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Kelly G. Wilson 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 Kelly G. Wilson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 98 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kelly G. Wilson 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 Kelly G. Wilson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kelly G. Wilson is affiliated with the University of Mississippi in the United States and has a research focus spanning psychology and health professions. Their work contributes to areas such as behavioral and psychological studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family and disability support research, virus-based gene therapy research, mindfulness and compassion interventions, child and adolescent health, and hermeneutics and narrative identity.

The scientist has a number of recent publications addressing diverse topics within these fields. Notable papers include:

  • First Things First: Parent Psychological Flexibility and Self-Compassion During COVID-19 (2020), published in Behavior Analysis in Practice
  • From Helpless to Hero: Promoting Values-Based Behavior and Positive Family Interaction in the Midst of COVID-19 (2020), published in Behavior Analysis in Practice
  • Rational downstream development for adeno-associated virus full/empty capsid separation - A streamlined methodology based on high-throughput screening and mechanistic modeling (2024), published in Journal of Chromatography A
  • Values intervention as an establishing operation for approach in the presence of aversive stimuli (2021), published in Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • Adaptación y validación al Español del Inventario Multidimensional de Flexibilidad Psicológica (MPFI): evidencia de validez interna e Invarianza factorial (2023), published in Revista AJAYU

Kelly G. Wilson collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Steven C. Hayes, Javier Virués-Ortega, Karen Kate Kellum, Whitney R. Garney, and Kirk D. Strosahl.

Their research is disseminated through key venues such as:

  • Behavior Analysis in Practice
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Chromatography A
  • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

The main fields of study represented in their publications include psychology and health professions, with a significant focus on subfields like general health professions, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and genetics.

Best Publications

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change

    Steven C. Hayes;Kirk D. Strosahl;Kelly G. Wilson

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change

    Steven C. Hayes;Kirk D. Strosahl;Kelly G. Wilson

  • Experiential avoidance and behavioral disorders: A functional dimensional approach to diagnosis and treatment.

    Steven C. Hayes;Kelly G. Wilson;Elizabeth V. Gifford;Victoria M. Follette

  • Measuring experiential avoidance: A preliminary test of a working model

    Steven C. Hayes;Kirk Strosahl;Kelly G. Wilson;Richard T. Bissett

  • Experiential avoidance and behavioral disorders: A functional dimensional approach to diagnosis and treatment.

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  • Acceptance and commitment therapy and the treatment of persons at risk for long-term disability resulting from stress and pain symptoms: A preliminary randomized trial

    JoAnne Dahl;Kelly G. Wilson;Annika Nilsson

  • The Valued Living Questionnaire: Defining and measuring valued action within a behavioral framework.

    Kelly G. Wilson;Emily K. Sandoz;Jennifer Kitchens;Miguel Roberts

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy: Altering the verbal support for experiential avoidance.

    Steven C. Hayes;Kelly G. Wilson

  • Mindfulness: Method and Process

    Steven C. Hayes;Kelly G. Wilson

  • Mindfulness for Two: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach to Mindfulness in Psychotherapy

    Kelly G. Wilson;Troy DuFrene

  • Contextual behavioral science: Creating a science more adequate to the challenge of the human condition.

    Steven C. Hayes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Kelly G. Wilson

  • A Preliminary trial of twelve-step facilitation and acceptance and commitment therapy with polysubstance-abusing methadone-maintained opiate addicts

    Steven C. Hayes;Kelly G. Wilson;Elizabeth V. Gifford;Richard Bissett

  • Assessment of body image flexibility: The Body Image-Acceptance and Action Questionnaire

    Emily K. Sandoz;Kelly G. Wilson;Rhonda M. Merwin;Karen Kate Kellum

  • Disentangling Components of Flexibility via the Hexaflex Model: Development and Validation of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI).

    Jaci L. Rolffs;Ronald D. Rogge;Kelly G. Wilson

  • Comprar Acceptance And Commitment Therapy. The Process And Practice Of Mindful Change 2nd Ed. | Steven C. Hayes | 9781609189624 | Guilford Press

    Steven C. Hayes;Kirk D. Strosahl;Kelly G. Wilson

  • Why behavior analysts should study emotion: the example of anxiety.

    Patrick C. Friman;Steven C. Hayes;Kelly G. Wilson

  • Psychological interventions for patients with cancer: psychological flexibility and the potential utility of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

    Nicholas J. Hulbert-Williams;Lesley Storey;Kelly G. Wilson

  • Derived Relational Responding as Learned Behavior

    Steven C. Hayes;Eric Fox;Elizabeth V. Gifford;Kelly G. Wilson

  • What Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

    Steven C. Hayes;Kirk D. Strosahl;Kara Bunting;Michael Twohig

  • Some applied implications of a contemporary behavior-analytic account of verbal events.

    Steven C. Hayes;Kelly G. Wilson

  • First Things First: Parent Psychological Flexibility and Self-Compassion During COVID-19.

    Lisa W Coyne;Evelyn R Gould;Mikala Grimaldi;Kelly G Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven C. Hayes
Steven C. Hayes University of Nevada Reno
Dermot Barnes-Holmes
Dermot Barnes-Holmes University of Ulster
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes Ireland Consulting Psychologists Ltd
Stefan E. Schulenberg
Stefan E. Schulenberg University of Mississippi
Akihiko Masuda
Akihiko Masuda University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jason B. Luoma
Jason B. Luoma Oregon Health & Science University
Anthony Biglan
Anthony Biglan Oregon Research Institute
Michael P. Twohig
Michael P. Twohig Utah State University
Michael J. Zvolensky
Michael J. Zvolensky University of Houston

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