2026 David Lester: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	91	902	789	572	490	2394	47611
Medicine	87	13416	12624	6822	6307	1901	41278

Overview

David Lester is affiliated with Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology, social psychology, applied psychology, sociology and political science, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
Mental Health Treatment and Access
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

David Lester has frequently published in the following venues:

Mental Health Religion & Culture
Frontiers in Psychiatry
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Nursing Open
Mankind Quarterly

Their recent papers include:

"Linking individual differences in satisfaction with each of Maslow's needs to the Big Five personality traits and Panksepp's primary emotional systems" (2020) published in Heliyon
"The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide ideation and suicide attempts in a sample of psychiatric inpatients" (2021) published in Psychiatry Research
"Further Insights Into the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS): Unidimensionality Among Psychiatric Inpatients" (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
"The Role of New Technologies to Prevent Suicide in Adolescence: A Systematic Review of the Literature" (2021) published in Medicina
"Association of suicide with short-term exposure to air pollution at different lag times: A systematic review and meta-analysis" (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors in David Lester's work include:

Mahboubeh Dadfar
Marco Innamorati
Maurizio Pompili
Salvatore Sarubbi
Denise Erbuto

In addition to journal articles, David Lester has published books with notable academic publishers, including:

Cambridge University Press: "Women and Suicidal Behavior" (2020)
Nova Publishers: "Suicide Terrorists and Terrorism: A Suicidologist Critically Reviews the Research" (2020)

This profile highlights areas of academic focus grounded in psychological research, particularly related to suicide, mental health, and psychosocial development across various populations.

Best Publications

The measurement of pessimism: the hopelessness scale.

Aaron T. Beck;Arlene Weissman;David Lester;Larry Trexler

8018
Citations
The Fear of Death and the Fear of Dying

Lora-Jean Collett;David Lester

826
Citations
Suicidal Behavior and Alcohol Abuse

Maurizio Pompili;Gianluca Serafini;Marco Innamorati;Giovanni Dominici

591
Citations
Post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide risk: a systematic review.

Karolina Krysinska;David Lester

562
Citations
Why people kill themselves;: A summary of research findings on suicidal behavior

David Lester

490
Citations
Suicide risk in schizophrenia: learning from the past to change the future

Maurizio Pompili;Maurizio Pompili;Xavier F Amador;Paolo Girardi;Jill Harkavy-Friedman

489
Citations
Perceived Burdensomeness And Suicidality: Two Studies On The Suicide Notes Of Those Attempting And Those Completing Suicide

Thomas E. Joiner;Jeremy W. Pettit;Rheeda L. Walker;Zachary R. Voelz

409
Citations
Shyness, Internet use, and personality

Susan Ebeling-Witte;Michael L. Frank;David Lester

361
Citations
Experimental and correlational studies of the fear of death.

David Lester

342
Citations
Suicide: Closing the Exits

Ronald V. Clarke;David Lester

298
Citations
Why people kill themselves

David Lester

284
Citations
Measuring Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs:

David Lester

271
Citations
Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students

Bob Lew;Jenny Huen;Pengpeng Yu;Lu Yuan

260
Citations
The Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale: A correction.

David Lester;Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek

254
Citations
The collett-lester fear of death scale: The original version and a revision

David Lester

252
Citations
Why People Kill Themselves: A 2000 Summary of Research on Suicide

David Lester

241
Citations
The concentration of neurotransmitter metabolites in the cerebrospinal fluid of suicidal individuals: a meta-analysis.

David Lester

241
Citations
Posttraumatic stress disorder and suicide risk among veterans: A literature review

Maurizio Pompili;Leo Sher;Gianluca Serafini;Alberto Forte

231
Citations
Women and suicidal behavior

Silvia Sara Canetto;David Lester

230
Citations
Suicide and islam.

David Lester

212
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Pompili Sapienza University of Rome

Marco Innamorati European University of Rome

Paolo Girardi Sapienza University of Rome

Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek Alexandria University

Gianluca Serafini University of Genoa

Mario Amore University of Genoa

Aaron T. Beck University of Pennsylvania

Zoltan Rihmer Semmelweis University

Steven Stack Wayne State University

Stefano Ferracuti Sapienza University of Rome

External Links

Personal website of David Lester Google Scholar page

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