Kirsten V. Smith

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 937 citations indexed

About

Kirsten V. Smith is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kirsten V. Smith has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 937 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Clinical Psychology, 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 7 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kirsten V. Smith's work include Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (23 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (16 papers) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (7 papers). Kirsten V. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (23 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (16 papers) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (7 papers). Kirsten V. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Kirsten V. Smith's co-authors include Anke Ehlers, Paul A. Boelen, Jiehui Xu, Holly G. Prigerson, Paul K. Maciejewski, Jennifer Wild, Dominic Murphy, Miriam J.J. Lommen, Graham R. Thew and Caroline Selai and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Kirsten V. Smith

32 papers receiving 919 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.

Validation of the new DSM‐5‐TR criteria for prolonged grief disorder and the PG‐13‐Revised (PG‐13‐R) scale

2021 269 citations Holly G. Prigerson, Paul A. Boelen et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kirsten V. Smith United Kingdom	15	668	203	198	110	95	37	937
Kumiko Muramatsu Japan	11	364 0.5×	154 0.8×	124 0.6×	152 1.4×	145 1.5×	17	750
Ahmad N. AlHadi Saudi Arabia	14	394 0.6×	151 0.7×	78 0.4×	150 1.4×	108 1.1×	36	742
Seyed Vahid Shariat Iran	17	389 0.6×	143 0.7×	158 0.8×	127 1.2×	347 3.7×	69	849
Ana M. Gaviria Colombia	16	296 0.4×	96 0.5×	148 0.7×	92 0.8×	190 2.0×	62	762
Filiz Karadağ Türkiye	17	422 0.6×	143 0.7×	103 0.5×	115 1.0×	185 1.9×	48	891
Martin Deahl United Kingdom	15	639 1.0×	205 1.0×	65 0.3×	89 0.8×	119 1.3×	38	970
Luca Pingani Italy	19	432 0.6×	289 1.4×	86 0.4×	297 2.7×	140 1.5×	78	1.0k
Christine E. Gould United States	17	271 0.4×	270 1.3×	184 0.9×	183 1.7×	116 1.2×	84	975
Liza Varvogli Greece	10	365 0.5×	225 1.1×	80 0.4×	172 1.6×	74 0.8×	24	868
Erica D. Diminich United States	11	474 0.7×	86 0.4×	57 0.3×	68 0.6×	105 1.1×	18	743

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Smith, Kirsten V., Nora Skjerdingstad, Omid V. Ebrahimi, Fiona Maccallum, & Anke Ehlers. (2025). Unraveling attachment – A network analysis of the cognitive pathways linking attachment and prolonged grief. Psychological Medicine. 55. e276–e276.

Smith, Kirsten V., et al.. (2025). An update of systemic analgesics in children. Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine. 26(3). 148–154.

Killikelly, Clare, Kirsten V. Smith, Ningning Zhou, et al.. (2025). Prolonged grief disorder. The Lancet. 405(10489). 1621–1632. 5 indexed citations

Egan, Sarah J., Nicholas C. Payne, Bronwyn Myers, et al.. (2025). A qualitative study of perceptions and acceptability of unguided internet cognitive behavior therapy for grieving adolescents. Death Studies. 1–10.

Xu, Xin, et al.. (2025). Prolonged grief disorder symptoms and posttraumatic growth among Chinese shidu parents: A latent transition analysis.. Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy. 18(2). 427–434.

Egan, Sarah J., Nicholas C. Payne, Bronwyn Myers, et al.. (2024). A protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial of unguided internet cognitive behaviour therapy for grief in adolescents. Internet Interventions. 38. 100771–100771. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Kirsten V., Jennifer Wild, & Anke Ehlers. (2024). From loss to disorder: The influence of maladaptive coping on prolonged grief. Psychiatry Research. 339. 116060–116060. 9 indexed citations

Arévalo‐Serrano, Juan, et al.. (2024). Grief and coping among relatives of patients who died of COVID-19 in intensive care during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. BJPsych Open. 10(6). e181–e181. 3 indexed citations

Smith, Kirsten V., et al.. (2023). Feeling Alone in one's Grief: Investigating Social Cognitions in Adaption to Bereavement using the German Version of the Oxford Grief-Social Disconnection Scale. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. 7(2). 100327–100327. 6 indexed citations

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Zhou, Ningning, Kirsten V. Smith, Eva‐Maria Stelzer, et al.. (2023). How the bereaved behave: a cross-cultural study of emotional display behaviours and rules. Cognition & Emotion. 37(5). 1023–1039. 7 indexed citations

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Harrop, Emily, D. J. J. Farnell, Mirella Longo, et al.. (2021). Support needs and barriers to accessing support: Baseline results of a mixed-methods national survey of people bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Palliative Medicine. 35(10). 1985–1997. 52 indexed citations

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Smith, Kirsten V., et al.. (2020). COVID-19 and telepsychiatry: an evidence-based guidance for clinicians.. JMIR Mental Health. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Kirsten V., Jennifer Wild, & Anke Ehlers. (2020). The Masking of Mourning: Social Disconnection After Bereavement and Its Role in Psychological Distress. Clinical Psychological Science. 8(3). 464–476. 41 indexed citations

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Smith, Kirsten V. & Anke Ehlers. (2019). Cognitive predictors of grief trajectories in the first months of loss: A latent growth mixture model.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 88(2). 93–105. 48 indexed citations

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Smith, Kirsten V., Graham R. Thew, & Belinda Graham. (2018). Conducting ethical internet-based research with vulnerable populations: a qualitative study of bereaved participants’ experiences of online questionnaires. European journal of psychotraumatology. 9(sup1). 1506231–1506231. 20 indexed citations

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Jungquist, Carla R., et al.. (2017). Monitoring Hospitalized Adult Patients for Opioid-Induced Sedation and Respiratory Depression. AJN American Journal of Nursing. 117(3). S27–S35. 26 indexed citations

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Wild, Jennifer, et al.. (2016). A prospective study of pre-trauma risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Psychological Medicine. 46(12). 2571–2582. 133 indexed citations

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Murphy, Dominic, et al.. (2016). An adapted imaginal exposure approach to traditional methods used within trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy, trialled with a veteran population. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. 9. e10–e10. 22 indexed citations

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Clark, Katherine, M T Upton, Hilary Faust, et al.. (2015). Clinician Perception of the Effectiveness of an Automated Early Warning and Response System for Sepsis in an Academic Medical Center. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 12(10). 1514–1519. 28 indexed citations

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Gregoire, Simone M., Kirsten V. Smith, Hans Rolf Jäger, et al.. (2012). Cerebral Microbleeds and Long-Term Cognitive Outcome: Longitudinal Cohort Study of Stroke Clinic Patients. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 33(5). 430–435. 67 indexed citations

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