2026 Raymond A. Knight: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	59	3712	3422	2084	1877	175	12537

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Joseph Zubin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology

Overview

Raymond A. Knight is affiliated with Brandeis University in the United States. Their research primarily situates at the intersection of psychology and social sciences, with a specific focus on clinical psychology and sociology and political science as subfields.

The scientist's publication record includes substantial work in the areas of psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending, supplemented by contributions related to child abuse and trauma, criminal justice and corrections analysis, sexual assault and victimization studies, and other connected themes.

Frequent topics in their research encompass:

Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Child Abuse and Trauma
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
Crime Patterns and Interventions
Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Raymond A. Knight has contributed to journals such as the Journal of Sexual Aggression, Psychology Public Policy and Law, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Assessment, and the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. These publication venues reflect a focus on applied psychological and forensic research as well as criminological contexts.

Representative papers including their full titles, publication years, and venues are:

"Reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in the assessment of risk for institutional violence: A cautionary note on DeMatteo et al. (2020)", 2020, Psychology Public Policy and Law
"Is paraphilic coercion a different construct from sadism or the lower end of an agonistic continuum?", 2020, Journal of Criminal Justice
"The Structure, Covariates, and Etiology of Hypersexuality: Implications for Sexual Offending", 2021, Current Psychiatry Reports
"The Structure of Hypersexuality and Its Relation to Impulsivity", 2024, Archives of Sexual Behavior
"Parental Rejecting Behaviors: Validating a Behaviorally Based Youth-Report Measure of Parental Emotional Abuse", 2020, Assessment

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors who have contributed multiple times in joint work. These collaborators include Jean-Pierre Guay, Craig S. Neumann, Danielle Arlanda Harris, Emily A. Calobrisi, and Mark E. Olver.

Raymond A. Knight's academic output includes 33 publications related to clinical psychology and 18 related to sociology and political science, underscoring their interdisciplinary research approach.

In 2018, Raymond A. Knight received the Joseph Zubin Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology, recognizing their involvement in this research area.

Best Publications

Classifying Sexual Offenders

Raymond A. Knight;Robert A. Prentky

1075
Citations
Classifying sexual offenders: The development and corroboration of taxonomic models.

Raymond A. Knight;Robert A. Prentky

541
Citations
A taxometric analysis of the latent structure of psychopathy: evidence for dimensionality.

Jean-Pierre Guay;John Ruscio;Raymond A. Knight;Robert D. Hare

516
Citations
Recidivism rates among child molesters and rapists: A methodological analysis.

Robert A. Prentky;Austin F. S. Lee;Raymond A. Knight;David Cerce

514
Citations
Identifying critical dimensions for discriminating among rapists.

Robert A. Prentky;Raymond A. Knight

505
Citations
Exploring characteristics for classifying juvenile sex offenders.

Raymond A. Knight;Robert A. Prentky

422
Citations
The Developmental Antecedents of Sexual Coercion against Women: Testing Alternative Hypotheses with Structural Equation Modeling

Raymond A. Knight;Judith E. Sims-Knight

403
Citations
Risk factors associated with recidivism among extrafamilial child molesters

Robert A. Prentky;Raymond A. Knight;Austin F. S. Lee

289
Citations
A descriptive study of rapists and child molesters: Developmental, clinical, and criminal characteristics

Leonard A. Bard;Daniel L. Carter;David D. Cerce;Raymond A. Knight

255
Citations
Validation of a Typology for Rapists

Raymond A. Knight

248
Citations
The development, reliability, and validity of an inventory for the Multidimensional Assessment of Sex and Aggression

Raymond A. Knight;Robert A. Prentky;David D. Cerce

232
Citations
A System for the Classification of Child Molesters: Reliability and Application

Raymond A. Knight;Daniel Lee Carter;Robert Alan Prentky

230
Citations
Testing an Etiological Model for Male Juvenile Sexual Offending against Females.

Raymond A. Knight;Judith E. Sims-Knight

225
Citations
THE EFFICACY OF WOMEN'S RESISTANCE STRATEGIES IN RAPE SITUATIONS

Sarah E. Ullman;Raymond A. Knight

218
Citations
Incremental validity of the Psychopathy Checklist facet scores: predicting release outcome in six samples.

Glenn D. Walters;Raymond A. Knight;Martin Grann;Klaus-Peter Dahle

214
Citations
Stimulus configuration and context effects in perceptual organization in schizophrenia

Steven M. Silverstein;Raymond A. Knight;Steven B. Schwarzkopf;Laura L. West

207
Citations
Sexual Coercion in Men and Women: Similar Behaviors, Different Predictors

Elizabeth A. Schatzel-Murphy;Danielle A. Harris;Raymond A. Knight;Michael A. Milburn

188
Citations
Predicting Rapist Type from Crime-Scene Variables:

Raymond A. Knight;Janet I. Warren;Roland Reboussin;Bonita J. Soley

185
Citations
Developmental antecedents of sexual aggression

R. A. Prentky;R. A. Knight;J. E. Sims-Knight;H. Straus

184
Citations
Fighting Back: Women's Resistance to Rape

Sarah E. Ullman;Raymond A. Knight

184
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Prentky Justice Resource Institute

Glenn D. Walters Kutztown University

Robert D. Hare University of British Columbia

Michael H. Miner University of Minnesota

Sarah E. Ullman University of Illinois at Chicago

Steven M. Silverstein University of Rochester Medical Center

Craig S. Neumann University of North Texas

David Thornton Haukeland University Hospital

John Ruscio College of New Jersey

Kent A. Kiehl University of New Mexico

External Links

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