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Elizabeth J. Letourneau

Elizabeth J. Letourneau

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
7816
World Ranking
6978
National Ranking
3780

Elizabeth J. Letourneau 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 Elizabeth J. Letourneau sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 119 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elizabeth J. Letourneau 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 Elizabeth J. Letourneau sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Elizabeth J. Letourneau is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily contributes to the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a significant focus on Clinical Psychology as a subfield. Other notable subfields of study include Health, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, and General Health Professions.

The main topics addressed in their work include child abuse and trauma, intimate partner and family violence, sexual assault and victimization studies, homelessness and social issues, criminal justice and corrections analysis, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, and migration, health, and trauma.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Child Maltreatment
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among their recent papers are:

  • Child Sexual Abuse: The Need for a Perpetration Prevention Focus, 2020, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences, Mental Health, and Risk Behaviors in Adulthood: Exploring Sex, Racial, and Ethnic Group Differences in a Nationally Representative Sample, 2021, Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma
  • Help wanted: Lessons on prevention from young adults with a sexual interest in prepubescent children, 2020, Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Reported Incidents of Child Neglect and Physical Abuse, 2021, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Changing the paradigm: Using strategic communications to promote recognition of child sexual abuse as a preventable public health problem, 2021, Child Abuse & Neglect

The list of frequent co-authors includes:

  • Luciana C. Assini-Meytin
  • Rebecca L. Fix
  • Reshmi Nair
  • Elizabeth A. Stuart
  • Kenneth A. Feder

Elizabeth J. Letourneau has also contributed to book publications, including a title from Cambridge University Press: Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws, published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Delay in disclosure of childhood rape: results from a national survey.

    Daniel W Smith;Elizabeth J Letourneau;Benjamin E Saunders;Dean G Kilpatrick

  • Multisystemic Therapy for Juvenile Sexual Offenders: 1-Year Results from a Randomized Effectiveness Trial

    Elizabeth J. Letourneau;Scott W. Henggeler;Charles M. Borduin;Paul A. Schewe

  • Report of the APSAC task force on attachment therapy, reactive attachment disorder, and attachment problems.

    Mark Chaffin;Rochelle Hanson;Benjamin E. Saunders;Todd Nichols

  • Toward Effective Quality Assurance in Evidence-Based Practice: Links between Expert Consultation, Therapist Fidelity, and Child Outcomes.

    Sonja K. Schoenwald;Ashli J. Sheidow;Elizabeth J. Letourneau

  • Juvenile sex offenders: a case against the legal and clinical status quo.

    Elizabeth J. Letourneau;Michael H. Miner

  • Transporting efficacious treatments to field settings: the link between supervisory practices and therapist fidelity in MST programs.

    Scott W. Henggeler;Sonja K. Schoenwald;Jason G. Liao;Elizabeth J. Letourneau

  • Mediators of Change for Multisystemic Therapy with Juvenile Sexual Offenders

    Scott W. Henggeler;Elizabeth J. Letourneau;Jason E. Chapman;Charles M. Borduin

  • Transportability of multisystemic therapy: evidence for multilevel influences.

    Sonja K. Schoenwald;Ashli J. Sheidow;Elizabeth J. Letourneau;Jason G. Liao

  • Adults, adolescents, and children who sexually abuse children: A developmental perspective.

    Mark Chaffin;Elizabeth Letourneau;Jane F. Silovsky

  • The economic burden of child sexual abuse in the United States.

    Elizabeth J. Letourneau;Derek S. Brown;Xiangming Fang;Xiangming Fang;Ahmed Hassan

  • Comorbidity of sexual problems and posttraumatic stress disorder in female crime victims

    Elizabeth J. Letourneau;Heidi S. Resnick;Dean G. Kilpatrick;Benjamin E. Saunders

  • Parent-Focused Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

    Tamar Mendelson;Elizabeth J. Letourneau

  • The prevalence of youth with Autism spectrum disorders in the criminal justice system

    Catherine A. Cheely;Laura A. Carpenter;Elizabeth J. Letourneau;Joyce S. Nicholas

  • Reductions in risk based on time offense-free in the community: Once a sexual offender, not always a sexual offender.

    R. Karl Hanson;Andrew J. R. Harris;Elizabeth Letourneau;L. Maaike Helmus

  • A comparison of objective measures of sexual arousal and interest: visual reaction time and penile plethysmography

    Elizabeth J. Letourneau

  • Gynecologic health consequences to victims of interpersonal violence.

    Elizabeth J Letourneau;Melisa Holmes;Jennifer Chasedunn-Roark

  • The need for a comprehensive public health approach to preventing child sexual abuse.

    Elizabeth J. Letourneau;William W. Eaton;Judith Bass;Frederick S. Berlin

  • Recidivism Rates for Registered and Nonregistered Juvenile Sexual Offenders

    Elizabeth J. Letourneau;Kevin S. Armstrong

  • Caregiver-therapist ethnic similarity predicts youth outcomes from an empirically based treatment.

    Colleen A. Halliday-Boykins;Sonja K. Schoenwald;Elizabeth J. Letourneau

  • ADHD and risky sexual behavior in adolescents: conduct problems and substance use as mediators of risk.

    Dustin E. Sarver;Michael R. McCart;Ashli J. Sheidow;Elizabeth J. Letourneau

  • Preliminary evaluation of sexual problems in combat veterans with PTSD.

    Elizabeth J. Letourneau;Paul A. Schewe;B. Christopher Frueh

  • Children and adolescents with sexual behavior problems.

    Elizabeth J. Letourneau;Sonja K. Schoenwald;Ashli J. Sheidow

Frequent Co-Authors

Jill S. Levenson
Jill S. Levenson Barry University
Sonja K. Schoenwald
Sonja K. Schoenwald Medical University of South Carolina
Charles M. Borduin
Charles M. Borduin University of Missouri
Mark Chaffin
Mark Chaffin University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Ramin Mojtabai
Ramin Mojtabai Johns Hopkins University
Scott W. Henggeler
Scott W. Henggeler Medical University of South Carolina
William O'Donohue
William O'Donohue University of Nevada Reno
Michael H. Miner
Michael H. Miner University of Minnesota
David Thornton
David Thornton Haukeland University Hospital
Benjamin E. Saunders
Benjamin E. Saunders Medical University of South Carolina

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