Richard J. McNally

41.4k total citations · 12 hit papers
408 papers, 28.6k citations indexed

About

Richard J. McNally is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard J. McNally has authored 408 papers receiving a total of 28.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 228 papers in Clinical Psychology, 204 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 139 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Richard J. McNally's work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (124 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (100 papers) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (78 papers). Richard J. McNally is often cited by papers focused on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (124 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (100 papers) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (78 papers). Richard J. McNally collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Richard J. McNally's co-authors include Steven Reiss, Jordan B. Peterson, Donald J. Robinaugh, Payton J. Jones, Bradley C. Riemann, Alexandre Heeren, Roger K. Pitman, Sharon B. Zeitlin, Alexander J. Millner and Ruofan Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Medicine and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Richard J. McNally

395 papers receiving 27.2k citations

Hit Papers

Anxiety sensitivity, anxiety frequency and the prediction... 1986 2026 1999 2012 1986 2016 2019 2016 2021 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. Anxiety sensitivity, anxiety frequency and the prediction of fearfulness
    1986 2.7k citations Richard J. McNally et al. Behaviour Research and Therapy profile →
  2. Identifying highly influential nodes in the complicated grief network.
    2016 965 citations Donald J. Robinaugh, Alexander J. Millner et al. profile →
  3. Bridge Centrality: A Network Approach to Understanding Comorbidity
    2019 882 citations Payton J. Jones, Richard J. McNally et al. profile →
  4. Can network analysis transform psychopathology?
    2016 673 citations Richard J. McNally Behaviour Research and Therapy profile →
  5. Network analysis of multivariate data in psychological science
    2021 624 citations Denny Borsboom, Sacha Epskamp et al. profile →
  6. Anxiety sensitivity and panic disorder
    2002 569 citations Richard J. McNally profile →
  7. How does anxiety sensitivity vary across the anxiety disorders?
    1992 557 citations Richard J. McNally et al. Journal of Anxiety Disorders profile →
  8. The emotional counting stroop paradigm: a functional magnetic resonance imaging probe of the anterior cingulate affective division
    1998 554 citations Richard J. McNally, Sabine Wilhelm et al. profile →
  9. Mental Disorders as Causal Systems
    2014 419 citations Richard J. McNally, Donald J. Robinaugh et al. profile →
  10. Network Analysis of Psychopathology: Controversies and Challenges
    2020 269 citations Richard J. McNally profile →
  11. Psychopathological networks: Theory, methods and practice
    2021 152 citations Laura F. Bringmann, Casper J. Albers et al. Behaviour Research and Therapy profile →
  12. A tutorial on bayesian networks for psychopathology researchers.
    2022 96 citations Richard J. McNally et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard J. McNally United States 87 15.8k 15.6k 9.1k 3.8k 3.8k 408 28.6k
David M. Clark United Kingdom 98 17.1k 1.1× 22.8k 1.5× 6.2k 0.7× 5.8k 1.5× 4.8k 1.3× 336 36.9k
Ronald E. Dahl United States 99 12.4k 0.8× 13.2k 0.9× 10.4k 1.1× 5.5k 1.4× 4.8k 1.3× 336 32.9k
Anke Ehlers United Kingdom 83 9.0k 0.6× 20.5k 1.3× 4.7k 0.5× 3.2k 0.8× 3.4k 0.9× 293 29.3k
Andrew Mathews United Kingdom 87 19.4k 1.2× 12.3k 0.8× 11.4k 1.3× 4.5k 1.2× 2.9k 0.8× 185 28.4k
Tim Dalgleish United Kingdom 75 7.6k 0.5× 11.3k 0.7× 6.9k 0.8× 4.2k 1.1× 2.7k 0.7× 310 22.1k
Michelle G. Craske United States 99 19.2k 1.2× 19.1k 1.2× 8.0k 0.9× 7.7k 2.0× 4.3k 1.1× 618 36.8k
Greg Hajcak United States 94 15.0k 0.9× 11.2k 0.7× 20.5k 2.2× 4.0k 1.0× 3.7k 1.0× 380 31.7k
Emily A. Holmes United Kingdom 69 8.1k 0.5× 8.7k 0.6× 5.7k 0.6× 2.7k 0.7× 2.8k 0.7× 292 17.6k
Adrian Wells United Kingdom 85 16.5k 1.0× 16.4k 1.1× 4.3k 0.5× 3.4k 0.9× 4.7k 1.2× 357 26.1k
Bruce N. Cuthbert United States 56 10.7k 0.7× 7.4k 0.5× 12.7k 1.4× 4.8k 1.2× 4.7k 1.2× 119 26.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Richter, Thalia, Nazanin Derakshan, Noga Cohen, et al.. (2025). Machine learning meta-analysis identifies individual characteristics moderating cognitive intervention efficacy for anxiety and depression symptoms. npj Digital Medicine. 8(1). 65–65. 1 indexed citations
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Mair, Patrick, et al.. (2025). Daily associations among sleep, posttraumatic stress disorder, and positive affect. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 38(2). 222–233.
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McNally, Richard J., et al.. (2024). Using network analysis to characterize clinical improvement during cognitive processing therapy. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 185. 104678–104678. 1 indexed citations
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Robinaugh, Donald J., Jonas M B Haslbeck, Lourens Waldorp, et al.. (2024). Advancing the network theory of mental disorders: A computational model of panic disorder.. Psychological Review. 131(6). 1482–1508. 4 indexed citations
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Mertens, Gaëtan, Iris M. Engelhard, Derek M. Novacek, & Richard J. McNally. (2023). Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 19(4). 652–659. 2 indexed citations
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Blanchard, M. Annelise, et al.. (2023). Negativity is Key for Understanding the Interplay Between Rumination’s Features, Attention Control, and Their Dynamic Nature: A Temporal Network Approach. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 48(4). 774–780. 3 indexed citations
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Derakshan, Nazanin, Noga Cohen, Philip M. Enock, et al.. (2021). Personalized cognitive training: Protocol for individual-level meta-analysis implementing machine learning methods. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 138. 342–348. 11 indexed citations
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McNally, Richard J.. (2021). Are memories of sexual trauma fragmented?. Memory. 30(1). 26–30. 14 indexed citations
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Bringmann, Laura F., Casper J. Albers, Claudi Bockting, et al.. (2021). Psychopathological networks: Theory, methods and practice. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 149. 104011–104011. 152 indexed citations breakdown →
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McNally, Richard J., et al.. (2020). Nonadherence to breast and cervical cancer screening among sexual minority women: Do stigma-related psychological barriers play a role?. Health Psychology. 39(10). 891–899. 26 indexed citations
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Frumkin, Madelyn, Donald J. Robinaugh, Nicole J. LeBlanc, et al.. (2020). The pain of grief: Exploring the concept of psychological pain and its relation to complicated grief, depression, and risk for suicide in bereaved adults. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 77(1). 254–267. 20 indexed citations
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Jones, Payton J., Benjamin W. Bellet, & Richard J. McNally. (2019). Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations
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Summers, Berta J., George Aalbers, Payton J. Jones, et al.. (2019). A network perspective on body dysmorphic disorder and major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. 262. 165–173. 15 indexed citations
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McNally, Richard J., et al.. (2013). Attention bias modification for reducing speech anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 51(12). 882–888. 75 indexed citations
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Huntjens, Rafaële J. C., Bruno Verschuère, & Richard J. McNally. (2012). Inter-Identity Autobiographical Amnesia in Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e40580–e40580. 41 indexed citations
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Reese, Hannah E., Richard J. McNally, Sadia Najmi, & Nader Amir. (2010). Attention training for reducing spider fear in spider-fearful individuals. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 24(7). 657–662. 49 indexed citations
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McNally, Richard J.. (2004). Psychological Debriefing Does Not Prevent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. ˜The œPsychiatric times. 71–71. 7 indexed citations
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Clancy, Susan A., Richard J. McNally, & Daniel L. Schacter. (1999). Imagination inflation in women reporting recovered memories of sexual abuse. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 12. 1 indexed citations

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