World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
SSM - Mental Health
H-index 19

SSM - Mental Health

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 170 66 81 16
Psychology 600 54 49 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 164
Documents by Best Scientists*: 146
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 18
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.19
Impact Factor: 2.6

Top Publications

  • A reflection of the current status of the mental healthcare system in South Africa

    Unknown

    (2023)
    74 Citations
  • Flourishing in critical dialogue

    Unknown

    (2023)
    54 Citations
  • Loneliness, social isolation, and all-cause mortality in the United States

    Andrew C. Stokes;Wubin Xie;Dielle J. Lundberg;Dana A. Glei

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • Family-based mental health interventions for refugees across the migration continuum: A systematic review

    (2022)
    34 Citations
  • The protective effects of wellbeing and flourishing on long-term mental health risk

    (2022)
    32 Citations
  • Household water insecurity and psychological distress in Eastern Ethiopia: Unfairness and water sharing as undertheorized factors

    Alexandra Brewis;Kedir Teji Roba;Amber Wutich;Mason Manning

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Order out of chaos: Sense of coherence and the mediating role of coping resources in explaining mental health during COVID-19 in 7 countries

    A. Mana;G.F. Bauer;C. Meier Magistretti;C. Sardu

    (2021)
    29 Citations
  • Community-based participatory design of a psychosocial intervention for migrant women in Ecuador and Panama

    (2022)
    29 Citations
  • The social route to mental health: A systematic review and synthesis of theories linking social relationships to mental health to inform interventions

    Lærke Mai Bonde Andersen;Amanda Nikolajew Rasmussen;Nicola J. Reavley;Henrik Bøggild

    (2021)
    28 Citations
  • Is positive school climate associated with better adolescent mental health? Longitudinal study of young people in England

    Baptiste Leurent;Matthew Dodd;Elizabeth Allen;Russell Viner

    (2021)
    27 Citations

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