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D-Index
60
Citations
16246
World Ranking
3499
National Ranking
1974

Richard Balon 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 Richard Balon sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 744 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Balon 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 Richard Balon sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Richard Balon is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine. Their primary area of research is within medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Social Psychology.

Their work spans a diverse range of topics including:

  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Medical Education and Admissions
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills

Richard Balon's recent papers include:

  • Role of Benzodiazepines in Anxiety Disorders, 2020, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
  • The rise and fall and rise of benzodiazepines: a return of the stigmatized and repressed, 2020, Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry

The majority of these publications are solo authored or co-authored with close collaborators. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Mary K. Morreale
  • Adam M. Brenner
  • Rashi Aggarwal
  • Eugene V. Beresin
  • John Coverdale

Richard Balon has published extensively in several journals, with the most frequent publication venues being:

  • Academic Psychiatry
  • Annals of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Academic Medicine

In addition to journal articles, Richard Balon has contributed to book publications such as the "Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health: Understanding the Spectrum of Gender and Sexuality" published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Clozapine treatment for suicidality in schizophrenia: International Suicide Prevention Trial (InterSePT).

    Herbert Y. Meltzer;Larry Alphs;Alan I. Green;A. Carlo Altamura

  • Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia

    M. I. Herz;R. P. Liberman;T. H. McGlashan;J. A. Lieberman

  • Incidence and Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction in Women and Men: A Consensus Statement from the Fourth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine 2015

    Marita Patricia McCabe;Ira D. Sharlip;Ron Lewis;Elham Atalla

  • Definitions of Sexual Dysfunctions in Women and Men: A Consensus Statement From the Fourth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine 2015

    Marita Patricia McCabe;Ira D. Sharlip;Elham Atalla;Richard Balon

  • Decreased heart rate variability in panic disorder patients: A study of power-spectral analysis of heart rate

    Vikram K. Yeragani;Robert Pohl;Ronald Berger;Richard Balon

  • Burnout comparison among residents in different medical specialties.

    Shahm Martini;Cynthia L. Arfken;Amy Churchill;Richard Balon

  • Risk Factors for Sexual Dysfunction Among Women and Men: A Consensus Statement From the Fourth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine 2015

    Marita Patricia McCabe;Ira D. Sharlip;Ron Lewis;Elham Atalla

  • Heart rate variability in patients with major depression.

    Vikram K. Yeragani;Robert Pohl;Richard Balon;C. Ramesh

  • Diminished chaos of heart rate time series in patients with major depression.

    Vikram Kumar Yeragani;K.A.Radha Krishna Rao;M.Ramesh Smitha;Robert B. Pohl

  • SSRI-Associated Sexual Dysfunction

    Richard Balon

  • Increased QT variability in patients with panic disorder and depression

    Vikram K Yeragani;Robert Pohl;V.C Jampala;Richard Balon

  • Decreased R-R variance in panic disorder patients.

    V. K. Yeragani;R. Balon;R. Pohl;C. Ramesh

  • Smoking in patients with panic disorder.

    Robert Pohl;Vikram K. Yeragani;Richard Balon;Helene Lycaki

  • Medical Students’ Attitudes and Views of Psychiatry

    Richard Balon;Gregory R. Franchini;Phillip S. Freeman;Irwin N. Hassenfeld

  • Comparison of Burnout Among Medical Residents Before and After the Implementation of Work Hours Limits

    Shahm Martini;Cynthia L. Arfken;Richard Balon

  • Toward a More Evidence-Based Nosology and Nomenclature for Female Sexual Dysfunctions-Part I.

    Leonard R. Derogatis;Michael Sand;Richard Balon;Raymond Rosen

  • Fractal dimension of heart rate time series: an effective measure of autonomic function

    V. K. Yeragani;K. Srinivasan;Satyanarayana Vempati;R. Pohl

  • The InterSePT scale for suicidal thinking reliability and validity.

    J. P. Lindenmayer;J. P. Lindenmayer;J. P. Lindenmayer;Pal Czobor;Larry Alphs;Ann Marie Nathan;Ann Marie Nathan

  • Effect of posture and isoproterenol on beat-to-beat heart rate and QT variability.

    Vikram K. Yeragani;Robert Pohl;V.C. Jampala;Richard Balon

  • Predicting suicidal risk in schizophrenic and schizoaffective patients in a prospective two-year trial

    Steven G. Potkin;Larry Alphs;Chuanchieh Hsu;K. Ranga Rama Krishnan

  • The Loss of Sadness. How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

    Richard Balon

Frequent Co-Authors

Vikram K. Yeragani
Vikram K. Yeragani Wayne State University
Robert Pohl
Robert Pohl Wayne State University
Laura Weiss Roberts
Laura Weiss Roberts Stanford University
Giovanni A. Fava
Giovanni A. Fava University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Fiammetta Cosci
Fiammetta Cosci University of Florence
Cynthia L. Arfken
Cynthia L. Arfken Wayne State University
Sidney Zisook
Sidney Zisook University of California, San Diego
Vladan Starcevic
Vladan Starcevic University of Sydney
Donald W. Black
Donald W. Black University of Iowa
Antonio Egidio Nardi
Antonio Egidio Nardi Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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