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59
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3710
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Raymond A. Knight 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 Raymond A. Knight sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 175 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Raymond A. Knight 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 Raymond A. Knight sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

    Raymond A. Knight;Robert A. Prentky

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

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

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

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

  • Identifying critical dimensions for discriminating among rapists.

    Robert A. Prentky;Raymond A. Knight

  • Exploring characteristics for classifying juvenile sex offenders.

    Raymond A. Knight;Robert A. Prentky

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

    Raymond A. Knight;Judith E. Sims-Knight

  • Risk factors associated with recidivism among extrafamilial child molesters

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

  • 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

  • Validation of a Typology for Rapists

    Raymond A. Knight

  • 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

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

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

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

    Raymond A. Knight;Judith E. Sims-Knight

  • THE EFFICACY OF WOMEN'S RESISTANCE STRATEGIES IN RAPE SITUATIONS

    Sarah E. Ullman;Raymond A. Knight

  • 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

  • Stimulus configuration and context effects in perceptual organization in schizophrenia

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

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

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

  • Predicting Rapist Type from Crime-Scene Variables:

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

  • Developmental antecedents of sexual aggression

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

  • Fighting Back: Women's Resistance to Rape

    Sarah E. Ullman;Raymond A. Knight

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Prentky
Robert A. Prentky Justice Resource Institute
Glenn D. Walters
Glenn D. Walters Kutztown University
Robert D. Hare
Robert D. Hare University of British Columbia
Michael H. Miner
Michael H. Miner University of Minnesota
Sarah E. Ullman
Sarah E. Ullman University of Illinois at Chicago
Steven M. Silverstein
Steven M. Silverstein University of Rochester Medical Center
Craig S. Neumann
Craig S. Neumann University of North Texas
David Thornton
David Thornton Haukeland University Hospital
John Ruscio
John Ruscio College of New Jersey
Kent A. Kiehl
Kent A. Kiehl University of New Mexico

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