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Michael D. Anestis

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
57
Citations
11969
World Ranking
4042
National Ranking
2264

Michael D. Anestis publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 212 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael D. Anestis 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 Michael D. Anestis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael D. Anestis is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with a notable emphasis on clinical psychology and health. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as sociology and political science, social psychology, and ophthalmology.

Their scholarly output encompasses key topics related to suicide and self-harm studies, gun ownership and violence research, posttraumatic stress disorder research, traumatic ocular and foreign body injuries, injury epidemiology and prevention, crime patterns and interventions, and restraint-related deaths.

Anestis has published research in prominent venues which include:

  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Archives of Suicide Research
  • Injury Epidemiology

Frequent collaborative partners in their work include:

  • Allison E. Bond
  • Craig J. Bryan
  • Shelby L. Bandel
  • Daniel C. Semenza
  • Samantha E. Daruwala

Among their recent publications are:

  • "An examination of preferred messengers on firearm safety for suicide prevention," 2021, Preventive Medicine
  • "Lethal Means Counseling, Distribution of Cable Locks, and Safe Firearm Storage Practices Among the Mississippi National Guard: A Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial, 2018-2020," 2020, American Journal of Public Health
  • "Assessment of Firearm Storage Practices in the US, 2022," 2023, JAMA Network Open
  • "Mental Health Treatment Seeking and History of Suicidal Thoughts Among Suicide Decedents by Mechanism, 2003-2018," 2022, JAMA Network Open (coauthored by Allison E. Bond)
  • "Suicide risk and firearm ownership and storage behavior in a large military sample," 2020, Psychiatry Research

Best Publications

  • Understanding the relationship between emotional and behavioral dysregulation: Emotional cascades

    Edward A. Selby;Michael D. Anestis;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Childhood physical and sexual abuse and lifetime number of suicide attempts: A persistent and theoretically important relationship

    Thomas E. Joiner;Natalie J. Sachs-Ericsson;LaRicka R. Wingate;Jessica S. Brown

  • The multifaceted role of distress tolerance in dysregulated eating behaviors.

    Michael D. Anestis;Edward A. Selby;Erin L. Fink;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Clarifying the role of emotion dysregulation in the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in an undergraduate sample.

    Michael D. Anestis;Michael D. Anestis;Courtney L. Bagge;Matthew T. Tull;Thomas E. Joiner

  • The role of urgency in maladaptive behaviors.

    Michael D. Anestis;Edward A. Selby;Thomas E. Joiner

  • An exploration of the emotional cascade model in borderline personality disorder.

    Edward A. Selby;Michael D. Anestis;Theodore W. Bender;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Impulsive behaviors as an emotion regulation strategy: examining associations between PTSD, emotion dysregulation, and impulsive behaviors among substance dependent inpatients.

    Nicole H. Weiss;Matthew T. Tull;Andres G. Viana;Michael D. Anestis

  • A preliminary test of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in a military sample

    Craig J. Bryan;Chad E. Morrow;Michael D. Anestis;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Measuring Moral Injury: Psychometric Properties of the Moral Injury Events Scale in Two Military Samples.

    Craig J. Bryan;Anna Belle O Bryan;Michael D. Anestis;Joye C. Anestis

  • Reconsidering the Link Between Impulsivity and Suicidal Behavior

    Michael D. Anestis;Kelly A. Soberay;Peter M. Gutierrez;Theresa D. Hernández

  • The relative and unique contributions of emotion dysregulation and impulsivity to posttraumatic stress disorder among substance dependent inpatients

    Nicole H. Weiss;Matthew T. Tull;Michael D. Anestis;Kim L. Gratz

  • Overcoming the fear of lethal injury: evaluating suicidal behavior in the military through the lens of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide.

    Edward A. Selby;Michael D. Anestis;Theodore W. Bender;Jessica D. Ribeiro

  • Anger rumination across forms of aggression

    Michael D. Anestis;Joye C. Anestis;Edward A. Selby;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Examining the role of emotion in suicidality: negative urgency as an amplifier of the relationship between components of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior and lifetime number of suicide attempts.

    Michael D. Anestis;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Equine-related treatments for mental disorders lack empirical support: a systematic review of empirical investigations.

    Michael D Anestis;Joye C Anestis;Laci L Zawilinski;Tiffany A Hopkins

  • Suicide Rates and State Laws Regulating Access and Exposure to Handguns.

    Michael D. Anestis;Joye C. Anestis

  • The role of emotion dysregulation in suicide as considered through the ideation to action framework

    Keyne C Law;Lauren R Khazem;Michael D Anestis

  • Exercise caution: Over-exercise is associated with suicidality among individuals with disordered eating

    April R. Smith;Erin L. Fink;Michael D. Anestis;Jessica D. Ribeiro

  • The Association Between Gun Ownership and Statewide Overall Suicide Rates.

    Michael D. Anestis;Claire Houtsma

  • A comparison of retrospective self-report versus ecological momentary assessment measures of affective lability in the examination of its relationship with bulimic symptomatology.

    Michael D. Anestis;Edward A. Selby;Ross D. Crosby;Stephen A. Wonderlich

  • Dysregulated Eating and Distress: Examining the Specific Role of Negative Urgency in a Clinical Sample

    Michael D. Anestis;April R. Smith;Erin L. Fink;Thomas E. Joiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Kim L. Gratz
Kim L. Gratz University of Toledo
Matthew T. Tull
Matthew T. Tull University of Toledo
Edward A. Selby
Edward A. Selby Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Craig J. Bryan
Craig J. Bryan The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Daniel W. Capron
Daniel W. Capron University of Southern Mississippi
Jason M. Lavender
Jason M. Lavender Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Stephen A. Wonderlich
Stephen A. Wonderlich University of North Dakota
Kathryn H. Gordon
Kathryn H. Gordon North Dakota State University
Megan L. Rogers
Megan L. Rogers Texas State University

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