Keith R. Laws

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
131 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Keith R. Laws is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith R. Laws has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 60 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 37 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Keith R. Laws's work include Schizophrenia research and treatment (35 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (29 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (22 papers). Keith R. Laws is often cited by papers focused on Schizophrenia research and treatment (35 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (29 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (22 papers). Keith R. Laws collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. Keith R. Laws's co-authors include Tim M. Gale, Peter J. McKenna, Karen Irvine, Tejinder K. Kondel, Sameer Jauhar, Naomi Fineberg, David A. Lynch, Philip John Tyson, Joaquim Raduà and Raymond Salvador and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The British Journal of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Keith R. Laws

125 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Cognitive–behavioural therapy for the symptoms of schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis with examination of potential bias
    2014 330 citations Sameer Jauhar, Peter J. McKenna et al. The British Journal of Psychiatry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Keith R. Laws United Kingdom 39 2.1k 1.9k 1.2k 1.1k 565 131 4.9k
Graham K. Murray United Kingdom 48 2.5k 1.2× 3.0k 1.5× 1.3k 1.1× 993 0.9× 500 0.9× 167 7.1k
Elisabeth M. Weiss Austria 45 2.4k 1.1× 1.5k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 1.8k 1.6× 1.1k 1.9× 208 6.1k
Anthony Harris Australia 41 3.5k 1.6× 2.3k 1.2× 939 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 444 0.8× 174 6.3k
Oliver Mason United Kingdom 33 1.4k 0.7× 2.2k 1.1× 1.9k 1.6× 1.3k 1.2× 901 1.6× 131 5.3k
Ulrich Ettinger Germany 45 3.7k 1.7× 2.7k 1.4× 913 0.8× 1.5k 1.3× 387 0.7× 221 7.0k
Bruce E. Wexler United States 49 3.7k 1.7× 3.3k 1.7× 1.8k 1.6× 1.7k 1.5× 839 1.5× 155 7.7k
Vijay A. Mittal United States 46 2.6k 1.2× 3.8k 1.9× 1.9k 1.6× 1.7k 1.5× 861 1.5× 303 7.5k
Mario Beauregard Canada 35 3.5k 1.6× 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 1.7k 1.6× 1.1k 1.9× 71 5.7k
Susanne Walitza Switzerland 40 2.8k 1.3× 2.5k 1.3× 1.8k 1.5× 887 0.8× 560 1.0× 246 6.4k
Sergio Paradiso United States 36 2.8k 1.3× 1.8k 0.9× 794 0.7× 965 0.9× 882 1.6× 87 5.9k

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All Works

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Fineberg, Naomi, et al.. (2025). From lockdown to Liberation: How inflexible thinking, obsessive-compulsive and affective symptoms shape pandemic adjustment. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 187. 238–247.
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Laws, Keith R., et al.. (2024). Decluttering Minds: Psychological interventions for hoarding disorder - A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 181. 738–751. 1 indexed citations
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Sharma, Shivani, et al.. (2023). Systematic review and meta-analysis of preoperative interventions to support the maturation of arteriovenous fistulae in patients with advanced kidney disease. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 38(10). 2330–2339. 2 indexed citations
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Fineberg, Naomi, et al.. (2022). Individual obsessive-compulsive traits are associated with poorer adjustment to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 148. 21–26. 10 indexed citations
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Laws, Keith R., et al.. (2022). The use of social robots with children and young people on the autism spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0269800–e0269800. 57 indexed citations
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Sharma, Shivani, et al.. (2021). Prevalence and outcomes of chronic liver disease in patients receiving dialysis: systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Kidney Journal. 15(4). 747–757. 10 indexed citations
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Reid, Jemma, Keith R. Laws, Lynne M. Drummond, et al.. (2021). Cognitive behavioural therapy with exposure and response prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 106. 152223–152223. 118 indexed citations
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Laws, Keith R., et al.. (2019). Endophenotypes of executive functions in obsessive compulsive disorder? A meta-analysis in unaffected relatives. Psychiatric Genetics. 29(6). 211–219. 18 indexed citations
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Laws, Keith R.. (2016). Commentary: Does Cognitive Behavior Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) show a sustainable effect on delusions? A meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 59–59. 3 indexed citations
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Laws, Keith R., et al.. (2015). The use of ketamine as an antidepressant: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental. 30(3). 152–163. 210 indexed citations
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Barrera, Álvaro, Adam E. Handel, Tejinder K. Kondel, & Keith R. Laws. (2015). Formal Thought Disorder: Self-report in Non-clinical Populations. Revista internacional de psicología y terapia psicológica. 15(1). 155–167. 5 indexed citations
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Jauhar, Sameer, et al.. (2014). Cognitive–behavioural therapy for the symptoms of schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis with examination of potential bias. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 204(1). 20–29. 330 indexed citations breakdown →
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Laws, Keith R., et al.. (2014). Citation analysis reveals disproportionate emphasis on positive claims in study abstracts. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 1 indexed citations
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Moreno-Martínez, F. Javier, Pedro R. Montoro, & Keith R. Laws. (2011). A set of high quality colour images with Spanish norms for seven relevant psycholinguistic variables: The Nombela naming test. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition. 18(3). 293–327. 19 indexed citations
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Lynch, David A., Keith R. Laws, & Peter J. McKenna. (2009). Cognitive behavioural therapy for major psychiatric disorder: does it really work? A meta-analytical review of well-controlled trials. Psychological Medicine. 40(1). 9–24. 190 indexed citations
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Laws, Keith R., et al.. (2007). Severe anomia in elderly schizophrenics: Does retraining improve naming ?. Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository).
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Laws, Keith R., Tim M. Gale, Verity C. Leeson, & J. Selwyn Crawford. (2005). When is Category Specific in Alzheimer's Disease?. Cortex. 41(4). 452–463. 54 indexed citations
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Leeson, Verity C., Peter J. McKenna, Graham K. Murray, Tejinder K. Kondel, & Keith R. Laws. (2004). What happens to semantic memory when formal thought disorder remits? Revisiting a case study. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 10(1). 57–71. 10 indexed citations

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