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Zachary Steel 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 Zachary Steel sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 198 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zachary Steel 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 Zachary Steel sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 64 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Zachary Steel is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and specializes primarily in psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology. Their research spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, general health professions, and health.

The scientist's main research topics include Migration, Health and Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Child Abuse and Trauma, Resilience and Mental Health, Intimate Partner and Family Violence, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, and Physical Activity and Health.

Steel has contributed to several publication venues, with the most frequent being the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Health Promotion Journal of Australia, and Psychiatric Quarterly. Other venues include the Journal of Loss and Trauma and the Journal of Traumatic Stress.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Steel are:

  • COVID-19: An Australian Perspective, 2020, Journal of Loss and Trauma
  • The Impact of Family Separation and Worry About Family on Psychological Adjustment in Refugees Resettled in Australia, 2020, Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • Prolonged grief in refugees, parenting behaviour and children's mental health, 2020, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • A Mental Health-Informed Physical Activity Intervention for First Responders and Their Partners Delivered Using Facebook: Mixed Methods Pilot Study, 2021, JMIR Formative Research
  • Do Cognitive Tasks Reduce Intrusive-Memory Frequency After Exposure to Analogue Trauma? An Experimental Replication, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science

Steel works frequently with a group of co-authors, including Ruth Wells, Simon Rosenbaum, David Berle, Dušan Hadži-Pavlović, and Derrick Silove. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers focused on similar or complementary areas within psychology and mental health research.

Best Publications

  • The global prevalence of common mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis 1980–2013

    Zachary Steel;Claire Marnane;Changiz Iranpour;Tien Chey

  • Association of Torture and Other Potentially Traumatic Events With Mental Health Outcomes Among Populations Exposed to Mass Conflict and Displacement: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Zachary Steel;Tien Chey;Derrick Silove;Claire Marnane

  • Anxiety, depression and PTSD in asylum-seekers: assocations with pre-migration trauma and post-migration stressors.

    Derrick Silove;Ingrid Sinnerbrink;Annette Field;Vijaya Manicavasagar

  • Trauma, post-migration living difficulties, and social support as predictors of psychological adjustment in resettled Sudanese refugees.

    Robert Schweitzer;Fritha Melville;Zachary Steel;Philippe Lacherez

  • Long-term effect of psychological trauma on the mental health of Vietnamese refugees resettled in Australia: a population-based study

    Zachary Steel;Derrick Silove;Tuong Phan;Adrian Bauman

  • Impact of immigration detention and temporary protection on the mental health of refugees

    Zachary P. Steel;Derrick Silove;Robert Brooks;Shakeh Momartin

  • Impulsivity in pathological gambling: the antisocial impulsivist

    A. Blaszczynski;Z. Steel;N. McCONAGHY

  • Lifetime Prevalence of Gender-Based Violence in Women and the Relationship With Mental Disorders and Psychosocial Function

    Susan Rees;Derrick Silove;Tien Chey;Lorraine Ivancic

  • Pathways from war trauma to posttraumatic stress symptoms among Tamil asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants

    Zachary Steel;Derrick Silove;Kevin Bird;Patrick McGorry

  • Policies of deterrence and the mental health of asylum seekers

    Derrick Silove;Zachary Steel;Charles Watters

  • A critical review of psychological treatments of posttraumatic stress disorder in refugees

    Angela Nickerson;Richard A. Bryant;Derrick Silove;Zachary Steel

  • Impulsivity, personality disorders and pathological gambling severity

    Zachary Steel;Alex Blaszczynski

  • Trauma exposure, postmigration stressors, and symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress in Tamil asylum-seekers: comparison with refugees and immigrants

    D. Silove;Z. Steel;P. McGorry;P. Mohan

  • Comorbidity of PTSD and depression: associations with trauma exposure, symptom severity and functional impairment in Bosnian refugees resettled in Australia.

    Shakeh Momartin;Derrick Silove;Vijaya Manicavasagar;Zachary Steel

  • Physical activity in the treatment of Post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Simon Rosenbaum;Simon Rosenbaum;Davy Vancampfort;Zachary Steel;Zachary Steel;Jill Newby

  • A comparison of the mental health of refugees with temporary versus permanent protection visas

    Shakeh Momartin;Zachary Steel;Marianio Coello;Jorge Aroche

  • Two year psychosocial and mental health outcomes for refugees subjected to restrictive or supportive immigration policies.

    Zachary Steel;Shakeh Momartin;Derrick Silove;Marianio Coello

  • Psychiatric status of asylum seeker families held for a protracted period in a remote detention centre in Australia

    Zachary Steel;Shakeh Momartin;Catherine Bateman;Atena Hafshejani

  • Personality Disorders Among Pathological Gamblers.

    Alex Blaszczynski;Zachary Steel

  • The prevalence and risk of metabolic syndrome and its components among people with posttraumatic stress disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Simon Rosenbaum;Brendon Stubbs;Philip B. Ward;Zachary Steel

  • Promoting walking as an adjunct intervention to group cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders--a pilot group randomized trial

    Dafna Merom;Philayrath Phongsavan;Renate E Wagner;Tien Chey;Tien Chey

Frequent Co-Authors

Derrick Silove
Derrick Silove University of New South Wales
Richard A. Bryant
Richard A. Bryant University of New South Wales
Angela Nickerson
Angela Nickerson University of New South Wales
David Berle
David Berle Australian National University
Meaghan O'Donnell
Meaghan O'Donnell University of Melbourne
David Forbes
David Forbes University of Melbourne
Alexander C. McFarlane
Alexander C. McFarlane University of Adelaide
Robert Brooks
Robert Brooks University of New South Wales
Philip B. Ward
Philip B. Ward University of New South Wales
Vijaya Manicavasagar
Vijaya Manicavasagar University of New South Wales

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