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Thomas M. Achenbach

Thomas M. Achenbach

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
98
Citations
111013
World Ranking
664
National Ranking
422

Thomas M. Achenbach 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 Thomas M. Achenbach sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 269 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas M. Achenbach 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 Thomas M. Achenbach sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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

  • 1978 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Thomas M. Achenbach was affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States. Their academic work focused primarily on psychology and social sciences, with notable contributions to clinical psychology and experimental and cognitive psychology. Achenbach's research extensively covered topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research, cognitive abilities and testing, health disparities and outcomes, mental health treatment and access, family support in illness, and early childhood education and development.

Their publication record included works in several frequent venues, such as the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, Middle East Current Psychiatry, Mindfulness, Psychological Assessment, and the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.

  • Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Middle East Current Psychiatry
  • Mindfulness
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Achenbach coauthored papers with various researchers, including:

  • Masha Y. Ivanova
  • Jianghong Liu
  • Kyung Ja Oh
  • Lori V. Turner
  • Leslie Rescorla

Among their recent papers were the following:

  • "Bottom-Up and Top-Down Paradigms for Psychopathology: A Half-Century Odyssey" (2020) published in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • "Older adult psychopathology: international comparisons of self-reports, collateral reports, and cross-informant agreement" (2020) published in International Psychogeriatrics
  • "Associations of Parental Depression with Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: Meta-Analyses of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Effects" (2022) published in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • "The generalizability of Older Adult Self-Report (OASR) syndromes of psychopathology across 20 societies" (2020) published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • "Psychometric properties and cross-cultural comparison of the Arabic version of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Youth Self Report (YSR), and Teacher's Report Form (TRF) in a sample of Egyptian children" (2023) published in Middle East Current Psychiatry

Achenbach's research was recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1978.

Best Publications

  • Manual for the child behavior checklist/4-18 and 1991 profile

    Thomas M. Achenbach

  • Child Behavior Checklist.

    Thomas M . Achenbach

  • Manual for the Child: Behavior Checklist and Revised Child Behavior Profile

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Craig S. Edelbrock

  • Child/adolescent behavioral and emotional problems: implications of cross-informant correlations for situational specificity.

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Stephanie H. McConaughy;Catherine T. Howell

  • Manual for the Youth Self-Report and 1991 profile

    Thomas M. Achenbach

  • Integrative Guide for the 1991 CBCL/4-18, Ysr, and Trf Profiles

    Thomas M. Achenbach

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies

    Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson;Thomas M. Achenbach

  • Behavioral problems and competencies reported by parents of normal and disturbed children aged four through sixteen.

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Craig S. Edelbrock

  • The Classification of Child Psychopathology: A Review and Analysis of Empirical Efforts.

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Craig S. Edelbrock

  • Manual for the Teacher's Report Form and 1991 Profile

    Thomas M. Achenbach

  • Manual for the ASEBA preschool forms and profiles

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Leslie A. Rescorla

  • The Child Behavior Profile: I. Boys aged 6--11.

    Thomas M. Achenbach

  • The classification of children's psychiatric symptoms: a factor-analytic study.

    Thomas M. Achenbach

  • The Child Behavior Profile: II. Boys Aged 12-16 and Girls Aged 6-11 and 12-16

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Craig S. Edelbrock

  • The Child Behavior Checklist and Related Forms for Assessing Behavioral/Emotional Problems and Competencies

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Thomas M. Ruffle

  • Empirically based assessment of the behavioral/emotional problems of 2- and 3- year-old children.

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Craig Edelbrock;Catherine T. Howell

  • National survey of problems and competencies among four- to sixteen-year-olds: parents' reports for normative and clinical samples.

    Achenbach Tm;Howell Ct;Quay Hc;Conners Ck

  • Multicultural assessment of child and adolescent psychopathology with ASEBA and SDQ instruments : research findings, applications, and future directions

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Andreas Becker;Manfred Döpfner;Einar Heiervang

  • DSM-oriented and empirically based approaches to constructing scales from the same item pools.

    Thomas M Achenbach;Levent Dumenci;Leslie A Rescorla

  • Internalizing/Externalizing Problems: Review and Recommendations for Clinical and Research Applications

    Thomas M. Achenbach;Masha Y. Ivanova;Leslie A. Rescorla;Lori V. Turner

  • Comparisons of problems reported by parents of children in 12 cultures: total problems, externalizing, and internalizing.

    Alfons A.M. Crijnen;Thomas M. Achenbach;Frank C. Verhulst

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie Rescorla
Leslie Rescorla Bryn Mawr College
Masha Y. Ivanova
Masha Y. Ivanova University of Vermont
Levent Dumenci
Levent Dumenci Temple University
Patrick W. L. Leung
Patrick W. L. Leung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Stephanie H. McConaughy
Stephanie H. McConaughy University of Vermont
Niels Bilenberg
Niels Bilenberg University of Southern Denmark
Catherine Stanger
Catherine Stanger Dartmouth College
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen University of Southern Denmark
Hector R. Bird
Hector R. Bird Columbia University
Robert R. Althoff
Robert R. Althoff University of Vermont

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