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Ireland
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
53
Citations
15835
World Ranking
2256
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Paul Corcoran is affiliated with University College Cork in Ireland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a total of 116 and 90 publications respectively. Their research spans several subfields, including Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Social Psychology, and Emergency Medicine.

The primary research topics addressed in Corcoran's work include Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions, Maternal and fetal healthcare, Workplace Health and Well-being, Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, and Poisoning and overdose treatments.

Corcoran has frequently published research in the following venues:

  • HRB Open Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
  • International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Their recent research contributions include:

  • The Impact of Infectious Disease-Related Public Health Emergencies on Suicide, Suicidal Behavior, and Suicidal Thoughts (2020), published in Crisis
  • Variations in use of childbirth interventions in 13 high-income countries: A multinational cross-sectional study (2020), published in PLoS Medicine
  • Maternal morbidity and mortality: an iceberg phenomenon (2021), published in BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • The effectiveness of organisational-level workplace mental health interventions on mental health and wellbeing in construction workers: A systematic review and recommended research agenda (2022), published in PLoS ONE
  • Risk and protective factors for psychotic experiences in adolescence: a population-based study (2020), published in Psychological Medicine

Frequent collaborators in Corcoran's research include:

  • Ella Arensman
  • Eve Griffin
  • Doireann Ní Dhálaigh
  • Richard A. Greene
  • Grace Cully

Best Publications

  • Deliberate self-harm within an international community sample of young people: Comparative findings from the Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) Study.

    Nicola Madge;Allyson Hewitt;Keith E. Hawton;Erik Jan de Wilde

  • First‐time mothers: social support, maternal parental self‐efficacy and postnatal depression

    Patricia Leahy-Warren;Geraldine McCarthy;Paul Corcoran

  • Physical activity in European adolescents and associations with anxiety, depression and well-being

    Elaine M. McMahon;Paul Corcoran;Grace O’Regan;Helen Keeley

  • School-based suicide prevention programmes: the SEYLE cluster-randomised, controlled trial

    Danuta Wasserman;Christina W. Hoven;Camilla Wasserman;Camilla Wasserman;Melanie Wall

  • Anxiety and depression symptoms in patients with diabetes.

    M. M. Collins;P. Corcoran;I. J. Perry

  • Prevalence of pathological internet use among adolescents in Europe: demographic and social factors

    Tony Durkee;Michael Kaess;Vladimir Carli;Peter Parzer

  • Life-time prevalence and psychosocial correlates of adolescent direct self-injurious behavior: a comparative study of findings in 11 European countries.

    Romuald Brunner;Michael Kaess;Peter Parzer;Gloria Fischer

  • Clinicopathological significance of psychotic experiences in non-psychotic young people: evidence from four population-based studies

    Ian Kelleher;Helen Keeley;Paul Corcoran;Fionnuala Lynch

  • Childhood trauma and psychosis in a prospective cohort study: cause, effect, and directionality

    Ian Kelleher;Helen Keeley;Paul Corcoran;Hugh Ramsay

  • Psychological characteristics, stressful life events and deliberate self-harm: findings from the Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) Study.

    Nicola Madge;Keith E. Hawton;Elaine M. McMahon;Paul Corcoran

  • Psychotic Symptoms and Population Risk for Suicide Attempt A Prospective Cohort Study

    Ian Kelleher;Paul Corcoran;Helen Keeley;Johanna T. W. Wigman

  • Suicide mortality in the European Union.

    Christopher Birt;Unni Bille‐Brahe;Madelena Cabecadas;Parveen Chishti

  • Hours of sleep in adolescents and its association with anxiety, emotional concerns, and suicidal ideation

    Marco Sarchiapone;Laura Mandelli;Laura Mandelli;Laura Mandelli;Vladimir Carli;Miriam Iosue

  • Bullying Victimization and Suicide Ideation and Behavior Among Adolescents in Europe: A 10-Country Study

    Shira Barzilay;Shira Barzilay;Anat Brunstein Klomek;Anat Brunstein Klomek;Alan Apter;Vladimir Carli

  • A newly identified group of adolescents at “invisible” risk for psychopathology and suicidal behavior: findings from the SEYLE study

    Vladimir Carli;Christina W Hoven;Camilla Wasserman;Camilla Wasserman;Flaminia Chiesa

  • Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE): a randomized controlled trial

    Danuta Wasserman;Vladimir Carli;Vladimir Carli;Camilla Wasserman;Alan Apter

  • Increasing rates of self-harm among children, adolescents and young adults: a 10-year national registry study 2007–2016

    Eve Griffin;Elaine M. McMahon;Fiona McNicholas;Fiona McNicholas;Paul Corcoran

  • The incidence and repetition of hospital-treated deliberate self harm: findings from the world's first national registry.

    Ivan J. Perry;Paul Corcoran;Anthony P. Fitzgerald;Helen S. Keeley

  • Teacher satisfaction with school and psychological well-being affects their readiness to help children with mental health problems

    Merike Sisask;Peeter Värnik;Airi Värnik;Alan Apter

  • Postnatal depression in first-time mothers: prevalence and relationships between functional and structural social support at 6 and 12 weeks postpartum.

    Patricia Leahy-Warren;Geraldine McCarthy;Paul Corcoran

  • Political language and rhetoric

    Paul E. Corcoran

Frequent Co-Authors

Ella Arensman
Ella Arensman University College Cork
Marco Sarchiapone
Marco Sarchiapone University of Molise
Julio Bobes
Julio Bobes University of Oviedo
Christina W. Hoven
Christina W. Hoven Columbia University
Romuald Brunner
Romuald Brunner Heidelberg University
Alan Apter
Alan Apter Reichman University
Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess University of Bern
Franz Resch
Franz Resch Heidelberg University
Victoria Alvarez
Victoria Alvarez University of Oviedo
Eliecer Coto
Eliecer Coto University of Oviedo

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