David Lester

39.5k citations
2.0k papers · 28.8k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 65

David Lester

1.8k papers receiving 26.1k citations

Hit Papers

The measurement of pessimism: The Hopelessness Scale.4.3k197420261991200810002.0k3.0k4.0k

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David Lester
Comparison fields: 5 of 219
  • Clinical Psychology 17.4k
  • Health 5.0k
  • Social Psychology 8.1k
  • Applied Psychology 2.0k
  • Psychiatry and Mental health 3.8k
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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.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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2 20222
3 202221
4 202117
5 20210
6 202011
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Completed suicides: Is there method in their madness? Correlates of choice of method for suicide in an Australian sample of suicides
20103
11 200942
12 2007168
13 200739
14 20052
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The prevention of suicide is everybody’s business. Willing is not enough, we must do.
20051
16 200449
17 199919
18 199422
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Are Suicides Disguised as Accidental and Undetermined Deaths
19942
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Systems Theories of Personality: Implications from Boulding's Writings
19871

About David Lester

David Lester is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Health, Social Psychology, Applied Psychology and General Psychology, having authored 2.0k papers that have together received 28.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (804 papers), Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (187 papers), Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (125 papers), Gun Ownership and Violence Research (102 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (97 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (82 papers), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (81 papers) and Mental Health Treatment and Access (76 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Clinical Psychology (17.4k citations), Health (5.0k citations), Social Psychology (8.1k citations), Applied Psychology (2.0k citations) and Psychiatry and Mental health (3.8k 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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