David Watson

104.4k citations
273 papers · 74.3k · 25 hit papers · h-index 90

Impact in

Papers in

    • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology 64
    • Personality Traits and Psychology 54
    • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development 36
    • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders 27
    • Mental Health Research Topics 63
    • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes 43

David Watson

266 papers receiving 70.0k citations

David Watson's Hit Papers

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Quantitative Nosology Based on Consensus of Evidence 2021 · 304 citations
3040+10+20Years since publication10002.0k3.0k4.0k

Peers

David Watson
Comparison fields: 5 of 208
  • Applied Psychology 9.3k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 21.7k
  • Clinical Psychology 28.8k
  • Social Psychology 22.9k
  • Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 805
Replace Lee Anna Clark with:
Lee Anna Clark United States
Auke Tellegen United States
Paul T. Costa United States
Martin E. P. Seligman United States
Oliver P. John United States
Barbara L. Fredrickson United States
Charles S. Carver United States
Andrew F. Hayes United States
James J. Gross United States
Kristopher J. Preacher United States
David Watson relative to Lee Anna Clark United States Lee Anna Clark's profile →
Citations per field
00.5×1.5×
Lee Anna Clark · 1×
Citations per year

Countries citing papers authored by David Watson

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of David Watson's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by David Watson with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites David Watson more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by David Watson

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by David Watson. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by David Watson. The network helps show where David Watson may publish in the future.

Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Watson, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with David Watson Line = papers co-authored together David Watson links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown

Showing the 20 most-cited of 273 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.

#Work
1
Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
Hit paper breakdown →
198826221
2
Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development.
Hit paper breakdown →
19954824
3
Negative affectivity: The disposition to experience aversive emotional states.
Hit paper breakdown →
19843562
4
Tripartite model of anxiety and depression: Psychometric evidence and taxonomic implications.
Hit paper breakdown →
19912854
5
Health complaints, stress, and distress: Exploring the central role of negative affectivity.
Hit paper breakdown →
19892418
6
Linking “big” personality traits to anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis.
Hit paper breakdown →
20101842
7
The two general activation systems of affect: Structural findings, evolutionary considerations, and psychobiological evidence.
Hit paper breakdown →
19991506
8
COMORBIDITY OF ANXIETY AND UNIPOLAR MOOD DISORDERS
Hit paper breakdown →
19981223
9
Positive and negative affectivity and their relation to anxiety and depressive disorders.
Hit paper breakdown →
19881190
10
Rethinking the mood and anxiety disorders: A quantitative hierarchical model for DSM-V.
Hit paper breakdown →
20051023
11
Testing a tripartite model: I. Evaluating the convergent and discriminant validity of anxiety and depression symptom scales.
Hit paper breakdown →
1995959
12
Intraindividual and interindividual analyses of positive and negative affect: Their relation to health complaints, perceived stress, and daily activities.
Hit paper breakdown →
1988847
13
On Traits and Temperament: General and Specific Factors of Emotional Experience and Their Relation to the Five‐Factor Model
Hit paper breakdown →
1992840
14
Delineating the Structure of Normal and Abnormal Personality: An Integrative Hierarchical Approach.
Hit paper breakdown →
2005810
15
Constructing validity: New developments in creating objective measuring instruments.
Hit paper breakdown →
2019778
16
Toward a consensual structure of mood.
Hit paper breakdown →
1985690
17
Mood and the mundane: Relations between daily life events and self-reported mood.
Hit paper breakdown →
1988681
18
Testing a tripartite model: II. Exploring the symptom structure of anxiety and depression in student, adult, and patient samples.
Hit paper breakdown →
1995646
19
On the Dimensional and Hierarchical Structure of Affect
Hit paper breakdown →
1999570
20
Confirmatory factor analyses of posttraumatic stress symptoms in deployed and nondeployed veterans of the Gulf War.
Hit paper breakdown →
2002527

About David Watson

David Watson is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Applied Psychology, having authored 273 papers that have together received 74.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (64 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (63 papers), Personality Traits and Psychology (54 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (43 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (36 papers), Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (27 papers), Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (23 papers) and Mental Health and Psychiatry (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Applied Psychology (9.3k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (21.7k citations), Clinical Psychology (28.8k citations), Social Psychology (22.9k citations) and Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (805 citations). David Watson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Lee Anna Clark, Auke Tellegen, James W. Pennebaker, Roman Kotov, Wakiza Gámez, Leonard J. Simms, Jatin G. Vaidya, Frank Schmidt, Michael S. Chmielewski and Susan Mineka. Their work appears in journals such as Assessment, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychological Assessment and Journal of Personality.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact