2026 James E. Mitchell: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	144	1443	1334	844	768	858	79773

Overview

James E. Mitchell is affiliated with the University of North Dakota in the United States. Their research spans medicine and psychology with a particular focus on clinical psychology and surgery. The body of work includes significant contributions to the study of eating disorders, bariatric surgery outcomes, diet and metabolism, obesity-related health practices, suicide and self-harm studies, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in UNC Libraries, followed by Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, Obesity, International Journal of Eating Disorders, and Obesity Surgery.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with James E. Mitchell include:

Scott J. Crow
Ross D. Crosby
Katherine A. Halmi
Cynthia M. Bulik
Allan S. Kaplan

Major recent papers by the scientist and their collaborators include:

"Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors" (2021) published in Biological Psychiatry
"Anorexia Nervosa" (2020) published in New England Journal of Medicine
"GWAS Meta-Analysis of Suicide Attempt: Identification of 12 Genome-Wide Significant Loci and Implication of Genetic Risks for Specific Health Factors" (2023) published in American Journal of Psychiatry
"World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines update 2023 on the pharmacological treatment of eating disorders" (2023) published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
"Comparing integrative cognitive-affective therapy and guided self-help cognitive-behavioral therapy to treat binge-eating disorder using standard and naturalistic momentary outcome measures: A randomized controlled trial" (2020) published in International Journal of Eating Disorders

The scientist's research covers the following main topics:

Eating Disorders and Behaviors
Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
Diet and Metabolism Studies
Obesity and Health Practices
Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

James E. Mitchell's work is concentrated in the subfields of clinical psychology, surgery, physiology, pharmacy, and public health with a particular emphasis on the interaction between psychological and physical health factors in medical contexts.

Best Publications

Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

1978
Citations
Perioperative safety in the longitudinal assessment of bariatric surgery.

David Reed Flum;Steven H. Belle;Wendy C. King;Abdus S. Wahed

1907
Citations
Prevalence of smoking among psychiatric outpatients.

John R. Hughes;Dorothy K. Hatsukami;James E. Mitchell;Lisa A. Dahlgren

1497
Citations
Binge eating disorder: A multisite field trial of the diagnostic criteria

Robert L. Spitzer;Michael Devlin;B. Timothy Walsh;Deborah Hasin

1316
Citations
Binge eating disorder: its further validation in a multisite study.

Robert L. Spitzer;Susan Z. Yanovski;Thomas Wadden;Rena Wing

1301
Citations
Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

1144
Citations
Weight change and health outcomes at 3 years after bariatric surgery among individuals with severe obesity.

Anita P. Courcoulas;Nicholas J. Christian;Steven H. Belle;Paul D. Berk

919
Citations
Bulimia: a report of 34 cases.

Richard L. Pyle;James E. Mitchell;Elke D. Eckert

909
Citations
Increased mortality in bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders

Scott J. Crow;Carol B. Peterson;Sonja Alsemgeest Swanson;Nancy C. Raymond

909
Citations
Perfectionism and eating disorders: current status and future directions.

Anna M. Bardone-Cone;Stephen A. Wonderlich;Randy O. Frost;Cynthia M. Bulik

844
Citations
Staphylococcus aureus Resistant to Vancomycin—United States, 2002

Dawn M. Sievert;Matthew L Boulton;G. Stoltman;D Johnson

776
Citations
Daily and momentary mood and stress are associated with binge eating and vomiting in bulimia nervosa patients in the natural environment.

Joshua M. Smyth;Stephen A. Wonderlich;Kristin E. Heron;Martin J. Sliwinski

701
Citations
Outcome in bulimia nervosa.

Pamela K. Keel;James E. Mitchell

685
Citations
Characteristics of 275 patients with bulimia

James E. Mitchell;Dorothy Hatsukami;Elke D. Eckert;Richard L. Pyle

664
Citations
Characteristics of 60 adult chronic hair pullers

Gary A. Christenson;Thomas B. Mackenzie;James E. Mitchell

627
Citations
Seven-Year Weight Trajectories and Health Outcomes in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) Study.

Anita P. Courcoulas;Wendy C. King;Steven H. Belle;Paul Berk

589
Citations
Medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

James E Mitchell;Scott Crow

580
Citations
Eating disorders and personality: A methodological and empirical review

Lisa R.R. Lilenfeld;Stephen Wonderlich;Lawrence P. Riso;Ross Crosby

580
Citations
Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

H. J. Watson;Z. Yilmaz;L. M. Thornton;C. Hubel

569
Citations
Long-term outcome of bulimia nervosa

Pamela K. Keel;James E. Mitchell;Kathryn B. Miller;Traci L. Davis

563
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross D. Crosby University of North Dakota

Scott J. Crow University of Minnesota

Stephen A. Wonderlich University of North Dakota

Carol B. Peterson University of Minnesota

Scott G. Engel University of North Dakota

Daniel Le Grange University of California, San Francisco

Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Michael Strober University of California, Los Angeles

Walter H. Kaye University of California, San Diego

Allan S. Kaplan University of Toronto

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