Jonathan K. Burns

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Jonathan K. Burns is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan K. Burns has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Social Psychology, 36 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 32 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jonathan K. Burns's work include Mental Health Treatment and Access (35 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (32 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (18 papers). Jonathan K. Burns is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Treatment and Access (35 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (32 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (18 papers). Jonathan K. Burns collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Jonathan K. Burns's co-authors include Andrew Tomita, Crick Lund, Rob Slotow, Vikram Patel, Brandon A. Kohrt, Enrico Di Minin, Stephen M. Lawrie, Anna Hausmann, Joy Noel Baumgartner and Mark E. Bastin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Blood and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan K. Burns

106 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Income inequality and depression: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the association and a scoping review of mechanisms

2018 348 citations Vikram Patel, Jonathan K. Burns et al. World Psychiatry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan K. Burns South Africa	30	940	913	795	780	568	109	3.3k
Sidra Goldman‐Mellor United States	24	632 0.7×	2.0k 2.2×	909 1.1×	498 0.6×	723 1.3×	70	3.9k
Antony Ambler United Kingdom	31	594 0.6×	1.8k 2.0×	832 1.0×	640 0.8×	460 0.8×	52	4.8k
Helen J. Stain Australia	30	829 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	486 0.9×	74	3.9k
Saskia van Dorsselaer Netherlands	38	907 1.0×	1.8k 1.9×	741 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	434 0.8×	103	4.0k
Chiara Bonetto Italy	30	996 1.1×	1.5k 1.6×	1.0k 1.3×	890 1.1×	167 0.3×	135	3.3k
Michaeline Bresnahan United States	28	1.4k 1.5×	1.6k 1.7×	620 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	307 0.5×	67	5.2k
Gerard Hutchinson United Kingdom	36	1.5k 1.6×	2.4k 2.7×	568 0.7×	2.6k 3.3×	327 0.6×	103	5.3k
David Pilgrim United Kingdom	34	567 0.6×	1.4k 1.5×	1.5k 1.9×	910 1.2×	247 0.4×	161	4.5k
Keith Lloyd United Kingdom	40	1.5k 1.6×	2.1k 2.3×	1.2k 1.5×	915 1.2×	727 1.3×	130	5.0k
Yoshibumi Nakane Japan	26	1.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.5×	690 0.9×	661 0.8×	329 0.6×	65	3.2k

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Ven, Els van der, Xinyu Yang, Franco Mascayano, et al.. (2025). Early intervention in psychosis programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America; challenges and recommendations. Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health. 12. e3–e3. 1 indexed citations

Cohen, Alex, et al.. (2024). Performance of chat generative pre-trained transformer (ChatGPT) on personal review of learning in obstetrics and gynecology. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 230(4). S1169–S1170.

Paruk, Saeeda, et al.. (2023). Clinical characteristics of people presenting with first episode psychosis pre‐ and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in KwaZulu‐Natal Province, South Africa. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 18(5). 329–337. 1 indexed citations

Roberts, Tessa, Ezra Susser, Sujit John, et al.. (2023). Urbanicity and rates of untreated psychotic disorders in three diverse settings in the Global South. Psychological Medicine. 53(14). 6459–6467. 5 indexed citations

Jamieson, Lise, Thirusha Naidu, Saeeda Paruk, et al.. (2022). Developing and testing unconditional cash transfer strategies among young adults with first-episode psychosis in South Africa: a study protocol for a pilot randomised control trial (PRS-FEP trial). BMJ Open. 12(12). e067026–e067026. 2 indexed citations

Cuadros, Diego F., Andrew Tomita, Alain Vandormael, et al.. (2019). Spatial structure of depression in South Africa: A longitudinal panel survey of a nationally representative sample of households. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 979–979. 23 indexed citations

Rodríguez, Juan J. Llibre, et al.. (2018). CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH AND DEMENTIA INCIDENCE AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN LATIN AMERICA: RESULTS FROM THE 10/66 STUDY. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 1 indexed citations

Patel, Vikram, et al.. (2018). Income inequality and depression: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the association and a scoping review of mechanisms. World Psychiatry. 17(1). 76–89. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

Veling, Wim, Jonathan K. Burns, Andrew Tomita, et al.. (2018). Identification of patients with recent-onset psychosis in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa: a pilot study with traditional health practitioners and diagnostic instruments. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 54(3). 303–312. 17 indexed citations

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Paruk, Saeeda, et al.. (2017). The clinical impact of a positive family history of psychosis or mental illness in psychotic and non-psychotic mentally ill adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 29(3). 219–229. 3 indexed citations

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Tomita, Andrew, Alain Vandormael, Diego F. Cuadros, et al.. (2017). Proximity to healthcare clinic and depression risk in South Africa: geospatial evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 52(8). 1023–1030. 21 indexed citations

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Davis, Glen P., et al.. (2016). Substance use and duration of untreated psychosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. South African Journal of Psychiatry. 22(1). 7–7. 15 indexed citations

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Burns, Jonathan K.. (2015). Poverty, inequality and a political economy of mental health. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 24(2). 107–113. 86 indexed citations

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Burns, Jonathan K. & Andrew Tomita. (2014). Traditional and religious healers in the pathway to care for people with mental disorders in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 50(6). 867–877. 131 indexed citations

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Burns, Jonathan K.. (2012). Social integration and human rights: a view from a low- and middle-income context. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 22(1). 43–45. 3 indexed citations

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Burns, Jonathan K.. (2012). Cannabis use and Duration of Untreated Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 18(32). 5093–5104. 21 indexed citations

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Burns, Jonathan K.. (2010). Mental health services funding and development in KwaZulu-Natal: A tale of inequity and neglect. South African Medical Journal. 100(10). 662–662. 37 indexed citations

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Burns, Jonathan K., et al.. (2010). Exposure to trauma and the clinical presentation of first-episode psychosis in South Africa. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 45(2). 179–184. 24 indexed citations

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Burns, Jonathan K.. (2009). Mental health and inequity: a human rights approach to inequality, discrimination, and mental disability.. PubMed. 11(2). 19–31. 47 indexed citations

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Burns, Jonathan K.. (2004). An evolutionary theory of schizophrenia: Cortical connectivity, metarepresentation, and the social brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27(6). 831–855. 109 indexed citations

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