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Giovanni Abrahão Salum

Giovanni Abrahão Salum

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Psychology
Brazil
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
47
Citations
15621
World Ranking
6042
National Ranking
3278

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Giovanni Abrahão Salum is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with notable subfields including Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Social Psychology.

Their research topics focus prominently on areas such as Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Mental Health Research Topics, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, and COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Salum include:

  • Worldwide Prevalence and Disability From Mental Disorders Across Childhood and Adolescence, 2024, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Cellular correlates of cortical thinning throughout the lifespan, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Problematic internet use in children and adolescents: associations with psychiatric disorders and impairment, 2020, BMC Psychiatry
  • Threat and deprivation are associated with distinct aspects of cognition, emotional processing, and psychopathology in children and adolescents, 2022, Developmental Science
  • Prevalence and risk factors of psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the ELSA-Brasil COVID-19 mental health cohort, 2021, Psychological Medicine

Frequent co-authors in Salum's research include:

  • Pedro Mário Pan
  • Luís Augusto Rohde
  • Eurípedes Constantino Miguel
  • Rodrigo A. Bressan
  • Maurício Scopel Hoffmann

The primary publication venues where Salum's work appears often are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Annual Research Review: A meta-analysis of the worldwide prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents

    Guilherme V. Polanczyk;Giovanni A. Salum;Giovanni A. Salum;Luisa S. Sugaya;Arthur Caye

  • ADHD prevalence estimates across three decades: an updated systematic review and meta-regression analysis

    Guilherme V Polanczyk;Erik G Willcutt;Giovanni A Salum;Christian Kieling

  • Inflammatory markers in post-traumatic stress disorder: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression

    Ives Cavalcante Passos;Ives Cavalcante Passos;Mirela Paiva Vasconcelos-Moreno;Leonardo Gazzi Costa;Maurício Kunz

  • An examination of the anxiolytic effects of exercise for people with anxiety and stress-related disorders: A meta-analysis

    Brendon Stubbs;Brendon Stubbs;Davy Vancampfort;Simon Rosenbaum;Joseph Firth

  • A general psychopathology factor (P factor) in children: Structural model analysis and external validation through familial risk and child global executive function.

    Michelle M Martel;Pedro M Pan;Maurício S Hoffmann;Ary Gadelha

  • High risk cohort study for psychiatric disorders in childhood: Rationale, design, methods and preliminary results

    Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Ary Gadelha;Ary Gadelha;Pedro Mario Pan;Pedro Mario Pan;Tais Silveira Moriyama;Tais Silveira Moriyama;Tais Silveira Moriyama

  • Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) in Brazilian Samples of Different Age Groups: Findings from Confirmatory Factor Analysis

    Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira;Hugo Cogo-Moreira;Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Elisa Brietzke

  • Factor structure, reliability, and item parameters of the brazilian-portuguese version of the GAD-7 questionnaire

    André Luiz Moreno;Diogo A. de Sousa;Ana Maria Frota Lisbôa P. Souza;Gisele Gus Manfro

  • The influence of geographical and economic factors in estimates of childhood abuse and neglect using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire: A worldwide meta-regression analysis.

    Thiago Wendt Viola;Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Bruno Kluwe-Schiavon;Breno Sanvicente-Vieira

  • Ventral Striatum Functional Connectivity as a Predictor of Adolescent Depressive Disorder in a Longitudinal Community-Based Sample

    Pedro Mario Pan;João R. Sato;Giovanni A. Salum;Luis A. Rohde

  • ADHD in DSM-5: a field trial in a large, representative sample of 18- to 19-year-old adults.

    B. Matte;L. Anselmi;G. A. Salum;C. Kieling

  • Threat bias in attention orienting: evidence of specificity in a large community-based study

    G. A. Salum;K. Mogg;B. P. Bradley;A. Gadelha

  • Cellular correlates of cortical thinning throughout the lifespan.

    Didac Vidal-Pineiro;Nadine Parker;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Leon French

  • Problematic internet use in children and adolescents: associations with psychiatric disorders and impairment.

    Anita Restrepo;Tohar Scheininger;Jon Clucas;Lindsay Alexander

  • Associations between parenting behavior and anxiety in a rodent model and a clinical sample: relationship to peripheral BDNF levels

    R Dalle Molle;A K Portella;M Z Goldani;F P Kapczinski

  • Psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) in Brazilian children and adolescents.

    Luciano Isolan;Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Andrea Tochetto Osowski;Estácio Amaro

  • Association between attention bias to threat and anxiety symptoms in children and adolescents.

    Rany Abend;Leone de Voogd;Elske Salemink;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Dimensions of oppositionality in a Brazilian community sample: testing the "DSM-5" proposal and etiological links

    Fernanda Valle Krieger;Fernanda Valle Krieger;Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk;Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk;Robert Goodman;Luis Augusto Rohde;Luis Augusto Rohde

  • Age effects on the default mode and control networks in typically developing children.

    João Ricardo Sato;João Ricardo Sato;João Ricardo Sato;Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Ary Gadelha;Ary Gadelha;Felipe Almeida Picon;Felipe Almeida Picon

  • Threat and deprivation are associated with distinct aspects of cognition, emotional processing and psychopathology in children and adolescents.

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  • Harm avoidance and self-directedness as essential features of panic disorder patients

    Cláudia Wachleski;Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Carolina Blaya;Letícia Kipper

  • Commentary: Functional connectome fingerprint: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity.

    Claudinei E. Biazoli;Claudinei E. Biazoli;Giovanni A. Salum;Giovanni A. Salum;Pedro M. Pan;Pedro M. Pan;André Zugman;André Zugman

Frequent Co-Authors

Gisele Gus Manfro
Gisele Gus Manfro Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Euripedes Constantino Miguel Universidade de São Paulo
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira
Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Argyris Stringaris
Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Silvia Helena Koller
Silvia Helena Koller Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Leonardo F. Fontenelle Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Hakon Hakonarson
Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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