Christopher Ryan

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
131 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher Ryan is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Ryan has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Clinical Psychology, 22 papers in General Health Professions and 16 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Ryan's work include Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (40 papers), Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (22 papers) and Psychiatric care and mental health services (20 papers). Christopher Ryan is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (40 papers), Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (22 papers) and Psychiatric care and mental health services (20 papers). Christopher Ryan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Christopher Ryan's co-authors include Matthew Large, Olav Nielssen, Swaran P. Singh, D. Chung, Dušan Pavlović, Clive Stanton, Sascha Callaghan, Anthony Harris, James Brown and Phillip L. Geissler and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Ryan

124 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Suicide Rates After Discharge From Psychiatric Facilities 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300 400
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. Suicide Rates After Discharge From Psychiatric Facilities
    2017 407 citations Christopher Ryan, Matthew Large 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
Christopher Ryan Australia 29 1.9k 746 560 558 425 131 3.5k
Dirk Richter Switzerland 28 787 0.4× 312 0.4× 221 0.4× 515 0.9× 380 0.9× 158 2.7k
Shay‐Lee Bolton Canada 31 2.4k 1.3× 879 1.2× 643 1.1× 509 0.9× 257 0.6× 78 3.9k
Elizabeth Reisinger Walker United States 23 954 0.5× 841 1.1× 1.1k 1.9× 868 1.6× 146 0.3× 77 3.9k
Ling Zhang China 31 1.1k 0.6× 416 0.6× 550 1.0× 271 0.5× 433 1.0× 111 3.4k
Lars Lien Norway 37 2.0k 1.1× 633 0.8× 631 1.1× 838 1.5× 78 0.2× 211 4.8k
Elizabeth Ellis Australia 35 1.2k 0.7× 225 0.3× 166 0.3× 252 0.5× 396 0.9× 120 4.2k
Maryland Pao United States 38 1.7k 0.9× 490 0.7× 412 0.7× 742 1.3× 272 0.6× 129 4.3k
Hisateru Tachimori Japan 29 1.4k 0.8× 660 0.9× 659 1.2× 978 1.8× 262 0.6× 166 3.9k
Lorenzo Cohen United States 50 1.0k 0.5× 875 1.2× 741 1.3× 975 1.7× 707 1.7× 254 9.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Ryan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Ryan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Ryan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher Ryan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher Ryan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christopher Ryan. Christopher Ryan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ryan, Christopher & Sascha Callaghan. (2025). The meaning and clinical impact of the protection from harm criterion in Australia’s mental health legislation. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 60(1). 17–25.
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Giuntoli, Gianfranco, et al.. (2019). Human Rights protection frameworks for people being treated involuntarily for a mental illness: Study findings. UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia). 4 indexed citations
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Stevens, Garry, Suzanne Brownhill, Naren Gunja, et al.. (2019). SMS SOS: a randomized controlled trial to reduce self-harm and suicide attempts using SMS text messaging. BMC Psychiatry. 19(1). 117–117. 18 indexed citations
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Ryan, Christopher, Martin Cooke, & Scott T. Leatherdale. (2016). Factors associated with heavy drinking among off-reserve First Nations and Métis youth and adults: Evidence from the 2012 Canadian Aboriginal Peoples Survey. Preventive Medicine. 87. 95–102. 12 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Sascha & Christopher Ryan. (2016). An Evolving Revolution: Evaluating Australia's Compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Mental Health Law. SSRN Electronic Journal. 19 indexed citations
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Robertson, Michael D., Philip Boyce, Terry Carney, et al.. (2016). How shortcomings in the mental health system affect the use of involuntary community treatment orders. Australian Health Review. 41(3). 351–356. 15 indexed citations
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Ryan, Christopher & Sascha Callaghan. (2016). The impact on clinical practice of the 2015 reforms to the New South Wales Mental Health Act. Australasian Psychiatry. 25(1). 43–47. 3 indexed citations
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Kerridge, Ian, Michael J. Robertson, Philip Boyce, et al.. (2015). Involuntary psychiatric treatment in the community: general practitioners and the implementation of community treatment orders.. PubMed. 44(7). 485–9. 5 indexed citations
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Ryan, Christopher, Scott T. Leatherdale, & Martin Cooke. (2015). A cross-sectional examination of the correlates of current smoking among off-reserve First Nations and Métis adults: Evidence from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey. Addictive Behaviors. 54. 75–81. 7 indexed citations
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Ryan, Christopher, Martin Cooke, Scott T. Leatherdale, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick, & Piotr Wilk. (2015). The correlates of current smoking among adult Métis: Evidence from the Aboriginal Peoples Survey and Métis Supplement. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 106(5). e271–e276. 15 indexed citations
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Brown, James, Christopher Ryan, & Anthony Harris. (2014). How Doctors View and Use Social Media: A National Survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 16(12). e267–e267. 145 indexed citations
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Keogh, Justin, et al.. (2013). Quantitative assessment of quality of life in New Zealand prostate cancer survivors: the effect of androgen deprivation therapy. Bond University Research Portal (Bond University). 1(2). 105–110. 3 indexed citations
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Kerridge, Ian, et al.. (2012). Out of sight, out of mind: making involuntary community treatment visible in the mental health system. The Medical Journal of Australia. 196(9). 591–593. 28 indexed citations
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Stachowiak, Jeanne C., Eva M. Schmid, Christopher Ryan, et al.. (2012). Protein-Protein Crowding as a Driving Force for Membrane Bending during Endocytosis. Biophysical Journal. 102(3). 322a–322a. 1 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Sascha & Christopher Ryan. (2011). Refusing medical treatment after attempted suicide: rethinking capacity and coercive treatment in light of the Kerrie Wooltorton case.. PubMed. 18(4). 811–9. 7 indexed citations
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Nielssen, Olav, et al.. (2007). Legal implications of the increased risk of homicide and serious violence in the first episode of psychotic illness. UNSWorks (UNSW Sydney). 5 indexed citations
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Ryan, Christopher, et al.. (1971). Bilateral Nephrolithiasis in a Cat. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 158(11). 1946–1947. 3 indexed citations

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