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John G. Gunderson

John G. Gunderson

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
114
Citations
45684
World Ranking
341
National Ranking
216

John G. Gunderson 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 John G. Gunderson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 306 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John G. Gunderson 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 John G. Gunderson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 114 D-Index — 97th percentile

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

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Joseph Zubin Award, American Psychopathological Association

Overview

John G. Gunderson was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the fields of psychology and clinical psychology, with additional work in philosophy.

The main topics of Gunderson's research included:

  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Personality Traits and Psychology

They published in several academic venues, notably:

  • FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry
  • The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Some of their recent papers were:

  • "Defining Borderline Patients: An Overview," 2022, published in FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry
  • "Can Patients With Narcissistic Personality Disorder Change? A Case Series," 2024, published in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gunderson included Margaret Thaler Singer, Igor Weinberg, Elsa Ronningstam, and Caitlin Ravichandran.

During their career, Gunderson received the Joseph Zubin Award from the American Psychopathological Association in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia

    M. I. Herz;R. P. Liberman;T. H. McGlashan;J. A. Lieberman

  • The borderline diagnosis I: psychopathology, comorbidity, and personality structure.

    Andrew E Skodol;John G Gunderson;John G Gunderson;Bruce Pfohl;Thomas A Widiger

  • The Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study: reliability of axis I and II diagnoses.

    Mary C. Zanarini;Andrew E. Skodol;Donna S. Bender;Regina T. Dolan

  • Treatment utilization by patients with personality disorders

    Donna S. Bender;Regina T. Dolan;Andrew E. Skodol;Charles A. Sanislow

  • Ten-Year Course of Borderline Personality Disorder: Psychopathology and Function From the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study

    John G Gunderson;Robert L. Stout;Thomas H. McGlashan;M. Tracie Shea;M. Tracie Shea

  • Preliminary data on an acceptance-based emotion regulation group intervention for deliberate self-harm among women with borderline personality disorder

    Kim L. Gratz;John G. Gunderson

  • Functional impairment in patients with schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

    Andrew E. Skodol;John G. Gunderson;Thomas H. McGlashan;Ingrid R. Dyck

  • The Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines: Discriminating BPD from other Axis II Disorders

    Mary C. Zanarini;John G. Gunderson;Frances R. Frankenburg;Deborah L. Chauncey

  • Attachment Studies with Borderline Patients: A Review

    Hans R. Agrawal;John Gunder Gunderson;Bjarne M. Holmes;Karlen Lyons-Ruth

  • An experimental investigation of emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder.

    Kim L. Gratz;M. Zachary Rosenthal;Matthew T. Tull;C. W. Lejuez

  • Defining borderline patients: An overview.

    John G. Gunderson;Margaret T. Singer

  • The Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study: baseline Axis I/II and II/II diagnostic co-occurrence.

    Thomas H. McGlashan;C. M. Grilo;A. E. Skodol;J. G. Gunderson

  • The role of the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of schizophrenia. Relationship to course and outcome.

    Arlene F. Frank;John G. Gunderson

  • The collaborative longitudinal personality disorders study (CLPS): Overview and implications

    Andrew E. Skodol;John G. Gunderson;M. Tracie Shea;Thomas H. McGlashan

  • Mentalization: Ontogeny, Assessment, and Application in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

    Lois W. Choi-Kain;John G. Gunderson

  • The diagnostic interview for borderline patients.

    Gunderson Jg;Kolb Je;Austin

  • Childhood maltreatment associated with adult personality disorders: findings from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study

    Cynthia L. Battle;M. Tracie Shea;Dawn M. Johnson;Shirley Yen

  • BPD's interpersonal hypersensitivity phenotype: a gene-environment-developmental model.

    John Gunder Gunderson;Karlen Lyons-Ruth

  • The Validity of DSM-III Borderline Personality Disorder: A Phenomenologic, Family History, Treatment Response, and Long-term Follow-up Study

    Harrison G. Pope;Jeffrey M. Jonas;James I. Hudson;Bruce M. Cohen

  • Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide

    John G. Gunderson;Paul S. Links

  • Childhood experiences of borderline patients.

    Mary C. Zanarini;John G. Gunderson;John G. Gunderson;Margaret F. Marino;Margaret F. Marino;Elizabeth O. Schwartz;Elizabeth O. Schwartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary C. Zanarini
Mary C. Zanarini Harvard University
Carlos M. Grilo
Carlos M. Grilo Yale University
Thomas H. McGlashan
Thomas H. McGlashan Yale University
Charles A. Sanislow
Charles A. Sanislow Wesleyan University
M. Tracie Shea
M. Tracie Shea Brown University
Leslie C. Morey
Leslie C. Morey Texas A&M University
Andrew E. Skodol
Andrew E. Skodol University of Arizona
Shirley Yen
Shirley Yen Harvard Medical School
Robert L. Stout
Robert L. Stout Brown University
Donna S. Bender
Donna S. Bender Tulane University

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