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Cristiane Silvestre de Paula

Cristiane Silvestre de Paula

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
34
Citations
8010
World Ranking
6850
National Ranking
38

Cristiane Silvestre de Paula 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 Cristiane Silvestre de Paula sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 125 publications — 27th percentile

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

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

Cristiane Silvestre de Paula 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 Cristiane Silvestre de Paula sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Cristiane Silvestre de Paula is affiliated with Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie in Brazil. Their work primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a notable focus on Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Safety Research, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Family and Disability Support Research, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Recent published papers authored or co-authored by Cristiane Silvestre de Paula include:

  • Challenges, priorities, barriers to care, and stigma in families of people with autism: Similarities and differences among six Latin American countries, 2020, Autism
  • The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • Integrating youth mental health into cash transfer programmes in response to the COVID-19 crisis in low-income and middle-income countries, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Perceived Stigma and Barriers to Accessing Services: Experience of Caregivers of Autistic Children Residing in Latin America, 2021, Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • A randomised clinical pilot trial to test the effectiveness of parent training with video modelling to improve functioning and symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disability, 2020, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Psicologia - Teoria e Prática
  • Brain Sciences
  • Autism
  • Cadernos de Pós-Graduação em Distúrbios do Desenvolvimento
  • Autism Research

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Sara Evans-Lacko, Alícia Matijasevich, Sebastián Cukier, Cecilia Montiel-Nava, and Ricardo Navarro García.

Best Publications

  • Global Prevalence of Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders

    Mayada Elsabbagh;Gauri Divan;Yun Joo Koh;Young Shin Kim

  • Brief Report: Prevalence of Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Brazil: A Pilot Study

    Cristiane S. Paula;Cristiane S. Paula;Sabrina H. Ribeiro;Eric Fombonne;Marcos T. Mercadante

  • Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL),Youth Self-Report (YSR) and Teacher's Report Form(TRF): an overview of the development of the original and Brazilian versions

    Isabel Altenfelder Santos Bordin;Marina M. Rocha;Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Maria Cristina T. V. Teixeira

  • Autism spectrum disorders: an overview on diagnosis and treatment

    Helena Brentani;Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Daniela Bordini;Deborah Rolim

  • International Variations in Harsh Child Discipline

    Desmond Kimo Runyan;Viswanathan Shankar;Fatma Hassan;Wanda M. Hunter

  • Bayley-III Scales of Infant and Toddler Development: Transcultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties

    Vanessa Madaschi;Tatiana Pontrelli Mecca;Elizeu Coutinho de Macedo;Cristiane Silvestre Paula

  • Severe physical punishment: risk of mental health problems for poor urban children in Brazil

    Isabel A Bordin;Cristiane S Duarte;Clovis A Peres;Rosimeire Nascimento

  • Prevalence of mental health problems in children and adolescents from the outskirts of Sao Paulo City: treatment needs and service capacity evaluation

    Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Cristiane Seixas Duarte;Isabel Altenfelder Santos Bordin

  • The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Annie Zimmerman;Emily Garman;Mauricio Avendano-Pabon;Ricardo Araya

  • A visão dos profissionais de saúde em relação à violência doméstica contra crianças e adolescentes: um estudo qualitativo

    Elisa Meireles Andrade;Eunice Nakamura;Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Rosimeire do Nascimento

  • Prevalence of pervasive developmental disorder in Down's syndrome.

    Rosane Lowenthal;Cristiane S. Paula;Jose S. Schwartzman;Décio Brunoni

  • How to improve the mental health care of children and adolescents in Brazil: actions needed in the public sector

    Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Edith Lauridsen-Ribeiro;Lawrence Wissow;Isabel Altenfelder Santos Bordin

  • Partner violence as a risk factor for mental health among women from communities in the Philippines, Egypt, Chile, and India.

    Beatriz Vizcarra;Fatma Hassan;Wanda M Hunter;Sergio R Muñoz

  • Physical intimate partner violence in Chile, Egypt, India and the Philippines.

    Fatma Hassan;Laura S. Sadowski;Shrikant I. Bangdiwala;Beatriz Vizcarra

  • Severe physical punishment and mental health problems in an economically disadvantaged population of children and adolescents

    Isabel Altenfelder Santos Bordin;Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Rosimeire do Nascimento;Cristiane Seixas Duarte

  • Perspectives of intellectual disability in Latin American countries: epidemiology, policy, and services for children and adults.

    Marcos T Mercadante;Sara Evans-Lacko;Cristiane S Paula

  • Fatores de risco para problemas de saúde mental na infância/adolescência

    Daniel Graça Fatori de Sá;Isabel A. Santos Bordin;Denise Martin;Cristiane S. de Paula

  • A cross-sectional study to assess the prevalence of DSM-5 specific learning disorders in representative school samples from the second to sixth grade in Brazil

    Isabela S. Fortes;Cristiane S. Paula;Cristiane S. Paula;Melaine C. Oliveira;Isabel A. Bordin

  • The Mental Health Care Gap among Children and Adolescents: Data from an Epidemiological Survey from Four Brazilian Regions

    Cristiane Silvestre de Paula;Isabel Altenfelder Santos Bordin;Jair de Jesus Mari;Luciane de Souza Velasque

  • Autism and the grand challenges in global mental health.

    Naila Z Khan;Lilia Albores Gallo;Aurora Arghir;Bogdan Budisteanu

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara Evans-Lacko
Sara Evans-Lacko London School of Economics and Political Science
Cristiane S. Duarte
Cristiane S. Duarte Columbia University
Luis Augusto Rohde
Luis Augusto Rohde Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Crick Lund
Crick Lund University of Cape Town
David McDaid
David McDaid London School of Economics and Political Science
Mauricio Avendano
Mauricio Avendano King's College London
Shrikant I. Bangdiwala
Shrikant I. Bangdiwala McMaster University
Ricardo Araya
Ricardo Araya King's College London
Eric Fombonne
Eric Fombonne Oregon Health & Science University
Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Euripedes Constantino Miguel Universidade de São Paulo

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