Jennifer Ness

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Jennifer Ness is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Emergency Medicine and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer Ness has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Clinical Psychology, 22 papers in Emergency Medicine and 10 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jennifer Ness's work include Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (43 papers), Poisoning and overdose treatments (18 papers) and Mental Health Treatment and Access (10 papers). Jennifer Ness is often cited by papers focused on Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (43 papers), Poisoning and overdose treatments (18 papers) and Mental Health Treatment and Access (10 papers). Jennifer Ness collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Jennifer Ness's co-authors include Keith Waters, Navneet Kapur, Keith Hawton, Helen Bergen, Jayne Cooper, Sarah Steeg, Galit Geulayov, Caroline Clements, Pauline Turnbull and Deborah Casey and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and The British Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer Ness

51 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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Suicide following self-harm: Findings from the Multicentre Study of self-harm in England, 2000–2012

2015 275 citations Keith Hawton, Helen Bergen et al. Journal of Affective Disorders profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jennifer Ness United Kingdom	26	2.1k	654	628	387	260	52	2.4k
Sarah Steeg United Kingdom	22	1.6k 0.8×	523 0.8×	515 0.8×	279 0.7×	208 0.8×	56	1.9k
Paula Cloutier Canada	26	1.9k 0.9×	462 0.7×	405 0.6×	507 1.3×	170 0.7×	76	2.2k
Judith Horrocks United Kingdom	13	1.4k 0.7×	486 0.7×	491 0.8×	354 0.9×	179 0.7×	18	1.7k
Deborah Casey United Kingdom	20	1.4k 0.7×	505 0.8×	456 0.7×	299 0.8×	122 0.5×	40	1.6k
Louise Harriss United Kingdom	21	1.6k 0.8×	327 0.5×	474 0.8×	586 1.5×	215 0.8×	24	1.9k
Konrad Michel Switzerland	28	2.1k 1.0×	330 0.5×	869 1.4×	599 1.5×	213 0.8×	78	2.5k
Lisa M. Horowitz United States	31	2.5k 1.2×	516 0.8×	707 1.1×	321 0.8×	428 1.6×	89	3.1k
Pauline Turnbull United Kingdom	19	1.5k 0.7×	340 0.5×	496 0.8×	297 0.8×	158 0.6×	62	1.7k
Aini Ostamo Finland	24	1.4k 0.7×	309 0.5×	486 0.8×	419 1.1×	237 0.9×	43	1.9k
Joan Fagg United Kingdom	29	2.3k 1.1×	810 1.2×	605 1.0×	752 1.9×	248 1.0×	40	3.1k

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Clements, Caroline, Harriet Bickley, Keith Hawton, et al.. (2025). Self-harm in women in midlife: rates, precipitating problems and outcomes following hospital presentations in the multicentre study of self-harm in England. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 227(1). 456–462. 1 indexed citations

Ness, Jennifer, et al.. (2024). A much-needed focus on self-harm in older adults. International Psychogeriatrics. 36(5). 332–335.

Ness, Jennifer, Samantha Kelly, Keith Waters, et al.. (2023). The characteristics, life problems and clinical management of older adults who self‐harm: Findings from the multicentre study of self‐harm in England. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 38(3). e5895–e5895. 6 indexed citations

Clements, Caroline, Keith Hawton, Galit Geulayov, et al.. (2023). Self-harm in university students: A comparative analysis of data from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England. Journal of Affective Disorders. 335. 67–74. 3 indexed citations

Geulayov, Galit, David Casey, Casey M. Clements, et al.. (2023). Variation in the clinical management of self-harm by area-level socio-economic deprivation: findings from the multicenter study of self-harm in England. Psychological Medicine. 54(5). 1004–1015. 1 indexed citations

Geulayov, Galit, Deborah Casey, Elizabeth Bale, et al.. (2022). Socio-economic disparities in patients who present to hospital for self-harm: patients' characteristics and problems in the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England. Journal of Affective Disorders. 318. 238–245. 5 indexed citations

Townsend, Kelly A., Jennifer Ness, Jennifer Hoguet, et al.. (2020). Testing the Stability of Plasma Protein and Whole Blood RNA in Archived Blood of Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Caretta caretta. Biopreservation and Biobanking. 18(5). 358–366. 4 indexed citations

Casey, Deborah, Galit Geulayov, Elizabeth Bale, et al.. (2020). Paracetamol self-poisoning: Epidemiological study of trends and patient characteristics from the multicentre study of self-harm in England. Journal of Affective Disorders. 276. 699–706. 19 indexed citations

Tsiachristas, Apostolos, Galit Geulayov, Deborah Casey, et al.. (2020). Incidence and general hospital costs of self-harm across England: estimates based on the multicentre study of self-harm. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 29. e108–e108. 27 indexed citations

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Geulayov, Galit, Deborah Casey, Liz Bale, et al.. (2019). Suicide following presentation to hospital for non-fatal self-harm in the Multicentre Study of Self-harm: a long-term follow-up study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 6(12). 1021–1030. 119 indexed citations

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Steeg, Sarah, Matthew Carr, Richard Emsley, et al.. (2018). Suicide and all-cause mortality following routine hospital management of self-harm: Propensity score analysis using multicentre cohort data. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0204670–e0204670. 14 indexed citations

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Ferrey, Anne, Galit Geulayov, Deborah Casey, et al.. (2018). Relative toxicity of mood stabilisers and antipsychotics: case fatality and fatal toxicity associated with self-poisoning. BMC Psychiatry. 18(1). 399–399. 31 indexed citations

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Geulayov, Galit, Deborah Casey, Keltie McDonald, et al.. (2017). Incidence of suicide, hospital-presenting non-fatal self-harm, and community-occurring non-fatal self-harm in adolescents in England (the iceberg model of self-harm): a retrospective study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 5(2). 167–174. 220 indexed citations

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Geulayov, Galit, Navneet Kapur, Pauline Turnbull, et al.. (2016). Epidemiology and trends in non-fatal self-harm in three centres in England, 2000–2012: findings from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England. BMJ Open. 6(4). e010538–e010538. 133 indexed citations

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Clements, Caroline, Pauline Turnbull, Keith Hawton, et al.. (2016). Rates of self-harm presenting to general hospitals: a comparison of data from the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England and Hospital Episode Statistics. BMJ Open. 6(2). e009749–e009749. 80 indexed citations

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Reiner, Jessica L., Paul R. Becker, Matthew O. Gribble, et al.. (2015). Organohalogen Contaminants and Vitamins in Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus) Collected During Subsistence Hunts in Alaska. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 70(1). 96–105. 13 indexed citations

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Townsend, Ellen, Jennifer Ness, Keith Waters, et al.. (2015). Self-harm and life problems: findings from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 51(2). 183–192. 25 indexed citations

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Goodwillie, Carol & Jennifer Ness. (2013). Interactions of hybridization and mating systems: A case study in Leptosiphon (Polemoniaceae). American Journal of Botany. 100(6). 1002–1013. 30 indexed citations

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Bergen, Helen, Keith Hawton, Keith Waters, et al.. (2012). How do methods of non-fatal self-harm relate to eventual suicide?. Journal of Affective Disorders. 136(3). 526–533. 97 indexed citations

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Bergen, Helen, Keith Hawton, Keith Waters, et al.. (2012). Premature death after self-harm: a multicentre cohort study. The Lancet. 380(9853). 1568–1574. 193 indexed citations

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