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E. David Klonsky 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 E. David Klonsky sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 137 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

E. David Klonsky 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 E. David Klonsky sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

E. David Klonsky is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions to clinical psychology, social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, sociology and political science, and cognitive neuroscience. The body of work spans 64 publications in psychology and its related subfields.

The main topics of Klonsky's research include:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Insect and Pesticide Research

Klonsky's frequent publication venues include:

  • Assessment
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Behavior Therapy

Their recent notable papers are:

  • The three-step theory of suicide: Description, evidence, and some useful points of clarification (2021) - Preventive Medicine
  • The critical distinction between suicidal ideation and suicide attempts (2021) - World Psychiatry
  • Motivations for suicide: Converging evidence from clinical and community samples (2020) - Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Inflexible Interpretations of Ambiguous Social Situations: A Novel Predictor of Suicidal Ideation and the Beliefs That Inspire It (2021) - Clinical Psychological Science
  • Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Functions as Pathways to Future Self-Harm Repetition and Suicide Attempts (2021) - Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Klonsky include:

  • Mikayla C. Pachkowski
  • Lauren M. O'Reilly
  • Erik Pettersson
  • Patrick D. Quinn
  • Sebastian Lundström

Best Publications

  • The functions of deliberate self-injury: a review of the evidence.

    E. David Klonsky

  • The Three-Step Theory (3ST): A New Theory of Suicide Rooted in the "Ideation-to-Action" Framework

    E. David Klonsky;Alexis M. May

  • Suicide, Suicide Attempts, and Suicidal Ideation

    E. David Klonsky;Alexis M. May;Boaz Y. Saffer

  • Deliberate Self-Harm in a Nonclinical Population: Prevalence and Psychological Correlates

    E. David Klonsky;Thomas F. Oltmanns;Eric Turkheimer

  • Assessing the Functions of Non-suicidal Self-injury: Psychometric Properties of the Inventory of Statements About Self-injury (ISAS)

    E. David Klonsky;Catherine R. Glenn

  • Self-injury: a research review for the practitioner.

    E. David Klonsky;Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp

  • Identifying clinically distinct subgroups of self-injurers among young adults: a latent class analysis.

    E. David Klonsky;Thomas M. Olino

  • The relationship between nonsuicidal self-injury and attempted suicide: converging evidence from four samples.

    E. David Klonsky;Alexis M. May;Catherine Rose Glenn

  • Differentiating suicide attempters from suicide ideators: a critical frontier for suicidology research.

    E. David Klonsky;Alexis M. May

  • The functions of self-injury in young adults who cut themselves: clarifying the evidence for affect regulation

    E. David Klonsky

  • Non-suicidal self-injury in United States adults: prevalence, sociodemographics, topography and functions

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  • Ideation-to-action theories of suicide: a conceptual and empirical update.

    E. David Klonsky;Boaz Y. Saffer;Craig J. Bryan

  • Measurement of emotion dysregulation in adolescents

    Anna Weinberg;E. David Klonsky

  • Childhood sexual abuse and non-suicidal self-injury: meta-analysis

    E. David Klonsky;Anne Moyer

  • What distinguishes suicide attempters from suicide ideators? A meta‐analysis of potential factors.

    Alexis M. May;E. David Klonsky

  • Predictors of future suicide attempt among adolescents with suicidal thoughts or non-suicidal self-harm: a population-based birth cohort study

    Becky Mars;Becky Mars;Jon Heron;E David Klonsky;Paul Moran;Paul Moran

  • Nonsuicidal self-injury: what we know, and what we need to know.

    E David Klonsky;Sarah E Victor;Boaz Y Saffer

  • Emotion dysregulation as a core feature of borderline personality disorder

    Catherine R. Glenn;E. David Klonsky

  • Correlates of suicide attempts among self-injurers: a meta-analysis.

    Sarah E. Victor;E. David Klonsky

  • Validation of a Brief Version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-18) in Five Samples

    Sarah E. Victor;E. David Klonsky

  • Informant-Reports of Personality Disorder: Relation to Self-Reports and Future Research Directions

    E. David Klonsky;Thomas F. Oltmanns

  • Self-Injury:AResearchReviewforthePractitioner

    E. David Klonsky;Jennifer J. Muehlenkamp

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine R. Glenn
Catherine R. Glenn Old Dominion University
Anna Weinberg
Anna Weinberg McGill University
Greg Hajcak
Greg Hajcak Santa Clara University
Thomas F. Oltmanns
Thomas F. Oltmanns Washington University in St. Louis
Brian M. D’Onofrio
Brian M. D’Onofrio Indiana University
Eric Turkheimer
Eric Turkheimer University of Virginia
Paul Moran
Paul Moran University of Bristol
Craig J. Bryan
Craig J. Bryan The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Roman Kotov
Roman Kotov Stony Brook University
Sebastian Lundström
Sebastian Lundström University of Gothenburg

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