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94
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821
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William Yule 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 William Yule sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 430 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William Yule 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 William Yule sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2007 - Aristotle Prize, European Federation of Psychologists' Associations

Overview

William Yule was affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned primarily the field of psychology, with significant contributions in clinical psychology and developmental and educational psychology. The body of work also intersected with education, conservation, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's research topics focused on several specific areas, including:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance

William Yule authored and co-authored multiple papers, some of the more recent notable works being:

  • "The Isle of Wight studies: the scope and scale of reading difficulties," 2020, published in Oxford Review of Education
  • "Therapist-supported online cognitive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in young people: protocol for an early-stage, parallel-group, randomised controlled study (OPTYC trial)," 2022, published in BMJ Open
  • "Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT) to Ukrainian children and adolescents to self-manage post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 - The first 7 months," 2024, published in Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Evaluation of pilot community art-based workshops designed for Ukrainian refugee children," 2023, published in Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "Janet Carr," 2020, published in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

The most frequent publication venues included:

  • Oxford Review of Education
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • BMJ Open
  • Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Collaborators worked closely with William Yule on various projects. Frequent co-authors included:

  • Patrick Smith
  • Anke Ehlers
  • Ewan Carr
  • David M. Clark
  • Tim Dalgleish

William Yule received the Aristotle Prize from the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Attainment and adjustment in two geographical areas. I--The prevalence of psychiatric disorder.

    Michael Rutter;Antony Cox;Celia Tupling;Michael Berger

  • A neuropsychiatric study in childhood

    Michael Rutter;P. J. Graham;William Yule

  • Isle of Wight Studies, 1964–1974

    Michael Rutter;Jack Tizard;William Yule;Philip Graham

  • Adolescent turmoil: fact or fiction?

    Michael Rutter;Philip Graham;O. F. D. Chadwick;W. Yule

  • The concept of specific reading retardation.

    Michael Rutter;William Yule

  • Practitioner review: assessment and treatment of refugee children and adolescents who have experienced war-related trauma.

    Kimberly A. Ehntholt;William Yule

  • Changes in outlook following disaster: The preliminary development of a measure to assess positive and negative responses

    Stephen Joseph;Ruth Williams;William Yule

  • Attainment and Adjustment in Two Geographical Areas: III—Some Factors Accounting for Area Differences

    Michael Rutter;Bridget Yule;David Quinton;Olwen Rowlands

  • Post‐traumatic stress reactions in children

    William Yule;Ruth M. Williams

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for PTSD in children and adolescents: a preliminary randomized controlled trial.

    Patrick Smith;William Yule;Sean Perrin;Troy Tranah

  • The Long-term Psychological Effects of a Disaster Experienced in Adolescence: I: The Incidence and Course of PTSD

    William Yule;Derek Bolton;Orlee Udwin;Stephanie Boyle

  • Patterns of processing bias for emotional information across clinical disorders: A comparison of attention, memory, and prospective cognition in children and adolescents with depression, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Tim Dalgleish;Reza Taghavi;Hamid Neshat-Doost;Ali Moradi

  • A cognitive and behavioural phenotype in Williams syndrome.

    Orlee Udwin;William Yule

  • Practitioner Review: The Assessment and Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents

    Sean Perrin;Patrick Smith;William Yule

  • Principal components analysis of the impact of event scale with children in war

    Patrick Smith;Sean Perrin;Atle Dyregrov;William Yule

  • School-based Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy Group Intervention for Refugee Children who have Experienced War-related Trauma:

    Kimberly A. Ehntholt;Patrick A. Smith;William Yule

  • War Exposure and Maternal Reactions in the Psychological Adjustment of Children from Bosnia-Hercegovina

    Patrick Smith;Sean Perrin;William Yule;Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

  • War exposure among children from Bosnia-Hercegovina: psychological adjustment in a community sample.

    Patrick Smith;Sean Perrin;William Yule;Berima Hacam

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): The management of PTSD in adults and children in primary and secondary care

    Jonathan Ian Bisson;Anke Ehlers;Stephen Pilling;Pamela Dix

  • Crisis support and psychiatric symptomatology in adult survivors of the Jupiter cruise ship disaster.

    Stephen Joseph;Ben Andrews;Richard Williams;William Yule

  • Intelligent testing with the WISC-R: Kaufman A.S.: John Wiley, New York (1979). xix + 268 pp. £12.25

    William Yule

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge
Sean Perrin
Sean Perrin Lund University
Richard Meiser-Stedman
Richard Meiser-Stedman University of East Anglia
Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph University of Nottingham
Michael Rutter
Michael Rutter King's College London
Atle Dyregrov
Atle Dyregrov University of Bergen
David M. Clark
David M. Clark University of Oxford
Richard A. Bryant
Richard A. Bryant University of New South Wales
Anke Ehlers
Anke Ehlers University of Oxford

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