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Natalie Castellanos-Ryan

Natalie Castellanos-Ryan

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
4679
World Ranking
9918
National Ranking
688

Natalie Castellanos-Ryan 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 Natalie Castellanos-Ryan sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 91 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Natalie Castellanos-Ryan 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 Natalie Castellanos-Ryan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Natalie Castellanos-Ryan is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research spans psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on clinical psychology. Their work addresses multiple subfields including general health professions, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and epidemiology.

The primary topics of Natalie Castellanos-Ryan's research include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, homelessness and social issues, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, cannabis and cannabinoid research, suicide and self-harm studies, COVID-19 and mental health, and prenatal substance exposure effects.

Frequent collaborators include Jean R. Séguin, Sophie Parent, Richard E. Tremblay, Sylvana M. Côté, and Michel Boivin.

Natalie Castellanos-Ryan often publishes in several key venues such as JAMA Network Open, Neuropsychopharmacology, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, and Addictive Behaviors.

Some notable recent papers authored by or involving Natalie Castellanos-Ryan include:

  • The 7-Year Effectiveness of School-Based Alcohol Use Prevention From Adolescence to Early Adulthood: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Universal, Selective, and Combined Interventions (2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • Substance use disorders and suicidality in youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis with a focus on the direction of the association (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • A genetically informed study on the association of cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco smoking with suicide attempt (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Depression and anxiety symptoms in young adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a Canadian population-based cohort (2021, Annals of General Psychiatry)
  • Cannabis use, depression and suicidal ideation in adolescence: direction of associations in a population based cohort (2020, Journal of Affective Disorders)

Best Publications

  • Effectiveness of a selective, personality-targeted prevention program for adolescent alcohol use and misuse: a cluster randomized controlled trial

    Patricia J Conrod;Maeve O'Leary-Barrett;Nicola Newton;Lauren Topper

  • Brief, Personality-Targeted Coping Skills Interventions and Survival as a Non-Drug User Over a 2-Year Period During Adolescence

    Patricia J. Conrod;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;John Strang

  • Long-term effects of a personality-targeted intervention to reduce alcohol use in adolescents.

    Patricia J. Conrod;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Clare Mackie

  • The structure of psychopathology in adolescence and its common personality and cognitive correlates.

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Frédéric N. Brière;Maeve O'Leary-Barrett;Tobias Banaschewski

  • Developmental trajectories of psychotic-like experiences across adolescence: impact of victimization and substance use.

    C. J. Mackie;N. Castellanos-Ryan;P. J. Conrod

  • Response Inhibition and Reward Response Bias Mediate the Predictive Relationships Between Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking and Common and Unique Variance in Conduct Disorder and Substance Misuse

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Katya Rubia;Patricia J. Conrod

  • Neural and cognitive correlates of the common and specific variance across externalizing problems in young adolescence.

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Maren Struve;Robert Whelan;Tobias Banaschewski

  • Sensitivity and Specificity of a Brief Personality Screening Instrument in Predicting Future Substance Use, Emotional, and Behavioral Problems: 18-Month Predictive Validity of the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Maeve O'Leary-Barrett;Laura Sully;Patricia Conrod;Patricia Conrod

  • Adolescent bullying victimisation and alcohol-related problem behaviour mediated by coping drinking motives over a 12 month period.

    Lauren R. Topper;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Clare Mackie;Patricia J. Conrod

  • Moderators of the association between peer and target adolescent substance use.

    Shawn Marschall-Lévesque;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Frank Vitaro;Jean R. Séguin

  • Adolescent cannabis use, change in neurocognitive function, and high-school graduation: A longitudinal study from early adolescence to young adulthood.

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Jean-Baptiste Pingault;Sophie Parent;Frank Vitaro

  • Personality-targeted interventions delay uptake of drinking and decrease risk of alcohol-related problems when delivered by teachers.

    Maeve O'Leary-Barrett;Clare J. Mackie;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Nadia Al-Khudhairy

  • Pubertal development, personality, and substance use: a 10-year longitudinal study from childhood to adolescence.

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Sophie Parent;Frank Vitaro;Richard E. Tremblay

  • Personality and Substance Misuse: Evidence for a Four-Factor Model of Vulnerability

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Patricia Conrod;Patricia Conrod

  • Two-Year Impact of Personality-Targeted, Teacher-Delivered Interventions on Youth Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

    Maeve O’Leary-Barrett;Lauren Topper;Nadia Al-Khudhairy;Robert O. Pihl

  • Personality Correlates of the Common and Unique Variance Across Conduct Disorder and Substance Misuse Symptoms in Adolescence

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Patricia J. Conrod;Patricia J. Conrod

  • Adolescent bullying, cannabis use and emerging psychotic experiences: a longitudinal general population study.

    C. J. Mackie;M. O'Leary-Barrett;N. Al-Khudhairy;N. Castellanos-Ryan

  • Age of Cannabis Use Onset and Adult Drug Abuse Symptoms: A Prospective Study of Common Risk Factors and Indirect Effects:

    Charlie Rioux;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Sophie Parent;Frank Vitaro

  • Differential susceptibility to environmental influences: Interactions between child temperament and parenting in adolescent alcohol use.

    Charlie Rioux;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Sophie Parent;Frank Vitaro

  • The Predictive Value of Head Circumference Growth during the First Year of Life on Early Child Traits.

    Caroline Dupont;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Jean R. Séguin;Gina Muckle

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia J. Conrod
Patricia J. Conrod University of Montreal
Jean R. Séguin
Jean R. Séguin University of Montreal
Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
Frank Vitaro
Frank Vitaro University of Montreal
Sylvana M. Côté
Sylvana M. Côté University of Montreal
Michel Boivin
Michel Boivin Université Laval
Marie-Claude Geoffroy
Marie-Claude Geoffroy McGill University
Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Massimiliano Orri
Massimiliano Orri McGill University
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont

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