Kenneth S. Kendler

125.5k total citations · 18 hit papers
1.2k papers, 67.3k citations indexed

About

Kenneth S. Kendler is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth S. Kendler has authored 1.2k papers receiving a total of 67.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 509 papers in Clinical Psychology, 285 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 271 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Kenneth S. Kendler's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (249 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (231 papers) and Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (193 papers). Kenneth S. Kendler is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (249 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (231 papers) and Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (193 papers). Kenneth S. Kendler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. Kenneth S. Kendler's co-authors include Carol A. Prescott, Michael C. Neale, Charles O. Gardner, John Myers, Patrick F. Sullivan, Steven H. Aggen, Ronald C. Kessler, John M. Hettema, Cynthia M. Bulik and Jan Sundquist and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth S. Kendler

1.1k papers receiving 64.7k citations

Hit Papers

Schizophrenia as a Comple... 1993 2026 2004 2015 2003 2003 2000 1995 2002 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Schizophrenia as a Complex Trait
    2003 1.6k citations Kenneth S. Kendler, Michael C. Neale et al. Archives of General Psychiatry profile →
  2. The Structure of Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Common Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders in Men and Women
    2003 1.3k citations Kenneth S. Kendler, Carol A. Prescott et al. Archives of General Psychiatry profile →
  3. Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adult Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders in Women
    2000 975 citations Kenneth S. Kendler, John M. Hettema et al. Archives of General Psychiatry profile →
  4. Stressful life events, genetic liability, and onset of an episode of major depression in women
    1995 750 citations Kenneth S. Kendler et al. American Journal of Psychiatry profile →
  5. Toward a Comprehensive Developmental Model for Major Depression in Women
    2002 712 citations Kenneth S. Kendler, Charles O. Gardner et al. American Journal of Psychiatry profile →
  6. Life Event Dimensions of Loss, Humiliation, Entrapment, and Danger in the Prediction of Onsets of Major Depression and Generalized Anxiety
    2003 628 citations Kenneth S. Kendler, John M. Hettema et al. Archives of General Psychiatry profile →
  7. Genetic Variation in the 6p22.3 Gene DTNBP1, the Human Ortholog of the Mouse Dysbindin Gene, Is Associated with Schizophrenia
    2002 619 citations Bradley T. Webb, F. Anthony O’Neill et al. profile →
  8. The Interrelationship of Neuroticism, Sex, and Stressful Life Events in the Prediction of Episodes of Major Depression
    2004 605 citations Kenneth S. Kendler, Carol A. Prescott et al. American Journal of Psychiatry profile →
  9. A Swedish National Twin Study of Lifetime Major Depression
    2006 539 citations Kenneth S. Kendler, Charles O. Gardner et al. American Journal of Psychiatry profile →
  10. The Interaction of Stressful Life Events and a Serotonin Transporter Polymorphism in the Prediction of Episodes of Major Depression
    2005 512 citations Kenneth S. Kendler, Carol A. Prescott et al. Archives of General Psychiatry profile →
  11. Genetic influences on measures of the environment: a systematic review
    2006 512 citations Kenneth S. Kendler et al. Psychological Medicine profile →
  12. A Longitudinal Twin Study of Personality and Major Depression in Women
    1993 508 citations Kenneth S. Kendler Archives of General Psychiatry profile →
  13. Specifying race-ethnic differences in risk for psychiatric disorder in a USA national sample
    2005 507 citations Kenneth S. Kendler et al. Psychological Medicine profile →
  14. Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression
    2013 492 citations Ingrid A. van de Leemput, Marieke Wichers et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. The heritability of alcohol use disorders: a meta-analysis of twin and adoption studies
    2014 409 citations Michael C. Neale, Kenneth S. Kendler et al. Psychological Medicine profile →
  16. What kinds of things are psychiatric disorders?
    2010 357 citations Kenneth S. Kendler, Peter Zachar et al. Psychological Medicine profile →
  17. Major Depression as a Complex Dynamic System
    2016 344 citations Angélique O. J. Cramer, Erik J. Giltay et al. profile →
  18. A Dynamical Systems View of Psychiatric Disorders—Practical Implications
    2024 38 citations Marten Scheffer, Denny Borsboom et al. JAMA 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
Kenneth S. Kendler United States 127 27.4k 15.9k 12.8k 11.4k 8.6k 1.2k 67.3k
Kathleen R. Merikangas United States 105 31.4k 1.1× 14.3k 0.9× 17.2k 1.3× 4.8k 0.4× 11.4k 1.3× 419 68.4k
Avshalom Caspi United States 174 52.6k 1.9× 17.8k 1.1× 12.5k 1.0× 4.6k 0.4× 20.1k 2.3× 535 99.0k
Terrie E. Moffitt United States 179 62.2k 2.3× 17.9k 1.1× 14.5k 1.1× 4.8k 0.4× 21.8k 2.5× 613 111.3k
Nicholas G. Martin Australia 115 11.7k 0.4× 10.5k 0.7× 5.0k 0.4× 15.7k 1.4× 3.9k 0.5× 1.4k 63.3k
Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 131 7.5k 0.3× 14.8k 0.9× 10.5k 0.8× 8.5k 0.7× 5.0k 0.6× 1.3k 72.0k
Robert Plomin United Kingdom 123 22.7k 0.8× 21.6k 1.4× 5.5k 0.4× 12.2k 1.1× 9.4k 1.1× 926 61.1k
Brenda W.J.H. Penninx Netherlands 138 17.3k 0.6× 12.9k 0.8× 10.5k 0.8× 2.3k 0.2× 8.0k 0.9× 989 74.1k
Robin Murray United Kingdom 154 19.3k 0.7× 7.1k 0.5× 42.1k 3.3× 9.3k 0.8× 8.0k 0.9× 1.6k 89.9k
Michael C. Neale United States 90 12.7k 0.5× 10.8k 0.7× 4.8k 0.4× 7.5k 0.7× 3.5k 0.4× 523 37.8k
