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6612
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Richard Whittington 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 Whittington sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 131 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Whittington 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 Whittington sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

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

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

Overview

Richard Whittington is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with significant contributions in Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. Their work also intersects with Health, General Health Professions, and Social Psychology.

The main topics covered by Whittington include:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

Whittington has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for professional staff burnout: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of controlled trials (2022), Journal of Mental Health
  • Cognitive behavioural group therapy versus mindfulness-based stress reduction group therapy for intimate partner violence: a randomized controlled trial (2020), BMC Psychiatry
  • Short-term risk assessment in the long term: A scoping review and meta-analysis of the Brøset Violence Checklist (2023), Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
  • Does cognitive behavioural therapy or mindfulness-based therapy improve mental health and emotion regulation among men who perpetrate intimate partner violence? A randomised controlled trial (2020), International Journal of Nursing Studies
  • Meta-analysis of Gender Performance Gaps in Undergraduate Natural Science Courses (2021), CBE-Life Sciences Education

Frequent coauthors include James McGuire, Maria Fernanda Tourinho Peres, Alina Haines-Delmont, Tom Palmstierna, and Merete Berg Nesset.

Their publications often appear in recognized venues such as Frontiers in Psychiatry, Journal of Mental Health, CBE-Life Sciences Education, BMJ Open, and Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.

Richard Whittington has also contributed to scholarly books, including a publication titled Violence Rewired (2020) with Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Examining the relationship between burnout and empathy in healthcare professionals: A systematic review.

    Helen Wilkinson;Richard Whittington;Richard Whittington;Lorraine Perry;Catrin Eames

  • Incidence of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric hospitals: a literature review and survey of international trends

    Tilman Steinert;Peter Lepping;Renate Bernhardsgrütter;Andreas Conca

  • Causes and management of patient aggression and violence: staff and patient perspectives

    Joy Duxbury;Richard Whittington

  • Aggression towards health care staff in a UK general hospital: variation among professions and departments

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  • Anxiety, burnout and coping styles in general hospital staff exposed to workplace aggression: a cyclical model of burnout and vulnerability to aggression

    Sue Winstanley;Richard Whittington

  • Violence to staff in a general hospital setting.

    Richard Whittington;Stewart Shuttleworth;Lynda Hill

  • Approval Ratings of Inpatient Coercive Interventions in a National Sample of Mental Health Service Users and Staff in England

    Richard Whittington;Len Bowers;Peter Nolan;Alan Simpson

  • Attitudes toward patient aggression amongst mental health nurses in the ‘zero tolerance’ era: associations with burnout and length of experience

    Richard Whittington

  • Is the global prevalence rate of adult mental illness increasing? Systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Dirk Richter;Dirk Richter;Abbie Wall;Ashley Bruen;Richard Whittington;Richard Whittington

  • Aversive stimulation by staff and violence by psychiatric patients

    Richard Whittington;Til Wykes

  • Staff strain and social support in a psychiatric hospital following assault by a patient.

    R. Whittington;T Wykes

  • Measuring nurse attitudes towards deliberate self-harm: the Self-Harm Antipathy Scale (SHAS).

    Philip Patterson;R. Whittington;J. Bogg

  • Relationship between service ecology, special observation and self-harm during acute in-patient care: City-128 study.

    Len Bowers;Richard Whittington;Peter Nolan;David Parkin

  • An observational study of associations between nurse behaviour and violence in psychiatric hospitals

    R. Whittington;T. Wykes

  • Violence in psychiatric hospitals: are certain staff prone to being assaulted?

    Richard Whittington;Til Wykes

  • An evaluation of staff training in psychological techniques for the management of patient aggression.

    Richard Whittington;Til Wykes

  • Minimising the use of physical restraint in acute mental health services: The outcome of a restraint reduction programme ('REsTRAIN YOURSELF').

    Joy Duxbury;John Baker;Soo Downe;Fiona Jones

  • Physical restraint in a therapeutic setting; a necessary evil?

    Elizabeth Perkins;Helen Prosser;David Riley;Richard Whittington

  • Evaluation of behavioral changes and subjective distress after exposure to coercive inpatient interventions

    Irina Georgieva;Cornelis L Mulder;Richard Whittington

  • Clinical relevance of findings in trials of antipsychotics: systematic review

    Peter Lepping;Rajvinder Singh Sambhi;Richard Whittington;Steven Lane

  • Prevalence and predictors of early traumatic stress reactions in assaulted psychiatric nurses

    Til Wykes;Richard Whittington

  • Best Practice in Managing Risk: Principles and Evidence for Best Practice in the Assessment and Management of Risk to Self and Others in Mental Health Services

    Richard Whittington

Frequent Co-Authors

Til Wykes
Til Wykes King's College London
Owen Price
Owen Price University of Wollongong
Tilman Steinert
Tilman Steinert University of Ulm
Stefan Leucht
Stefan Leucht Technical University of Munich
Kamaldeep Bhui
Kamaldeep Bhui University of Oxford
Fiona Jones
Fiona Jones St George's, University of London
Raymond W. Novaco
Raymond W. Novaco University of California, Irvine
Randi E. McCabe
Randi E. McCabe McMaster University
Rhiannon Corcoran
Rhiannon Corcoran University of Liverpool
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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