Distinguished professor makes Clarivate’s 2024 “Highly Cited Researchers” list
For the fifth year in a row, Julian F. Thayer, distinguished professor of psychological science, has made Clarivate’s “Highly Cited Researchers” list.
Clarivate, a company that provides scientific analytics, identifies the world’s most influential researchers annually. In 2024, Thayer again made the highly coveted list. To be named to the list, researchers need to have authored multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% of citations for their field.
“It’s always an honor to be recognized for the fine work that my students and colleagues do,” Thayer said about his latest recognition.
Thayer, who last year was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest distinctions accorded to professionals in the medical sciences, healthcare and public health, specializes in health psychology, psychopathology, health disparities, heart rate variability, emotions, stress and neuroimaging research. According to his Clarivate profile, his publications have been cited 37,716 times.
Thayer’s latest research concerns emotion regulation and stress.
“Our findings are showing that emotion suppression is not universally bad,” he said. “In certain cultures, not expressing your emotions is associated with survival.”
For example, he added, “as a Black man in America, when you get pulled over by the police, you have to suppress any signs of aggression. That is part of a social learning theory of emotion regulation that was explored in the 1960s.”
The following are a few of Thayer’s recent research articles:
- “Sex differences in heart rate and heart rate variability in rats: Implications for translational research”
- “Changes in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Mediate Effects of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback on Positive Emotional Memory Biases”
- “Heart rate variability in the prediction of mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis of healthy and patient populations”
- “Understanding the roles of central and autonomic activity during sleep in the improvement of working memory and episodic memory”
- “Childhood adversity and vagal regulation: A systematic review and meta-analysis”
- “Effects of a Randomised Trial of 5-Week Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Intervention on Cognitive Function: Possible Benefits for Inhibitory Control”
- “Associations between locus coeruleus MRI contrast and physiological responses to acute stress in younger and older adults”
- “Increasing coordination and responsivity of emotion-related brain regions with a heart rate variability biofeedback randomized trial”
- “Unraveling the cognitive correlates of heart rate variability with the drift diffusion model”
- “Heart rate variability (HRV) changes and cortical volume changes in a randomized trial of five weeks of daily HRV biofeedback in younger and older adults”
- “Effects of a Randomised Trial of 5-Week Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Intervention on Cognitive Function: Possible Benefits for Inhibitory Control”
- “Emotion Regulation, Parasympathetic Function, and Psychological Well-Being”
- “Resting Heart Rate Variability, Perceived Emotion Regulation, and Low-Risk Drug Use in College-Aged Adults: Gender as a Moderator”
- “Functional interplay between central and autonomic nervous systems in human fear conditioning”
- “Effects of a randomised trial of 5-week heart rate variability biofeedback intervention on mind wandering and associated brain function”