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Christopher A. Flessner

Christopher A. Flessner

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
5970
World Ranking
8601
National Ranking
4586

Christopher A. Flessner publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 106 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher A. Flessner 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 Christopher A. Flessner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christopher A. Flessner is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The bulk of their work centers on obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, alongside contributions in autism spectrum disorder research and issues related to child nutrition and feeding.

Their subfields of specialization include:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Social Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Frequent publication venues reflect the thematic interests in child and adolescent mental health and developmental topics. Notably, these venues are:

  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Children's Health Care
  • Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Journal of Pediatric Psychology

Recent published papers by Flessner span topics related to pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorders, anxiety, sleep disturbances, and anxiogenic parenting practices. Examples include:

  • "A Neurocognitive Comparison of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Trichotillomania (Hair Pulling Disorder)" (2020), Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
  • "Developmental Trajectories of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms" (2021), Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • "Youth Anxiety: The Moderating Effects of Accommodation and Emotional Warmth" (2023), Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • "Sleep Disturbances in Pediatric Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: A Preliminary Investigation" (2022), Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • "Psychometric Properties of a Measure Assessing Anxiogenic Parenting Practices in Food Allergy" (2022), Journal of Pediatric Psychology

Flessner often collaborates with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Theresa R. Gladstone
  • Emily P. Wilton
  • Ashley A. Lahoud
  • Anna K. Luke
  • Sydney D. Biscarri Clark

Best Publications

  • A Controlled Evaluation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Plus Habit Reversal for Trichotillomania

    Douglas W. Woods;Chad T. Wetterneck;Christopher A. Flessner

  • The Trichotillomania Impact Project (TIP): exploring phenomenology, functional impairment, and treatment utilization.

    Douglas W Woods;Christopher A Flessner;Martin E Franklin;Nancy J Keuthen

  • Phenomenological characteristics, social problems, and the economic impact associated with chronic skin picking.

    Christopher A. Flessner;Douglas W. Woods

  • Family-Based Treatment of Early Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder The Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Study for Young Children (POTS Jr)—A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Jennifer Freeman;Jeffrey Sapyta;Abbe Garcia;Scott Compton

  • Evaluation of Behavioral Skills Training to Prevent Gun Play in Children.

    Raymond G. Miltenberger;Christopher Flessner;Brian Gatheridge;Brigitte Johnson

  • The Skin Picking Impact Project: Phenomenology, interference, and treatment utilization of pathological skin picking in a population-based sample

    Benjamin T.P. Tucker;Douglas W. Woods;Christopher A. Flessner;Shana A. Franklin

  • EVALUATION OF BEHAVIORAL SKILLS TRAINING FOR TEACHING ABDUCTION‐PREVENTION SKILLS TO YOUNG CHILDREN

    Brigitte M Johnson;Raymond G Miltenberger;Kristin Egemo-Helm;Candice M Jostad

  • TEACHING SAFETY SKILLS TO CHILDREN TO PREVENT GUN PLAY

    Michael B. Himle;Raymond G. Miltenberger;Christopher Flessner;Brian Gatheridge

  • The child and adolescent trichotillomania impact project: descriptive psychopathology, comorbidity, functional impairment, and treatment utilization.

    Martin E. Franklin;Christopher A. Flessner;Douglas W. Woods;Nancy J. Keuthen

  • Styles of pulling in trichotillomania: exploring differences in symptom severity, phenomenology, and functional impact.

    Christopher A. Flessner;Christine A. Conelea;Douglas W. Woods;Martin E. Franklin

  • Acceptance-enhanced behavior therapy (AEBT) for trichotillomania and chronic skin picking: exploring the effects of component sequencing.

    Christopher A. Flessner;Andrew M. Busch;Paul W. Heideman;Douglas W. Woods

  • An Evaluation of Two Procedures for Training Skills to Prevent Gun Play in Children

    Michael B. Himle;Raymond G. Miltenberger;Brian J. Gatheridge;Christopher A. Flessner

  • Predictors of Parental Accommodation in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Findings from the Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Study (POTS) Trial

    Christopher A. Flessner;Jennifer B. Freeman;Jeffrey Sapyta;Abbe Garcia

  • The Milwaukee Inventory for the Dimensions of Adult Skin Picking (MIDAS): Initial development and psychometric properties

    Michael R. Walther;Christopher A. Flessner;Christine A. Conelea;Douglas W. Woods

  • Understanding and treating trichotillomania: what we know and what we don't know.

    Douglas W. Woods;Christopher Flessner;Martin E. Franklin;Chad T. Wetterneck

  • The Skin Picking Scale-Revised: Factor structure and psychometric properties

    Ivar Snorrason;Ragnar P. Ólafsson;Christopher A. Flessner;Nancy J. Keuthen

  • Comparison of two programs to teach firearm injury prevention skills to 6- and 7-year-old children.

    Brian J Gatheridge;Raymond G Miltenberger;Daniel F Huneke;Melisa J Satterlund

  • The Milwaukee Inventory for Subtypes of Trichotillomania-Adult Version (MIST-A): Development of an Instrument for the Assessment of “Focused” and “Automatic” Hair Pulling

    Christopher A. Flessner;Douglas W. Woods;Martin E. Franklin;Susan E. Cashin

  • The trichotillomania scale for children: development and validation.

    David F. Tolin;Gretchen J. Diefenbach;Christopher A. Flessner;Martin E. Franklin

  • Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Family Accommodation Scale-Parent-Report (FAS-PR).

    Christopher A. Flessner;Jeffrey Sapyta;Abbe Garcia;Jennifer B. Freeman

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas W. Woods
Douglas W. Woods Marquette University
Nancy J. Keuthen
Nancy J. Keuthen Harvard University
Martin E. Franklin
Martin E. Franklin University of Pennsylvania
Dan J. Stein
Dan J. Stein University of Cape Town
John Piacentini
John Piacentini University of California, Los Angeles
Abbe Garcia
Abbe Garcia Brown University
Raymond G. Miltenberger
Raymond G. Miltenberger University of South Florida
Christine A. Conelea
Christine A. Conelea University of Minnesota
John S. March
John S. March Duke University
David F. Tolin
David F. Tolin Yale University

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