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2025

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Best Female Scientists

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146
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180
National Ranking
109

Medicine

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147
Citations
73879
World Ranking
1300
National Ranking
749

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Susan L. McElroy is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within medicine and psychology, with a specific focus on psychiatry and mental health as well as clinical psychology.

Their scholarly output includes significant work in genetics, speech and hearing, and pharmacology as related subfields of study. Research topics consistently addressed include bipolar disorder and its treatment, eating disorders and behaviors, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, genetic associations and epidemiology, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and schizophrenia research and treatment.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Susan L. McElroy encompass:

  • Mark A. Frye
  • Joanna M. Biernacka
  • Francisco Romo-Nava
  • Brandon J. Coombes
  • Alfredo B. Cuéllar-Barboza

They have published numerous papers in prominent venues, with the most common publication outlets including:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
  • Bipolar Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry

Among recent papers, selected examples with publication year and venue are:

  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Call to action regarding the vascular-bipolar link: A report from the Vascular Task Force of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, 2020, Bipolar Disorders
  • World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines update 2023 on the pharmacological treatment of eating disorders, 2023, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
  • Association of polygenic score for major depression with response to lithium in patients with bipolar disorder, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Dissecting clinical heterogeneity of bipolar disorder using multiple polygenic risk scores, 2020, Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Development and validation of a screening instrument for bipolar spectrum disorder: the Mood Disorder Questionnaire.

    Robert M.A. Hirschfeld;Janet B.W. Williams;Robert L. Spitzer;Joseph R. Calabrese

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • Psychiatric features of individuals with problematic internet use

    Nathan A. Shapira;Toby D. Goldsmith;Paul E. Keck;Uday M. Khosla

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

    Niamh Mullins;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Kevin S. O'Connell;Kevin S. O'Connell;Brandon Coombes

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Axis I psychiatric comorbidity and its relationship to historical illness variables in 288 patients with bipolar disorder

    Susan L. McElroy;Lori L. Altshuler;Trisha Suppes;Paul E. Keck

  • A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled 12-Month Trial of Divalproex and Lithium in Treatment of Outpatients With Bipolar I Disorder

    Charles L. Bowden;Joseph R. Calabrese;Susan L. McElroy;Laszlo Gyulai

  • Compulsive buying : a report of 20 cases

    Susan L. McElroy;Paul E. Keck;Harrison G. Pope;Jacqueline M. R. Smith

  • Are Mood Disorders and Obesity Related? A Review for the Mental Health Professional

    Susan L. McElroy;Renu Kotwal;Shishuka Malhotra;Erik B. Nelson

  • Screening for bipolar disorder in the community

    Robert M.A. Hirschfeld;Joseph R. Calabrese;Myrna M. Weissman;Michael Reed

  • Olanzapine Versus Placebo in the Treatment of Acute Mania

    M. Tohen;T. M. Sanger;S. L. Mcelroy;G. D. Tollefson

  • Efficacy of olanzapine in acute bipolar mania: A double-blind, placebo-controlled study

    Mauricio Tohen;Thomas G. Jacobs;Starr L. Grundy;Susan L. McElroy

  • Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder

    R. M A Hirschfeld;P. J. Clayton;I. Cohen;J. Fawcett

  • Body dysmorphic disorder: 30 cases of imagined ugliness.

    Katherine A. Phillips;Susan L. McElroy;Paul E. Keck;Harrison G. Pope

  • The International Society for bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders

    Isabella Pacchiarotti;David J. Bond;Ross J. Baldessarini;Willem A. Nolen

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • A double-blind, placebo-controlled, prophylaxis study of lamotrigine in rapid-cycling bipolar disorder

    Joseph R. Calabrese;Trisha Suppes;Charles L. Bowden;Gary S. Sachs

  • The Stanley Foundation Bipolar Treatment Outcome Network. II. Demographics and illness characteristics of the first 261 patients.

    Trisha Suppes;Trisha Suppes;Gabriele S Leverich;Gabriele S Leverich;Paul E Keck;Paul E Keck;Willem A Nolen

  • Topiramate in the treatment of binge eating disorder associated with obesity: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.

    Susan L. McElroy;Lesley M. Arnold;Nathan A. Shapira;Paul E. Keck

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul E. Keck
Paul E. Keck University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Mark A. Frye
Mark A. Frye University of California, Los Angeles
Trisha Suppes
Trisha Suppes Stanford University
Lori L. Altshuler
Lori L. Altshuler University of California, Los Angeles
Robert M. Post
Robert M. Post George Washington University
Willem A. Nolen
Willem A. Nolen University Medical Center Groningen
Heinz Grunze
Heinz Grunze Paracelsus Medical University
James I. Hudson
James I. Hudson Harvard University
Stephen M. Strakowski
Stephen M. Strakowski The University of Texas at Austin
Harrison G. Pope
Harrison G. Pope Harvard University

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