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Researcher · HM Prison Service · United Kingdom

Geraldine Ann Akerman

Geraldine Ann Akerman publishes mostly in Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology, on topics such as Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis and Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0001-9041-7421 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,924,140
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#298,006
of 367,258
Works
77
Citations
165
Citations per work
2.1
h-index
6
i10-index 4Top 77% in Clinical Psychology
Geraldine Ann Akerman

What does Geraldine Ann Akerman research?

Geraldine Ann Akerman's work is mostly in Psychology (57%), Social Sciences (24%), Health Professions (3%).

Social Sciences: 62 works · 80.9% of their workPsychology: 44 works · 57.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 39 works · 50.7% of their workSocial Psychology: 3 works · 4.2% of their workApplied Psychology: 2 works · 2.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 18 works · 23.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 21.1% of their workGender Studies: 2 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 16.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 2.8% of their workHealth Professions: 2 works · 2.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 2 works · 2.8% of their workTHEIR WORKGeraldine AnnAkerman77works
Health Sciences3%Social Sciences81%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology4457.0%
    2. Social Sciences1823.9%
  2. Everything else1316.3%
    1. Health Professions22.8%
  1. 1Clinical Psychology51% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology4% of their works
  4. 4Gender Studies3% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions3% of their works
  6. 6Applied Psychology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Geraldine Ann Akerman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Criminal Behavior, Psychopathy, Risk Assessment, Criminal Justice, Mass Incarceration, Mental Health, Psychotherapy Outcome and Therapeutic Alliance.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Criminal Behavior292 topics
  2. Psychopathy221 topic
  3. Risk Assessment221 topic
  4. Criminal Justice181 topic
  5. Mass Incarceration181 topic
  6. Mental Health173 topics
  7. Psychotherapy Outcome91 topic
  8. Therapeutic Alliance91 topic
  9. Adverse Experiences81 topic
  10. Childhood Trauma81 topic
  11. Crime71 topic
  12. Social Structure71 topic
  13. Crisis Resolution61 topic
  14. Home Treatment61 topic
  15. Adversity51 topic
  16. Psychological Resilience51 topic
  17. Immigrant41 topic
  18. Refugee41 topic

Where does Geraldine Ann Akerman work?

Geraldine Ann Akerman's main affiliation in the publication record is HM Prison Service, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Geraldine Ann Akerman have?

OpenAlex counts 77 works and 165 citations for Geraldine Ann Akerman, an h-index of 6, ranking #4,924,140 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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