John P. O’Doherty

54.1k citations

209 papers · 40.6k · 15 hit papers · h-index 86

Impact in

General Decision Sciences top 0.02%
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.01%
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Papers in

Cognitive Neuroscience 181
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies 158
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms 17
- Face Recognition and Perception 8
General Decision Sciences 25
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics 25

Co-authors: Raymond J. Dolan (30 shared papers)Antonio Rangel (20 shared papers)Ben Seymour (10 shared papers)Peter Dayan (8 shared papers)Bernard W. Balleine (8 shared papers)Hugo Critchley (8 shared papers)Karl John Friston (6 shared papers)Chris Frith (3 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Neuroscience (33 papers)Neuron (22 papers)NeuroImage (10 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (10 papers)Journal of Neurophysiology (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Ireland

In The Last Decade

John P. O’Doherty

205 papers receiving 38.7k citations

John P. O’Doherty's Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Active inference and learning 2016 · 434 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2016 Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
2014 Neuron
2010 Neuron
2010 Nature
2009 Neuropsychopharmacology
2008 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2006 Nature
2006 Nature
2004 Science
2004 Current Opinion in Neurobiology
2004 Science
2003 Brain
2003 Neuron
2003 Science
2002 Neuron

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by John P. O’Doherty

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of John P. O’Doherty's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by John P. O’Doherty with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites John P. O’Doherty more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by John P. O’Doherty

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by John P. O’Doherty. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by John P. O’Doherty. The network helps show where John P. O’Doherty may publish in the future.

Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside John P. O’Doherty, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with John P. O’Doherty Line = papers co-authored together John P. O’Doherty links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Showing the 20 most-cited of 209 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.

#	Work
1	Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain Science ·Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John P. O’Doherty, Holger Kaube, Raymond J. Dolan, Chris Frith Hit paper breakdown →	2004	3019
2	Dissociable Roles of Ventral and Dorsal Striatum in Instrumental Conditioning Science ·John P. O’Doherty, Peter Dayan, Johannes Schultz, Ralf Deichmann, Karl John Friston, Raymond J. Dolan Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1711
3	Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans Nature ·Nathaniel D. Daw, John P. O’Doherty, Peter Dayan, Ben Seymour, Raymond J. Dolan Hit paper breakdown →	2006	1657
4	Human and Rodent Homologies in Action Control: Corticostriatal Determinants of Goal-Directed and Habitual Action Neuropsychopharmacology ·Bernard W. Balleine, John P. O’Doherty Hit paper breakdown →	2009	1378
5	Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others Nature ·Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John P. O’Doherty, Klaas Enno Stephan, Raymond J. Dolan, Chris Frith Hit paper breakdown →	2006	1265
6	Temporal Difference Models and Reward-Related Learning in the Human Brain Neuron ·John P. O’Doherty, Peter Dayan, Karl John Friston, Hugo Critchley, Raymond J. Dolan Hit paper breakdown →	2003	1220
7	Reward representations and reward-related learning in the human brain: insights from neuroimaging Current Opinion in Neurobiology ·John P. O’Doherty Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1164
8	Human cingulate cortex and autonomic control: converging neuroimaging and clinical evidence Brain ·Hugo Critchley, Christopher J. Mathias, Oliver Josephs, John P. O’Doherty, Sergio Zanini, Bonnie‐Kate Dewar, Lisa Cipolotti A, Tim Shallice Hit paper breakdown →	2003	1019
9	Encoding Predictive Reward Value in Human Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex Science ·Jay A. Gottfried, John P. O’Doherty, Raymond J. Dolan Hit paper breakdown →	2003	970
10	Neural Responses during Anticipation of a Primary Taste Reward Neuron ·John P. O’Doherty, Ralf Deichmann, Hugo Critchley, Raymond J. Dolan Hit paper breakdown →	2002	898
11	States versus Rewards: Dissociable Neural Prediction Error Signals Underlying Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning Neuron ·Jan P. Gläscher, Nathaniel D. Daw, Peter Dayan, John P. O’Doherty Hit paper breakdown →	2010	863
12	Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces Nature Neuroscience ·Joel S. Winston, Bryan Andrew Strange, John P. O’Doherty, Raymond J. Dolan	2002	820
13	Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hilke Plaßmann, John P. O’Doherty, Baba Shiv, Antonio Rangel Hit paper breakdown →	2008	792
14	Structural plasticity in the bilingual brain Nature ·Andrea Mechelli, Jenny Crinion, Uta Noppeney, John P. O’Doherty, John Ashburner, Richard S. J. Frackowiak, Cathy J. Price	2004	761
15	Beauty in a smile: the role of medial orbitofrontal cortex in facial attractiveness Neuropsychologia ·John P. O’Doherty, Joel S. Winston, Hugo Critchley, David Ian Perrett, D. Michael Burt, Raymond J. Dolan	2003	730
16	Orbitofrontal Cortex Encodes Willingness to Pay in Everyday Economic Transactions Journal of Neuroscience ·Hilke Plaßmann, John P. O’Doherty, Antonio Rangel	2007	695
17	Dissociating the Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex and the Striatum in the Computation of Goal Values and Prediction Errors Journal of Neuroscience ·Todd Anthony Hare, John P. O’Doherty, Colin F. Camerer, Wolfram Schultz, Antonio Rangel	2008	661
18	A specific role for posterior dorsolateral striatum in human habit learning European Journal of Neuroscience ·Elizabeth M Tricomi, Bernard W. Balleine, John P. O’Doherty	2009	608
19	Representation of Pleasant and Aversive Taste in the Human Brain Journal of Neurophysiology ·John P. O’Doherty, Edmund T. Rolls, Susan Francis, Richard W Bowtell, Francis P. McGlone	2001	569
20	Dissociating Valence of Outcome from Behavioral Control in Human Orbital and Ventral Prefrontal Cortices Journal of Neuroscience ·John P. O’Doherty, Hugo Critchley, Ralf Deichmann, Raymond J. Dolan	2003	523

About John P. O’Doherty

John P. O’Doherty is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 209 papers that have together received 40.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (158 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (34 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (25 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (17 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (17 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (8 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (7 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Decision Sciences (4k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (25k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (5.9k citations), Social Psychology (4.1k citations) and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (878 citations). John P. O’Doherty has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include Raymond J. Dolan, Antonio Rangel, Ben Seymour, Peter Dayan, Bernard W. Balleine, Hugo Critchley, Karl John Friston, Chris Frith, Tania Singer and Nathaniel D. Daw. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Neuron, NeuroImage, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neurophysiology.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

John P. O’Doherty

Impact in

Papers in i

In The Last Decade

John P. O’Doherty

John P. O’Doherty's Hit Papers

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by John P. O’Doherty

Fields of papers citing papers by John P. O’Doherty

All Works

About John P. O’Doherty

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Papers in