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Personality and Mental Health
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Personality and Mental Health

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 385 88 102 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 113
Documents by Best Scientists*: 110
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 35
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.095
Impact Factor: 2.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Personality and Mental Health?

The foci of Personality and Mental Health are Clinical psychology, Personality, Psychiatry, Borderline personality disorder and Personality disorders. It facilitates discussions on Clinical psychology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Psychotherapist, Depression (differential diagnoses), Interpersonal communication and Sadistic personality disorder. The journal investigates Sadistic personality disorder research which frequently intersects with Psychopathy.

The Personality works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Developmental psychology and Mental health. While Psychiatry is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Young adult and Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders. Studies on Borderline personality disorder discussed in Personality and Mental Health link to the field of Impulsivity.

Personality and Mental Health emphasizes research on Personality disorders, which includes concerns such as Personality pathology. The journal focuses on Big Five personality traits as well as the interrelated topic of Neuroticism. It dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Personality Assessment Inventory and DSM-5.

  • Clinical psychology (63.73%)
  • Personality (50.30%)
  • Psychiatry (33.27%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The rationale for the reclassification of personality disorder in the 11th revision of the international classification of diseases (ICD‐11). (157 citations)
  • The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis (111 citations)
  • Why borderline personality disorder is neither borderline nor a personality disorder (101 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Personality and Mental Health:

The most cited articles are organized to address concerns in the fields of Clinical psychology, Personality, Personality disorders, Psychiatry and Borderline personality disorder. The published articles address concerns in Clinical psychology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Young adult, Scale (social sciences) and Sadistic personality disorder. The published articles in Big Five personality traits fall within the purview of Personality but it also intertwines with topics in Clinical Practice.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Social psychology
  • Mental illness

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily tackles Personality, Clinical psychology, Personality disorders, Personality Assessment Inventory and Mental health. The journal explores themes in Personality like Personality pathology and links them with other fields of study like Trait. In the journal, Negative affectivity, Big Five personality traits and Depression (differential diagnoses) are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Clinical psychology research.

The studies on Personality disorders discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Confirmatory factor analysis and DSM-5. The studies in Personality Assessment Inventory featured incorporate elements of Structural equation modeling, Background current, Psychological intervention and Confidence interval. The Mental health study featured falls within the wider field of Psychiatry.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Personality Assessment Questionnaire for ICD-11 personality trait domains: Development and testing. (8 citations)
  • Development and initial evaluation of the ICD-11 personality disorder severity scale: PDS-ICD-11. (4 citations)
  • Premature mortality of people with personality disorder in the Nottingham Study of Neurotic Disorder (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Personality and Mental Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Peter Tyrer (29 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Mary C. Zanarini (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Andrea Fossati (16 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Mike J. Crawford (15 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Roger T. Mulder (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Personality and Mental Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Nottingham (36 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Harvard University (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Centre for Mental Health (22 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Otago (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • McLean Hospital (20 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 21.62% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.51% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 8.11% of all publications and 56.76% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Development and initial evaluation of the ICD-11 personality disorder severity scale: PDS-ICD-11.

    Bo Bach;Tiffany A. Brown;Roger T. Mulder;Giles Newton-Howes

    (2021)
    110 Citations
  • Personality Assessment Questionnaire for ICD-11 personality trait domains: Development and testing.

    Youl-Ri Kim;Peter Tyrer;Soon-Taeg Hwang

    (2021)
    44 Citations
  • Treatment of personality pathology through the lens of the hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology: Developing a research agenda.

    Stephanie N. Mullins‐Sweatt;Christopher J. Hopwood;Michael Chmielewski;Neil A. Meyer

    (2020)
    40 Citations
  • Interfacing neural constructs with the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology: ‘Why’ and ‘how’

    Emily R. Perkins;Robert D. Latzman;Christopher J. Patrick

    (2020)
    36 Citations
  • The wide-ranging life outcome correlates of a general psychopathology factor in adolescent psychopathology

    Odilia M. Laceulle;Joanne M. Chung;Wilma A.M. Vollebergh;Johan Ormel

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Normative data for the LPFS-BF 2.0 derived from the Danish general population and relationship with psychosocial impairment.

    (2022)
    32 Citations
  • The role of maladaptive personality domains across multiple levels of the HiTOP structure

    Martin Sellbom;Natacha Carragher;Matthew Sunderland;Alison L. Calear

    (2020)
    32 Citations
  • Personality traits as an organizing framework for personality pathology.

    David Watson;Lee Anna Clark

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Personality traits across the psychosis spectrum: A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology conceptualization of clinical symptomatology.

    Julia M. Longenecker;Robert F. Krueger;Scott R. Sponheim

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Pathological narcissism: An analysis of interpersonal dysfunction within intimate relationships.

    Nicholas J. S. Day;Michelle L. Townsend;Brin F. S. Grenyer

    (2021)
    22 Citations

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