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Infant Mental Health Journal
H-index 19

Infant Mental Health Journal

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 328 100 128 19

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 126
Documents by Best Scientists*: 143
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 86
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.224
Impact Factor: 2

Top Publications

  • When the Bough Breaks: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of mental health symptoms in mothers of young children during the COVID‐19 pandemic

    (2021)
    83 Citations
  • Enhancing parental reflective functioning through early dyadic interventions: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Jane Barlow;Michelle Sleed;Michelle Sleed;Nick Midgley;Nick Midgley

    (2021)
    46 Citations
  • Associations between prenatal maternal mental health indices and mother-infant relationship quality 6 to 18 months' postpartum: A systematic review.

    Karen Hazell Raine;Selina Nath;Louise M Howard;Wendell Cockshaw

    (2020)
    37 Citations
  • Substance use and mothers' neural responses to infant cues.

    Amanda F. Lowell;Angela N. Maupin;Nicole Landi;Marc N. Potenza

    (2020)
    32 Citations
  • Transitioning to telehealth due to COVID‐19: Maintaining model fidelity in a home visiting program for parents of vulnerable infants

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • Increasing parenting self-efficacy: The Fussy Baby Network® intervention.

    Linda Gilkerson;Tiffany Burkhardt;Leslie E. Katch;Sydney L. Hans

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Community-delivered infant-parent psychotherapy improves maternal sensitive caregiving: Evaluation of the Michigan model of infant mental health home visiting.

    Katherine L Rosenblum;Maria Muzik;Jennifer M Jester;Alissa Huth-Bocks

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • The role of mothers' self-compassion on mother-infant bonding during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study exploring the mediating role of mindful parenting and parenting stress in the postpartum period.

    Daniela V Fernandes;Maria C Canavarro;Helena Moreira

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Infant mental health home visiting therapists’ reflective supervision self‐efficacy in community practice settings

    Sarah E Shea;Jennifer M Jester;Alissa C Huth-Bocks;Deborah J Weatherston

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • The context and development of the early relational health screen.

    (2022)
    24 Citations

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