A. John Rush United States 138 17.8k 0.6× 19.7k 1.2× 24.2k 1.9× 2.3k 0.2× 9.8k 1.1× 914 87.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Thomas, Nathaniel, Nathan A. Gillespie, Kenneth S. Kendler, et al.. (2024). Comorbidity and sex differences in functional disorders and internalizing disorders. General Hospital Psychiatry. 90. 91–98. 5 indexed citations
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Alvarez, Marcus, Silviu‐Alin Bacanu, Andrew J. Schork, et al.. (2023). Deep learning-based phenotype imputation on population-scale biobank data increases genetic discoveries. Nature Genetics. 55(12). 2269–2276. 29 indexed citations
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Kendler, Kenneth S., Henrik Ohlsson, Jan Sundquist, & Kristina Sundquist. (2021). Family Genetic Risk Scores and the Genetic Architecture of Major Affective and Psychotic Disorders in a Swedish National Sample. JAMA Psychiatry. 78(7). 735–735. 48 indexed citations
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Loo, Hanna M. van, Lian Beijers, Martijn Wieling, et al.. (2021). Prevalence of internalizing disorders, symptoms, and traits across age using advanced nonlinear models. Psychological Medicine. 53(1). 78–87. 24 indexed citations
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Kendler, Kenneth S., Henrik Ohlsson, Jan Sundquist, & Kristina Sundquist. (2020). The Rearing Environment and Risk for Major Depression: A Swedish National High-Risk Home-Reared and Adopted-Away Co-Sibling Control Study. American Journal of Psychiatry. 177(5). 447–453. 22 indexed citations
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Kendler, Kenneth S., Sara Larsson Lönn, Jan Sundquist, & Kristina Sundquist. (2020). The causal nature of the association between resting pulse in late adolescence and risk for internalizing and externalizing disorders: a co-relative analysis in a national male Swedish sample. Psychological Medicine. 51(11). 1822–1828. 5 indexed citations
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Sheerin, Christina M., et al.. (2020). A behavioral genetic investigation of conceptualizations of resilience in a female twin sample. Depression and Anxiety. 37(6). 532–539. 6 indexed citations
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Torvik, Fartein Ask, Tom Rosenström, Eivind Ystrøm, et al.. (2017). Stability and change in etiological factors for alcohol use disorder and major depression.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 126(6). 812–822. 15 indexed citations
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Kendler, Kenneth S., Henrik Ohlsson, Kristina Sundquist, & Jan Sundquist. (2017). Sources of Parent-Offspring Resemblance for Major Depression in a National Swedish Extended Adoption Study. JAMA Psychiatry. 75(2). 194–194. 42 indexed citations
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Edwards, Alexis C., Anna R. Docherty, Arden Moscati, et al.. (2017). Polygenic risk for severe psychopathology among Europeans is associated with major depressive disorder in Han Chinese women. Psychological Medicine. 48(5). 777–789. 7 indexed citations
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Sheerin, Christina M., et al.. (2017). The impact of resilience and subsequent stressful life events on MDD and GAD. Depression and Anxiety. 35(2). 140–147. 103 indexed citations
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Munafò, Marcus R., Sara Larsson Lönn, Jan Sundquist, Kristina Sundquist, & Kenneth S. Kendler. (2016). Snus use and risk of schizophrenia and non-affective psychosis. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 164. 179–182. 7 indexed citations
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Leemput, Ingrid A. van de, Marieke Wichers, Angélique O. J. Cramer, et al.. (2013). Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(1). 87–92. 492 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kalsi, Gursharan, Po‐Hsiu Kuo, Fazil Alıev, et al.. (2010). A systematic gene-based screen of chr4q22-q32 identifies association of a novel susceptibility gene, DKK2, with the quantitative trait of alcohol dependence symptom counts. Human Molecular Genetics. 19(20). 4121–4121. 2 indexed citations
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Hettema, John M., Seon‐Sook An, Edwin J. C. G. van den Oord, et al.. (2009). Association study of CREB1 with Major Depressive Disorder and related phenotypes. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 150B(8). 1128–1132. 17 indexed citations
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Hettema, John M., Seon‐Sook An, Michael C. Neale, et al.. (2008). Lack of association between the amiloride-sensitive cation channel 2 (ACCN2) gene and anxiety spectrum disorders. Psychiatric Genetics. 18(2). 73–79. 13 indexed citations
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Hettema, John M., Seon‐Sook An, Edwin J. C. G. van den Oord, et al.. (2007). Association study between the serotonin 1A receptor (HTR1A) gene and neuroticism, major depression, and anxiety disorders. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 147B(5). 661–666. 32 indexed citations
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Ørstavik, Ragnhild, Kenneth S. Kendler, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Kristian Tambs, & Ted Reichborn‐Kjennerud. (2007). The Relationship Between Depressive Personality Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder: A Population-Based Twin Study. American Journal of Psychiatry. 164(12). 1866–1872. 35 indexed citations
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Fanous, Ayman H., Xiangning Chen, Xu Wang, et al.. (2006). Association between the 5q31.1 gene neurogenin1 and schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 144B(2). 207–214. 13 indexed citations
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Kendler, Kenneth S., et al.. (2003). Life Event Dimensions of Loss, Humiliation, Entrapment, and Danger in the Prediction of Onsets of Major Depression and Generalized Anxiety. Archives of General Psychiatry. 60(8). 789–789. 628 indexed citations breakdown →

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