Ryan Smith

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
163 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Ryan Smith is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Smith has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 61 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 30 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ryan Smith's work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (31 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (30 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (30 papers). Ryan Smith is often cited by papers focused on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (31 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (30 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (30 papers). Ryan Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Ryan Smith's co-authors include Richard D. Lane, William D. S. Killgore, Karl Friston, Anna Alkozei, Julian F. Thayer, Sahib S. Khalsa, Thomas Parr, Christopher J. Whyte, Martin P. Paulus and Rayus Kuplicki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Smith

153 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The hierarchical basis of neurovisceral integration

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan Smith United States	35	1.9k	1.2k	740	725	690	163	3.9k
John Gross United States	16	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	701 0.9×	501 0.7×	1.0k 1.5×	92	4.2k
Alexander L. Gerlach Germany	37	1.3k 0.7×	2.5k 2.0×	741 1.0×	1.4k 1.9×	1.6k 2.3×	159	4.6k
Siegfried Gauggel Germany	30	1.2k 0.6×	722 0.6×	381 0.5×	774 1.1×	733 1.1×	119	3.1k
Günter Schumann United Kingdom	40	1.7k 0.9×	873 0.7×	486 0.7×	627 0.9×	899 1.3×	159	6.4k
Kenji Matsumoto Japan	27	1.6k 0.8×	306 0.2×	361 0.5×	327 0.5×	218 0.3×	171	3.6k
Yasuyuki Taki Japan	48	3.9k 2.0×	2.1k 1.7×	456 0.6×	1.2k 1.7×	688 1.0×	269	8.0k
Ho‐Ling Liu Taiwan	34	2.2k 1.1×	509 0.4×	675 0.9×	480 0.7×	325 0.5×	140	4.2k
Morten Overgaard Denmark	31	2.6k 1.3×	451 0.4×	417 0.6×	186 0.3×	62 0.1×	112	3.8k
Andreas Jansen Germany	37	2.6k 1.4×	783 0.6×	562 0.8×	739 1.0×	377 0.5×	130	4.1k
Dongtao Wei China	36	2.6k 1.4×	1.9k 1.5×	590 0.8×	393 0.5×	659 1.0×	166	4.0k

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Wilson, Robert C., et al.. (2025). Directed exploration is reduced by an aversive interoceptive state induction in healthy individuals but not in those with affective disorders. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(9). 4029–4038. 1 indexed citations

Stewart, Jennifer L., Hannah Berg, Maria Ironside, et al.. (2025). Computational Mechanisms of Approach-Avoidance Conflict Predictively Differentiate Between Affective and Substance Use Disorders. PubMed. 9(1). 159–186.

Berg, Hannah, Timothy J. McDermott, Rayus Kuplicki, et al.. (2025). Prediction of generalized anxiety disorder treatment outcomes with neurobehavioral responses to approach-avoidance conflict: a randomized clinical trial. Translational Psychiatry. 15(1). 231–231.

Smith, Ryan, et al.. (2024). Impaired emotional awareness is associated with childhood maltreatment exposure and positive symptoms in schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1325617–1325617. 4 indexed citations

Hakimi, Navid, Rayus Kuplicki, Katherine L. Forthman, et al.. (2024). Transdiagnostic failure to adapt interoceptive precision estimates across affective, substance use, and eating disorders: A replication and extension of previous results. Biological Psychology. 191. 108825–108825. 6 indexed citations

Benrimoh, David, et al.. (2023). Barriers and solutions to the adoption of translational tools for computational psychiatry. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(6). 2189–2196. 6 indexed citations

Smith, Ryan, Michelle R. Persich, Sara Cloonan, et al.. (2023). Improvements in mindfulness, interoceptive and emotional awareness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal emotion management following completion of an online emotional skills training program.. Emotion. 24(2). 431–450. 12 indexed citations

Hakimi, Navid, Jennifer L. Stewart, Maria Ironside, et al.. (2023). Active learning impairments in substance use disorders when resolving the explore-exploit dilemma: A replication and extension of previous computational modeling results. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 252. 110945–110945. 8 indexed citations

Whyte, Christopher J., Jakob Hohwy, & Ryan Smith. (2022). An active inference model of conscious access: How cognitive action selection reconciles the results of report and no-report paradigms. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100036–100036. 13 indexed citations

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Smith, Ryan, Karl Friston, & Christopher J. Whyte. (2022). A step-by-step tutorial on active inference and its application to empirical data. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 107. 102632–102632. 108 indexed citations

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Smith, Ryan, Horst D. Steklis, Netzin G. Steklis, et al.. (2022). Lower emotional awareness is associated with greater early adversity and faster life history strategy.. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 17(1). 1–15. 10 indexed citations

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Smith, Ryan, et al.. (2022). A computational neuroscience perspective on subjective wellbeing within the active inference framework. International Journal of Wellbeing. 12(4). 102–131. 12 indexed citations

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Smith, Ryan, et al.. (2021). Computational Mechanisms of Addiction: Recent Evidence and Its Relevance to Addiction Medicine. Current Addiction Reports. 8(4). 509–519. 19 indexed citations

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Persich, Michelle R., et al.. (2021). Emotional intelligence training as a protective factor for mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Depression and Anxiety. 38(10). 1018–1025. 32 indexed citations

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Smith, Ryan. (2020). Death and Rebirth in a Southern City. Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Whyte, Christopher J. & Ryan Smith. (2020). The predictive global neuronal workspace: A formal active inference model of visual consciousness. Progress in Neurobiology. 199. 101918–101918. 48 indexed citations

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Smith, Ryan, Paul B. Badcock, & Karl Friston. (2020). Recent advances in the application of predictive coding and active inference models within clinical neuroscience. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 75(1). 3–13. 92 indexed citations

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Braden, B. Blair, et al.. (2016). Brain and behavior changes associated with an abbreviated 4‐week mindfulness‐based stress reduction course in back pain patients. Brain and Behavior. 6(3). e00443–e00443. 50 indexed citations

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Smith, Ryan, John J. B. Allen, Julian F. Thayer, & Richard D. Lane. (2015). Altered functional connectivity between medial prefrontal cortex and the inferior brainstem in major depression during appraisal of subjective emotional responses: A preliminary study. Biological Psychology. 108. 13–24. 40 indexed citations

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Smith, Ryan. (1965). Iron Deficiency and Iron Overload. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 40(212). 343–363. 23 indexed citations

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