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Melissa A. Brotman

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
13038
World Ranking
4755
National Ranking
2639

Melissa A. Brotman publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 223 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Melissa A. Brotman 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 Melissa A. Brotman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Melissa A. Brotman is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields of psychology and medicine with a focus on clinical and cognitive aspects relevant to mental health.

Their research covers a wide range of topics including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

The primary fields they contribute to are psychology and medicine, with subfields in:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Applied Psychology

Melissa A. Brotman's recent and notable papers include:

  • "Hyperbolic trade-off: The importance of balancing trial and subject sample sizes in neuroimaging" (2021) published in NeuroImage
  • "Irritability in Youths: A Critical Integrative Review" (2024) published in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "The Coronavirus Impact Scale: Construction, Validation, and Comparisons in Diverse Clinical Samples" (2023) published in JAACAP Open
  • "Trial and error: A hierarchical modeling approach to test-retest reliability" (2021) published in NeuroImage
  • "Phasic Versus Tonic Irritability: Differential Associations With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms" (2021) published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Their most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • JAACAP Open

Melissa frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Katharina Kircanski
  • Ellen Leibenluft
  • Daniel S. Pine
  • Simone P. Haller
  • Reut Naim

Best Publications

  • Gender Differences in Parent–Child Emotion Narratives

    Robyn Fivush;Melissa A. Brotman;Janine P. Buckner;Sherryl H. Goodman

  • Prevalence, Clinical Correlates, and Longitudinal Course of Severe Mood Dysregulation in Children

    Melissa A. Brotman;Mariana Schmajuk;Brendan A. Rich;Daniel P. Dickstein

  • The Affective Reactivity Index: a concise irritability scale for clinical and research settings

    Argyris Stringaris;Robert Goodman;Sumudu Ferdinando;Varun Razdan

  • A Conceptual and Methodological Analysis of the Nonspecifics Argument

    Robert J. DeRubeis;Melissa A. Brotman;Carly J. Gibbons

  • The Status of Irritability in Psychiatry: A Conceptual and Quantitative Review.

    Pablo Vidal-Ribas;Melissa A. Brotman;Isabel Valdivieso;Ellen Leibenluft

  • Reward Processing in Depression: A Conceptual and Meta-Analytic Review Across fMRI and EEG Studies.

    Hanna Keren;Georgia O’Callaghan;Pablo Vidal-Ribas;George A. Buzzell

  • Amygdala Activation During Emotion Processing of Neutral Faces in Children With Severe Mood Dysregulation Versus ADHD or Bipolar Disorder

    Melissa A. Brotman;Brendan A. Rich;Amanda E. Guyer;Jessica R. Lunsford

  • Irritability in Youths: A Translational Model

    Melissa A. Brotman;Katharina Kircanski;Argyris Stringaris;Daniel S. Pine

  • Specificity of facial expression labeling deficits in childhood psychopathology

    Amanda E. Guyer;Erin B. McClure;Abby D. Adler;Melissa A. Brotman

  • The process of change in cognitive therapy for depression: Predictors of early inter-session symptom gains

    Daniel R. Strunk;Melissa A. Brotman;Robert J. DeRubeis

  • Validation of the prospective NIMH-Life-Chart Method (NIMH-LCM-p) for longitudinal assessment of bipolar illness.

    K. D. Denicoff;G. S. Leverich;W. A. Nolen;A. J. Rush

  • Cognitive flexibility in phenotypes of pediatric bipolar disorder.

    Daniel P. Dickstein;Eric E. Nelson;Erin B. McCLURE;Mary E. Grimley

  • Irritability in Children and Adolescents.

    Melissa A. Brotman;Katharina Kircanski;Ellen Leibenluft

  • Practitioner Review: Definition, recognition, and treatment challenges of irritability in young people

    Argyris Stringaris;Pablo Vidal-Ribas;Pablo Vidal-Ribas;Melissa A. Brotman;Ellen Leibenluft

  • Parental Diagnoses in Youth With Narrow Phenotype Bipolar Disorder or Severe Mood Dysregulation

    Melissa A. Brotman;Layla Kassem;B.A. Michelle M. Reising;Amanda E. Guyer

  • Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Versus Severe Mood Dysregulation: Risk for Manic Episodes on Follow-Up

    Argyris Stringaris;Argyris Stringaris;Argelinda Baroni;Caroline Haimm;Melissa Brotman

  • Facial Emotion Labeling Deficits in Children and Adolescents at Risk for Bipolar Disorder

    Melissa A. Brotman;Amanda E. Guyer;B.S. Evin S. Lawson;B.S. Sarah E. Horsey

  • Therapist competence in cognitive therapy for depression: predicting subsequent symptom change.

    Daniel R. Strunk;Melissa A. Brotman;Robert J. DeRubeis;Steven D. Hollon

  • Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of lithium in youths with severe mood dysregulation.

    Daniel P. Dickstein;Kenneth E. Towbin;Jan Willem Van Der Veen;Brendan A. Rich

  • Normative Irritability in Youth: Developmental Findings From the Great Smoky Mountains Study

    William E. Copeland;Melissa A. Brotman;E. Jane Costello

  • Neural connectivity in children with bipolar disorder: impairment in the face emotion processing circuit

    Brendan A. Rich;Stephen J. Fromm;Lisa H. Berghorst;Daniel P. Dickstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Katharina Kircanski
Katharina Kircanski University of Southern California
Argyris Stringaris
Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health
Roxann Roberson-Nay
Roxann Roberson-Nay Virginia Commonwealth University
John M. Hettema
John M. Hettema Virginia Commonwealth University
Daniel P. Dickstein
Daniel P. Dickstein Harvard Medical School
Brendan A. Rich
Brendan A. Rich Catholic University of America
Gang Chen
Gang Chen National Institutes of Health
Stephen J. Fromm
Stephen J. Fromm National Institutes of Health

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Boris Birmaher

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