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110
Citations
71000
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National Ranking
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Diana O. Perkins publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Diana O. Perkins sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 448 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Diana O. Perkins D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Diana O. Perkins sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 110 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Diana O. Perkins is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a significant focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology.

Their research centers on several main topics, including:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

They have contributed extensively to scholarly literature, with notable recent papers such as:

  • Potential Roles of Redox Dysregulation in the Development of Schizophrenia, 2020, Biological Psychiatry
  • North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS 3): Methods and baseline description, 2020, Schizophrenia Research
  • Accelerated cortical thinning precedes and predicts conversion to psychosis: The NAPLS3 longitudinal study of youth at clinical high-risk, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ): Rationale and Study Design of the Largest Global Prospective Cohort Study of Clinical High Risk for Psychosis, 2024, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Toward Generalizable and Transdiagnostic Tools for Psychosis Prediction: An Independent Validation and Improvement of the NAPLS-2 Risk Calculator in the Multisite PRONIA Cohort, 2021, Biological Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • Daniel H. Mathalon
  • Barbara A. Cornblatt
  • Carrie E. Bearden
  • Jean Addington
  • Tyrone D. Cannon

Their work has been published in various venues, with multiple publications in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia

In addition to articles, they have contributed to book publications, including one with American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks titled The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Schizophrenia, Second Edition, published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Effectiveness of Antipsychotic Drugs in Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia

    Jeffrey A. Lieberman;T. Scott Stroup;Joseph Patrick McEvoy;Joseph Patrick McEvoy;Marvin S. Swartz

  • Prodromal Assessment With the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes and the Scale of Prodromal Symptoms: Predictive Validity, Interrater Reliability, and Training to Reliability

    Tandy J. Miller;Thomas H. McGlashan;Joanna L. Rosen;Kristen Cadenhead

  • Relationship Between Duration of Untreated Psychosis and Outcome in First-Episode Schizophrenia: A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis

    Diana O. Perkins;Hongbin Gu;Kalina Boteva;Jeffrey A. Lieberman

  • Prediction of psychosis in youth at high clinical risk: a multisite longitudinal study in North America.

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Kristin Cadenhead;Barbara Cornblatt;Scott W. Woods

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Neurocognitive Effects of Antipsychotic Medications in Patients With Chronic Schizophrenia in the CATIE Trial

    Richard S.E. Keefe;Robert M. Bilder;Sonia M. Davis;Philip D. Harvey

  • Effectiveness of Clozapine Versus Olanzapine, Quetiapine, and Risperidone in Patients With Chronic Schizophrenia Who Did Not Respond to Prior Atypical Antipsychotic Treatment

    Joseph Patrick McEvoy;Jeffrey A. Lieberman;T. Scott Stroup;Sonia M. Davis

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • The Effects of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs on Neurocognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia: A Review and Meta-analysis

    Richard S.E. Keefe;Susan G. Silva;Diana O. Perkins;Jeffrey A. Lieberman

  • Antipsychotic drug effects on brain morphology in first-episode psychosis

    Jeffrey A. Lieberman;Jeffrey A. Lieberman;Gary D. Tollefson;Cecil Charles;Robert Zipursky

  • The early stages of schizophrenia: speculations on pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and therapeutic approaches

    Jeffrey A. Lieberman;Diana Perkins;Aysenil Belger;Miranda Chakos

  • Microduplications of 16p11.2 are Associated with Schizophrenia

    Shane E. McCarthy;Vladimir Makarov;George Kirov;Anjene M. Addington

  • Predictors of Noncompliance in Patients With Schizophrenia

    Diana O. Perkins

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Randomized, double-blind trial of olanzapine versus placebo in patients prodromally symptomatic for psychosis.

    Thomas H. McGlashan;Robert B. Zipursky;Diana Perkins;Jean Addington

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • Implications for the Neural Basis of Social Cognition for the Study of Schizophrenia

    Amy E. Pinkham;David L. Penn;Diana O. Perkins;Jeffrey Lieberman

  • Progression to AIDS: the effects of stress, depressive symptoms, and social support.

    Jane Leserman;Eric D. Jackson;John M. Petitto;Robert N. Golden

  • Barriers to Employment for People With Schizophrenia

    Robert Rosenheck;Douglas Leslie;Richard Keefe;Joseph McEvoy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Addington
Jean Addington University of Calgary
Scott W. Woods
Scott W. Woods Yale University
Larry J. Seidman
Larry J. Seidman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ming T. Tsuang
Ming T. Tsuang University of California, San Diego
Elaine F. Walker
Elaine F. Walker Emory University
Tyrone D. Cannon
Tyrone D. Cannon Yale University
Thomas H. McGlashan
Thomas H. McGlashan Yale University
Barbara A. Cornblatt
Barbara A. Cornblatt Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco

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