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Jerome C. Wakefield

Jerome C. Wakefield

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
57
Citations
16904
World Ranking
3976
National Ranking
2229

Jerome C. Wakefield 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 Jerome C. Wakefield sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 271 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jerome C. Wakefield 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 Jerome C. Wakefield sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jerome C. Wakefield is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Medicine. Within these broader fields, the scientist has contributed to subfields including Philosophy, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics of their work focus on Mental Health and Psychiatry, Mental Health Research Topics, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Neuroethics, Human Enhancement and Biomedical Innovations, as well as Psychiatric Care and Mental Health Services.

Jerome C. Wakefield has published regularly in several venues. Frequent publication outlets include World Psychiatry, PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE, Behavioural Brain Research, Sleep Medicine Reviews, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine.

Some of their recent papers include:

  1. Addiction from the harmful dysfunction perspective: How there can be a mental disorder in a normal brain, 2020, Behavioural Brain Research
  2. Klerman's "credo" reconsidered: neo-Kraepelinianism, Spitzer's views, and what we can learn from the past, 2022, World Psychiatry
  3. Harm as a Necessary Component of the Concept of Medical Disorder: Reply to Muckler and Taylor, 2020, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
  4. Proposing a definition for sleep disorders: An epistemological review, 2024, Sleep Medicine Reviews
  5. Levels of Meaning and the Need for Psychotherapy Integration, 2020, Clinical Social Work Journal

Collaborations have been established with several frequent coauthors. Among these are Jordan A. Conrad, Simone Amendola, Michael P. Hengartner, Christophe Gauld, and Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi.

Best Publications

  • The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

    Allan V. Horwitz;Jerome C. Wakefield

  • The concept of mental disorder: On the boundary between biological facts and social values.

    Jerome C. Wakefield

  • Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels.

    David M. Buss;Martie G. Haselton;Todd K. Shackelford;April L. Bleske

  • Disorder as harmful dysfunction: A conceptual critique of DSM-III-R's definition of mental disorder.

    Jerome C. Wakefield

  • Evolutionary versus prototype analyses of the concept of disorder.

    Jerome C. Wakefield

  • Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V

    Robert L. Spitzer;Michael B. First;Jerome C. Wakefield

  • The concept of mental disorder: diagnostic implications of the harmful dysfunction analysis.

    Jerome C Wakefield

  • DSM-IV diagnostic criterion for clinical significance : Does it help solve the false positives problem?

    Robert L. Spitzer;Jerome C. Wakefield

  • Extending the Bereavement Exclusion for Major Depression to Other Losses: Evidence From the National Comorbidity Survey

    Jerome C. Wakefield;Mark F. Schmitz;Michael B. First;Allan V. Horwitz

  • Psychotherapy, Distributive Justice, and Social Work: Part 1: Distributive Justice as a Conceptual Framework for Social Work

    Jerome Carl Wakefield

  • Diagnosing DSM-IV--Part I: DSM-IV and the concept of disorder.

    Jerome C. Wakefield

  • All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders

    Jerome C. Wakefield;Allan V. Horwitz

  • Does Social Work Need the Eco-Systems Perspective? Part 1. Is the Perspective Clinically Useful?

    Jerome C. Wakefield

  • Diagnostic Issues and Controversies in DSM-5: Return of the False Positives Problem.

    Jerome C. Wakefield

  • Validity of the bereavement exclusion to major depression: does the empirical evidence support the proposal to eliminate the exclusion in DSM‐5?

    Jerome C. Wakefield;Michael B. First

  • Limits of operationalization: a critique of Spitzer and Endicott's (1978) proposed operational criteria for mental disorder.

    Jerome C. Wakefield

  • Mental disorder as a black box essentialist concept.

    Jerome C. Wakefield

  • DSM-5: An Overview of Changes and Controversies

    Jerome C. Wakefield

  • Should the DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for Conduct Disorder Consider Social Context?

    Jerome C. Wakefield;Kathleen J. Pottick;Stuart A. Kirk

  • When does depression become a disorder? Using recurrence rates to evaluate the validity of proposed changes in major depression diagnostic thresholds.

    Jerome C. Wakefield;Mark F. Schmitz;Mark F. Schmitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan V. Horwitz
Allan V. Horwitz Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael B. First
Michael B. First Columbia University
Harold Alan Pincus
Harold Alan Pincus Columbia University
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Hubert L. Dreyfus University of California, Berkeley
Joel Paris
Joel Paris McGill University
Thomas S. Szasz
Thomas S. Szasz SUNY Upstate Medical University
Allen Frances
Allen Frances Duke University
David M. Buss
David M. Buss The University of Texas at Austin
Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford Oakland University
Martie G. Haselton
Martie G. Haselton University of California, Los Angeles

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