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D-Index
92
Citations
64245
World Ranking
860
National Ranking
546

David C. Atkins 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 David C. Atkins sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 301 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David C. Atkins 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 David C. Atkins sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David C. Atkins is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans the intersection of psychology and medicine, with a focus on fields such as general health professions, applied psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics covered in their work include digital mental health interventions, mental health research topics, mental health via writing, health policy implementation science, topic modeling, opioid use disorder treatment, and psychotherapy techniques and applications.

Atkins has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Human-AI collaboration enables more empathic conversations in text-based peer-to-peer mental health support, 2023, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Machine learning and natural language processing in psychotherapy research: Alliance as example use case, 2020, Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • How do you feel? Using natural language processing to automatically rate emotion in psychotherapy, 2021, Behavior Research Methods
  • Automated evaluation of psychotherapy skills using speech and language technologies, 2021, Behavior Research Methods
  • Enhancing the quality of cognitive behavioral therapy in community mental health through artificial intelligence generated fidelity feedback (Project AFFECT): a study protocol, 2022, BMC Health Services Research

Frequent co-authors of Atkins include Zac E. Imel, Shrikanth Narayanan, Michael Tanana, Nikolaos Flemotomos, and Torrey A. Creed.

Atkins' frequent publication venues comprise:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
  • JMIR Research Protocols

Best Publications

  • Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

    D Moher;A Liberati;J Tetzlaff;D G Altman

  • Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.

    David Atkins;Dana Best;Peter A Briss;Martin Eccles

  • GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence—study limitations (risk of bias)

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Gunn Vist;Regina Kunz

  • Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the acute treatment of adults with major depression.

    Sona Dimidjian;Steven D. Hollon;Keith S. Dobson;Karen B. Schmaling

  • GRADE guidelines: 2. Framing the question and deciding on important outcomes

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Regina Kunz;David Atkins

  • GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence--publication bias

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Victor Manuel Montori;Gunn Vist

  • GRADE guidelines: 9. Rating up the quality of evidence

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Shahnaz Sultan;Paul P. Glasziou

  • Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement (Chinese edition)

    D Moher;A Liberati;A Liberati;J Tetzlaff;D G Altman

  • Health Care and Public Service Use and Costs Before and After Provision of Housing for Chronically Homeless Persons With Severe Alcohol Problems

    Mary E. Larimer;Daniel K. Malone;Michelle D. Garner;David C. Atkins

  • Understanding infidelity: Correlates in a national random sample.

    David C. Atkins;Donald H. Baucom;Neil S. Jacobson

  • AHRQ Series Paper 5: Grading the strength of a body of evidence when comparing medical interventions—Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Effective Health-Care Program

    Douglas K. Owens;Douglas K. Owens;Kathleen N. Lohr;David Atkins;Jonathan R. Treadwell

  • Rethinking how family researchers model infrequent outcomes: a tutorial on count regression and zero-inflated models.

    David C. Atkins;Robert J. Gallop

  • Traditional versus integrative behavioral couple therapy for significantly and chronically distressed married couples.

    Andrew Christensen;David C. Atkins;Sara Berns;Jennifer Wheeler

  • Good Research Practices for Comparative Effectiveness Research: Defining, Reporting and Interpreting Nonrandomized Studies of Treatment Effects Using Secondary Data Sources: The ISPOR Good Research Practices for Retrospective Database Analysis Task Force Report—Part I

    Marc L. Berger;Muhammad Mamdani;David Atkins;Michael L. Johnson

  • Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Contextual Factors in Engaging in and Responding to Extramarital Involvement

    Elizabeth S. Allen;David C. Atkins;Donald H. Baucom;Douglas K. Snyder

  • A tutorial on count regression and zero-altered count models for longitudinal substance use data

    David C. Atkins;Scott A. Baldwin;Cheng Zheng;Robert J. Gallop

  • Rates of change in naturalistic psychotherapy: contrasting dose-effect and good-enough level models of change.

    Scott A. Baldwin;Arjan Berkeljon;David C. Atkins;Joseph A. Olsen

  • The Risk of Myocardial Infarction Associated With the Combined Use of Estrogens and Progestins in Postmenopausal Women

    Bruce M. Psaty;Susan R. Heckbert;David Atkins;Rozenn Lemaitre

  • The Use and Effectiveness of Mobile Apps for Depression: Results From a Fully Remote Clinical Trial.

    Patricia A Arean;Kevin A Hallgren;Joshua T Jordan;Adam Gazzaley

  • Using multilevel models to analyze couple and family treatment data: basic and advanced issues.

    David C. Atkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Zac E. Imel
Zac E. Imel University of Utah
Shrikanth S. Narayanan
Shrikanth S. Narayanan University of Southern California
Panayiotis G. Georgiou
Panayiotis G. Georgiou University of Southern California
Andrew Christensen
Andrew Christensen University of California, Los Angeles
Christine M. Lee
Christine M. Lee University of Washington
Mary E. Larimer
Mary E. Larimer University of Washington
Donald H. Baucom
Donald H. Baucom University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Clayton Neighbors
Clayton Neighbors University of Houston
Scott A. Baldwin
Scott A. Baldwin Brigham Young University
Melissa A. Lewis
Melissa A. Lewis University of North Texas Health Science Center

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