David Watson

103.6k total citations · 25 hit papers
273 papers, 73.7k citations indexed

About

David Watson is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Watson has authored 273 papers receiving a total of 73.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Clinical Psychology, 114 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 59 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in David Watson's work include Mental Health Research Topics (71 papers), Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (71 papers) and Personality Traits and Psychology (54 papers). David Watson is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Research Topics (71 papers), Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (71 papers) and Personality Traits and Psychology (54 papers). David Watson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. David Watson's co-authors include Lee Anna Clark, Auke Tellegen, L A Clark, James W. Pennebaker, Roman Kotov, Wakiza Gámez, Leonard J. Simms, Jatin G. Vaidya, Frank Schmidt and Michael S. Chmielewski and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

David Watson

263 papers receiving 69.4k citations

Hit Papers

Development and validation of brief measures of positive ... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1988 1995 1984 1991 1989 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k 20.0k 25.0k
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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. Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
    1988 26.1k citations David Watson, L A Clark et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  2. Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development.
    1995 4.8k citations Lee Anna Clark, David Watson Psychological Assessment profile →
  3. Negative affectivity: The disposition to experience aversive emotional states.
    1984 3.5k citations David Watson, Lee Anna Clark Psychological Bulletin profile →
  4. Tripartite model of anxiety and depression: Psychometric evidence and taxonomic implications.
    1991 2.8k citations Lee Anna Clark, David Watson Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
  5. Health complaints, stress, and distress: Exploring the central role of negative affectivity.
    1989 2.4k citations David Watson et al. profile →
  6. Linking “big” personality traits to anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis.
    2010 1.8k citations Roman Kotov, David Watson et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
  7. The two general activation systems of affect: Structural findings, evolutionary considerations, and psychobiological evidence.
    1999 1.5k citations David Watson, Auke Tellegen et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  8. COMORBIDITY OF ANXIETY AND UNIPOLAR MOOD DISORDERS
    1998 1.2k citations David Watson, Lee Anna Clark et al. profile →
  9. Positive and negative affectivity and their relation to anxiety and depressive disorders.
    1988 1.2k citations David Watson, Lee Anna Clark et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
  10. Rethinking the mood and anxiety disorders: A quantitative hierarchical model for DSM-V.
    2005 1.0k citations David Watson Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
  11. Testing a tripartite model: I. Evaluating the convergent and discriminant validity of anxiety and depression symptom scales.
    1995 956 citations David Watson, Lee Anna Clark et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
  12. Intraindividual and interindividual analyses of positive and negative affect: Their relation to health complaints, perceived stress, and daily activities.
    1988 845 citations David Watson Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  13. On Traits and Temperament: General and Specific Factors of Emotional Experience and Their Relation to the Five‐Factor Model
    1992 837 citations David Watson, Lee Anna Clark profile →
  14. Delineating the Structure of Normal and Abnormal Personality: An Integrative Hierarchical Approach.
    2005 806 citations Kristian E. Markon, Robert F. Krueger et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  15. Constructing validity: New developments in creating objective measuring instruments.
    2019 743 citations Lee Anna Clark, David Watson Psychological Assessment profile →
  16. Toward a consensual structure of mood.
    1985 690 citations David Watson, Auke Tellegen Psychological Bulletin profile →
  17. Mood and the mundane: Relations between daily life events and self-reported mood.
    1988 681 citations Lee Anna Clark, David Watson Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  18. Testing a tripartite model: II. Exploring the symptom structure of anxiety and depression in student, adult, and patient samples.
    1995 641 citations David Watson, Lee Anna Clark et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
  19. On the Dimensional and Hierarchical Structure of Affect
    1999 569 citations Auke Tellegen, David Watson et al. profile →
  20. Confirmatory factor analyses of posttraumatic stress symptoms in deployed and nondeployed veterans of the Gulf War.
    2002 527 citations Leonard J. Simms, David Watson et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
  21. Affects separable and inseparable: On the hierarchical arrangement of the negative affects.
    1992 526 citations David Watson, Lee Anna Clark Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  22. The Role of Person Versus Situation in Life Satisfaction: A Critical Examination.
    2004 502 citations Daniel Heller, David Watson et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
  23. Measurement and Mismeasurement of Mood: Recurrent and Emergent issues
    1997 502 citations David Watson, Lee Anna Clark profile →
  24. Development and validation of the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory (EPSI).
    2013 336 citations David Watson et al. Psychological Assessment profile →
  25. The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Quantitative Nosology Based on Consensus of Evidence
    2021 291 citations Roman Kotov, Robert F. Krueger 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
David Watson United States 90 32.2k 24.8k 24.6k 10.8k 10.4k 273 73.7k
Lee Anna Clark United States 78 31.5k 1.0× 21.0k 0.8× 23.3k 0.9× 9.1k 0.8× 8.6k 0.8× 253 67.5k
Paul T. Costa United States 117 34.3k 1.1× 22.1k 0.9× 17.2k 0.7× 9.0k 0.8× 10.9k 1.1× 387 67.4k
Auke Tellegen United States 62 27.1k 0.8× 29.5k 1.2× 22.6k 0.9× 12.6k 1.2× 12.6k 1.2× 132 76.8k
Martin E. P. Seligman United States 111 31.4k 1.0× 35.3k 1.4× 15.6k 0.6× 15.0k 1.4× 10.4k 1.0× 323 80.2k
Barbara L. Fredrickson United States 80 24.5k 0.8× 26.6k 1.1× 12.9k 0.5× 9.8k 0.9× 8.5k 0.8× 199 59.5k
Oliver P. John United States 88 26.7k 0.8× 23.0k 0.9× 17.1k 0.7× 7.1k 0.7× 13.6k 1.3× 205 58.8k
James J. Gross United States 142 49.0k 1.5× 37.0k 1.5× 40.8k 1.7× 10.5k 1.0× 14.1k 1.4× 628 105.2k
Charles S. Carver United States 114 34.2k 1.1× 32.5k 1.3× 21.1k 0.9× 31.0k 2.9× 18.5k 1.8× 378 98.4k
Kristopher J. Preacher United States 60 20.5k 0.6× 23.8k 1.0× 11.8k 0.5× 7.7k 0.7× 22.4k 2.2× 121 83.9k
Michael F. Scheier United States 80 19.4k 0.6× 24.1k 1.0× 15.0k 0.6× 25.8k 2.4× 11.2k 1.1× 148 63.8k

