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Medicine D-index 97 Citations 41,543 363 World Ranking 4284 National Ranking 2427
Best female scientists D-index 101 Citations 44,064 468 World Ranking 845 National Ranking 526

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Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Internal medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Cancer

Holly G. Prigerson focuses on Psychiatry, Grief, Complicated grief, Mental health and Prolonged grief disorder. While the research belongs to areas of Psychiatry, Holly G. Prigerson spends her time largely on the problem of Cancer, intersecting her research to questions surrounding Severity of illness, Advance care planning and Gerontology. Her Grief research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Clinical psychology, Depression and Anxiety.

Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Evidence-based medicine, Psychopathology and Disenfranchised grief. Her Mental health research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Quality of life, Quality of life, Unresolved grief, Palliative care and Parental grief. Her work in the fields of Prolonged grief disorder, such as Persistent complex bereavement disorder, overlaps with other areas such as Validity.

Her most cited work include:

  • Associations between end-of-life discussions, patient mental health, medical care near death, and caregiver bereavement adjustment. (1810 citations)
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11 (1101 citations)
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11 (1101 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Her primary scientific interests are in Psychiatry, Grief, Clinical psychology, Mental health and Cancer. Her work on Depression, Anxiety and Major depressive disorder as part of general Psychiatry study is frequently connected to Suicidal ideation, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them. All of her Grief and Prolonged grief disorder, Complicated grief and Traumatic grief investigations are sub-components of the entire Grief study.

Her Mental health research integrates issues from Psychological intervention and Quality of life. Her Cancer research focuses on Intensive care medicine and how it relates to Palliative care. As a part of the same scientific study, Holly G. Prigerson usually deals with the Advanced cancer, concentrating on Coping and frequently concerns with Gerontology, End-of-life care, Advance care planning, Psychosocial and Cohort study.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Psychiatry (39.34%)
  • Grief (29.61%)
  • Clinical psychology (21.95%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2017-2022)?

  • Grief (29.61%)
  • Prolonged grief disorder (12.01%)
  • End-of-life care (14.08%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Grief, Prolonged grief disorder, End-of-life care, Family medicine and Advance care planning are her primary areas of study. Her work investigates the relationship between Grief and topics such as Family caregivers that intersect with problems in Distress. Her Prolonged grief disorder study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Sudden infant death syndrome and Clinical psychology.

Her work deals with themes such as Mental health, Depression and Anxiety, which intersect with Clinical psychology. Her work in End-of-life care addresses subjects such as Emergency medicine, which are connected to disciplines such as Dementia, Retrospective cohort study, Odds ratio and Emergency department. Holly G. Prigerson combines subjects such as Cancer, Quality of life, Randomized controlled trial, Association and Palliative care with her study of Family medicine.

Between 2017 and 2022, her most popular works were:

  • Psychometric properties of the Prolonged Grief Disorder-13 (PG-13) in bereaved Swedish parents. (40 citations)
  • Advanced cancer caregiving as a risk for major depressive episodes and generalized anxiety disorder. (33 citations)
  • Validation of the new DSM-5-TR criteria for prolonged grief disorder and the PG-13-Revised (PG-13-R) scale. (29 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Internal medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Cancer

Holly G. Prigerson spends much of her time researching Grief, Psychiatry, Prolonged grief disorder, Anxiety and Advanced cancer. The various areas that she examines in her Grief study include Family caregivers, Insula and Posterior cingulate. Her work on Generalized anxiety disorder, Psychiatric diagnosis and Complicated grief as part of general Psychiatry study is frequently linked to Suicidal ideation, bridging the gap between disciplines.

Her Prolonged grief disorder research includes elements of Young adult, Quality of life, Sudden infant death syndrome and Clinical psychology. Her research integrates issues of Sadness and Mental health in her study of Anxiety. Her Advanced cancer study combines topics in areas such as Coping, Poor prognosis and Intensive care medicine.

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Best Publications

Associations between end-of-life discussions, patient mental health, medical care near death, and caregiver bereavement adjustment.

Alexi A. Wright;Baohui Zhang;Alaka Ray;Jennifer W. Mack.
JAMA (2008)

2426 Citations

Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11

Holly G Prigerson;Holly G Prigerson;Mardi J. Horowitz;Selby C. Jacobs;Colin M. Parkes.
PLOS Medicine (2009)

1644 Citations

Inventory of Complicated Grief: A scale to measure maladaptive symptoms of loss

Holly G. Prigerson;Paul K. Maciejewski;Charles F. Reynolds;Andrew J. Bierhals.
Psychiatry Research-neuroimaging (1995)

1640 Citations

The Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia

Susan L. Mitchell;Joan M. Teno;Dan K. Kiely;Michele L. Shaffer.
The New England Journal of Medicine (2009)

1448 Citations

Religiousness and Spiritual Support Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations With End-of-Life Treatment Preferences and Quality of Life

Tracy A. Balboni;Lauren C. Vanderwerker;Susan D. Block;M. Elizabeth Paulk.
Journal of Clinical Oncology (2007)

1049 Citations

Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life Associations With End-of-Life Conversations

Baohui Zhang;Alexi A. Wright;Haiden A. Huskamp;Matthew E. Nilsson.
JAMA Internal Medicine (2009)

928 Citations

Complicated grief and bereavement-related depression as distinct disorders : preliminary empirical validation in elderly bereaved spouses

Holly G. Prigerson;Ellen Frank;Stanislav V. Kasl;Charles F. Reynolds.
American Journal of Psychiatry (1995)

927 Citations

Traumatic grief as a risk factor for mental and physical morbidity.

Holly G. Prigerson;Andrew J. Bierhals;Stanislav V. Kasl;Charles F. Reynolds.
American Journal of Psychiatry (1997)

921 Citations

An empirical examination of the stage theory of grief.

Paul K. Maciejewski;Baohui Zhang;Susan D. Block;Holly G. Prigerson.
JAMA (2007)

817 Citations

Place of Death: Correlations With Quality of Life of Patients With Cancer and Predictors of Bereaved Caregivers' Mental Health

Alexi A. Wright;Nancy L. Keating;Tracy A. Balboni;Ursula A. Matulonis.
Journal of Clinical Oncology (2010)

705 Citations

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