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40
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5324
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900

David Cottrell 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 David Cottrell sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 173 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Cottrell 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 David Cottrell sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David Cottrell is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their work emphasizes clinical psychology and intersects with pediatrics, general health professions, social psychology, and safety research.

The core topics of David Cottrell's research encompass suicide and self-harm studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, child welfare and adoption, child abuse and trauma, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, as well as crime patterns and interventions.

Key publications from David Cottrell include the following recent papers:

  • Longer-term effectiveness of systemic family therapy compared with treatment as usual for young people after self-harm: An extended follow up of pragmatic randomised controlled trial, 2020, EClinicalMedicine
  • Multisystemic therapy versus management as usual in the treatment of adolescent antisocial behaviour (START): 5-year follow-up of a pragmatic, randomised, controlled, superiority trial, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Exploring gender differences in risk factors for self-harm in adolescents using data from the Millennium Cohort Study, 2023, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • School lives of adolescent school students living with chronic physical health conditions: a qualitative evidence synthesis, 2022, Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • Antisocial cognition as a mediator of the peer influence effect and peer selection effect in antisocial adolescents, 2020, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Cottrell include:

  • Peter Fonagy
  • Alexandra Wright-Hughes
  • Stephen Butler
  • Abdullah Kraam
  • Elizabeth Simes

David Cottrell's research has been published across a range of venues, with notable contributions to:

  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • BMJ Open
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood

Best Publications

  • Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in childhood depression: systematic review of published versus unpublished data.

    Craig J Whittington;Tim Kendall;Peter Fonagy;David Cottrell

  • AMEE Guide No. 27: effective educational and clinical supervision

    Sue Kilminster;David Cottrell;Janet Grant;Brian Clark Jolly

  • What Works for Whom?: A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target;David Cottrell;Jeannette Phillips

  • Validation of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale for use with adolescents.

    David White;Chris Leach;Ruth Sims;Michelle Atkinson

  • Developing Multiprofessional Teamwork for Integrated Children's Services.

    Angela Anning;David Cottrell;Nick Frost;Josephine Green

  • Health professionals in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams: Changing professional practice

    Mark Robinson;David Cottrell

  • Estimating the extent and degree of Gambling related problems in the Australian population: A national survey.

    Mark G. Dickerson;Ellen Baron;Sung Mook Hong;David Cottrell

  • Practitioner review: The effectiveness of systemic family therapy for children and adolescents.

    David Cottrell;Paula Boston

  • A randomized, controlled, single‐blind trial of teaching provided by a computer‐based multimedia package versus lecture

    Christopher Williams;Susan Aubin;Patrick Harkin;David Cottrell

  • Psychological disturbance in atopic eczema: the extent of the problem in school-aged children.

    C.M. Absolon;D. Cottrell;S.M. Eldridge;M.T. Glover

  • What is effective supervision and how does it happen? A critical incident study

    David Cottrell;Sue Kilminster;Brian Jolly;Janet Grant

  • Impact of mental fatigue on self-paced exercise.

    J. Brownsberger;A. Edwards;R. Crowther;D. Cottrell

  • Systemic family therapy can be manualized: research process and findings

    H. Pote;P. Stratton;D. Cottrell;D. Shapiro

  • Effectiveness of systemic family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people after self-harm: a pragmatic, phase 3, multicentre, randomised controlled trial

    David J. Cottrell;Alexandra Wright-Hughes;Michelle Collinson;Paula Boston

  • “I just want to teach”: Queensland independent school teachers and their workload

    Carolyn May Timms;Deborah Graham;David Cottrell

  • Multisystemic therapy versus management as usual in the treatment of adolescent antisocial behaviour (START): a pragmatic, randomised controlled, superiority trial

    Peter Fonagy;Stephen Butler;David Cottrell;Stephen Scott

  • Factors influencing non-attendance at child psychiatry out-patient appointments.

    David Cottrell;Peter Hill;David Walk;Jo Dearnaley

  • Deliberate self-harm in children and adolescents: association with social deprivation.

    Agnes Ayton;Hufrize Rasool;David Cottrell

  • Sublexical Orthographic-Phonological Relations Early in the Acquisition of Reading: The Knowledge Sources Account.

    G.Brian Thompson;David S. Cottrell;Claire M. Fletcher-Flinn

  • Self directed learning.

    A Towle;D Cottrell

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Allan House
Allan House University of Leeds
Ivan Eisler
Ivan Eisler King's College London
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green University of Manchester
Sarah M. Fortune
Sarah M. Fortune Harvard University
Stephen Pilling
Stephen Pilling University College London
Stephen Scott
Stephen Scott Queen's University
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Rohan Borschmann
Rohan Borschmann University of Melbourne
Mary Target
Mary Target University College London

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