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Robert S. Kern

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
20118
World Ranking
4702
National Ranking
2608

Robert S. Kern publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 133 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert S. Kern 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 Robert S. Kern sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Robert S. Kern is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on psychiatry and mental health.

Their body of work includes contributions to several subfields, notably:

  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Philosophy
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Kern's research topics cover a range of areas related to mental health and social issues. Major themes in their publications include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health disparities and outcomes

The scientist has published several papers in well-known venues. Frequent publication outlets are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Psychiatry Research
  • Psychological Medicine

Recent papers by Robert S. Kern include:

  • The effect of sex on social cognition and functioning in schizophrenia, 2021, Schizophrenia
  • The Impact of Anticholinergic Burden on Functional Capacity in Persons With Schizophrenia Across the Adult Life Span, 2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • A Bayesian Network Approach to Social and Nonsocial Cognition in Schizophrenia: Are Some Domains More Fundamental than Others?, 2023, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Self-stigma in psychotic disorders: Clinical, cognitive, and functional correlates in a diverse sample, 2021, Schizophrenia Research
  • The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery: An Update, 2022, Current topics in behavioral neurosciences

Kern has collaborated frequently with several researchers in their field, including:

  • Michael F. Green
  • Junghee Lee
  • William P. Horan
  • David L. Penn
  • Stephen R. Marder

Best Publications

  • Neurocognitive Deficits and Functional Outcome in Schizophrenia: Are We Measuring the “Right Stuff”?

    Michael Foster Green;Robert S. Kern;David L. Braff;Jim Mintz

  • The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, Part 1: Test Selection, Reliability, and Validity

    Keith H. Nuechterlein;Michael F. Green;Robert S. Kern;Lyle E. Baade

  • Longitudinal studies of cognition and functional outcome in schizophrenia: implications for MATRICS.

    Michael F. Green;Robert S. Kern;Robert K. Heaton

  • Approaching a consensus cognitive battery for clinical trials in schizophrenia: The NIMH-MATRICS conference to select cognitive domains and test criteria

    Michael F. Green;Keith H. Nuechterlein;James M. Gold;M Deanna

  • The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, part 2: co-norming and standardization.

    Robert S. Kern;Keith H. Nuechterlein;Michael F. Green;Lyle E. Baade

  • Does Risperidone Improve Verbal Working Memory in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia?

    Michael Foster Green;B. D. Marshall;William C. Wirshing;Donna Ames

  • Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Part 1: Performance Across Phase of Illness

    Michael F. Green;Carrie E. Bearden;Tyrone D. Cannon;Alan P. Fiske

  • Social cognition in psychosis: multidimensional structure, clinical correlates, and relationship with functional outcome.

    Francesco Mancuso;William P. Horan;Robert S. Kern;Michael F. Green

  • Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Part 2: 12-Month Stability and Prediction of Functional Outcome in First-Episode Patients

    William P. Horan;William P. Horan;Michael F. Green;Michael F. Green;Michael DeGroot;Michael DeGroot;Alan Fiske

  • The MCCB Impairment Profile for Schizophrenia Outpatients: Results From the MATRICS Psychometric and Standardization Study

    Robert S. Kern;Robert S. Kern;James M. Gold;Dwight Dickinson;Michael F. Green;Michael F. Green

  • Psychosocial Treatments to Promote Functional Recovery in Schizophrenia

    Robert S. Kern;Robert S. Kern;Shirley M. Glynn;Shirley M. Glynn;William P. Horan;William P. Horan;Stephen R. Marder;Stephen R. Marder

  • Social cognitive skills training in schizophrenia: An initial efficacy study of stabilized outpatients

    William P. Horan;Robert S. Kern;Robert S. Kern;Karina Shokat-Fadai;Mark J. Sergi;Mark J. Sergi;Mark J. Sergi

  • Cognitive Rehabilitation for Schizophrenia and the Putative Role of Motivation and Expectancies

    Dawn I. Velligan;Robert S. Kern;James M. Gold

  • Functional Co-Primary Measures for Clinical Trials in Schizophrenia: Results From the MATRICS Psychometric and Standardization Study

    Michael F. Green;Keith H. Nuechterlein;Robert S. Kern;Lyle E. Baade

  • Perception of emotion and neurocognitive functioning in schizophrenia: what's the link?

    Kimmy S Kee;Kimmy S Kee;Robert S Kern;Robert S Kern;Michael F Green;Michael F Green

  • Mismatch Negativity, Social Cognition, and Functioning in Schizophrenia Patients

    Jonathan K. Wynn;Jonathan K. Wynn;Catherine Sugar;William P. Horan;William P. Horan;Robert Kern;Robert Kern

  • Emotional intelligence in schizophrenia

    Kimmy S. Kee;Kimmy S. Kee;William P. Horan;Peter Salovey;Robert S. Kern

  • A randomized clinical trial of MK-0777 for the treatment of cognitive impairments in people with schizophrenia.

    Robert W. Buchanan;Richard S.E. Keefe;Jeffrey A. Lieberman;M Deanna

  • The neurocognitive effects of aripiprazole: an open-label comparison with olanzapine.

    Robert S. Kern;Michael F. Green;Barbara A. Cornblatt;Barbara A. Cornblatt;J. Randall Owen

  • Neuropsychological predictors of skills training for chronic psychiatric patients.

    Robert S. Kern;Michael F. Green;Paul Satz

  • The MATRICS consensus cognitive battery (MCCB): co-norming and standardization in Spain.

    R. Rodriguez-Jimenez;A. Bagney;C. Garcia-Navarro;A.I. Aparicio

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Green
Michael F. Green University of California, Los Angeles
Keith H. Nuechterlein
Keith H. Nuechterlein University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen R. Marder
Stephen R. Marder University of California, Los Angeles
Junghee Lee
Junghee Lee University of California, Los Angeles
Jim Mintz
Jim Mintz The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Gerhard Hellemann
Gerhard Hellemann University of California, Los Angeles
Richard S.E. Keefe
Richard S.E. Keefe Duke University
James M. Gold
James M. Gold University of Maryland, Baltimore
Joseph Ventura
Joseph Ventura University of California, Los Angeles
Larry J. Seidman
Larry J. Seidman Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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