Anita Thapar

47.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
354 papers, 19.5k citations indexed

About

Anita Thapar is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Anita Thapar has authored 354 papers receiving a total of 19.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 182 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 149 papers in Clinical Psychology and 87 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Anita Thapar's work include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (156 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (137 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (51 papers). Anita Thapar is often cited by papers focused on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (156 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (137 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (51 papers). Anita Thapar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Norway. Anita Thapar's co-authors include Frances Rice, Miriam Cooper, Gordon T. Harold, K. Langley, Stephan Collishaw, Michael O’Donovan, Daniel S. Pine, Marianne van den Bree, Olga Eyre and Michael J. Owen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Anita Thapar

340 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Hit Papers

Depression in adolescence 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2015 2016 2012 2022 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Depression in adolescence
    2012 1.6k citations Anita Thapar, Stephan Collishaw et al. profile →
  2. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    2015 707 citations Anita Thapar, Miriam Cooper profile →
  3. Neurodevelopmental disorders
    2016 524 citations Anita Thapar, Miriam Cooper et al. The Lancet Psychiatry profile →
  4. Practitioner Review: What have we learnt about the causes of ADHD?
    2012 475 citations Anita Thapar, Miriam Cooper et al. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry profile →
  5. Depression in young people
    2022 411 citations Anita Thapar, Olga Eyre et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anita Thapar United Kingdom 75 8.6k 8.1k 4.7k 2.8k 2.7k 354 19.5k
Henrik Larsson Sweden 81 10.0k 1.2× 9.0k 1.1× 6.7k 1.4× 2.8k 1.0× 2.5k 0.9× 615 23.5k
Benedetto Vitiello United States 73 10.8k 1.3× 10.9k 1.3× 5.6k 1.2× 1.8k 0.6× 2.0k 0.7× 315 20.5k
Luís Augusto Rohde Brazil 59 15.9k 1.9× 8.7k 1.1× 8.4k 1.8× 2.0k 0.7× 2.0k 0.7× 465 24.4k
Abraham Reichenberg United States 62 7.8k 0.9× 4.3k 0.5× 6.3k 1.3× 1.4k 0.5× 2.2k 0.8× 276 18.5k
William G. Iacono United States 89 6.4k 0.7× 14.9k 1.8× 6.1k 1.3× 2.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.6× 594 29.5k
Guilherme V. Polanczyk Brazil 44 10.5k 1.2× 6.7k 0.8× 5.2k 1.1× 1.4k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 180 16.6k
Douglas E. Williamson United States 54 6.0k 0.7× 10.1k 1.2× 4.4k 0.9× 2.1k 0.7× 1.0k 0.4× 122 17.6k
Jaap Oosterlaan Netherlands 80 11.6k 1.4× 5.4k 0.7× 9.9k 2.1× 1.5k 0.5× 4.8k 1.8× 412 23.3k
Emily Simonoff United Kingdom 73 7.5k 0.9× 10.4k 1.3× 12.9k 2.7× 1.6k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 267 22.3k
Gustavo Turecki Canada 88 5.7k 0.7× 11.6k 1.4× 2.9k 0.6× 1.8k 0.6× 2.5k 0.9× 587 33.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dennison, Charlotte, Lucy Riglin, Elizabeth C. Corfield, et al.. (2025). Long-term physical health conditions and youth anxiety and depression: Is there a causal link?. Psychological Medicine. 55. e7–e7. 2 indexed citations
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Grimes, P, Mark J. Adams, Anita Thapar, et al.. (2024). GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY OF ADOLESCENT-ONSET DEPRESSION. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 87. 37–37. 1 indexed citations
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Farhat, Luís C., George Davey Smith, André Fujita, et al.. (2023). Networks of Neurodevelopmental Traits, Socioenvironmental Factors, Emotional Dysregulation in Childhood, and Depressive Symptoms Across Development in Two U.K. Cohorts. American Journal of Psychiatry. 180(10). 755–765. 1 indexed citations
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Armitage, J. M., Lucy Riglin, Charlotte Dennison, et al.. (2023). Validation of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) emotional subscale in assessing depression and anxiety across development. PLoS ONE. 18(7). e0288882–e0288882. 15 indexed citations
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Allardyce, Judith, Rhys Bevan Jones, Olga Eyre, et al.. (2022). Developing and validating a prediction model of adolescent major depressive disorder in the offspring of depressed parents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 64(3). 367–375. 4 indexed citations
