David Lester
Impact in
- Clinical Psychology top 0.02%
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Health top 0.02%
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Papers in
- Clinical Psychology 1.1k
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies 820
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health 92
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development 78
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- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse 184
- Co-authors
- Aaron T. Beck (26 shared papers)Larry D. Trexler (3 shared papers)Arlene Weissman (1 shared paper)Maurizio Pompili (133 shared papers)Ahmed M. Abdel‐Khalek (71 shared papers)Bijou Yang (110 shared papers)Marco Innamorati (101 shared papers)Roberto Tatarelli (72 shared papers)
- Journals
- Psychological Reports (661 papers)OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (55 papers)Archives of Suicide Research (46 papers)Personality and Individual Differences (39 papers)The Journal of Social Psychology (34 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesItalyKuwait
In The Last Decade
David Lester
1.9k papers receiving 27.6k citations
David Lester's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 217
- Clinical Psychology 16.6k
- Health 4.5k
- Applied Psychology 1.8k
- Social Psychology 7.2k
- Psychiatry and Mental health 2.9k
Countries citing papers authored by David Lester
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Fields of papers citing papers by David Lester
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Lester, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 2.0k papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The measurement of pessimism: The Hopelessness Scale. Hit paper breakdown → | 1974 | 4519 |
| 2 | 2010 | 358 | |
| 3 | 1969 | 350 | |
| 4 | 2010 | 331 | |
| 5 | 2007 | 276 | |
| 6 | 1973 | 224 | |
| 7 | Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students Hit paper breakdown → | 2019 | 191 |
| 8 | 2002 | 187 | |
| 9 | 2007 | 176 | |
| 10 | Why people kill themselves | 1983 | 176 |
| 11 | 2013 | 162 | |
| 12 | 2003 | 151 | |
| 13 | 1990 | 148 | |
| 14 | 2005 | 143 | |
| 15 | 1967 | 141 | |
| 16 | 2009 | 135 | |
| 17 | 2010 | 135 | |
| 18 | 1995 | 133 | |
| 19 | 2014 | 130 | |
| 20 | 2011 | 129 |
About David Lester
David Lester is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Health and General Health Professions, having authored 2.0k papers that have together received 30.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (820 papers), Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (184 papers), Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (129 papers), Gun Ownership and Violence Research (102 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (92 papers), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (79 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (78 papers) and Mental Health Treatment and Access (67 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Clinical Psychology (16.6k citations), Health (4.5k citations), Applied Psychology (1.8k citations), Social Psychology (7.2k citations) and Psychiatry and Mental health (2.9k citations). David Lester has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and Kuwait. Frequent co-authors include Aaron T. Beck, Larry D. Trexler, Arlene Weissman, Maurizio Pompili, Ahmed M. Abdel‐Khalek, Bijou Yang, Marco Innamorati, Roberto Tatarelli, Paolo Girardi and Antoon A. Leenaars. Their work appears in journals such as Psychological Reports, OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, Archives of Suicide Research, Personality and Individual Differences and The Journal of Social Psychology.
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