree, Sonya V., Molly A. Costanzo, Lisa A. Gennetian, et al.. (2023). Associations between maternal stress and infant resting brain activity among families residing in poverty in the U.S.. Biological Psychology. 184. 108683–108683. 14 indexed citations
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Tan, Enda, Alva Tang, Ranjan Debnath, et al.. (2023). Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 63. 101287–101287. 14 indexed citations
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Troller‐Renfree, Sonya V., Molly A. Costanzo, Greg J. Duncan, et al.. (2022). The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(5). 173 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sheridan, Margaret A., Cora Mukerji, Mark Wade, et al.. (2022). Early deprivation alters structural brain development from middle childhood to adolescence. Science Advances. 8(40). eabn4316–eabn4316. 35 indexed citations
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Morales, Santiago, Maureen E. Bowers, Stephanie C. Leach, et al.. (2022). Development of auditory change‐detection and attentional capture, and their relation to inhibitory control. Psychophysiology. 60(4). e14211–e14211. 9 indexed citations
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Valadez, Emilio A., Santiago Morales, George A. Buzzell, et al.. (2022). Development of Proactive Control and Anxiety Among Behaviorally Inhibited Adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 61(12). 1466–1475. 6 indexed citations
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Troller‐Renfree, Sonya V., Santiago Morales, Stephanie C. Leach, et al.. (2021). Feasibility of assessing brain activity using mobile, in‐home collection of electroencephalography: methods and analysis. Developmental Psychobiology. 63(6). e22128–e22128. 33 indexed citations
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Zeytinoglu, Selin, Santiago Morales, Andrea Chronis‐Tuscano, et al.. (2021). A Developmental Pathway From Early Behavioral Inhibition to Young Adults’ Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 60(10). 1300–1308. 17 indexed citations
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Morales, Santiago, et al.. (2021). Examining a developmental pathway from early behavioral inhibition to emotion regulation and social anxiety: The moderating role of parenting.. Developmental Psychology. 57(8). 1261–1273. 14 indexed citations
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Debnath, Ranjan, et al.. (2020). Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants’ neural responses to people of different races. Developmental Science. 24(4). e13070–e13070. 20 indexed citations
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Debnath, Ranjan, George A. Buzzell, Santiago Morales, et al.. (2020). The Maryland analysis of developmental EEG (MADE) pipeline. Psychophysiology. 57(6). e13580–e13580. 125 indexed citations
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Buzzell, George A., Sonya V. Troller‐Renfree, Mark Wade, et al.. (2020). Adolescent cognitive control and mediofrontal theta oscillations are disrupted by neglect: Associations with transdiagnostic risk for psychopathology in a randomized controlled trial. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 43. 100777–100777. 22 indexed citations
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Kim, So Hyun, George A. Buzzell, Susan Faja, et al.. (2019). Neural dynamics of executive function in cognitively able kindergarteners with autism spectrum disorders as predictors of concurrent academic achievement. Autism. 24(3). 780–794. 12 indexed citations

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