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Louis Appleby 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 Louis Appleby sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 373 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Louis Appleby 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 Louis Appleby sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 82 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Louis Appleby is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with a major emphasis on clinical psychology. Additional subfields of study include general health professions, social psychology, sociology and political science, and health.

Their work covers several main topics, particularly centered on suicide and self-harm studies. Other notable topics include COVID-19 and mental health, mental health treatment and access, healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, homicide, infanticide, and child abuse, health disparities and outcomes, and the impacts of COVID-19 on healthcare.

Louis Appleby has published extensively in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • BJPsych Open
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • BMJ Open
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Their recent publications include:

  • Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Trends in suicide during the covid-19 pandemic, 2020, BMJ
  • Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries, 2022, EClinicalMedicine
  • Suicide Research, Prevention, and COVID-19, 2020, Crisis

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Navneet Kapur
  • Pauline Turnbull
  • Said A. Ibrahim
  • Cathryn Rodway
  • David Gunnell

Best Publications

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

    David Gunnell;Louis Appleby;Ella Arensman;Keith Hawton

  • Suicide After Deliberate Self-Harm: A 4-Year Cohort Study

    Jayne Cooper;Navneet Kapur;Roger Webb;Martin Lawlor

  • A controlled study of fluoxetine and cognitive-behavioural counselling in the treatment of postnatal depression

    Louis Appleby;Rachel Warner;Anna Whitton;Brian Faragher

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

    Jane Pirkis;Ann John;Sangsoo Shin;Marcos DelPozo-Banos

  • Suicide within 12 months of contact with mental health services: national clinical survey

    Louis Appleby;Jenny Shaw;Tim Amos;Ros McDonnell

  • Personality disorder: the patients psychiatrists dislike.

    Glyn Lewis;Louis Appleby

  • The psychological autopsy approach to studying suicide: a review of methodological issues

    Keith Hawton;Louis Appleby;Stephen Platt;Tom Foster

  • Demographic and obstetric risk factors for postnatal psychiatric morbidity

    Rachel Warner;Louis Appleby;Anna Whitton;Brian Faragher

  • Effects of legislation restricting pack sizes of paracetamol and salicylate on self poisoning in the United Kingdom: before and after study.

    Keith Hawton;Ellen Townsend;Jonathan Deeks;Louis Appleby

  • Death by homicide, suicide, and other unnatural causes in people with mental illness: a population-based study

    Urara Hiroeh;Louis Appleby;Preben Bo Mortensen;Graham Dunn

  • Implementation of mental health service recommendations in England and Wales and suicide rates, 1997–2006: a cross-sectional and before-and-after observational study

    David While;Harriet Bickley;Alison Roscoe;Kirsten Windfuhr

  • Prevalence of non-suicidal self-harm and service contact in England, 2000–14: repeated cross-sectional surveys of the general population

    Sally McManus;David Gunnell;David Gunnell;Claudia Cooper;Paul E Bebbington

  • Suicide in recently released prisoners: a population-based cohort study

    Daniel Pratt;Mary Piper;Louis Appleby;Roger Webb

  • Psychological autopsy study of suicides by people aged under 35.

    Louis Appleby;Jayne Cooper;Tim Amos;Brian Faragher

  • Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled treatment trial of fluoxetine and graded exercise for chronic fatigue syndrome.

    Alison J. Wearden;Richard K. Morriss;Ricky Mullis;P. L. Strickland

  • Suicide by prisoners. National clinical survey.

    Jenny Shaw;Denise Baker;Isabelle M. Hunt;Anne Moloney

  • Suicide in mental health in-patients and within 3 months of discharge. National clinical survey.

    Janet Meehan;Navneet Kapur;Isabelle M. Hunt;Pauline Turnbull

  • Suicide during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year

    L Appleby

  • Effect of oestrogen and testosterone implants on psychological disorders in the climacteric.

    J.C. Montgomery;M. Brincat;A. Tapp;L. Appleby

  • National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness.

    Louis Appleby;Jenny Shaw;Tim Amos

Frequent Co-Authors

Navneet Kapur
Navneet Kapur University of Manchester
Jenny Shaw
Jenny Shaw University of Manchester
Roger T. Webb
Roger T. Webb University of Manchester
Nav Kapur
Nav Kapur University of Manchester
Preben Bo Mortensen
Preben Bo Mortensen Aarhus University
Jo Robinson
Jo Robinson University of Melbourne
Keith Hawton
Keith Hawton University of Oxford
Graham Dunn
Graham Dunn University of Manchester
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
David Gunnell
David Gunnell University of Bristol

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