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Researcher · Harvard University · United States

Irving Kirsch

Irving Kirsch publishes mostly in Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and General Psychology, on topics such as Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology and Treatment of Major Depression.

ORCID 0000-0002-1215-4061 OpenAlex
World rank
#60,422
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#23,270
of 1,627,098
Works
457
Citations
31k
Citations per work
67.8
h-index
93
i10-index 262Top 0.5% in Cognitive Neuroscience
Irving Kirsch

What does Irving Kirsch research?

Irving Kirsch's work is mostly in Neuroscience (34%), Psychology (21%), Medicine (11%).

Life Sciences: 154 works · 33.7% of their workNeuroscience: 154 works · 33.7% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 154 works · 33.7% of their workEverything else: 154 works · 33.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 97 works · 21.3% of their workPsychology: 97 works · 21.3% of their workClinical Psychology: 44 works · 9.6% of their workGeneral Psychology: 31 works · 6.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 22 works · 4.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 52 works · 11.3% of their workMedicine: 52 works · 11.3% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 27 works · 5.9% of their workPharmacology: 25 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKIrving Kirsch457works
Life Sciences34%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences21%

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. Neuroscience15433.7%
  2. Everything else15433.7%
    1. Psychology9721.3%
    1. Medicine5211.3%
  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience34% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology10% of their works
  3. 3General Psychology7% of their works
  4. 4Psychiatry and Mental health6% of their works
  5. 5Pharmacology5% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Irving Kirsch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurobiological Mechanisms, Nocebo, Placebo, History, Psychology, Neuroscience, Antidepressant and Depression.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurobiological Mechanisms3392 topics
  2. Nocebo2861 topic
  3. Placebo2861 topic
  4. History771 topic
  5. Psychology771 topic
  6. Neuroscience732 topics
  7. Antidepressant531 topic
  8. Depression531 topic
  9. Education431 topic
  10. Neuromyths431 topic
  11. Anxiety Disorders311 topic
  12. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy311 topic
  13. Phenomenology301 topic
  14. Psychiatric Disorders301 topic
  15. Psychotherapy Outcome301 topic
  16. Therapeutic Alliance301 topic
  17. Irrational Beliefs271 topic
  18. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy271 topic

Where does Irving Kirsch work?

Irving Kirsch's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Irving Kirsch have?

OpenAlex counts 457 works and 30,962 citations for Irving Kirsch, an h-index of 93, ranking #60,422 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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