Rita Z. Goldstein

18.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
149 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Rita Z. Goldstein is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rita Z. Goldstein has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 84 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 36 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Rita Z. Goldstein's work include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (83 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (73 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (50 papers). Rita Z. Goldstein is often cited by papers focused on Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (83 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (73 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (50 papers). Rita Z. Goldstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Rita Z. Goldstein's co-authors include Nora D. Volkow, Nelly Alia‐Klein, Muhammad A. Parvaz, Scott J. Moeller, Frank Telang, Gene‐Jack Wang, Dardo Tomasi, Anna Zilverstand, Thomas Maloney and Joanna S. Fowler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Rita Z. Goldstein

141 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

Drug Addiction and Its Un... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2011 2018 2018 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Drug Addiction and Its Underlying Neurobiological Basis: Neuroimaging Evidence for the Involvement of the Frontal Cortex
    2002 2.0k citations Rita Z. Goldstein, Nora D. Volkow profile →
  2. Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex in addiction: neuroimaging findings and clinical implications
    2011 1.9k citations Rita Z. Goldstein, Nora D. Volkow profile →
  3. Recruiting the ABCD sample: Design considerations and procedures
    2018 808 citations Hugh Garavan, Rita Z. Goldstein et al. profile →
  4. Neuroimaging Impaired Response Inhibition and Salience Attribution in Human Drug Addiction: A Systematic Review
    2018 356 citations Anna Zilverstand, Nelly Alia‐Klein et al. Neuron profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rita Z. Goldstein United States 51 6.0k 4.9k 2.5k 2.3k 1.9k 149 12.0k
Michael N. Smolka Germany 51 3.9k 0.7× 3.4k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 254 9.6k
Frank Telang United States 65 5.8k 1.0× 5.8k 1.2× 1.8k 0.7× 2.4k 1.1× 2.9k 1.5× 103 14.3k
Daniel W. Hommer United States 59 5.8k 1.0× 4.5k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 2.6k 1.3× 152 12.6k
Hugh Garavan United States 70 12.7k 2.1× 3.6k 0.7× 3.6k 1.5× 2.3k 1.0× 3.4k 1.7× 226 18.6k
Bernice Porjesz United States 68 6.1k 1.0× 4.1k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 252 13.2k
Christopher Wong United States 52 4.5k 0.8× 5.3k 1.1× 1.1k 0.5× 2.4k 1.0× 2.7k 1.4× 91 12.2k
Valerie Voon United Kingdom 70 6.0k 1.0× 4.6k 0.9× 2.0k 0.8× 6.0k 2.6× 3.9k 2.0× 237 19.4k
Elliot A. Stein United States 67 10.3k 1.7× 5.2k 1.1× 2.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 274 16.9k
Anna Rose Childress United States 45 4.5k 0.8× 5.2k 1.1× 1.4k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 876 0.4× 110 10.2k
Shigeto Yamawaki Japan 60 3.9k 0.7× 2.5k 0.5× 1.7k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 2.4k 1.2× 379 12.6k

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All Works

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Ceceli, Ahmet O., Greg Kronberg, Natalie McClain, et al.. (2025). The Impaired Response Inhibition and Salience Attribution Model of Drug Addiction: Recent Neuroimaging Evidence and Future Directions. Annual Review of Psychology. 77(1). 81–108. 1 indexed citations
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Kronberg, Greg, Ahmet O. Ceceli, Yuefeng Huang, et al.. (2024). Shared orbitofrontal dynamics to a drug-themed movie track craving and recovery in heroin addiction. Brain. 148(5). 1778–1788. 5 indexed citations
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Gaudreault, Pierre‐Olivier, Yuefeng Huang, Ahmet O. Ceceli, et al.. (2024). Frontal White Matter Changes and Craving Recovery in Inpatients With Heroin Use Disorder. JAMA Network Open. 7(12). e2451678–e2451678. 3 indexed citations
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Solinas, Marcello, Claudia Chauvet, Claire Lafay‐Chebassier, et al.. (2024). Tobacco Images Choice and its Association With Craving and Dependence in People Who Smoke Cigarettes. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 26(12). 1636–1645. 1 indexed citations
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Cathomas, Flurin, Pierre‐Olivier Gaudreault, Panos Roussos, et al.. (2024). Serum cytokines and inflammatory proteins in individuals with heroin use disorder: potential mechanistically based biomarkers for diagnosis. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 414–414. 2 indexed citations
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Butelman, Eduardo R., Rita Z. Goldstein, Chinwe A. Nwaneshiudu, et al.. (2023). Neuroimmune Mechanisms of Opioid Use Disorder and Recovery: Translatability to Human Studies, and Future Research Directions. Neuroscience. 528. 102–116. 11 indexed citations
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Butelman, Eduardo R., Yuefeng Huang, David H. Epstein, et al.. (2023). Overdose mortality rates for opioids and stimulant drugs are substantially higher in men than in women: state-level analysis. Neuropsychopharmacology. 48(11). 1639–1647. 38 indexed citations
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Zilverstand, Anna, Muhammad A. Parvaz, Scott J. Moeller, et al.. (2023). Whole-brain resting-state connectivity underlying impaired inhibitory control during early versus longer-term abstinence in cocaine addiction. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(8). 3355–3364. 10 indexed citations
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Ceceli, Ahmet O., et al.. (2022). Altered prefrontal signaling during inhibitory control in a salient drug context in cocaine use disorder. Cerebral Cortex. 33(3). 597–611. 12 indexed citations
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Parvaz, Muhammad A., et al.. (2022). Structural and functional brain recovery in individuals with substance use disorders during abstinence: A review of longitudinal neuroimaging studies. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 232. 109319–109319. 34 indexed citations
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Gaudreault, Pierre‐Olivier, et al.. (2022). Prefrontal-habenular microstructural impairments in human cocaine and heroin addiction. Neuron. 110(22). 3820–3832.e4. 14 indexed citations
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Rabin, Rachel A., Muhammad A. Parvaz, Nelly Alia‐Klein, & Rita Z. Goldstein. (2021). Emotion recognition in individuals with cocaine use disorder: the role of abstinence length and the social brain network. Psychopharmacology. 239(4). 1019–1033. 8 indexed citations
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Rabin, Rachel A., Scott Mackey, Muhammad A. Parvaz, et al.. (2020). Common and gender‐specific associations with cocaine use on gray matter volume: Data from the ENIGMA addiction working group. Human Brain Mapping. 43(1). 543–554. 12 indexed citations
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Volkow, Nora D., Gou‐Jen Wang, Jeffrey H. Newcorn, et al.. (2010). Motivation deficit in ADHD is associated with dysfunction of the dopamine reward pathway. Molecular Psychiatry. 16(11). 1147–1154. 300 indexed citations
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Honorio, Jean, Dimitris Samaras, Nikos Paragios, Rita Z. Goldstein, & Luis E. Ortiz. (2009). Sparse and Locally Constant Gaussian Graphical Models. Neural Information Processing Systems. 22. 745–753. 14 indexed citations
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Alia‐Klein, Nelly, A. Kriplani, Kith Pradhan, et al.. (2008). The MAO-A genotype does not modulate resting brain metabolism in adults. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 164(1). 73–76. 13 indexed citations
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Goldstein, Rita Z., Nora D. Volkow, Gene‐Jack Wang, Joanna S. Fowler, & Suparna Rajaram. (2001). Addiction changes orbitofrontal gyrus function: involvement in response inhibition. Neuroreport. 12(11). 2595–2599. 128 indexed citations

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