Jenny Gu

5.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
41 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Jenny Gu is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Molecular Biology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jenny Gu has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Clinical Psychology, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jenny Gu's work include Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (15 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (9 papers) and COVID-19 and Mental Health (8 papers). Jenny Gu is often cited by papers focused on Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (15 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (9 papers) and COVID-19 and Mental Health (8 papers). Jenny Gu collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Jenny Gu's co-authors include Clara Strauss, Kate Cavanagh, Rod Bond, Willem Kuyken, Ruth A. Baer, Fergal W. Jones, Billie Lever Taylor, Catherine Crane, Thorsten B. H. Reusch and Anke Karl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Jenny Gu

41 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

How do mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction improve mental health and wellbeing? A systematic review and meta-analysis of mediation studies

2015 1.2k citations Jenny Gu, Clara Strauss et al. Clinical Psychology Review profile →
What is compassion and how can we measure it? A review of definitions and measures

2016 583 citations Clara Strauss, Jenny Gu et al. Clinical Psychology Review profile →
Examining the factor structure of the 39-item and 15-item versions of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire before and after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for people with recurrent depression.

2016 299 citations Jenny Gu, Clara Strauss et al. Psychological Assessment profile →
Defining Mindfulness: A Review of Existing Definitions and Suggested Refinements

2025 11 citations Kate Cavanagh, Ruth A. Baer et al. Mindfulness profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jenny Gu United Kingdom	25	2.1k	880	683	407	328	41	3.6k
Livio Finos Italy	27	372 0.2×	269 0.3×	346 0.5×	260 0.6×	241 0.7×	112	2.4k
Robert Dickey United States	44	1.8k 0.9×	288 0.3×	439 0.6×	1.1k 2.7×	575 1.8×	103	4.8k
Steve Herman United States	22	911 0.4×	431 0.5×	372 0.5×	110 0.3×	26 0.1×	37	3.3k
Hartej Gill Canada	37	4.0k 1.9×	937 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	528 1.3×	15 0.0×	115	9.1k
Holger Hoffmann Germany	35	596 0.3×	459 0.5×	613 0.9×	593 1.5×	21 0.1×	131	3.6k
Gregory K. Brown United States	29	1.8k 0.9×	153 0.2×	865 1.3×	424 1.0×	24 0.1×	88	4.6k
Jan Derksen Netherlands	34	815 0.4×	192 0.2×	431 0.6×	1.7k 4.1×	40 0.1×	165	3.8k
Peter Zimmermann Germany	31	1.9k 0.9×	484 0.6×	1.5k 2.2×	731 1.8×	14 0.0×	153	4.2k
Verena D. Schmittmann Netherlands	14	1.1k 0.5×	3.0k 3.4×	534 0.8×	180 0.4×	10 0.0×	22	4.3k
George W. Brown United States	27	2.3k 1.1×	510 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	532 1.3×	14 0.0×	81	5.8k

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Cavanagh, Kate, et al.. (2025). Defining Mindfulness: A Review of Existing Definitions and Suggested Refinements. Mindfulness. 16(1). 1–20. 11 indexed citations breakdown →

Rathod, Shanaya, Peter Phiri, Richard de Visser, et al.. (2023). Applying the cultural adaption framework to the Early Youth Engagement ( EYE ‐2) approach to early intervention in psychosis. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 62(3). 537–555. 2 indexed citations

Gu, Jenny, et al.. (2023). Group Versus Individual Diabetes Education for Persons With Experience of Homelessness in Canada. PubMed. 49(6). 415–425. 1 indexed citations

Sundin, Örjan, et al.. (2022). Factor structure and psychometric properties of a Swedish version of the Sussex-Oxford Compassion Scales (SOCS). Nordic Psychology. 76(1). 78–96. 3 indexed citations

