Johnny Downs

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Johnny Downs is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Johnny Downs has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Clinical Psychology, 30 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 28 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Johnny Downs's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (33 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (20 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (13 papers). Johnny Downs is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (33 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (20 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (13 papers). Johnny Downs collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Johnny Downs's co-authors include Robert Stewart, Richard D. Hayes, Rina Dutta, Tamsin Ford, Hitesh Shetty, Sophie Epstein, James H. MacCabe, Matthew Hotopf, Giouliana Kadra-Scalzo and Sumithra Velupillai and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Johnny Downs

100 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Cohort profile of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register: current status and recent enhancement of an Electronic Mental Health Record-derived data resource

2016 368 citations Matthew Broadbent, Johnny Downs et al. BMJ Open profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Johnny Downs United Kingdom	26	885	837	371	334	221	113	2.2k
Sarah I. Pratt United States	27	526 0.6×	930 1.1×	477 1.3×	538 1.6×	61 0.3×	77	2.2k
Corine Sau Man Wong Hong Kong	24	483 0.5×	586 0.7×	265 0.7×	150 0.4×	163 0.7×	111	1.7k
Andrea Fernandes United Kingdom	13	423 0.5×	687 0.8×	420 1.1×	310 0.9×	51 0.2×	19	1.6k
Steve Balsis United States	24	1.1k 1.3×	683 0.8×	277 0.7×	357 1.1×	176 0.8×	59	2.3k
S. Janet Kuramoto United States	17	997 1.1×	413 0.5×	237 0.6×	276 0.8×	220 1.0×	24	2.1k
Gloria Hoi Yan Wong Hong Kong	29	833 0.9×	1.4k 1.6×	476 1.3×	492 1.5×	266 1.2×	182	2.8k
Daniel Vigo Canada	19	837 0.9×	442 0.5×	722 1.9×	667 2.0×	158 0.7×	36	2.6k
Heike Gerger Switzerland	19	905 1.0×	440 0.5×	356 1.0×	424 1.3×	236 1.1×	51	2.4k
Joe Kossowsky United States	25	738 0.8×	733 0.9×	349 0.9×	759 2.3×	560 2.5×	72	2.9k
Jorge López‐Castromán France	30	1.4k 1.6×	699 0.8×	426 1.1×	153 0.5×	173 0.8×	141	2.4k

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Wickersham, Alice, et al.. (2025). Technology Matters: A model for translating digital and data science innovations into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 31(1). 80–83.

Parker, Jenny, Lauren Cross, Sophie Epstein, et al.. (2025). The extent to which child- and parent-report Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale, short Mood and Feeling Questionnaire, Strength and Difficulty Questionnaire and child-report KIDSCREEN identify the same young people as at risk of mental health conditions. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 228(3). 195–204.

Cummins, Nicholas, Ewan Carr, Faith Matcham, et al.. (2025). Collection and Analysis of Repeated Speech Samples: Methodological Framework and Example Protocol. JMIR Research Protocols. 14. e69431–e69431. 1 indexed citations

Stevelink, Sharon A. M., Ioannis Bakolis, Sarah Dorrington, et al.. (2024). Personal independence payments among people who access mental health services: results from a novel data linkage. BJPsych Open. 10(5). e150–e150.

Wickersham, Alice, et al.. (2024). Factors Affecting Usability and Acceptability of an Online Platform Used by Caregivers in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. 7. e60042–e60042. 1 indexed citations

Shum, Kathy Kar‐man, et al.. (2024). Are ADHD trajectories shaped by the social environment? A longitudinal study of maternal influences on the preschool origins of delay aversion. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 66(6). 892–905. 1 indexed citations

Prasad, Vibhore, et al.. (2023). Use of healthcare services before diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a population-based matched case-control study. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 109(1). 46–51. 4 indexed citations

Wickersham, Alice, Johnny Downs, Risha Govind, et al.. (2023). The patient journeys of children and adolescents with depression: a study of electronic health records. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 33(4). 1093–1101. 1 indexed citations

Sedgwick, Rosemary, et al.. (2023). Investigating online activity in UK adolescent mental health patients: a feasibility study using a natural language processing approach for electronic health records. BMJ Open. 13(5). e061640–e061640. 3 indexed citations

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Bright, Joanna K., Yasmin I. Ahmadzadeh, Gerome Breen, et al.. (2023). Twins Early Development Study (TEDS): A genetically sensitive investigation of mental health outcomes in the mid‐twenties. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). e12154–e12154. 26 indexed citations

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Morris, Anna, Zina Ibrahim, Omer S. Moghraby, et al.. (2023). Moving from development to implementation of digital innovations within the NHS: myHealthE, a remote monitoring system for tracking patient outcomes in child and adolescent mental health services. Digital Health. 9. 589855263–589855263.

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Zylbersztejn, Ania, Vincent Nguyen, Sarah Barnes, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of variation in special educational needs provision and its impact on health and education using administrative records for England: umbrella protocol for a mixed-methods research programme. BMJ Open. 13(11). e072531–e072531. 7 indexed citations

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Freitas, Daniela Fonseca de, Giouliana Kadra-Scalzo, Megan Pritchard, et al.. (2022). Ethnic inequalities in clozapine use among people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia: a retrospective cohort study using data from electronic clinical records. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 57(7). 1341–1355. 11 indexed citations

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Wickersham, Alice, et al.. (2022). Assessing machine learning for fair prediction of ADHD in school pupils using a retrospective cohort study of linked education and healthcare data. BMJ Open. 12(12). e058058–e058058. 14 indexed citations

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Downs, Johnny, et al.. (2021). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: parent/carer perceptions of barriers to healthcare access. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 106(11). 1125–1128. 4 indexed citations

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Pearson, Rachel, Amelia Jewell, Linda Wijlaars, et al.. (2021). Linking data on women in public family law court proceedings concerning their children to mental health service records in South London. International Journal for Population Data Science. 6(1). 5 indexed citations

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Widnall, Emily, Claire Grant, Tao Wang, et al.. (2020). User Perspectives of Mood-Monitoring Apps Available to Young People: Qualitative Content Analysis (Preprint). 1 indexed citations

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Cross, Lauren, Amelia Jewell, Margaret Heslin, et al.. (2020). Guidance for researchers wanting to link NHS data using non-consent approaches: a thematic analysis of feedback from the Health Research Authority Confidentiality Advisory Group. International Journal for Population Data Science. 5(1). 1355–1355. 3 indexed citations

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Epstein, Sophie, Emmert Roberts, Rosemary Sedgwick, et al.. (2019). School absenteeism as a risk factor for self-harm and suicidal ideation in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 29(9). 1175–1194. 77 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Cliódhna, Johnny Downs, Hitesh Shetty, & Fiona McNicholas. (2019). Diagnostic trajectories in child and adolescent mental health services: exploring the prevalence and patterns of diagnostic adjustments in an electronic mental health case register. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 29(8). 1111–1123. 13 indexed citations

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