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90
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31749
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12156
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1146

Ricardo Araya publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ricardo Araya sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 367 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Ricardo Araya D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ricardo Araya sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 90 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Ricardo Araya is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and health professions, with a particular focus on mental health treatment and access. Araya's work engages a variety of specific subfields, including general health professions, clinical psychology, social psychology, applied psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as mental health treatment and access, digital mental health interventions, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, health disparities and outcomes, and community health and development. Other areas of research include mental health research topics and health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life.

Araya's recent publications include:

  • Effect of a differentiated service delivery model on virological failure in adolescents with HIV in Zimbabwe (Zvandiri): a cluster-randomised controlled trial (2020, The Lancet Global Health)
  • The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, BMJ Global Health)
  • How much change is enough? Evidence from a longitudinal study on depression in UK primary care (2020, Psychological Medicine)
  • The emergence of digital mental health in low-income and middle-income countries: A review of recent advances and implications for the treatment and prevention of mental disorders (2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research)
  • Effect of collaborative care between traditional and faith healers and primary health-care workers on psychosis outcomes in Nigeria and Ghana (COSIMPO): a cluster randomised controlled trial (2020, The Lancet)

The venues where Araya commonly publishes include Research Square, bioRxiv, Trials, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and BMJ Open.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Araya are:

  • T. J. Peters
  • Nadine Seward
  • Márcia Scazufca
  • Carina Akemi Nakamura
  • Crick Lund

Best Publications

  • Measuring psychiatric disorder in the community: a standardized assessment for use by lay interviewers.

    Glyn Lewis;Anthony J. Pelosi;Ricardo Araya;Graham Dunn

  • Treatment and prevention of mental disorders in low-income and middle-income countries

    Vikram Patel;Ricardo Araya;Sudipto Chatterjee;Dan Chisholm

  • Epidemiology of maternal depression, risk factors, and child outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries.

    Bizu Gelaye;Marta B Rondon;Ricardo Araya;Michelle A Williams

  • Effectiveness of an intervention led by lay health counsellors for depressive and anxiety disorders in primary care in Goa, India (MANAS): a cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Vikram Patel;Helen A Weiss;Neerja Chowdhary;Smita Naik

  • Scale up of services for mental health in low-income and middle-income countries.

    Julian Eaton;Layla McCay;Maya Semrau;Sudipto Chatterjee

  • Women, poverty and common mental disorders in four restructuring societies

    V Patel;R Araya;M de Lima;A Ludermir

  • Digital technology for treating and preventing mental disorders in low-income and middle-income countries: a narrative review of the literature

    John A Naslund;John A Naslund;Kelly A Aschbrenner;Ricardo Araya;Lisa A Marsch

  • Treating depression in primary care in low-income women in Santiago, Chile: a randomised controlled trial

    Ricardo Araya;Graciela Rojas;Rosemarie Fritsch;Jorge Gaete

  • Therapist-delivered internet psychotherapy for depression in primary care: a randomised controlled trial

    David Kessler;Glyn Lewis;Surinder Kaur;Nicola Wiles

  • Computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) as treatment for depression in primary care (REEACT trial): large scale pragmatic randomised controlled trial

    Simon Gilbody;Elizabeth Littlewood;Catherine Hewitt;Gwen Brierley

  • The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial

    Vikram Patel;Benedict Weobong;Helen A Weiss;Arpita Anand

  • Effect of a Primary Care-Based Psychological Intervention on Symptoms of Common Mental Disorders in Zimbabwe: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Dixon Chibanda;Helen A. Weiss;Ruth Verhey;Victoria Simms

  • Violence against women by their intimate partner during pregnancy and postnatal depression: a prospective cohort study.

    Ana Bernarda Ludermir;Glyn Lewis;Sandra Alves Valongueiro;Thália Velho Barreto de Araújo

  • Common mental disorders in Santiago, Chile: prevalence and socio-demographic correlates.

    Ricardo Araya;Graciela Rojas;Rosemarie Fritsch;Julia Acuña;Julia Acuña

  • Detecting common mental disorders in primary care in India: a comparison of five screening questionnaires.

    V. Patel;R. Araya;N. Chowdhary;M. King

  • Teachers' wellbeing and depressive symptoms, and associated risk factors: A large cross sectional study in English secondary schools

    Judi L Kidger;Rowan Brockman;Kate M Tilling;Rona M Campbell

  • Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression

    R. C. Culverhouse;N. L. Saccone;A. C. Horton;Y. Ma

  • The methods and outcomes of cultural adaptations of psychological treatments for depressive disorders: a systematic review.

    N Chowdhary;A T Jotheeswaran;A Nadkarni;S D Hollon

  • The Effect of the School Environment on the Emotional Health of Adolescents: A Systematic Review

    Judi Kidger;Ricardo Araya;Jenny Donovan;David Gunnell

  • Education and income: Which is more important for mental health?

    R Araya;G Lewis;G Rojas;R Fritsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Glyn Lewis
Glyn Lewis University College London
Michael Barkham
Michael Barkham University of Sheffield
Peter Bower
Peter Bower University of Manchester
Vikram Patel
Vikram Patel Harvard University
Linda Gask
Linda Gask University of Manchester
Helen A. Weiss
Helen A. Weiss London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jon Heron
Jon Heron University of Bristol
Timothy J. Peters
Timothy J. Peters University of Bristol
Glenys Parry
Glenys Parry University of Sheffield
Melanie Abas
Melanie Abas King's College London

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