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Karmel W. Choi 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 Karmel W. Choi sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 116 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Karmel W. Choi 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 Karmel W. Choi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% 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

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Overview

Karmel W. Choi is a researcher affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States. Their work spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, genetics, experimental and cognitive psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas including resilience and mental health, genetic associations and epidemiology, posttraumatic stress disorder research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cognitive abilities and testing, health, environment, cognitive aging, and birth, development, and health.

Choi has published recent papers in notable venues, including:

  • The promise of machine learning in predicting treatment outcomes in psychiatry, 2021, World Psychiatry
  • A cross-national study of factors associated with women's perinatal mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • An Exposure-Wide and Mendelian Randomization Approach to Identifying Modifiable Factors for the Prevention of Depression, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Reviewing the genetics of heterogeneity in depression: operationalizations, manifestations and etiologies, 2020, Human Molecular Genetics

Frequent co-authors of Choi include:

  • Jordan W. Smoller
  • Karestan C. Koenen
  • Lea K. Davis
  • Murray B. Stein
  • Joel Gelernter

The most frequent publication venues for Choi's work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Circulation

Best Publications

  • Assessment of Bidirectional Relationships Between Physical Activity and Depression Among Adults: A 2-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study

    Karmel W. Choi;Chia Yen Chen;Chia Yen Chen;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein;Yann C. Klimentidis

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • The promise of machine learning in predicting treatment outcomes in psychiatry

    Adam M Chekroud;Julia Bondar;Jaime Delgadillo;Gavin Doherty

  • A cross-national study of factors associated with women's perinatal mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Archana Basu;Hannah H. Kim;Rebecca Basaldua;Karmel W. Choi

  • An Exposure-Wide and Mendelian Randomization Approach to Identifying Modifiable Factors for the Prevention of Depression

    Karmel W Choi;Murray B Stein;Kristen M Nishimi;Tian Ge

  • Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank

    Coleman Jri;Peyrot Wj;Purves Kl;Davis Kas

  • The genetic basis of major depression.

    K. M. Kendall;E. Van Assche;T. F. M. Andlauer;K. W. Choi

  • Childhood Maltreatment and Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders A Systematic Review

    Karmel W. Choi;Kathleen J. Sikkema

  • Reviewing the genetics of heterogeneity in depression: operationalizations, manifestations and etiologies.

    Na Cai;Karmel W Choi;Eiko I Fried

  • Maternal childhood trauma, postpartum depression, and infant outcomes: Avoidant affective processing as a potential mechanism.

    Karmel W. Choi;Karmel W. Choi;Kathleen J. Sikkema;Bavi Vythilingum;Lut Geerts

  • "It's better for me to drink, at least the stress is going away": perspectives on alcohol use during pregnancy among South African women attending drinking establishments.

    Melissa H. Watt;Lisa A. Eaton;Karmel W. Choi;Jennifer Velloza

  • Maternal depression in the intergenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment and its sequelae: Testing postpartum effects in a longitudinal birth cohort.

    Karmel W. Choi;Renate Houts;Louise Arseneault;Carmine Pariante

  • Genomics and psychological resilience: a research agenda.

    Karmel W. Choi;Murray B. Stein;Erin C. Dunn;Karestan C. Koenen

  • Maladaptive coping mediates the influence of childhood trauma on depression and PTSD among pregnant women in South Africa

    Karmel W. Choi;Kathleen J. Sikkema;Jennifer Velloza;Adele Marais

  • The Frequent Stressor and Mental Health Monitoring-Paradigm: A Proposal for the Operationalization and Measurement of Resilience and the Identification of Resilience Processes in Longitudinal Observational Studies.

    Raffael Kalisch;Raffael Kalisch;Göran Köber;Harald Binder;Kira F. Ahrens

  • The impact of methamphetamine (“tik”) on a peri-urban community in Cape Town, South Africa

    Melissa H. Watt;Christina S. Meade;Stephen Kimani;Jessica C. MacFarlane

  • Genomic influences on self-reported childhood maltreatment

    Shareefa Dalvie;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Jonathan R.I. Coleman;Bekh Bradley

  • Applying network analysis to psychological comorbidity and health behavior: Depression, PTSD, and sexual risk in sexual minority men with trauma histories.

    Karmel W. Choi;Abigail W. Batchelder;Peter P. Ehlinger;Steven A. Safren

  • Improving mental health among people living with HIV: a review of intervention trials in low- and middle-income countries

    Kathleen J. Sikkema;Alexis C. Dennis;Melissa. H. Watt;Karmel W. Choi

  • Impact of replacing sedentary behaviour with other movement behaviours on depression and anxiety symptoms: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank.

    A. A. Kandola;B. del Pozo Cruz;D. P. J. Osborn;D. P. J. Osborn;B. Stubbs;B. Stubbs

  • A cross-national study of factors associated with women’s perinatal mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Archana Basu;Hannah Hayoung Kim;Karmel W. Choi;Lily Charron

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordan W. Smoller
Jordan W. Smoller Harvard University
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Chia-Yen Chen
Chia-Yen Chen Harvard University
Kathleen J. Sikkema
Kathleen J. Sikkema Columbia University
Caroline M. Nievergelt
Caroline M. Nievergelt University of California, San Diego
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University
Erin C. Dunn
Erin C. Dunn Harvard University
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital

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