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Colin Murray Parkes 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 Colin Murray Parkes sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 217 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Colin Murray Parkes 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 Colin Murray Parkes sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Colin Murray Parkes was affiliated with St Christopher's Hospice in the United Kingdom and contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences and psychology. Their research focused on topics related to intimate partner and family violence, child abuse and trauma, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, poverty, education and child welfare, sex work and related issues, homelessness and social issues, as well as migration, health and trauma.

Their subfields of study included clinical psychology, health, general health professions, safety research, and sociology and political science. This multidisciplinary approach reflected a comprehensive engagement with both social and psychological aspects of health and well-being.

Colin Murray Parkes collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Karen Devries, Dipak Naker, Simone Datzberger, Amiya Bhatia, and Janet Nakuti. These coauthors were recurrent partners in producing research within the domain of public health and social issues.

They published articles primarily in recognized journals such as BMC Public Health, SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, PLOS Global Public Health, Children & Society, and Comparative Education, with multiple papers appearing in each venue.

Selected recent papers by Colin Murray Parkes included:

  • Addressing silences in research on girls' experiences of teacher sexual violence: insights from Uganda, 2022, Comparative Education
  • Intensified inequities: Young people's experiences of Covid-19 and school closures in Uganda, 2022, Children & Society
  • Context of Violence in Adolescence Cohort (CoVAC) study: protocol for a mixed methods longitudinal study in Uganda, 2020, BMC Public Health
  • Remote methods for research on violence against women and children: lessons and challenges from research during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, BMJ Global Health
  • Referral of sexual violence against children: How do children and caregivers use a formal child protection mechanism in Harare, Zimbabwe?, 2022, SSM - Qualitative Research in Health

Best Publications

  • Bereavement; studies of grief in adult life

    Colin Murray Parkes

  • Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11

    Holly G Prigerson;Holly G Prigerson;Mardi J. Horowitz;Selby C. Jacobs;Colin M. Parkes

  • Attachment Across the Life Cycle

    Colin Murray Parkes;Joan Stevenson-Hinde;Peter Marris

  • Recovery from bereavement

    Colin Murray Parkes;Robert Stuart Weiss

  • Broken Heart: A Statistical Study of Increased Mortality among Widowers

    C M Parkes;B Benjamin;R G Fitzgerald

  • Psycho-social transitions: a field for study.

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  • The First Year of Bereavement †.

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  • The Place of attachment in human behavior

    Colin Murray Parkes;J. S. Hinde

  • Bereavement as a psychosocial transition: Processes of adaptation to change.

    Colin M U R R A Y Parkes

  • The First Year of Bereavement

    Colin Murray Parkes

  • Death and bereavement across cultures

    Colin Murray Parkes;Pittu D. Laungani;Bill Young

  • Bereavement in adult life.

    Colin Murray Parkes

  • The Good School Toolkit for reducing physical violence from school staff to primary school students: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Uganda

    Karen M Devries;Louise Knight;Jennifer C Child;BA Angel Mirembe

  • Recent Bereavement as a Cause of Mental Illness

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  • Guidelines for conducting ethical bereavement research

    Colin Murray Parkes

  • Determinants of Outcome following Bereavement

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  • Bereavement: Studies of grief in adult life, 2nd ed.

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  • Psycho-social Transitions: Comparison between Reactions to Loss of a Limb and Loss of a Spouse

    Colin Murray Parkes

  • Love and Loss: The Roots of Grief and Its Complications

    Colin Murray Parkes

  • Bereavement

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  • A historical overview of the scientific study of bereavement.

    Colin Murray Parkes

  • Bereavement and mental illness

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  • An exploration of associations between separation anxiety in childhood and complicated grief in later life.

    Lauren C. Vanderwerker;Selby C. Jacobs;Colin Murray Parkes;Holly G. Prigerson

  • Surgery and loss of body parts.

    Peter Maguire;Colin Murray Parkes

  • Grief: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future

    Colin Murray Parkes

  • Psychiatric problems following bereavement by murder or manslaughter.

    Colin Murray Parkes

  • Grief and mourning in cross-cultural perspective

    Colin Murray Parkes

  • Bereavement — in 100 words

    Colin Murray Parkes

Frequent Co-Authors

Holly G. Prigerson
Holly G. Prigerson Cornell University
Brett T. Litz
Brett T. Litz Boston University
Susan D. Block
Susan D. Block Harvard Medical School
Mardi J. Horowitz
Mardi J. Horowitz University of California, San Francisco
Robert A. Neimeyer
Robert A. Neimeyer University of Memphis
George A. Bonanno
George A. Bonanno Columbia University
Camille B. Wortman
Camille B. Wortman Stony Brook University
Andreas Maercker
Andreas Maercker University of Zurich
David W. Kissane
David W. Kissane University of Notre Dame Australia
Paul A. Boelen
Paul A. Boelen Utrecht University

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