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John Maltby 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 Maltby sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 257 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John Maltby 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 Maltby sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

John Maltby is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with specific work in clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, health, and sociology and political science.

The scientist has published extensively, contributing to topics such as personality traits and psychology, health disparities and outcomes, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, human-animal interaction studies, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, optimism, hope, and well-being, as well as resilience and mental health.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Scientific Reports, Journal of Personality, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, PLoS ONE, and Frontiers in Psychology.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Frailty and Social Isolation: Comparing the Relationship between Frailty and Unidimensional and Multifactorial Models of Social Isolation, 2020, Journal of Aging and Health
  • Country-level correlates of the Dark Triad traits in 49 countries, 2020, Journal of Personality
  • A framework for understanding how activities associated with dog ownership relate to human well-being, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Structure of Dark Triad Dirty Dozen Across Eight World Regions, 2020, Assessment
  • The fear of COVID-19 scale: Its structure and measurement invariance across 48 countries, 2022, Psychological Assessment

John Maltby collaborates frequently with several scholars, most notably Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Jarosław Piotrowski, Peter K. Jonason, Mladen Adamovic, and Sergiu Bălţătescu, with collaboration counts ranging from seven to nine joint publications.

Best Publications

  • The Authentic Personality: A Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualization and the Development of the Authenticity Scale

    Alex M. Wood;P. Alex Linley;John Maltby;Michael Baliousis

  • Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature

    Carmel L. Proctor;P. Alex Linley;John Maltby

  • The role of gratitude in the development of social support, stress, and depression : two longitudinal studies

    Alex M. Wood;John Maltby;Raphael Gillett;P. Alex Linley

  • Using personal and psychological strengths leads to increases in well-being over time: A longitudinal study and the development of the strengths use questionnaire

    Alex M. Wood;P. Alex Linley;John Maltby;Todd B. Kashdan

  • Gratitude predicts psychological well-being above the Big Five facets

    Alex M. Wood;Stephen Joseph;John Maltby

  • Measuring happiness: The higher order factor structure of subjective and psychological well-being measures

    P. Alex Linley;John Maltby;Alex M. Wood;Gabrielle Osborne

  • Strengths Use as a Predictor of Well-Being and Health-Related Quality of Life

    Carmel Proctor;John Maltby;P. Alex Linley

  • A social-cognitive model of trait and state levels of gratitude.

    Alex M. Wood;John Maltby;Neil Stewart;P. Alex Linley

  • Gratitude uniquely predicts satisfaction with life: Incremental validity above the domains and facets of the five factor model

    Alex M. Wood;Stephen Joseph;John Maltby

  • Failure to forgive self and others : a replication and extension of the relationship between forgiveness, personality, social desirability and general health

    John Maltby;Ann Macaskill;Liza Day

  • Forgiveness of self and others and emotional empathy.

    Ann Macaskill;John Maltby;Liza Day

  • The role of media figures in adolescent development: relations between autonomy, attachment, and interest in celebrities

    David C. Giles;John Maltby

  • Strengths Gym: The impact of a character strengths-based intervention on the life satisfaction and well-being of adolescents

    Carmel Proctor;Eli Tsukayama;Alex M. Wood;John Maltby

  • Religious orientation and psychological well-being: The role of the frequency of personal prayer

    John Maltby;Christopher Alan Lewis;Liza Day

  • Character strengths in the United Kingdom: The VIA Inventory of Strengths

    P. Alex Linley;John Maltby;Alex M. Wood;Stephen Joseph

  • The relationship between exercise motives and psychological well-being.

    John Maltby;Liza Day

  • Conceptualizing gratitude and appreciation as a unitary personality trait

    Alex M. Wood;John Maltby;Neil Stewart;Stephen Joseph

  • Hope uniquely predicts objective academic achievement above intelligence, personality, and previous academic achievement

    Liz Day;Katie Hanson;John Maltby;Carmel Proctor

  • Very Happy Youths: Benefits of Very High Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents

    Carmel Proctor;P. Alex Linley;John Maltby

  • Religious orientation, religious coping and happiness among UK adults

    Christopher Alan Lewis;John Maltby;Liza Day

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex M. Wood
Alex M. Wood London School of Economics and Political Science
Christopher Alan Lewis
Christopher Alan Lewis University of Warwick
Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph University of Nottingham
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Panos Vostanis
Panos Vostanis University of Leicester
Valdiney Veloso Gouveia
Valdiney Veloso Gouveia Federal University of Paraíba
P. Alex Linley
P. Alex Linley University of Leicester
Shanmukh V. Kamble
Shanmukh V. Kamble Karnatak University
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek Alexandria University
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor University of Manchester

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