2026 Richard P. Bentall: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	115	317	276	51	44	535	52253
Medicine	110	5541	5205	546	522	472	47291

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Richard P. Bentall is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with a significant concentration in clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's publication record includes topics such as COVID-19 and mental health, health disparities and outcomes, mental health research topics, schizophrenia research and treatment, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and mental health treatment and access.

Richard P. Bentall's recent papers include the following:

"Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom," 2021, Nature Communications
"Anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and COVID-19-related anxiety in the UK general population during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, BJPsych Open
"Anxiety and depression in the Republic of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
"COVID-19-related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population," 2020, British Journal of Health Psychology
"Post-Traumatic Growth and Stress-Related Responses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a National Representative Sample: The Role of Positive Core Beliefs About the World and Others," 2021, Journal of Happiness Studies

Frequent co-authors of Richard P. Bentall include:

Mark Shevlin
Orla McBride
Philip Hyland
Jamie Murphy
Todd K. Hartman

The scholar often publishes in the following venues:

Psychological Medicine
PLoS ONE
PsycTESTS Dataset
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
Frontiers in Psychology

Best Publications

Childhood Adversities Increase the Risk of Psychosis: A Meta-analysis of Patient-Control, Prospective- and Cross-sectional Cohort Studies

Filippo Varese;Filippo Varese;Feikje Smeets;Marjan Drukker;Ritsaert Lieverse

2906
Citations
Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature

Richard Bentall

1767
Citations
Persecutory delusions: a review and theoretical integration.

Richard P. Bentall;Rhiannon Corcoran;Robert Howard;Nigel Blackwood

1301
Citations
Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: An NIMH Workshop on Definitions, Assessment, and Research Opportunities

Michael F. Green;David L. Penn;Richard Bentall;William T. Carpenter;William T. Carpenter

1281
Citations
Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Jamie Murphy;Frédérique Vallières;Richard P. Bentall;Mark Shevlin

1212
Citations
The illusion of reality: A review and integration of psychological research on hallucinations.

R. P. Bentall

1065
Citations
Cognitive therapy for the prevention of psychosis in people at ultra-high risk: randomised controlled trial.

Anthony P. Morrison;Paul French;Lara Walford;Shôn W. Lewis

935
Citations
Social cognition in schizophrenia

Penn Dl;Corrigan Pw;Bentall Rp;Racenstein Jm

857
Citations
The self, attributional processes and abnormal beliefs: towards a model of persecutory delusions.

Richard P. Bentall;Peter Kinderman;Sue Kaney

811
Citations
Cognitive-behavioural therapy for severe and recurrent bipolar disorders: randomised controlled trial.

Jan Scott;Eugene Paykel;Richard Morriss;Richard Bentall

732
Citations
Sensory deception: A scientific analysis of hallucination

Peter D. Slade;Richard P. Bentall

729
Citations
Anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and COVID-19-related anxiety in the UK general population during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mark Shevlin;Orla McBride;Jamie Murphy;Jilly Gibson Miller

721
Citations
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

697
Citations
Anxiety and depression in the Republic of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic

Philip Hyland;Philip Hyland;Mark Shevlin;Orla McBride;Jamie Murphy

550
Citations
Do Specific Early-Life Adversities Lead to Specific Symptoms of Psychosis? A Study from the 2007 The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey

Richard P. Bentall;Sophie Wickham;Mark Shevlin;Filippo Varese

534
Citations
Theory-of-mind deficits and causal attributions

Peter Kinderman;Robin Dunbar;Richard P. Bentall

534
Citations
Randomised controlled trial of cognitive-behavioural therapy in early schizophrenia: acute-phase outcomes.

Shôn Lewis;Nicholas Tarrier;Gillian Haddock;Richard Bentall

526
Citations
Attitudes toward antipsychotic medication: The impact of clinical variables and relationships with health professionals

Jennifer C. Day;Richard P. Bentall;Chris Roberts;Fiona Randall

518
Citations
Doctoring the Mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail

Richard P. Bentall

518
Citations
Reality testing and auditory hallucinations: A signal detection analysis

R. P. Bentall;Peter D. Slade

510
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony P. Morrison University of Manchester

Peter Kinderman University of Liverpool

Mark Shevlin University of Ulster

Shôn Lewis University of Manchester

Filippo Varese University of Manchester

Orla McBride University of Ulster

Philip Hyland National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Graham Dunn University of Manchester

John Read University of East London

Gillian Haddock Manchester Academic Health Science Centre

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