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All Works

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Forbes, Miriam K., Andrew Baillie, Philip J. Batterham, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing Psychopathology: A Data-Driven Reorganization of the Symptoms in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Clinical Psychological Science. 13(3). 462–488.
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Watson, David, et al.. (2023). Romanian Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS-II). Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1159380–1159380.
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Ringwald, Whitney R., Lee Anna Clark, Yuliya Kotelnikova, et al.. (2023). Structure of Pathological Personality Traits Through the Lens of the CAT-PD Model. Assessment. 30(7). 2276–2295. 11 indexed citations
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Watts, Ashley L., David Watson, Andrew C. Heath, & Kenneth J. Sher. (2023). Alcohol use disorder criteria exhibit different comorbidity patterns. Addiction. 118(8). 1457–1468. 10 indexed citations
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Simms, Leonard J., Aidan G.C. Wright, David C. Cicero, et al.. (2021). Development of Measures for the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Collaborative Scale Development Project. Assessment. 29(1). 3–16. 60 indexed citations
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Watson, David, Miriam K. Forbes, Holly Frances Levin-Aspenson, et al.. (2021). The Development of Preliminary HiTOP Internalizing Spectrum Scales. Assessment. 29(1). 17–33. 26 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Angus W., Sherryl H. Goodman, & David Watson. (2021). The Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science is the future of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology: An editorial.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 130(1). 1–2. 4 indexed citations
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Widiger, Thomas A., Martin Sellbom, Michael S. Chmielewski, et al.. (2018). Personality in a Hierarchical Model of Psychopathology. Clinical Psychological Science. 7(1). 77–92. 106 indexed citations
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Ro, Eunyoe, David Watson, & Lee Anna Clark. (2018). Domains of psychosocial disability and mental disorders. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 74(12). 2082–2093. 3 indexed citations
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Watson, David & Michael W. O’Hara. (2017). Understanding the Emotional Disorders. Oxford University Press eBooks. 24 indexed citations
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O’Hara, Michael W., Scott Stuart, David Watson, et al.. (2012). Brief Scales to Detect Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Symptoms. Journal of Women s Health. 21(12). 1237–1243. 57 indexed citations
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Watson, David, Lee Anna Clark, & Sara M. Stasik. (2011). Emotions and the emotional disorders: A quantitative hierarchical perspective. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 92 indexed citations
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McDade‐Montez, Elizabeth & David Watson. (2011). Examining the Potential Influence of Diabetes on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms via Multiple Sample Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 42(3). 341–351. 19 indexed citations
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Koffel, Erin & David Watson. (2010). Development and Initial Validation of the Iowa Sleep Disturbances Inventory. Assessment. 17(4). 423–439. 27 indexed citations
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Koffel, Erin & David Watson. (2009). Unusual sleep experiences, dissociation, and schizotypy: Evidence for a common domain. Clinical Psychology Review. 29(6). 548–559. 86 indexed citations
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Watson, David, Michael W. O’Hara, Michael S. Chmielewski, et al.. (2008). Further validation of the IDAS: Evidence of convergent, discriminant, criterion, and incremental validity.. Psychological Assessment. 20(3). 248–259. 181 indexed citations
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Bailey, Michael, et al.. (2005). Data reduction for the scalable automated analysis of distributed darknet traffic. 21–21. 34 indexed citations
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Heller, Daniel, David Watson, & Remus Ilieș. (2004). The Role of Person Versus Situation in Life Satisfaction: A Critical Examination.. Psychological Bulletin. 130(4). 574–600. 502 indexed citations breakdown →
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Watson, David, L A Clark, & Auke Tellegen. (1988). Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 54(6). 1063–1070. 26107 indexed citations breakdown →

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