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Lars Vedel Kessing

Lars Vedel Kessing

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Psychology
Denmark
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
35778
World Ranking
8017
National Ranking
87

Psychology

D-Index
101
Citations
35147
World Ranking
602
National Ranking
3

Lars Vedel Kessing 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 Lars Vedel Kessing sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 637 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lars Vedel Kessing 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 Lars Vedel Kessing sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Lars Vedel Kessing is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and psychology, with a distinct focus on psychiatry and mental health. Their work includes extensive contributions to clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and biological psychiatry.

The main topics covered in their research encompass:

  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Treatment of Major Depression

Kessing has published in several frequent venues, including:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Neuroscience Applied

Significant recent papers relevant to the broader field of psychiatry and mental health research include:

  • "The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality," 2021, World Psychiatry
  • "Bipolar disorders," 2020, The Lancet
  • "Prevention of Psychosis," 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Association between Mental Disorders and Subsequent Medical Conditions," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Smartphones in mental health: a critical review of background issues, current status and future concerns," 2020, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

The researcher frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, such as:

  • Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak
  • Maj Vinberg
  • Maria Faurholt-Jepsen
  • Hanne Lie Kjærstad
  • Julian Macoveanu

Best Publications

  • Bipolar disorders

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  • The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality.

    John Torous;Sandra Bucci;Imogen H Bell;Lars V Kessing

  • Association of Hormonal Contraception With Depression

    Charlotte Wessel Skovlund;Lina Steinrud Mørch;Lars Vedel Kessing;Øjvind Lidegaard

  • Exploring Comorbidity Within Mental Disorders Among a Danish National Population.

    Oleguer Plana-Ripoll;Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Yan Holtz;Michael E. Benros;Michael E. Benros

  • Does the risk of developing dementia increase with the number of episodes in patients with depressive disorder and in patients with bipolar disorder

    L V Kessing;P K Andersen

  • Cognitive impairment in the remitted state of unipolar depressive disorder: a systematic review.

    Bo Jacob Hasselbalch;Ulla Knorr;Lars Vedel Kessing

  • Association between Mental Disorders and Subsequent Medical Conditions

    Natalie C. Momen;Oleguer Plana-Ripoll;Esben Agerbo;Michael E. Benros

  • Cytokines in bipolar disorder vs. healthy control subjects: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Klaus Munkholm;Julie Vestergaard Braüner;Lars Vedel Kessing;Maj Vinberg

  • International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force on Suicide: meta-analyses and meta-regression of correlates of suicide attempts and suicide deaths in bipolar disorder.

    Ayal Schaffer;Erkki T. Isometsä;Leonardo Tondo;Doris H Moreno

  • Prevention of Psychosis: Advances in Detection, Prognosis, and Intervention

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo;Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo;Christoph U. Correll;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

  • Cognitive impairment in the euthymic phase of affective disorder

    Lars Vedel Kessing

  • Salivary cortisol in depressed patients versus control persons: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Ulla Knorr;Maj Vinberg;Lars V. Kessing;Jørn Wetterslev

  • Designing mobile health technology for bipolar disorder: a field trial of the monarca system

    Jakob E. Bardram;Mads Frost;Károly Szántó;Maria Faurholt-Jepsen

  • The predictive effect of episodes on the risk of recurrence in depressive and bipolar disorders – a life‐long perspective

    Lars Vedel Kessing;Mette Gerster Hansen;Per Kragh Andersen;J. Angst

  • What is good mental health? A scoping review.

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo;Andrea De Micheli;Dorien H. Nieman

  • Cytokines in bipolar disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Klaus Munkholm;Maj Vinberg;Lars Vedel Kessing

  • Smartphone Data as an Electronic Biomarker of Illness Activity in Bipolar Disorder

    M. Faurholt-Jepsen;M. Vinberg;M. Frost;E.M. Christensen

  • Validity of dementia diagnoses in the Danish hospital registers

    Thien Kieu Thi Phung;Birgitte Bo Andersen;Peter Høgh;Lars Vedel Kessing

  • Lithium Treatment and Risk of Dementia

    Lars Vedel Kessing;Lars Søndergård;Julie Lyng Forman;Per Kragh Andersen

  • A report on older-age bipolar disorder from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force

    Martha Sajatovic;Sergio A. Strejilevich;Ariel G. Gildengers;Annemiek Dols

  • Recurrence in affective disorder. I. Case register study.

    L V Kessing;P K Andersen;P B Mortensen;T G Bolwig

  • Increased risk of developing dementia in patients with major affective disorders compared to patients with other medical illnesses.

    Lars Vedel Kessing;Flemming Mørkeberg Nilsson

  • Treatment in a specialised out-patient mood disorder clinic v. standard out-patient treatment in the early course of bipolar disorder: randomised clinical trial

    Lars Vedel Kessing;Hanne Vibe Hansen;Anne Hvenegaard;Ellen Margrethe Christensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Maj Vinberg
Maj Vinberg University of Copenhagen
Kamilla W. Miskowiak
Kamilla W. Miskowiak Copenhagen University Hospital
Per Kragh Andersen
Per Kragh Andersen University of Copenhagen
Jakob E. Bardram
Jakob E. Bardram Technical University of Denmark
Jens Bukh
Jens Bukh University of Copenhagen
Preben Bo Mortensen
Preben Bo Mortensen Aarhus University
Michael Berk
Michael Berk Deakin University
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Ulrik Gether
Ulrik Gether University of Copenhagen
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen

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