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Warne, Naomi, Rhys Bevan Jones, Rachel Brown, et al.. (2022). Collecting genetic samples and linked mental health data from adolescents in schools: protocol coproduction and a mixed-methods pilot of feasibility and acceptability. BMJ Open. 12(2). e049283–e049283. 3 indexed citations
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Dardani, Christina, Lucy Riglin, Beate Leppert, et al.. (2021). Is genetic liability to ADHD and ASD causally linked to educational attainment?. International Journal of Epidemiology. 50(6). 2011–2023. 28 indexed citations
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Eyre, Olga, Rhys Bevan Jones, Sharifah Shameem Agha, et al.. (2021). Validation of the short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire in young adulthood. Journal of Affective Disorders. 294. 883–888. 34 indexed citations
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Riglin, Lucy, K. Langley, Ajay K Thapar, et al.. (2021). Assessment of age-at-onset criterion for adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 220(2). 73–75. 1 indexed citations
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Heron, Jon, Anita Thapar, Rhys Bevan Jones, et al.. (2021). The antecedents and outcomes of persistent and remitting adolescent depressive symptom trajectories: a longitudinal, population-based English study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 8(12). 1053–1061. 70 indexed citations
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Riglin, Lucy, Beate Leppert, K. Langley, et al.. (2020). Investigating attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder traits in the general population: What happens in adult life?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 62(4). 449–457. 28 indexed citations
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Caye, Arthur, James M. Swanson, Anita Thapar, et al.. (2016). Life Span Studies of ADHD—Conceptual Challenges and Predictors of Persistence and Outcome. Current Psychiatry Reports. 18(12). 111–111. 105 indexed citations
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Thapar, Anita, Miriam Cooper, & Michael Rutter. (2016). Neurodevelopmental disorders. The Lancet Psychiatry. 4(4). 339–346. 524 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thapar, Ajay K, Ajay K Thapar, Kerenza Hood, et al.. (2016). Identifying key parent-reported symptoms for detecting depression in high risk adolescents. Psychiatry Research. 242. 210–217. 8 indexed citations
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Riglin, Lucy, Stephan Collishaw, Katherine H. Shelton, et al.. (2015). Higher cognitive ability buffers stress-related depressive symptoms in adolescent girls. Development and Psychopathology. 28(1). 97–109. 22 indexed citations
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Kilford, Emma J., Lucy Foulkes, Robert Potter, et al.. (2014). Affective bias and current, past and future adolescent depression: A familial high risk study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 174. 265–271. 25 indexed citations
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Sellers, Ruth, Gordon T. Harold, Kit K. Elam, et al.. (2013). Maternal depression and co‐occurring antisocial behaviour: testing maternal hostility and warmth as mediators of risk for offspring psychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 55(2). 112–120. 44 indexed citations
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Lewis, Katie, Becky Mars, Gemma Lewis, et al.. (2012). Do parents know best? Parent-reported vs. child-reported depression symptoms as predictors of future child mood disorder in a high-risk sample. Journal of Affective Disorders. 141(2-3). 233–236. 41 indexed citations
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Harold, Gordon T., Frances Rice, Dale F. Hay, et al.. (2010). Familial transmission of depression and antisocial behavior symptoms: disentangling the contribution of inherited and environmental factors and testing the mediating role of parenting. Psychological Medicine. 41(6). 1175–1185. 106 indexed citations
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Rice, Frances, Gordon T. Harold, Jacky Boivin, et al.. (2009). Disentangling prenatal and inherited influences in humans with an experimental design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(7). 2464–2467. 102 indexed citations

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