2026 Johannes C. Eichstaedt: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Rising Stars	37	745	744	120	119	131	9651
Psychology	39	8410	7855	4489	4088	121	10616

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2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Johannes C. Eichstaedt is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions to social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, epidemiology, and applied psychology.

The scientist has a notable presence in several research topics, including:

Mental Health via Writing
Mental Health Research Topics
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Health disparities and outcomes
Digital Mental Health Interventions
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Eichstaedt include:

"Large language models could change the future of behavioral healthcare: a proposal for responsible development and evaluation" (2024), published in npj Mental Health Research
"Using large language models in psychology" (2023), published in Nature Reviews Psychology
"Characterizing Geographic Variation in Well-Being Using Tweets" (2021), published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"The emotional and mental health impact of the murder of George Floyd on the US population" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Estimating geographic subjective well-being from Twitter: A comparison of dictionary and data-driven language methods" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Eichstaedt frequently collaborates with a group of scholars including Lyle Ungar, Salvatore Giorgi, H. Andrew Schwartz, David B. Yaden, and Margaret L. Kern. These collaborations have contributed to an extensive publication record and interdisciplinary research efforts.

The scientist's work is often published in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
npj Mental Health Research

Best Publications

Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach

H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern;Lukasz Dziurzynski

2156
Citations
Automatic personality assessment through social media language.

Gregory Park;H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern

882
Citations
Detecting depression and mental illness on social media: an integrative review

Sharath Chandra Guntuku;David B Yaden;Margaret L Kern;Lyle H Ungar

681
Citations
Facebook language predicts depression in medical records.

Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Robert J. Smith;Raina M. Merchant;Lyle H. Ungar

670
Citations
Psychological Language on Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality

Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Hansen Andrew Schwartz;Margaret L. Kern;Gregory Park

616
Citations
Characterizing geographic variation in well-being using tweets

Hansen Andrew Schwartz;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern;Lukasz Dziurzynski

298
Citations
Using large language models in psychology

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293
Citations
The overview effect: Awe and self-transcendent experience in space flight.

David B. Yaden;Jonathan Iwry;Kelley J. Slack;Johannes C. Eichstaedt

288
Citations
Towards Assessing Changes in Degree of Depression through Facebook

H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern;Gregory Park

286
Citations
Developing Age and Gender Predictive Lexica over Social Media

Maarten Sap;Gregory Park;Johannes Eichstaedt;Margaret Kern

269
Citations
Gaining insights from social media language: Methodologies and challenges.

Margaret L Kern;Gregory Park;Johannes C Eichstaedt;H Andrew Schwartz

257
Citations
Estimating geographic subjective well-being from Twitter: A comparison of dictionary and data-driven language methods.

Kokil Jaidka;Salvatore Giorgi;H. Andrew Schwartz;Margaret L. Kern

218
Citations
Large language models could change the future of behavioral healthcare: a proposal for responsible development and evaluation

Unknown

216
Citations
PREDICTING INDIVIDUAL WELL-BEING THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

H. Andrew Schwartz;Maarten Sap;Margaret L. Kern;Johannes C. Eichstaedt

197
Citations
The emotional and mental health impact of the murder of George Floyd on the US population.

Johannes C. Eichstaedt;Garrick T. Sherman;Salvatore Giorgi;Steven O. Roberts

194
Citations
Women are Warmer but No Less Assertive than Men: Gender and Language on Facebook.

Gregory Park;David Bryce Yaden;H. Andrew Schwartz;Margaret L. Kern

185
Citations
The role of personality, age, and gender in tweeting about mental illness

Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro;Johannes Eichstaedt;Gregory Park;Maarten Sap

182
Citations
The online social self: An open vocabulary approach to personality.

Margaret L. Kern;Johannes C. Eichstaedt;H. Andrew Schwartz;Lukasz Dziurzynski

173
Citations
Modelling Valence and Arousal in Facebook Posts

Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro;H. Andrew Schwartz;Gregory Park;Johannes Eichstaedt

172
Citations
Understanding and Measuring Psychological Stress Using Social Media

Sharath Chandra Guntuku;Anneke Buffone;Kokil Jaidka;Johannes C. Eichstaedt

152
Citations
Of Roots and Fruits: A Comparison of Psychedelic and Nonpsychedelic Mystical Experiences:

David B. Yaden;Khoa D. Le Nguyen;Margaret L. Kern;Alexander B. Belser

134
Citations
The Role of Personality, Age and Gender in Tweeting about Mental Illnesses

Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro;Johannes Eichstaedt;Gregory Park;Maarten Sap

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret L. Kern University of Melbourne

Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania

David Stillwell University of Cambridge

Michal Kosinski Stanford University

Maarten Sap Carnegie Mellon University

Ralph W. Hood University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Roman Kotov Stony Brook University

Willibald Ruch University of Zurich

Angela L. Duckworth University of Pennsylvania

Richard E. Lucas Michigan State University

External Links

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