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Alan L. Berman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan L. Berman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 146 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Alan L. Berman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan L. Berman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Alan L. Berman is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. The primary field of their research is psychology, with a focus on several subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, health, archeology, and sociology and political science.

Their work extensively covers topics related to suicide and self-harm studies, mental health treatment and access, gun ownership and violence research, homicide, infanticide, and child abuse, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, public health and social inequalities, and health policy implementation science.

Recent papers authored by Alan L. Berman include:

  • Effectiveness of restricting access to a suicide jump site: a test of the method substitution hypothesis, 2021, Injury Prevention
  • Hospital-Based Suicides: Challenging Existing Myths, 2020, Psychiatric Quarterly
  • Proximal risk for suicide in correctional settings: A call for priority research, 2021, Psychological Services

Other notable recent papers relevant to their field, although authored by others, indicate the broader research context around their work:

  • International study of definitions of English-language terms for suicidal behaviours: a survey exploring preferred terminology, 2021, BMJ Open
  • A Cascade of Care Model for Suicide Prevention, 2022, American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Alan L. Berman include:

  • Morton M. Silverman
  • Paul S. Nestadt
  • Diego De Leo
  • Emily E. Haroz
  • Leslie B. Adams

The venues where Alan L. Berman has been published most frequently demonstrate a focus on crisis intervention and suicide-related research:

  • Crisis
  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • BMJ Open
  • Injury Prevention
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Alan L. Berman's research contributions concentrate on clinical and social aspects of psychology with particular emphasis on suicide prevention, risk assessment in correctional and hospital settings, and public health interventions addressing self-harm and mental health services access.

Best Publications

  • Beyond the Tower of Babel: A Nomenclature for Suicidology

    Patrick W. O'Carroll;Alan L. Berman;Ronald W. Maris;Eve K. Moscicki

  • Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: A Revised Nomenclature for the Study of Suicide and Suicidal Behaviors Part 2: Suicide‐Related Ideations, Communications, and Behaviors

    Morton M. Silverman;Alan L. Berman;Nels D. Sanddal;Patrick W. O'Carroll

  • Comprehensive Textbook of Suicidology

    Morton M. Silverman;Alan L. Berman;Ronald W. Maris

  • Adolescent Suicide: Assessment and Intervention

    Alan L. Berman;David A. Jobes;Morton M. Silverman

  • Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: A Revised Nomenclature for the Study of Suicide and Suicidal Behaviors. Part 1: Background, Rationale, and Methodology.

    Morton M Silverman;Alan L Berman;Nels D Sanddal;Patrick W O'carroll

  • Warning Signs for Suicide: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications.

    M. David Rudd;Alan L. Berman;Thomas E. Joiner;Matthew K. Nock

  • Life Stress and Symptomatology: Determinants of Suicidal Behavior in Children

    Roni Cohen-Sandler;Alan L. Berman;Robert A. King

  • Assessment and prediction of suicide

    Ronald W. Maris;Alan L. Berman;John T. Maltsberger;Robert I. Yufit

  • Operational Criteria for the Determination of Suicide

    Mark L. Rosenberg;Lucy E. Davidson;Jack C. Smith;Alan L. Berman

  • Estimating the Population of Survivors of Suicide: Seeking an Evidence Base

    Alan L. Berman

  • Suicide attempts among adolescent drug users.

    Alan L. Berman;Richard H. Schwartz

  • Relation between death anxiety, belief in afterlife, and locus of control.

    Alan L. Berman;James E. Hays

  • The Kurt Cobain Suicide Crisis: Perspectives from Research, Public Health, and the News Media

    David A. Jobes;Alan L. Berman;Patrick W. O'Carroll;Susan Eastgard

  • Suicide prevention in adolescents (age 12-18).

    Alan L. Berman;David A. Jobes

  • Risk Factors Proximate to Suicide and Suicide Risk Assessment in the Context of Denied Suicide Ideation.

    Alan L. Berman

  • Dyadic death: Murder-suicide.

    Alan L. Berman

  • Which helper behaviors and intervention styles are related to better short-term outcomes in telephone crisis intervention? Results from a Silent Monitoring Study of Calls to the U.S. 1-800-SUICIDE Network.

    Brian L. Mishara;Fran¸ois Chagnon;Marc Daigle;Bogdan Balan

  • A follow-up study of hospitalized suicidal children

    Roni Cohen-Sandler;Alan L. Berman;Robert A. King

  • Fictional depiction of suicide in television films and imitation effects.

    A L Berman

  • Establishing standards for the assessment of suicide risk among callers to the national suicide prevention lifeline.

    Thomas Joiner;John Kalafat;John Draper;Heather Stokes

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Jobes
David A. Jobes Catholic University of America
Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Diego De Leo
Diego De Leo Griffith University
M. David Rudd
M. David Rudd University of Memphis
Kimberly A. Van Orden
Kimberly A. Van Orden University of Rochester Medical Center
Ella Arensman
Ella Arensman University College Cork
Danuta Wasserman
Danuta Wasserman Karolinska Institute
Kairi Kõlves
Kairi Kõlves Griffith University
Ramin Mojtabai
Ramin Mojtabai Johns Hopkins University
Tracy K. Witte
Tracy K. Witte Auburn University

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