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Researcher · Augusta University · United States

Michael J. Vitacco

Michael J. Vitacco publishes mostly in Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology, on topics such as Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints and Personality Disorders and Psychopathology.

ORCID 0000-0003-2371-4703 OpenAlex
World rank
#311,668
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#112,805
of 1,627,098
Works
177
Citations
4.6k
Citations per work
26.0
h-index
37
i10-index 73Top 5.6% in Clinical Psychology
Michael J. Vitacco

What does Michael J. Vitacco research?

Michael J. Vitacco's work is mostly in Psychology (54%), Social Sciences (18%), Medicine (4%).

Social Sciences: 133 works · 75.3% of their workPsychology: 96 works · 54.3% of their workClinical Psychology: 82 works · 46.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 15 works · 8.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 32 works · 18.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 32 works · 18.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 2.9% of their workPhilosophy: 5 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 32 works · 18.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 4.2% of their workMedicine: 7 works · 4.2% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 7 works · 4.2% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 2.2% of their workNeuroscience: 4 works · 2.2% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 works · 2.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael J.Vitacco177works
Life Sciences2%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences75%

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. Psychology9654.3%
    2. Social Sciences3218.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities52.9%
  2. Everything else3218.3%
    1. Medicine74.2%
    1. Neuroscience42.2%
  1. 1Clinical Psychology46% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology8% of their works
  4. 4Psychiatry and Mental health4% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy3% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael J. Vitacco's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Criminal Behavior, Psychopathy, Risk Assessment, Informed Consent, Psychiatric Treatment, Borderline Personality Disorder, Psychopathology and Crime.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Criminal Behavior1332 topics
  2. Psychopathy1081 topic
  3. Risk Assessment1081 topic
  4. Informed Consent321 topic
  5. Psychiatric Treatment321 topic
  6. Borderline Personality Disorder301 topic
  7. Psychopathology301 topic
  8. Crime251 topic
  9. Social Structure251 topic
  10. Criminal Justice241 topic
  11. Mass Incarceration241 topic
  12. Cyberstalking211 topic
  13. Stalking211 topic
  14. Deception191 topic
  15. Detection191 topic
  16. Phenomenology131 topic
  17. Psychiatric Disorders131 topic

Where does Michael J. Vitacco work?

Michael J. Vitacco's main affiliation in the publication record is Augusta University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael J. Vitacco have?

OpenAlex counts 177 works and 4,605 citations for Michael J. Vitacco, an h-index of 37, ranking #311,668 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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