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Irving Hwang publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Irving Hwang sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 99 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Irving Hwang D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Irving Hwang sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Irving Hwang is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily centers on psychology and medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as clinical psychology, social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, emergency medicine, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Hwang's work frequently addresses topics related to mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, posttraumatic stress disorder research, schizophrenia research and treatment, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, suicide and self-harm studies, as well as cardiac arrest and resuscitation.

Recent published papers include:

  • Changes in Prevalence of Mental Illness Among US Adults During Compared with Before the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) in Psychiatric Clinics of North America
  • Estimated Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Clinically Significant Anxiety and Depression Among US Adults During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) in JAMA Network Open
  • Toward measuring effective treatment coverage: critical bottlenecks in quality- and user-adjusted coverage for major depressive disorder (2020) in Psychological Medicine
  • Patterns of care and dropout rates from outpatient mental healthcare in low-, middle- and high-income countries from the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative (2020) in Psychological Medicine
  • Antidepressant use in low- middle- and high-income countries: a World Mental Health Surveys report (2021) in Psychological Medicine

Hwang has co-authored extensively with scholars such as Nancy A. Sampson, Ronald C. Kessler, Daniel Vigo, María Carmen Viana, and Laura Helena Andrade.

Their publications are commonly found in venues including:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • JAMA Psychiatry

Across their research career, Hwang has contributed to expanding knowledge in clinical psychology and psychiatric epidemiology, especially in understanding mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and the global variations in mental healthcare delivery and treatment access.

Best Publications

  • Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode

    Evelyn Bromet;Laura Helena Andrade;Irving Hwang;Nancy A Sampson

  • Prevalence, Correlates, and Treatment of Lifetime Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents: Results From the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement

    Matthew K. Nock;Jennifer Greif Green;Irving Hwang;Katie A. McLaughlin

  • Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    R. P. Auerbach;J. Alonso;W. G. Axinn;P. Cuijpers

  • Barriers to mental health treatment: Results from the WHO World Mental Health surveys

    LH Andrade;J Alonso;Z Mneimneh;JE Wells

  • Mental disorders, comorbidity and suicidal behavior: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey replication.

    Matthew K. Nock;Irving Hwang;Nancy A. Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • DSM-IV pathological gambling in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

    Ronald C. Kessler;Irving Hwang;Richard LaBrie;Maria Petukhova

  • Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Matthew K. Nock;Irving Hwang;Nancy Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Twelve-Month Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Guilherme Borges;Matthew K. Nock;Josep Maria Haro Abad;Irving Hwang

  • The descriptive epidemiology of DSM-IV Adult ADHD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    John Fayyad;Nancy A Sampson;Irving Hwang;Tomasz Adamowski

  • Age differences in major depression: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)

    Ronald C. Kessler;Howard Birnbaum;Evelyn Bromet;Irving Hwang

  • Co-morbid major depression and generalized anxiety disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey follow-up

    Ronald C. Kessler;Michael Gruber;John M. Hettema;Irving Hwang

  • Age differences in the prevalence and co-morbidity of DSM-IV major depressive episodes: results from the WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative

    Ronald C. Kessler;Howard G. Birnbaum;Victoria Shahly;Evelyn Bromet

  • Disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders across the world.

    Johan Ormel;Maria Petukhova;Somnath Chatterji;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola

  • Childhood adversities as risk factors for onset and persistence of suicidal behaviour.

    Ronny Bruffaerts;Koen Demyttenaere;Guilherme Borges;Josep Maria Haro

  • Prevalence and Correlates of Suicidal Behavior Among Soldiers: Results From the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)

    Matthew K. Nock;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein;Steven G. Heeringa;Robert J. Ursano

  • Cross-national analysis of the associations between traumatic events and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys.

    Dan J. Stein;Wai Tat Chiu;Irving Hwang;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Treatment of suicidal people around the world

    Ronny Bruffaerts;K. Demyttenaere;I. Hwang;W. T. Chiu

  • Dropout From Outpatient Mental Health Care in the United States

    Mark Olfson;Ramin Mojtabai;Nancy A. Sampson;Irving Hwang

  • Parent psychopathology and offspring mental disorders: results from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Katie A. McLaughlin;Anne M. Gadermann;Irving Hwang;Nancy A. Sampson

  • Thirty-day prevalence of DSM-IV mental disorders among nondeployed soldiers in the US Army: results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS).

    Ronald C Kessler;Steven G Heeringa;Murray B Stein;Lisa J Colpe

  • Developing an optimal short‐form of the PTSD Checklist for DSM‐5 (PCL‐5)

    Kelly L. Zuromski;Berk Ustun;Irving Hwang;Terence M. Keane;Terence M. Keane

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Nancy A. Sampson
Nancy A. Sampson Harvard University
Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Alan M. Zaslavsky
Alan M. Zaslavsky Harvard University
Jose Posada-Villa
Jose Posada-Villa Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca
Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje University of Ibadan
Robert J. Ursano
Robert J. Ursano Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Chiyi Hu
Chiyi Hu University of California, Davis
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego

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