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Joshua M. Smyth

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
82
Citations
30777
World Ranking
1308
National Ranking
788

Joshua M. Smyth 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 Joshua M. Smyth sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 345 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joshua M. Smyth 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 Joshua M. Smyth sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Joshua M. Smyth is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and medicine, focusing primarily on mental health, behavioral interventions, and the use of digital technology in healthcare.

The main fields of study for Joshua M. Smyth include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Their work also extends into subfields such as:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Social Psychology

Joshua M. Smyth's research topics cover:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • Stress and Health
  • JMIR Formative Research

Some of the notable recent publications by Joshua M. Smyth are:

  • Computing Components of Everyday Stress Responses: Exploring Conceptual Challenges and New Opportunities, 2022, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Evaluation of Pressing Issues in Ecological Momentary Assessment, 2022, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • Methods to Assess Social Comparison Processes Within Persons in Daily Life: A Scoping Review, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Mindfulness interventions improve momentary and trait measures of attentional control: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial., 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Evaluation of an adapted version of the Diabetes Prevention Program for low- and middle-income countries: A cluster randomized trial to evaluate "Lifestyle Africa" in South Africa, 2022, PLoS Medicine

Joshua M. Smyth frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Nan Lv
  • Lan Xiao
  • Jun Ma
  • Olusola Ajilore
  • Elizabeth M. Venditti

Best Publications

  • Ecological momentary interventions: incorporating mobile technology into psychosocial and health behaviour treatments.

    Kristin E. Heron;Joshua M. Smyth

  • Written emotional expression : Effect sizes, outcome types, and moderating variables

    Joshua M. Smyth

  • Effects of Writing About Stressful Experiences on Symptom Reduction in Patients With Asthma or Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Randomized Trial

    Joshua M. Smyth;Arthur A. Stone;Adam Hurewitz;Alan Kaell

  • Daily and momentary mood and stress are associated with binge eating and vomiting in bulimia nervosa patients in the natural environment.

    Joshua M. Smyth;Stephen A. Wonderlich;Kristin E. Heron;Martin J. Sliwinski

  • STRESSORS AND MOOD MEASURED ON A MOMENTARY BASIS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SALIVARY CORTISOL SECRETION

    Joshua Smyth;Margit C Ockenfels;Laura Porter;Clemens Kirschbaum

  • The writing cure : how expressive writing promotes health and emotional well-being

    Stephen J. Lepore;Joshua M. Smyth

  • Ecological Momentary Assessment Research in Behavioral medicine

    Joshua M. Smyth;Arthur A. Stone

  • Individual differences in the diurnal cycle of cortisol

    Joshua M. Smyth;Margit C. Ockenfels;Amy A. Gorin;Delwyn Catley

  • Individual differences in the diurnal cycle of salivary free cortisol: a replication of flattened cycles for some individuals

    Arthur A Stone;Joseph E Schwartz;Joshua Smyth;Clemens Kirschbaum

  • Beyond self-selection in video game play: an experimental examination of the consequences of massively multiplayer online role-playing game play.

    Joshua M. Smyth

  • Anger toward God: Social-cognitive predictors, prevalence, and links with adjustment to bereavement and cancer.

    Julie J. Exline;Crystal L. Park;Joshua M. Smyth;Michael P. Carey

  • Reported exposure and emotional reactivity to daily stressors: the roles of adult age and global perceived stress.

    Robert S. Stawski;Martin J. Sliwinski;David M. Almeida;Joshua M. Smyth

  • Effects of Writing About Traumatic Experiences: The Necessity for Narrative Structuring

    Joshua Smyth;Nicole True;J. O. Y. Souto

  • EFFECT OF CHRONIC STRESS ASSOCIATED WITH UNEMPLOYMENT ON SALIVARY CORTISOL: OVERALL CORTISOL LEVELS, DIURNAL RHYTHM, AND ACUTE STRESS REACTIVITY

    Margit C. Ockenfels;Laura Porter;Joshua Smyth;Clemens Kirschbaum

  • Intraindividual coupling of daily stress and cognition.

    Martin J. Sliwinski;Joshua M. Smyth;Scott M. Hofer;Robert S. Stawski

  • Expressive writing and health: Self-regulation of emotion-related experience, physiology, and behavior.

    Stephen J. Lepore;Melanie A. Greenberg;Michelle Bruno;Joshua M. Smyth

  • Reliability and Validity of Ambulatory Cognitive Assessments

    Martin J. Sliwinski;Jacqueline A. Mogle;Jinshil Hyun;Elizabeth Munoz

  • Mindfulness training reduces loneliness and increases social contact in a randomized controlled trial

    Emily K. Lindsay;Shinzen Young;Kirk Warren Brown;Joshua M. Smyth

  • Direct and retrospective assessment of factors contributing to compulsive buying.

    Raymond G. Miltenberger;Jennifer Redlin;Ross Crosby;Marcella Stickney

  • Intraindividual change and variability in daily stress processes: findings from two measurement-burst diary studies.

    Martin J. Sliwinski;David M. Almeida;Joshua Smyth;Robert S. Stawski

  • Eating disturbance and sexual trauma in childhood and adulthood

    Stephen A. Wonderlich;Ross D. Crosby;James E. Mitchell;Kevin M. Thompson

  • Expressive writing and post-traumatic stress disorder: Effects on trauma symptoms, mood states, and cortisol reactivity

    Joshua Morrison Smyth;Jill R. Hockemeyer;Heather Tulloch

  • Exploring the boundary conditions of expressive writing: In search of the right recipe

    Joshua Morrison Smyth;James W. Pennebaker

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin J. Sliwinski
Martin J. Sliwinski Pennsylvania State University
Arthur A. Stone
Arthur A. Stone University of Southern California
David M. Almeida
David M. Almeida Pennsylvania State University
Ross D. Crosby
Ross D. Crosby University of North Dakota
Stephen A. Wonderlich
Stephen A. Wonderlich University of North Dakota
James E. Mitchell
James E. Mitchell University of North Dakota
Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams Stanford University
Megan A. Lewis
Megan A. Lewis RTI International
David E. Conroy
David E. Conroy Pennsylvania State University
Robert S. Stawski
Robert S. Stawski Utah State University

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Publications: 47

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Jason M. Lavender

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Publications: 45

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James W. Pennebaker

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