Lauren Atkinson

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Lauren Atkinson is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lauren Atkinson has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Pharmacology, 12 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Lauren Atkinson's work include Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (12 papers), Treatment of Major Depression (10 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (6 papers). Lauren Atkinson is often cited by papers focused on Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (12 papers), Treatment of Major Depression (10 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (6 papers). Lauren Atkinson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Lauren Atkinson's co-authors include Andrea Cipriani, John Geddes, Nozomi Takeshima, Toshi A. Furukawa, Yusuke Ogawa, Georgia Salanti, Yu Hayasaka, Stefan Leucht, Anna Chaimani and Henricus G. Ruhé and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Psychological Medicine and Molecular Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Lauren Atkinson

30 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

2018 2.1k citations Andrea Cipriani, Toshi A. Furukawa et al. The Lancet profile →
Comparative efficacy and tolerability of medications for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, adolescents, and adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

2018 765 citations Samuele Cortese, Nicoletta Adamo et al. The Lancet Psychiatry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lauren Atkinson United Kingdom	18	1.5k	1.3k	802	762	690	31	4.0k
Yusuke Ogawa Japan	24	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	924 1.2×	588 0.8×	760 1.1×	138	4.8k
Nozomi Takeshima Japan	16	839 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	855 1.1×	501 0.7×	735 1.1×	29	3.6k
Yu Hayasaka Japan	15	832 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	851 1.1×	498 0.7×	734 1.1×	25	3.5k
Tom Bschor Germany	35	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	603 0.8×	473 0.6×	563 0.8×	136	3.6k
Wei Zheng China	36	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	656 0.8×	653 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	212	4.5k
Kiyomi Shinohara Japan	17	755 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	930 1.2×	436 0.6×	693 1.0×	26	3.4k
Gerd Laux Germany	34	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.8×	619 0.8×	361 0.5×	388 0.6×	197	3.7k
Aran Tajika Japan	19	784 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	917 1.1×	403 0.5×	703 1.0×	64	3.6k
Emmanuelle Corruble France	36	1.0k 0.7×	973 0.8×	776 1.0×	477 0.6×	607 0.9×	207	4.3k
Hannu Koponen Finland	39	2.0k 1.4×	791 0.6×	877 1.1×	537 0.7×	439 0.6×	201	4.9k

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Scholl, Jacqueline, Natalie Nelissen, Lauren Atkinson, et al.. (2025). Neural signatures of risk-taking adaptions across health, bipolar disorder, and lithium treatment. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(7). 2955–2965. 1 indexed citations

Hong, James S. W., Lauren Atkinson, Noura Al‐Juffali, et al.. (2021). Gabapentin and pregabalin in bipolar disorder, anxiety states, and insomnia: Systematic review, meta-analysis, and rationale. Molecular Psychiatry. 27(3). 1339–1349. 51 indexed citations

Johnson, Judith, Ruth Simms‐Ellis, Gillian Janes, et al.. (2020). Can we prepare healthcare professionals and students for involvement in stressful healthcare events? A mixed-methods evaluation of a resilience training intervention. BMC Health Services Research. 20(1). 1094–1094. 53 indexed citations

Goodday, Sarah, Lauren Atkinson, Guy M. Goodwin, et al.. (2019). The True Colours Remote Symptom Monitoring System: A Decade of Evolution. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(1). e15188–e15188. 26 indexed citations

Atkinson, Lauren, Catherine J. Harmer, Anna C. Nobre, et al.. (2019). The Oxford study of Calcium channel Antagonism, Cognition, Mood instability and Sleep (OxCaMS): study protocol for a randomised controlled, experimental medicine study. Trials. 20(1). 120–120. 15 indexed citations

Atkinson, Lauren & Andrea Cipriani. (2018). How to carry out a literature search for a systematic review: a practical guide. BJPsych Advances. 24(2). 74–82. 96 indexed citations

Cortese, Samuele, Nicoletta Adamo, Cinzia Del Giovane, et al.. (2018). Comparative efficacy and tolerability of medications for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, adolescents, and adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry. 5(9). 727–738. 765 indexed citations breakdown →

Cipriani, Andrea, Georgia Salanti, Toshi A. Furukawa, et al.. (2018). Antidepressants might work for people with major depression: where do we go from here?. The Lancet Psychiatry. 5(6). 461–463. 28 indexed citations

Cipriani, Andrea, Toshi A. Furukawa, Georgia Salanti, et al.. (2018). Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. The Lancet. 391(10128). 1357–1366. 2064 indexed citations breakdown →

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Saunders, Kate, et al.. (2017). Experiences of Remote Mood and Activity Monitoring in Bipolar Disorder: A Qualitative Study. European Psychiatry. 41(1). 115–121. 70 indexed citations

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Cortese, Samuele, Nicoletta Adamo, Christina Mohr Jensen, et al.. (2017). Comparative efficacy and tolerability of pharmacological interventions for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children, adolescents and adults: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 7(1). e013967–e013967. 32 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Lauren, Ellinor K. Olander, & David French. (2016). Acceptability of a weight management intervention for pregnant and post-natal women with BMI >30kg/m2: A qualitative evaluation of a service delivered in primary care settings which meets current UK public health guidelines.. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Furukawa, Toshi A., Georgia Salanti, Lauren Atkinson, et al.. (2016). Comparative efficacy and acceptability of first-generation and second-generation antidepressants in the acute treatment of major depression: protocol for a network meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 6(7). e010919–e010919. 149 indexed citations

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Bilderbeck, Amy C., Lauren Atkinson, Jonathan Price, et al.. (2016). Associations between mood instability and emotional processing in a large cohort of bipolar patients. Psychological Medicine. 46(15). 3151–3160. 29 indexed citations

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Furukawa, Toshi A., Andrea Cipriani, Lauren Atkinson, et al.. (2016). Placebo response rates in antidepressant trials: a systematic review of published and unpublished double-blind randomised controlled studies. The Lancet Psychiatry. 3(11). 1059–1066. 144 indexed citations

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Bilderbeck, Amy C., Lauren Atkinson, John Geddes, Guy M. Goodwin, & Catherine J. Harmer. (2016). The effects of medication and current mood upon facial emotion recognition: findings from a large bipolar disorder cohort study. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 31(3). 320–326. 22 indexed citations

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Farran, Emily K., Lauren Atkinson, & Hannah Broadbent. (2016). Impaired Spatial Category Representations in Williams Syndrome; an Investigation of the Mechanistic Contributions of Non-verbal Cognition and Spatial Language Performance. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 1868–1868. 4 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Lauren. (2009). MASSIVE OBESITY: COMPLICATIONS AND TREATMENT. Nutrition Reviews. 49(2). 49–53.

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Froggatt, Katherine, et al.. (2006). The joys and tribulations of partnership working in care homes for older people. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults. 7(3). 26–32. 5 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Lauren, Peter Day, & M. G. Price. (1970). The conductivity of maganese (II) phthalocyanine. physica status solidi (a). 2(3). K157–K159. 2 indexed citations

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