Benton, Michael G., Wallace Akerley, George F. Mayhew, et al.. (2020). Structural variation and its potential impact on genome instability: Novel discoveries in the EGFR landscape by long-read sequencing. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0226340–e0226340. 23 indexed citations

Miller, Christopher B., Jenny Gu, Alasdair L. Henry, et al.. (2020). Feasibility and efficacy of a digital CBT intervention for symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A randomized multiple-baseline study. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 70. 101609–101609. 26 indexed citations

Gu, Jenny, Ruth A. Baer, Kate Cavanagh, Willem Kuyken, & Clara Strauss. (2019). Development and Psychometric Properties of the Sussex-Oxford Compassion Scales (SOCS). Assessment. 27(1). 3–20. 122 indexed citations

Baer, Ruth A., Jenny Gu, Kate Cavanagh, & Clara Strauss. (2019). Differential sensitivity of mindfulness questionnaires to change with treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis.. Psychological Assessment. 31(10). 1247–1263. 44 indexed citations

Strauss, Clara, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for life and a cognitive behavioural therapy stress-management workshop to improve healthcare staff stress: study protocol for two randomised controlled trials. Trials. 19(1). 209–209. 17 indexed citations

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Sutton, Jolene T., Martin Helmkampf, Cynthia Steiner, et al.. (2018). A High-Quality, Long-Read De Novo Genome Assembly to Aid Conservation of Hawaiiʻs Last Remaining Crow Species. Genes. 9(8). 393–393. 18 indexed citations

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Montero‐Marín, Jesús, Willem Kuyken, Catherine Crane, et al.. (2018). Self-Compassion and Cultural Values: A Cross-Cultural Study of Self-Compassion Using a Multitrait-Multimethod (MTMM) Analytical Procedure. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 2638–2638. 62 indexed citations

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Cavanagh, Kate, Alasdair Churchard, Puffin O’Hanlon, et al.. (2018). A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Brief Online Mindfulness-Based Intervention in a Non-clinical Population: Replication and Extension. Mindfulness. 9(4). 1191–1205. 81 indexed citations

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Gu, Jenny, Kate Cavanagh, & Clara Strauss. (2017). Investigating the Specific Effects of an Online Mindfulness-Based Self-Help Intervention on Stress and Underlying Mechanisms. Mindfulness. 9(4). 1245–1257. 27 indexed citations

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Gu, Jenny, Kate Cavanagh, Ruth A. Baer, & Clara Strauss. (2017). An empirical examination of the factor structure of compassion. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0172471–e0172471. 67 indexed citations

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Gu, Jenny, Clara Strauss, Rod Bond, & Kate Cavanagh. (2015). How do mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction improve mental health and wellbeing? A systematic review and meta-analysis of mediation studies. Clinical Psychology Review. 37. 1–12. 1154 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dattolo, Emanuela, Jenny Gu, Philipp E. Bayer, et al.. (2013). Acclimation to different depths by the marine angiosperm Posidonia oceanica: transcriptomic and proteomic profiles. Frontiers in Plant Science. 4. 195–195. 28 indexed citations

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Whitley, Penn, et al.. (2011). Transcriptome Analysis Using Next-Generation Sequencing Technology. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT. 22. 1 indexed citations

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Gu, Jenny & Vincent J. Hilser. (2009). Sequence-Based Analysis of Protein Energy Landscapes Reveals Nonuniform Thermal Adaptation within the Proteome. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26(10). 2217–2227. 24 indexed citations

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Gu, Jenny & Vincent J. Hilser. (2008). Predicting the Energetics of Conformational Fluctuations in Proteins from Sequence: A Strategy for Profiling the Proteome. Structure. 16(11). 1627–1637. 17 indexed citations

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Gu, Jenny & Philip E. Bourne. (2007). Identifying allosteric fluctuation transitions between different protein conformational states as applied to Cyclin Dependent Kinase 2. BMC Bioinformatics. 8(1). 45–45. 9 indexed citations

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