Leanne M Williams Google Scholar: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Leanne M Williams's h-index is 129 (388 i10-index, 49,711+ total citations across 901+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of October 2026. Leanne M Williams is affiliated with Stanford University, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Leanne M Williams is a researcher affiliated with Stanford University, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, specializing in precision psychiatry, personalized neuroscience, circuit biotypes. Their work has been cited 49,711 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in United States.
Leanne M Williams's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 901 indexed publications. Of these, 19 are original research articles — the rest are literature highlights, conference abstracts or theses.
- H-Index
- 129
- i10-Index
- 388
- Total Citations
- 49,711
- Citing Countries
- 52
As of October 2026.
Leanne M Williams has an h-index of 129 and 49,711 total citations across 901 publications, with research cited by institutions in 52 countries.
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A direct brainstem–amygdala–cortical ‘alarm’system for subliminal signals of fear
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The researcher identified a direct subcortical neural pathway for fear processing, challenging the prevailing view that all emotional signals require cortical mediation.
The researcher established a foundational framework for understanding causal interactions between fronto-parietal central executive and default-mode networks in humans.
The researcher authored a seminal, highly cited review clarifying resting-state fMRI fundamentals for nonexperts, establishing a foundational reference that has been widely adopted by independent scholars.
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About Leanne M Williams's research
Leanne M Williams is a researcher in precision psychiatry, personalized neuroscience and circuit biotypes at Stanford University, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Their work has been cited 49,711 times across 901 publications (h-index 129), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “A direct brainstem–amygdala–cortical ‘alarm’system for subliminal signals of fear” (2005), has accumulated 933 citations. Other influential works include “Resting-state functional MRI: everything that nonexperts have always wanted to know” (2018) with 868 citations and “Precision psychiatry: a neural circuit taxonomy for depression and anxiety” (2016) with 792 citations.
Citations of Leanne M Williams's research come primarily from United States, China and United Kingdom, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
