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Richard P. Bentall 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 P. Bentall sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 535 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard P. Bentall 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 P. Bentall sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 115 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% 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

  • 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

  • Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature

    Richard Bentall

  • Persecutory delusions: a review and theoretical integration.

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    R. P. Bentall

  • 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

  • Social cognition in schizophrenia

    Penn Dl;Corrigan Pw;Bentall Rp;Racenstein Jm

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

    Richard P. Bentall;Peter Kinderman;Sue Kaney

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

    Jan Scott;Eugene Paykel;Richard Morriss;Richard Bentall

  • Sensory deception: A scientific analysis of hallucination

    Peter D. Slade;Richard P. Bentall

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Theory-of-mind deficits and causal attributions

    Peter Kinderman;Robin Dunbar;Richard P. Bentall

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

    Shôn Lewis;Nicholas Tarrier;Gillian Haddock;Richard Bentall

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

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

  • Doctoring the Mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail

    Richard P. Bentall

  • Reality testing and auditory hallucinations: A signal detection analysis

    R. P. Bentall;Peter D. Slade

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony P. Morrison
Anthony P. Morrison University of Manchester
Peter Kinderman
Peter Kinderman University of Liverpool
Mark Shevlin
Mark Shevlin University of Ulster
Shôn Lewis
Shôn Lewis University of Manchester
Filippo Varese
Filippo Varese University of Manchester
Orla McBride
Orla McBride University of Ulster
Philip Hyland
Philip Hyland National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Graham Dunn
Graham Dunn University of Manchester
John Read
John Read University of East London
Gillian Haddock
Gillian Haddock Manchester Academic Health Science Centre

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