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Keith Hawton publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Keith Hawton sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 724 publications — 83rd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Keith Hawton D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Keith Hawton sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 162 D-Index — 97th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Keith Hawton is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of psychology and health professions. Their work shows a strong focus on clinical psychology within broader health disciplines, with particular attention to suicide and self-harm studies.

Their research topics prominently include:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Keith Hawton's notable recent publications are:

  • "Preventing suicide: a public health approach to a global problem" (2024), published in The Lancet Public Health
  • "Psychosocial interventions for self-harm in adults" (2020), published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • "Suicide prevention: what works, what might work, and what does not work" (2025), published in World Psychiatry
  • "Homelessness, psychiatric disorders, and risks of suicide and self-harm: a population-based cohort study" (2025), published in The Lancet Public Health
  • "Cost-effectiveness of psychological and psychosocial interventions for adults, children and young people who have self-harmed" (2024), published in BMJ Mental Health

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • The Lancet Public Health
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • World Psychiatry
  • BMJ Mental Health
  • Intuition, imagination and innovation in suicidology conference

Among established collaborators, Keith Hawton has worked repeatedly with the following coauthors:

  • Katrina Witt
  • Jane Pirkis
  • Rakhi Dandona
  • Morton M. Silverman
  • Murad Moosa Khan

Keith Hawton has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Self-harm and suicide in adolescents.

    Keith E. Hawton;Kate E. A. Saunders;Rory C. O'Connor

  • Suicide prevention strategies revisited: 10-year systematic review

    Gil Zalsman;Gil Zalsman;Keith Hawton;Danuta Wasserman;Kees van Heeringen

  • Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    David Gunnell;Louis Appleby;Ella Arensman;Keith Hawton

  • Risk factors for suicide in individuals with depression: a systematic review.

    Keith E. Hawton;Carolina Casañas I Comabella;Camilla Haw;Kate E. A. Saunders

  • Deliberate self harm in adolescents: self report survey in schools in England

    Keith E. Hawton;Karen Rodham;Emma Evans;Rosamund Weatherall

  • A report--chronic fatigue syndrome: guidelines for research.

    M. C. Sharpe;L. C. Archard;J. E. Banatvala;L. K. Borysiewicz

  • The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide

    Keith Hawton;Kees van Heeringen

  • Schizophrenia and suicide: systematic review of risk factors

    Keith Hawton;Lesley Sutton;Camilla Haw;Julia Sinclair

  • Deliberate self-harm within an international community sample of young people: Comparative findings from the Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) Study.

    Nicola Madge;Allyson Hewitt;Keith E. Hawton;Erik Jan de Wilde

  • Attempted suicide in Europe: rates, trends and sociodemographic characteristics of suicide attempters during the period 1989-1992. Results of the WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Parasuicide

    Armin Schmidtke;Unni Bille-Brahe;Diego DeLeo;Ad Kerkhof

  • Lithium in the prevention of suicide in mood disorders: updated systematic review and meta-analysis

    Andrea Cipriani;Andrea Cipriani;Keith E. Hawton;Sarah Stockton;John R. Geddes

  • Suicide following deliberate self-harm: long-term follow-up of patients who presented to a general hospital

    Keith E. Hawton;Daniel Louis Zahl;Rosamund Weatherall

  • Long-term lithium therapy for bipolar disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

    John R. Geddes;Sally Burgess;Keith E. Hawton;Kay Jamison

  • Lithium in the Prevention of Suicidal Behavior and All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Mood Disorders: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials

    Andrea Cipriani;Heather Pretty;Keith E. Hawton;John R. Geddes

  • The prevalence of suicidal phenomena in adolescents: A systematic review of population-based studies

    Emma Evans;Keith Hawton;Karen Rodham;Jonathan Deeks

  • Factors associated with suicidal phenomena in adolescents: a systematic review of population-based studies.

    Emma Evans;Keith Hawton;Karen Rodham

  • Sex and suicide. Gender differences in suicidal behaviour.

    Keith E. Hawton

  • Psychiatric and personality disorders in deliberate self-harm patients.

    Camilla Haw;Keith Hawton;Kelly Houston;Ellen Townsend

  • Cognitive behaviour therapy for the chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomized controlled trial.

    Michael Sharpe;Keith Hawton;Sue Simkin;Christina Surawy

  • Deliberate self harm: systematic review of efficacy of psychosocial and pharmacological treatments in preventing repetition

    Keith E. Hawton;E. Arensman;E. Townsend;S. Bremner

Frequent Co-Authors

David Gunnell
David Gunnell University of Bristol
Navneet Kapur
Navneet Kapur University of Manchester
Nav Kapur
Nav Kapur University of Manchester
Joan Fagg
Joan Fagg Warneford Hospital
Ella Arensman
Ella Arensman University College Cork
Ellen Townsend
Ellen Townsend University of Nottingham
Diego De Leo
Diego De Leo Griffith University
Seena Fazel
Seena Fazel University of Oxford
Rory C. O'Connor
Rory C. O'Connor University of Glasgow
Jonathan Evans
Jonathan Evans University of Glasgow

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