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Medicine
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2023

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Medicine D-index 150 Citations 74,566 699 World Ranking 623 National Ranking 71

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Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award

Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Psychiatry
  • Internal medicine
  • Major depressive disorder

Keith Hawton spends much of his time researching Suicide prevention, Psychiatry, Injury prevention, Occupational safety and health and Human factors and ergonomics. His work on Suicide attempt is typically connected to Clinical psychology, Epidemiology, Mental health and Demography as part of general Suicide prevention study, connecting several disciplines of science. His study looks at the intersection of Psychiatry and topics like Risk factor with Absolute risk reduction.

The Occupational safety and health study combines topics in areas such as Psychological intervention, Cohort study, Emergency medicine, Pediatrics and Cohort. His study in the field of Self-destructive behavior also crosses realms of Social environment, Research design, Environmental health and Prison. The concepts of his Depression study are interwoven with issues in Personality and Anxiety.

His most cited work include:

  • Self-harm and suicide in adolescents. (963 citations)
  • A report--chronic fatigue syndrome: guidelines for research. (880 citations)
  • Deliberate self harm in adolescents: self report survey in schools in England (804 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Keith Hawton focuses on Suicide prevention, Psychiatry, Injury prevention, Occupational safety and health and Human factors and ergonomics. Keith Hawton works on Suicide prevention which deals in particular with Suicide attempt. His Psychiatry study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Harm and Clinical psychology.

In most of his Injury prevention studies, his work intersects topics such as Drug overdose. His work deals with themes such as Public health and Environmental health, which intersect with Occupational safety and health. His studies link Psychological intervention with Psychosocial.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Suicide prevention (56.99%)
  • Psychiatry (55.07%)
  • Injury prevention (44.25%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

  • Psychiatry (55.07%)
  • Suicide prevention (56.99%)
  • Harm (14.66%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Keith Hawton mainly investigates Psychiatry, Suicide prevention, Harm, Injury prevention and Mental health. His Psychiatry research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Odds ratio and Meta-analysis. Keith Hawton regularly ties together related areas like Human factors and ergonomics in his Suicide prevention studies.

His Harm research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Young adult, Coping, Public health and Protocol. His Injury prevention research incorporates elements of Medical emergency and Longitudinal study. He has included themes like Nursing and Feeling in his Mental health study.

Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Suicide prevention strategies revisited: 10-year systematic review (599 citations)
  • Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic. (352 citations)
  • Psychosocial and pharmacological treatments for deliberate self harm (202 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Psychiatry
  • Internal medicine
  • Major depressive disorder

His main research concerns Suicide prevention, Psychiatry, Injury prevention, Occupational safety and health and Suicidal ideation. Suicide prevention and Human factors and ergonomics are frequently intertwined in his study. His study on Suicidal behavior and Suicide attempted is often connected to Prison as part of broader study in Human factors and ergonomics.

His research in Psychiatry intersects with topics in Meta-analysis, Randomized controlled trial and Harm. His Harm research integrates issues from Retrospective cohort study and Clinical psychology. His Occupational safety and health research includes themes of Epidemiology, Environmental health, Demography, Prospective cohort study and Pediatrics.

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Best Publications

Self-harm and suicide in adolescents.

Keith E. Hawton;Kate E. A. Saunders;Rory C. O'Connor.
The Lancet (2012)

1978 Citations

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

Keith E. Hawton;Karen Rodham;Emma Evans;Rosamund Weatherall.
BMJ (2002)

1307 Citations

Suicide prevention strategies revisited: 10-year systematic review

Gil Zalsman;Gil Zalsman;Keith Hawton;Danuta Wasserman;Kees van Heeringen.
The Lancet Psychiatry (2016)

1249 Citations

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

M. C. Sharpe;L. C. Archard;J. E. Banatvala;L. K. Borysiewicz.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (1991)

1232 Citations

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

Keith E. Hawton;Carolina Casañas I Comabella;Camilla Haw;Kate E. A. Saunders.
Journal of Affective Disorders (2013)

1122 Citations

The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide

Keith Hawton;Kees van Heeringen.
(2002)

1080 Citations

Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

David Gunnell;Louis Appleby;Ella Arensman;Keith Hawton.
The Lancet Psychiatry (2020)

1063 Citations

Schizophrenia and suicide: systematic review of risk factors

Keith Hawton;Lesley Sutton;Camilla Haw;Julia Sinclair.
British Journal of Psychiatry (2005)

976 Citations

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.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (1996)

948 Citations

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.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (2008)

931 Citations

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