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Psychology professors’ work among most cited over a 10-year period
Psychology Professors Mark G. Packard, John F. Edens, Leslie C. “Les” Morey, Eddie Harmon-Jones, and Barry Setlow were among an elite group of researchers listed in “Essential Science Indicators,” (ESI) an analytical resource for tracking research performance and trends in science. “Essential Science Indicators” is produced by Thomson Scientific, the scientific & healthcare arm of The Thomson Corporation. ESI uses Thomson Scientific databases to track article publication counts and citation data from more than 11,000 journals worldwide. The information is available in a 10-year rolling profile, covering 10 million articles in 22 specific fields and is updated every two months.
The Thomson Scientific website states, “Of the roughly 3 million scientists’ names appearing in the 10 years of Thomson Scientific data surveyed, about 50,000 are listed in “Essential Science Indicators.” This represents the top one percent of authors in terms of total citations in each of the disciplines over the 10 years.
Mark Packard was included in the behavioral neuroscience field. His research focuses on the neurobiological basis of learning and memory, neuroscience, and addiction. Packard also has authored or co-authored more than 60 journal articles and 10 book chapters. He has worked on research projects funded from either the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health for more than a decade.
John Edens was included in the psychology/psychiatry field. His work focuses on forensic issues in psychology, particularly the assessment and diagnosis of psychopathy and behavioral risk. He has numerous publications in the top scientific journals in forensic assessment and the psychology/law interface. He also currently serves on the editorial board of several journals in addition to being the associate editor of the journal Assessment.
Les Morey was included in the psychology/psychiatry field. His work focuses on assessment, diagnosis, and classification of personality and psychopathology, personality disorders, and alcoholism. He has well over 100 publications in top-tier scientific journals and multiple books. He also currently serves on the editorial board of several journals, and is a member of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-V Work Group to establish diagnostic concepts for personality disorder. Morey may be best known for his development of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), which has set the standard for empirically-based approaches to assessing personality and psychopathology.
Eddie Harmon-Jones was included in the psychology/psychiatry field. His work focuses upon the interplay of cognition, emotion, and motivation, and he has been recognized for his pioneering work in the area of social neuroscience. His research investigate topics such as attitude formation, maintenance, and change; the antecedents and consequences of discrepancies between cognitions; the role of emotion and motivation in aggressive and prosocial behavior; and self-regulatory and defensive processes, with much of this research being derived from cognitive dissonance theory.
Barry Setlow was included in the behavioral neuroscience field. His research addresses what types of associative information are encoded by different brain systems during learning. Some of his experiments have examined the effects of discrete brain lesions or pharmacological manipulations on different learning processes. A second line of research addresses interactions between drug addiction and associative learning and decision-making.
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