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Mara Brendgen 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 Mara Brendgen sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 293 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mara Brendgen 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 Mara Brendgen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mara Brendgen is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research broadly spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a specialized focus on clinical psychology, education, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their work centers on child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, bullying, victimization, and aggression, stress responses and cortisol, child development and digital technology, cognitive abilities and testing, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Frequent publication venues for Mara Brendgen include Developmental Psychology, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

They have collaborated often with coauthors such as Frank Vitaro, Michel Boivin, Ginette Dionne, Richard E. Tremblay, and Isabelle Ouellet-Morin.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Early Childhood Factors Associated With Peer Victimization Trajectories From 6 to 17 Years of Age (2020, PEDIATRICS)
  • Uncovering the genetic architecture of broad antisocial behavior through a genome-wide association study meta-analysis (2022, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Children With Persistent Versus Transient Early Language Delay: Language, Academic, and Psychosocial Outcomes in Elementary School (2020, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research)
  • Changing genetic architecture of body mass index from infancy to early adulthood: an individual based pooled analysis of 25 twin cohorts (2022, International Journal of Obesity)
  • Trajectories of pain and anxiety in a longitudinal cohort of adolescent twins (2020, Depression and Anxiety)

Best Publications

  • Reactively and proactively aggressive children: antecedent and subsequent characteristics.

    Frank Vitaro;Mara Brendgen;Richard E. Tremblay

  • Influence of Deviant Friends on Delinquency: Searching for Moderator Variables

    Frank Vitaro;Mara Brendgen;Richard E. Tremblay

  • Subtypes of Aggressive Behaviors: A Developmental Perspective.

    Frank Vitaro;Mara Brendgen;Edward D. Barker

  • Reactive and proactive aggression: predictions to physical violence in different contexts and moderating effects of parental monitoring and caregiving behavior.

    Mara Brendgen;Frank Vitaro;Richard E. Tremblay;Francine Lavoie;Francine Lavoie

  • Joint development of bullying and victimization in adolescence: Relations to delinquency and self-harm.

    Edward D. Barker;Louise Arseneault;Mara Brendgen;Nathalie Fontaine

  • Kindergarten Disruptive Behaviors, Protective Factors, and Educational Achievement by Early Adulthood.

    Frank Vitaro;Mara Brendgen;Simon Larose;Richard E. Trembaly

  • Gambling, delinquency, and drug use during adolescence: mutual influences and common risk factors.

    Frank Vitaro;Mara Brendgen;Robert Ladouceur;Richard E. Tremblay

  • Deviant Friends and Early Adolescents' Emotional and Behavioral Adjustment

    Mara Brendgen;Frank Vitaro;William M. Bukowski

  • The quality of adolescents' friendships: associations with mothers' interpersonal relationships, attachments to parents and friends, and prosocial behaviors.

    Dorothy Markiewicz;Anna Beth Doyle;Mara Brendgen

  • Peer Victimization, Poor Academic Achievement, and the Link Between Childhood Externalizing and Internalizing Problems

    Pol A. C. van Lier;Frank Vitaro;Edward D. Barker;Mara Brendgen

  • Relations with parents and with peers, temperament, and trajectories of depressed mood during early adolescence.

    Mara Brendgen;Brigitte Wanner;Alexandre J. S. Morin;Frank Vitaro

  • Predictive validity and early predictors of peer-victimization trajectories in preschool.

    Edward D. Barker;Michel Boivin;Mara Brendgen;Nathalie Fontaine

  • Proactive and Reactive Aggression: A Developmental Perspective.

    Frank Vitaro;Mara Brendgen

  • A longitudinal-experimental approach to testing theories of antisocial behavior development.

    Eric Lacourse;Sylvana Côté;Daniel S. Nagin;Frank Vitaro

  • A longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis of indirect and physical aggression: evidence of two factors over time?

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Mara Brendgen;Michel Boivin;Richard E. Tremblay

  • Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) study

    Karri Silventoinen;Karri Silventoinen;Aline Jelenkovic;Aline Jelenkovic;Reijo Sund;Yoon-Mi Hur

  • Assessing aggressive and depressed children's social relations with classmates and friends: a matter of perspective.

    Mara Brendgen;Frank Vitaro;Lyse Turgeon;François Poulin

  • Transactional Analysis of the Reciprocal Links between Peer Experiences and Academic Achievement from Middle Childhood to Early Adolescence.

    Marie Hélène Véronneau;Frank Vitaro;Mara Brendgen;Thomas J. Dishion

  • Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts

    Aline Jelenkovic;Aline Jelenkovic;Reijo Sund;Yoon Mi Hur;Yoshie Yokoyama

  • Do early difficult temperament and harsh parenting differentially predict reactive and proactive aggression

    Frank Vitaro;Edward Dylan Barker;Michel Boivin;Mara Brendgen

  • Peers and Socialization: Effects on Externalizing and Internalizing Problems.

    William M. Bukowski;Mara Brendgen;Frank Vitaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Vitaro
Frank Vitaro University of Montreal
Michel Boivin
Michel Boivin Université Laval
Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
Ginette Dionne
Ginette Dionne Université Laval
Sylvana M. Côté
Sylvana M. Côté University of Montreal
Karri Silventoinen
Karri Silventoinen University of Helsinki
Daniel Pérusse
Daniel Pérusse University of Montreal
Richard Saffery
Richard Saffery University of Melbourne
Jeffrey M. Craig
Jeffrey M. Craig Deakin University
Isabelle Ouellet-Morin
Isabelle Ouellet-Morin University of Montreal

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