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Researcher · King's College London · United Kingdom

Simon C. Wessely

Simon C. Wessely publishes mostly in Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and General Health Professions, on topics such as Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments.

ORCID 0000-0002-6743-9929 OpenAlex
World rank
#30,796
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#2,352
of 367,258
Works
1,075
Citations
91k
Citations per work
84.9
h-index
126
i10-index 616Top 0.1% in Clinical Psychology
Simon C. Wessely

What does Simon C. Wessely research?

Simon C. Wessely's work is mostly in Psychology (27%), Medicine (20%), Health Professions (11%).

Everything else: 385 works · 35.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 354 works · 32.9% of their workPsychology: 293 works · 27.3% of their workClinical Psychology: 262 works · 24.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 31 works · 2.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 31 works · 2.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 31 works · 2.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 29 works · 2.7% of their workPhilosophy: 29 works · 2.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 336 works · 31.3% of their workMedicine: 215 works · 20.0% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 215 works · 20.0% of their workHealth Professions: 121 works · 11.3% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 121 works · 11.3% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon C. Wessely1,075works
Health Sciences31%Social Sciences33%

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. Everything else38535.8%
    1. Psychology29327.3%
    2. Social Sciences312.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities292.7%
    1. Medicine21520.0%
    2. Health Professions12111.3%
  1. 1Clinical Psychology24% of their works
  2. 2Psychiatry and Mental health20% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions11% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science3% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology3% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon C. Wessely's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Mental Health, Trauma, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Resilience and Anxiety.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology5722 topics
  2. Mental Health4253 topics
  3. Trauma3692 topics
  4. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome3121 topic
  5. Fibromyalgia3121 topic
  6. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder2601 topic
  7. Resilience2601 topic
  8. Anxiety2212 topics
  9. Interoception1651 topic
  10. Somatic Symptoms1651 topic
  11. Immigrant1091 topic
  12. Refugee1091 topic
  13. Phenomenology711 topic
  14. Psychiatric Disorders711 topic
  15. Salutogenesis691 topic
  16. Sense of Coherence691 topic
  17. Emergency Responders591 topic
  18. Firefighters591 topic
  19. COVID-19561 topic
  20. Depression561 topic

Where does Simon C. Wessely work?

Simon C. Wessely's main affiliation in the publication record is King's College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Simon C. Wessely have?

OpenAlex counts 1,075 works and 91,216 citations for Simon C. Wessely, an h-index of 126, ranking #30,796 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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