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Gail M. Williamson 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 Gail M. Williamson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 92 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gail M. Williamson 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 Gail M. Williamson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gail M. Williamson was affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research focused primarily on psychology and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as social psychology, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their scholarly work centered around key topics including attachment and relationship dynamics, family caregiving in mental illness, and intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving. These areas reflect a strong interest in understanding family systems and the psychological aspects of caregiving.

Williamson contributed to academic literature with publications in venues like The Gerontologist. One of their recent papers is titled "Care Recipient Controlling and Manipulative Behavior and Caregiver Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Race, Caregiver Resentment, and Mutual Communal Behavior," published in 2021 in The Gerontologist.

  • Care Recipient Controlling and Manipulative Behavior and Caregiver Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Race, Caregiver Resentment, and Mutual Communal Behavior (2021, The Gerontologist)

Throughout their career, Williamson collaborated with several co-authors. Frequent contributors included Michelle R. Johnson and Charles E. Lance.

  • Michelle R. Johnson
  • Charles E. Lance

Best Publications

  • Stress and infectious disease in humans.

    Sheldon Cohen;Gail M. Williamson

  • Psychiatric and Physical Morbidity Effects of Caregiving

    Richard Schulz;Paul Visintainer;Gail M. Williamson

  • A 2-year longitudinal study of depression among Alzheimer's caregivers

    Richard Schulz;Gail M. Williamson

  • Risk Factors for Potentially Harmful Informal Caregiver Behavior

    Scott R. Beach;Richard Schulz;Gail M. Williamson;L. Stephen Miller

  • Pain, activity restriction, and symptoms of depression among community-residing elderly adults

    Gail M. Williamson;Richard Schulz

  • Coping With Specific Stressors in Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving

    Gail M. Williamson;Richard Schulz

  • Relationship quality and potentially harmful behaviors by spousal caregivers: how we were then, how we are now. The Family Relationships in Late Life Project.

    Gail M. Williamson;David R. Shaffer

  • Providing help and desired relationship type as determinants of changes in moods and self-evaluations.

    Gail M. Williamson;Margaret S. Clark

  • Pessimism, age, and cancer mortality.

    Richard Schulz;Jamila Bookwala;Judith E. Knapp;Michael F. Scheier

  • Relationship orientation, quality of prior relationship, and distress among caregivers of Alzheimer's patients.

    Gail M. Williamson;Richard Schulz

  • Activity restriction mediates the association between pain and depressed affect: A study of younger and older adult cancer patients.

    Gail M. Williamson;Richard Schulz

  • Physical illness and symptoms of depression among elderly outpatients.

    Gail M. Williamson;Richard Schulz

  • Activity restriction and prior relationship history as contributors to mental health outcomes among middle-aged and older spousal caregivers.

    Gail M. Williamson;David R. Shaffer;Richard Schulz

  • Depression and quality of informal care: a longitudinal investigation of caregiving stressors.

    G. Rush Smith;Gail M. Williamson;L. Stephen Miller;Richard Schulz

  • Social and psychological factors in adjustment to limb amputation.

    Gail M. Williamson;Richard Schulz;Michael W. Bridges;Aileen M. Behan

  • Caregiver Mental Health and Potentially Harmful Caregiving Behavior: The Central Role of Caregiver Anger

    Gordon MacNeil;Jordan I. Kosberg;Daniel W. Durkin;W. Keith Dooley

  • Physical illness and depression in older adults : a handbook of theory, research, and practice

    Gail M. Williamson;David R. Shaffer;Patricia A. Parmelee

  • Pessimism, age, and cancer mortality.

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  • Extending the activity restriction model of depressed affect: Evidence from a sample of breast cancer patients.

    Gail M. Williamson

  • The central role of restricted normal activities in adjustment to illness and disability: A model of depressed affect.

    Gail M. Williamson

  • Relationship orientation, quality of prior relationship, and distress among caregivers of Alzheimer's patients.

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  • Development and validation of the immunosuppressant therapy adherence instrument (ITAS).

    Marie A. Chisholm;Marie A. Chisholm;Charles E. Lance;Gail M. Williamson;Laura L. Mulloy

  • 5 Psychosocial and Behavioral Dimensions of Physical Frailty

    Richard Schulz;Gail M. Williamson

  • Social ecology and entitlements involved in battering by heterosexual college males: contributions of family and peers.

    Jay G. Silverman;Gail M. Williamson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Schulz
Richard Schulz University of Pittsburgh
Charles E. Lance
Charles E. Lance University of the Western Cape
Margaret S. Clark
Margaret S. Clark Yale University
L. Stephen Miller
L. Stephen Miller University of Georgia
Myron F. Weiner
Myron F. Weiner The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Jay G. Silverman
Jay G. Silverman University of California, San Diego
Jamie DeCoster
Jamie DeCoster University of Virginia
Scott R. Beach
Scott R. Beach University of Pittsburgh
Jamila Bookwala
Jamila Bookwala Gettysburg College
Jennifer Q. Morse
Jennifer Q. Morse University of Pittsburgh

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