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D-Index
50
Citations
18698
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5328
National Ranking
2914

Amy C. Watson publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amy C. Watson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 116 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Amy C. Watson D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amy C. Watson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Amy C. Watson is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant concentration in clinical psychology. Additional subfields of their work include social psychology, sociology and political science, general health professions, and psychiatry and mental health.

The work of Amy C. Watson covers a range of topics related to mental health and forensic psychology. Their main areas of study include:

  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Healthcare decision-making and restraints
  • Mental health treatment and access
  • Child abuse and trauma
  • Homelessness and social issues
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development

Amy C. Watson frequently publishes in several academic venues. The most common among these are:

  • Psychiatric Services
  • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
  • Community Mental Health Journal
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Michael T. Compton
  • Leah G. Pope
  • Jennifer Wood
  • Adria Zern
  • En Fu

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Amy C. Watson include:

  • Police Reform From the Perspective of Mental Health Services and Professionals: Our Role in Social Change, 2021, Psychiatric Services
  • The Impact of Crisis Intervention Team Response, Dispatch Coding, and Location on the Outcomes of Police Encounters with Individuals with Mental Illnesses in Chicago, 2021, Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice

Other significant works associated with Watson's co-authors contribute to the thematic landscape of mental health and policing, such as:

  • What can we expect of police in the face of deficient mental health systems? Qualitative insights from Chicago police officers, 2020, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
  • Youths' and Young Adults' Experiences of Police Involvement During Initiation of Involuntary Psychiatric Holds and Transport, 2021, Psychiatric Services
  • Utilizing Crisis Intervention Teams in Prison to Improve Officer Knowledge, Stigmatizing Attitudes, and Perception of Response Options, 2020, Criminal Justice and Behavior

Best Publications

  • The Paradox of Self-Stigma and Mental Illness

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson

  • Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illness.

    Patrick W Corrigan;Amy C Watson

  • An attribution model of public discrimination towards persons with mental illness

    Patrick Corrigan;Fred E Markowitz;Amy Watson;David Rowan

  • The Self–Stigma of Mental Illness: Implications for Self–Esteem and Self–Efficacy

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson;Leah Barr

  • Structural Levels of Mental Illness Stigma and Discrimination

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Fred E. Markowitz;Amy C. Watson

  • Self-Stigma in People With Mental Illness

    Amy C. Watson;Patrick Corrigan;Jonathon E. Larson;Molly Sells

  • Blame, shame, and contamination: the impact of mental illness and drug dependence stigma on family members

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson;Frederick E. Miller

  • Newspaper stories as measures of structural stigma.

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson;Gabriela Gracia;Natalie Slopen

  • Mental illness stigma and care seeking.

    Amy E. Cooper;Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson

  • The Stigma of Psychiatric Disorders and the Gender, Ethnicity, and Education of the Perceiver

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson

  • A comprehensive review of extant research on Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs.

    Michael T Compton;Masuma Bahora;Amy C Watson;Janet R Oliva

  • Changing Middle Schoolers' Attitudes About Mental Illness Through Education

    Amy C. Watson;Emeline Otey;Anne L. Westbrook;April L. Gardner

  • Findings from the National Comorbidity Survey on the frequency of violent behavior in individuals with psychiatric disorders.

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson

  • At Issue Stop the Stigma: Call Mental Illness a Brain Disease

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson

  • Structural Stigma in State Legislation

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson;Mark L. Heyrman;Amy Warpinski

  • Improving police response to persons with mental illness: a multi-level conceptualization of CIT.

    Amy C. Watson;Melissa Schaefer Morabito;Jeffrey Draine;Victor Ottati

  • Stigmatizing attitudes about mental illness and allocation of resources to mental health services.

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Amy C. Watson;Amy C. Warpinski;Gabriela Gracia

  • Self-stigma of mental illness scale - short form: Reliability and validity

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Patrick J. Michaels;Eduardo Vega;Michael Gause

  • Crisis Intervention Teams and People With Mental Illness: Exploring the Factors That Influence the Use of Force

    Melissa S. Morabito;Amy N. Kerr;Amy C. Watson;Jeffrey Draine

  • Will filmed presentations of education and contact diminish mental illness stigma

    Patrick W. Corrigan;Jonathon Larson;Molly Sells;Nathaniel Niessen

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick W. Corrigan
Patrick W. Corrigan Illinois Institute of Technology
Victor Ottati
Victor Ottati Loyola University Chicago
Jeffrey Draine
Jeffrey Draine Temple University
Arthur J. Lurigio
Arthur J. Lurigio Loyola University Chicago
Roger Bakeman
Roger Bakeman Georgia State University
Natalie Slopen
Natalie Slopen Harvard University
Kenneth A. Rasinski
Kenneth A. Rasinski University of Illinois at Chicago
Nancy J. Thompson
Nancy J. Thompson Emory University
Shaun M. Eack
Shaun M. Eack University of Pittsburgh

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