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Richard Emsley 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 Emsley sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 256 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Emsley 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 Emsley sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Richard Emsley is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of medicine and psychology, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including schizophrenia research and treatment, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, sleep and related disorders, mental health treatment and access, digital mental health interventions, and mental health and psychiatry.

Frequent co-authors include Amy Hardy, Daniel Freeman, Gillian Haddock, Philippa Garety, and Colin A. Espie.

Richard Emsley has published numerous articles in notable venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Trials
  • BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • SLEEP
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

Some recent papers associated with their research interests include:

  • Guidelines for Reporting Trial Protocols and Completed Trials Modified Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Extenuating Circumstances, 2021, JAMA
  • Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular and Heart Failure Events With SGLT2 Inhibitors, GLP-1 Receptor Agonists, and Their Combination in Type 2 Diabetes, 2022, Diabetes Care
  • Age-, sex- and ethnicity-related differences in body weight, blood pressure, HbA1c and lipid levels at the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes relative to people without diabetes, 2020, Diabetologia
  • Risk Factor Control and Cardiovascular Event Risk in People With Type 2 Diabetes in Primary and Secondary Prevention Settings, 2020, Circulation
  • Rehabilitation versus surgical reconstruction for non-acute anterior cruciate ligament injury (ACL SNNAP): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial, 2022, The Lancet

Best Publications

  • The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis

    Daniel Freeman;Daniel Freeman;Bryony Sheaves;Bryony Sheaves;Guy M Goodwin;Guy M Goodwin;Ly-Mee Yu

  • Hearing loss and cognition: the role of hearing AIDS, social isolation and depression.

    Piers Dawes;Richard Emsley;Karen J. Cruickshanks;David R. Moore

  • Effect of digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia on health, psychological well-being, and sleep-related quality of life: a randomized clinical trial

    Colin A. Espie;Richard Emsley;Simon D. Kyle;Christopher Gordon

  • Mediation and moderation of treatment effects in randomised controlled trials of complex interventions

    Richard Emsley;Graham Dunn;Ian R White

  • AVATAR therapy for auditory verbal hallucinations in people with psychosis: a single-blind, randomised controlled trial

    Tom K. J. Craig;Mar Rus-Calafell;Thomas Ward;Julian P. Leff

  • Genome-wide association analyses of sleep disturbance traits identify new loci and highlight shared genetics with neuropsychiatric and metabolic traits

    Jacqueline M Lane;Jingjing Liang;Irma Vlasac;Irma Vlasac;Simon G Anderson;Simon G Anderson

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel loci for chronotype in 100,420 individuals from the UK Biobank

    Jacqueline M. Lane;Irma Vlasac;Irma Vlasac;Simon G. Anderson;Simon D. Kyle

  • #WhyWeTweetMH: Understanding Why People Use Twitter to Discuss Mental Health Problems.

    Natalie Berry;Fiona Lobban;Maksim Belousov;Richard Emsley

  • Acceptability of Interventions Delivered Online and Through Mobile Phones for People Who Experience Severe Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review

    Natalie Berry;Fiona Lobban;Richard Emsley;Sandra Bucci

  • Genome-wide association analysis of self-reported daytime sleepiness identifies 42 loci that suggest biological subtypes

    Heming Wang;Heming Wang;Jacqueline M. Lane;Jacqueline M. Lane;Samuel E. Jones;Hassan S. Dashti;Hassan S. Dashti

  • Actissist: Proof-of-Concept Trial of a Theory-Driven Digital Intervention for Psychosis.

    Sandra Bucci;Christine Barrowclough;John Ainsworth;Matthew Machin

  • Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Shruti Garg;Jonathan Green;Kathy Leadbitter;Richard Emsley

  • Effectiveness of the parent-mediated intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder in south Asia in India and Pakistan (PASS): a randomised controlled trial

    Atif Rahman;Gauri Divan;Syed Usman Hamdani;Vivek Vajaratkar

  • Autism and other psychiatric comorbidity in neurofibromatosis type 1: evidence from a population-based study.

    Shruti Garg;Annukka Lehtonen;Susan M Huson;Richard Emsley

  • Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Typical Development: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Comparisons

    Clare Harrop;Helen McConachie;Richard Emsley;Kathy Leadbitter

  • Psychological Mechanisms Mediating Effects Between Trauma and Psychotic Symptoms: The Role of Affect Regulation, Intrusive Trauma Memory, Beliefs, and Depression

    Amy Hardy;Richard Emsley;Daniel Freeman;Paul Bebbington

  • An experience sampling study of worry and rumination in psychosis.

    S. Hartley;G. Haddock;D. Vasconcelos e Sa;R. Emsley

  • Cognitive Mechanisms of Change in Delusions: An Experimental Investigation Targeting Reasoning to Effect Change in Paranoia

    Philippa Garety;Helen Waller;Richard Emsley;Suzanne Jolley

  • Current Paranoid Thinking in Patients With Delusions: The Presence of Cognitive-Affective Biases

    Daniel Freeman;Graham Dunn;David Fowler;Paul Bebbington

  • Disrupting Sleep: The Effects of Sleep Loss on Psychotic Experiences Tested in an Experimental Study With Mediation Analysis.

    Sarah Reeve;Richard Emsley;Bryony Sheaves;Daniel Freeman

  • Implementing double-robust estimators of causal effects

    Richard Emsley;Mark Lunt;Andrew Pickles;Graham Dunn

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham Dunn
Graham Dunn University of Manchester
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green University of Manchester
Daniel Freeman
Daniel Freeman University of Oxford
Philippa Garety
Philippa Garety King's College London
Sandra Bucci
Sandra Bucci University of Manchester
Sabine Landau
Sabine Landau King's College London
David Fowler
David Fowler University of Sussex
Elizabeth Kuipers
Elizabeth Kuipers King's College London
Gillian Haddock
Gillian Haddock Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
Christine Barrowclough
Christine Barrowclough University of Manchester

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