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Shu-Sen Chang publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shu-Sen Chang sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 132 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Shu-Sen Chang D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shu-Sen Chang sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Shu-Sen Chang is affiliated with National Taiwan University in Taiwan and conducts research primarily in the fields of psychology and medicine. Their work spans various subfields, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, plant science, and health.

Their research topics emphasize areas such as suicide and self-harm studies, mental health treatment and access, COVID-19 and mental health, pesticide exposure and toxicity, health disparities and outcomes, poisoning and overdose treatments, and maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Shu-Sen Chang include:

  • Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries, 2022, EClinicalMedicine
  • Ten-year trends in depression care in Taiwan, 2022, Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
  • Population-based prevalence of somatic symptom disorder and comorbid depression and anxiety in Taiwan, 2022, Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors in their scientific work include David Gunnell, Chia-Yueh Hsu, Ying-Yeh Chen, Chien-Yu Lin, and Shih-Cheng Liao.

The venues where Shu-Sen Chang most regularly publishes include:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Crisis
  • Clinical Toxicology
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Best Publications

  • Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    David Gunnell;Louis Appleby;Ella Arensman;Keith Hawton

  • Impact of 2008 global economic crisis on suicide: time trend study in 54 countries

    Shu-Sen Chang;David Stuckler;David Stuckler;Paul Yip;David Gunnell

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

    Jane Pirkis;Ann John;Sangsoo Shin;Marcos DelPozo-Banos

  • Means restriction for suicide prevention

    Paul S F Yip;Eric D Caine;Saman Yousuf;Shu-Sen Chang

  • The global burden of fatal self-poisoning with pesticides 2006-15: Systematic review

    Emma J Mew;Prianka Padmanathan;Flemming Konradsen;Michael Eddleston

  • Was the economic crisis 1997-1998 responsible for rising suicide rates in East/Southeast Asia? A time-trend analysis for Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand.

    Shu Sen Chang;David Gunnell;Jonathan A.C. Sterne;Tsung Hsueh Lu

  • Increase in state suicide rates in the USA during economic recession

    Aaron Reeves;David Stuckler;David Stuckler;Michael McKee;David Gunnell

  • Prevention of suicide with regulations aimed at restricting access to highly hazardous pesticides: a systematic review of the international evidence.

    David Gunnell;David Gunnell;David Gunnell;Duleeka W Knipe;Duleeka W Knipe;Shu-Sen Chang;Melissa Pearson;Melissa Pearson

  • Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries

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  • Suicide prevention through means restriction: Impact of the 2008-2011 pesticide restrictions on suicide in Sri Lanka.

    Duleeka W Knipe;Shu-Sen Chang;Andrew H Dawson;Michael Eddleston

  • Impact of paraquat regulation on suicide in South Korea

    Eun Shil Cha;Shu Sen Chang;David Gunnell;David Gunnell;Michael Eddleston

  • Economic shocks, resilience, and male suicides in the Great Recession: cross-national analysis of 20 EU countries

    Aaron Reeves;Michael McKee;David Gunnell;Shu-Sen Chang

  • Psychiatric morbidity and suicidal behaviour in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Duleeka W Knipe;A. Jess Williams;Stephanie Hannam-Swain;Stephanie Upton

  • Geography of suicide in Taiwan: spatial patterning and socioeconomic correlates.

    Shu-Sen Chang;Jonathan A C Sterne;Benedict W Wheeler;Tsung-Hsueh Lu

  • Suicide rates among working-age adults in South Korea before and after the 2008 economic crisis

    Chee Hon Chan;Eric D Caine;Sungeun You;King Wa Fu

  • 'Hidden' suicides amongst deaths certified as undetermined intent, accident by pesticide poisoning and accident by suffocation in Taiwan

    Shu Sen Chang;Jonathan A C Sterne;Tsung Hsueh Lu;David Gunnell

  • Cohort Profile: The Taiwan MJ Cohort: half a million Chinese with repeated health surveillance data.

    Xifeng Wu;Shan Pou Tsai;Chwen Keng Tsao;Mu Lin Chiu;Mu Lin Chiu

  • Regional changes in charcoal-burning suicide rates in East/Southeast Asia from 1995 to 2011: a time trend analysis.

    Shu Sen Chang;Ying Yeh Chen;Paul S.F. Yip;Won Jin Lee

  • Mental wellbeing amongst younger and older migrant workers in comparison to their urban counterparts in Guangzhou city, China: a cross-sectional study

    Jie Li;Shu-Sen Chang;Paul S F Yip;Juan Li

  • The evolution of the epidemic of charcoal-burning suicide in Taiwan: a spatial and temporal analysis.

    Shu-Sen Chang;David Gunnell;Benedict W. Wheeler;Paul Yip

  • “Geography of suicide in Hong Kong: Spatial patterning, and socioeconomic correlates and inequalities”

    Chia Yueh Hsu;Chia Yueh Hsu;Shu Sen Chang;Shu Sen Chang;Esther S.T. Lee;Paul S.F. Yip

Frequent Co-Authors

David Gunnell
David Gunnell University of Bristol
Paul S. F. Yip
Paul S. F. Yip University of Hong Kong
David Stuckler
David Stuckler Bocconi University
Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Stanford University
Michael Eddleston
Michael Eddleston University of Edinburgh
Jonathan A C Sterne
Jonathan A C Sterne University of Bristol
Roger T. Webb
Roger T. Webb University of Manchester
Aaron Reeves
Aaron Reeves University of Oxford
Flemming Konradsen
Flemming Konradsen University of Copenhagen
Eric D. Caine
Eric D. Caine University of Rochester Medical Center

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