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Jim van Os publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jim van Os sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 1,382 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Jim van Os D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jim van Os sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 164 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2011 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jim van Os is affiliated with the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans medicine and psychology, with significant focus on psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, philosophy, and genetics.

The core topics of their work include schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health research topics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health and psychiatry, bipolar disorder and treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, and tryptophan and brain disorders.

Some of the recent papers involving Jim van Os reflect a range of interests across psychiatric and psychological research. These include:

  • The clinical characterization of the patient with primary psychosis aimed at personalization of management, 2021, World Psychiatry
  • Psychological responses during the COVID-19 outbreak among university students in Bangladesh, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • DNA methylation meta-analysis reveals cellular alterations in psychosis and markers of treatment-resistant schizophrenia, 2021, eLife
  • Social disadvantage, linguistic distance, ethnic minority status and first-episode psychosis: results from the EU-GEI case-control study, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Prevalence and correlates of anxiety and depression in frontline healthcare workers treating people with COVID-19 in Bangladesh, 2021, BMC Psychiatry

Jim van Os collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Bart P. F. Rutten, Sinan Gülöksüz, Lieuwe de Haan, Celso Arango, and Robin Murray.

Their work is frequently published in a number of journals, showing a strong presence in the following venues:

  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry

In recognition of their contributions, Jim van Os received an award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Theo Vos;Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi

  • Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Mohsen Naghavi;Rafael Lozano

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • The size and burden of mental disorders and other disorders of the brain in Europe 2010

    H.U. Wittchen;F. Jacobi;J. Rehm;J. Rehm;Anders Gustavsson

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Childhood Adversities Increase the Risk of Psychosis: A Meta-analysis of Patient-Control, Prospective- and Cross-sectional Cohort Studies

    Filippo Varese;Filippo Varese;Feikje Smeets;Marjan Drukker;Ritsaert Lieverse

  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of the psychosis continuum: evidence for a psychosis proneness-persistence-impairment model of psychotic disorder

    J van Os;R J Linscott;Inez Myin-Germeys;P Delespaul

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

    Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Childhood trauma, psychosis and schizophrenia: a literature review with theoretical and clinical implications

    John Read;J. Van Os;A. P. Morrison;C. A. Ross

  • Cost of disorders of the brain in Europe 2010

    Anders Gustavsson;Mikael Svensson;Frank Jacobi;Christer Allgulander

  • The relationship between neurocognition and social cognition with functional outcomes in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis.

    Anne Kathrin J. Fett;Wolfgang Viechtbauer;Maria de Gracia Dominguez;David L. Penn

  • 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

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Megha Arora;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • The environment and schizophrenia

    Jim van Os;Jim van Os;Gunter Kenis;Bart P. F. Rutten

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • An updated and conservative systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological evidence on psychotic experiences in children and adults: on the pathway from proneness to persistence to dimensional expression across mental disorders

    R. J. Linscott;J. van Os

  • THE CONTINUITY OF PSYCHOTIC EXPERIENCES IN THE GENERAL POPULATION

    Louise C Johns;Jim van Os

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart P. F. Rutten
Bart P. F. Rutten Maastricht University Medical Centre
Robin M. Murray
Robin M. Murray King's College London
Marieke Wichers
Marieke Wichers Maastricht University
Marjan Drukker
Marjan Drukker Maastricht University
Sinan Guloksuz
Sinan Guloksuz Maastricht University
Lydia Krabbendam
Lydia Krabbendam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
René S. Kahn
René S. Kahn Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Nele Jacobs
Nele Jacobs Maastricht University
Wiepke Cahn
Wiepke Cahn Utrecht University

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