2026 Max Birchwood: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	88	219	184	37	32	416	31516
Medicine	88	13070	12303	1222	1170	393	31287

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Max Birchwood is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a particular emphasis on Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their work focuses on several key areas, including:

Schizophrenia research and treatment
Mental Health Treatment and Access
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
Mental Health Research Topics
Digital Mental Health Interventions

Birchwood has contributed extensively to the understanding of psychosis, schizophrenia, and related mental health disorders. Their publications appear in numerous journals, with frequent contributions to:

Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
Schizophrenia Bulletin
The Lancet Psychiatry
BJPsych Open

Notable recent papers include:

"Effect of delaying treatment of first-episode psychosis on symptoms and social outcomes: a longitudinal analysis and modelling study," 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
"Cognitive Predictors of Social and Occupational Functioning in Early Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Data," 2021, Schizophrenia Bulletin
"Antipsychotic medication versus psychological intervention versus a combination of both in adolescents with first-episode psychosis (MAPS): a multicentre, three-arm, randomised controlled pilot and feasibility study," 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
"The EMPOWER blended digital intervention for relapse prevention in schizophrenia: a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial in Scotland and Australia," 2022, The Lancet Psychiatry
"Early Signs Monitoring to Prevent Relapse in Psychosis and Promote Well-Being, Engagement, and Recovery: Protocol for a Feasibility Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Harnessing Mobile Phone Technology Blended With Peer Support," 2020, JMIR Research Protocols

Birchwood collaborates frequently with several researchers in the field, including:

Swaran P. Singh
David Fowler
Rachel Upthegrove
Jason Madan
Srividya N. Iyer

Their subfields of study highlight a breadth of expertise within psychology and psychiatry:

Psychiatry and Mental Health
Clinical Psychology
Social Psychology
Philosophy
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Best Publications

The Psychosis High-Risk State: A Comprehensive State-of-the-Art Review

Paolo Fusar-Poli;Stefan Borgwardt;Andreas Bechdolf;Jean Addington

1751
Citations
The Social Functioning Scale. The development and validation of a new scale of social adjustment for use in family intervention programmes with schizophrenic patients.

Max Birchwood;Jo Smith;Ray Cochrane;Sheila Wetton

1514
Citations
Early intervention in psychosis: The critical period hypothesis

Max Birchwood;Pauline Todd;Chris Jackson

1316
Citations
The omnipotence of voices. A cognitive approach to auditory hallucinations.

Paul Chadwick;Max Birchwood

1242
Citations
A Self-report Insight Scale for Psychosis: Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity to Change

M. Birchwood;Jo Smith;V. Drury;J. Healy

839
Citations
Prediction of psychosis in adolescents and young adults at high risk: results from the prospective European prediction of psychosis study

Stephan Ruhrmann;Frauke Schultze-Lutter;Raimo K. R. Salokangas;Markus Heinimaa

804
Citations
The power and omnipotence of voices: subordination and entrapment by voices and significant others.

Max Birchwood;A. Meaden;P. Trower;P. Gilbert

688
Citations
Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia

Paul D. Chadwick;Max J. Birchwood;Peter Trower

631
Citations
Designing youth mental health services for the 21st century: examples from Australia, Ireland and the UK.

Patrick D. McGorry;T. E. Bates;M. J. Birchwood

627
Citations
Depression, demoralization and control over psychotic illness: a comparison of depressed and non-depressed patients with a chronic psychosis

Max Birchwood;R. Mason;F. MacMillan;J. Healy

569
Citations
Cognitive therapy and recovery from acute psychosis: a controlled trial. I. Impact on psychotic symptoms.

Val Drury;Max Birchwood;Ray Cochrane;Fiona MacMillan

544
Citations
Predicting relapse in schizophrenia: the development and implementation of an early signs monitoring system using patients and families as observers, a preliminary investigation.

Max Birchwood;Jo Smith;Fiona Macmillan;Bridget Hogg

514
Citations
The omnipotence of voices: testing the validity of a cognitive model.

Max Birchwood;Paul Chadwick

488
Citations
The revised Beliefs About Voices Questionnaire (BAVQ-R).

Paul Chadwick;Susan Lees;Max Birchwood

481
Citations
'Theory of mind' skills during an acute episode of psychosis and following recovery.

V. M. Drury;E. J. Robinson;M. Birchwood

453
Citations
Pathways to emotional dysfunction in first-episode psychosis

Max Birchwood

448
Citations
Cognitive approach to depression and suicidal thinking in psychosis. 1. Ontogeny of post-psychotic depression.

Max Birchwood;Zaffer Iqbal;Paul Chadwick;Peter Trower

433
Citations
Early detection and intervention evaluation for people at risk of psychosis: multisite randomised controlled trial

Anthonty P. Morrison;Paul French;Suzanne L.K. Stewart;Max Birchwood

425
Citations
Cognitive therapy for command hallucinations: randomised controlled trial.

Peter Trower;Max Birchwood;Alan Meaden;Sarah Byrne

399
Citations
Social anxiety and the shame of psychosis: a study in first episode psychosis.

Max Birchwood;Peter Trower;Kat Brunet;Paul Gilbert

398
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Fowler University of Sussex

Anthony P. Morrison University of Manchester

Joachim Klosterkötter University of Cologne

Peter Trower University of Birmingham

Shôn Lewis University of Manchester

Peter Jones University of Cambridge

Georg Juckel Ruhr University Bochum

Andrew Gumley University of Glasgow

Stephan Ruhrmann University of Cologne

Nick Freemantle University College London

External Links

Personal website of Max Birchwood

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