Mark Olfson

67.7k total citations · 22 hit papers
687 papers, 48.0k citations indexed

About

Mark Olfson is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Olfson has authored 687 papers receiving a total of 48.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 309 papers in Clinical Psychology, 246 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 199 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mark Olfson's work include Mental Health Treatment and Access (191 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (160 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (128 papers). Mark Olfson is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Treatment and Access (191 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (160 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (128 papers). Mark Olfson collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Mark Olfson's co-authors include Steven C. Marcus, Ramin Mojtabai, Carlos Blanco, Harold Alan Pincus, Ronald C. Kessler, Kenneth B. Wells, Stephen Crystal, Myrna M. Weissman, Philip S. Wang and Deborah S. Hasin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Mark Olfson

657 papers receiving 45.6k citations

Hit Papers

Twelve-Month Use of Menta... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2005 2005 2008 2010 2016 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

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. Twelve-Month Use of Mental Health Services in the United States
    2005 2.1k citations Mark Olfson, Ronald C. Kessler et al. profile →
  2. Prevalence and Treatment of Mental Disorders, 1990 to 2003
    2005 1.3k citations Ronald C. Kessler, Mark Olfson et al. profile →
  3. Mental Health of College Students and Their Non–College-Attending Peers
    2008 1.2k citations Carlos Blanco, Deborah S. Hasin et al. profile →
  4. Service Utilization for Lifetime Mental Disorders in U.S. Adolescents: Results of the National Comorbidity Survey–Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)
    2010 1.2k citations Mark Olfson et al. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry profile →
  5. National Trends in the Prevalence and Treatment of Depression in Adolescents and Young Adults
    2016 1.0k citations Mark Olfson et al. profile →
  6. Failure and Delay in Initial Treatment Contact After First Onset of Mental Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
    2005 980 citations Mark Olfson, Ronald C. Kessler et al. profile →
  7. Assessing Psychiatric Impairment in Primary Care with the Sheehan Disability Scale
    1997 802 citations Andrew C. Leon, Mark Olfson et al. profile →
  8. Premature Mortality Among Adults With Schizophrenia in the United States
    2015 744 citations Mark Olfson, Tobias Gerhard et al. JAMA Psychiatry profile →
  9. Psychiatric Disorders in Pregnant and Postpartum Women in the United States
    2008 739 citations Carlos Blanco, Katherine M. Keyes et al. profile →
  10. National Trends in the Outpatient Treatment of Depression
    2002 683 citations Mark Olfson profile →
  11. Barriers to mental health treatment: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
    2010 656 citations Mark Olfson, Ronald C. Kessler et al. Psychological Medicine profile →
  12. National Patterns in Antidepressant Medication Treatment
    2009 570 citations Mark Olfson et al. profile →
  13. Cost of Relapse in Schizophrenia
    1995 561 citations Mark Olfson et al. profile →
  14. Perceived Need and Help-Seeking in Adults With Mood, Anxiety, or Substance Use Disorders
    2002 557 citations Mark Olfson et al. profile →
  15. Benzodiazepine Use in the United States
    2014 546 citations Mark Olfson et al. JAMA Psychiatry profile →
  16. National Trends in the Mental Health Care of Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Office-Based Physicians
    2013 344 citations Mark Olfson, Carlos Blanco et al. JAMA Psychiatry profile →
  17. Trends in Mental Health Care among Children and Adolescents
    2015 295 citations Mark Olfson et al. profile →
  18. The Use of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia
    2016 275 citations Mark Olfson et al. profile →
  19. Association of Psychiatric Disorders With Mortality Among Patients With COVID-19
    2021 239 citations Mark Olfson et al. JAMA Psychiatry profile →
  20. Development of a Cascade of Care for responding to the opioid epidemic
    2019 227 citations Arthur Robin Williams, Mark Olfson et al. profile →
  21. Social connectedness as a determinant of mental health: A scoping review
    2022 137 citations Priya Wickramaratne, Tenzin Yangchen et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  22. National Trends in Mental Health–Related Emergency Department Visits Among Youth, 2011-2020
    2023 123 citations Mark Olfson et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Mark Olfson 21.3k 15.7k 12.6k 8.1k 6.6k 687 48.0k
Glyn Lewis 16.4k 0.8× 10.9k 0.7× 7.7k 0.6× 7.0k 0.9× 5.1k 0.8× 707 42.9k
Bernd Löwe 23.1k 1.1× 9.4k 0.6× 10.0k 0.8× 9.4k 1.2× 5.7k 0.9× 364 51.3k
Wayne Katon 16.7k 0.8× 14.2k 0.9× 14.3k 1.1× 13.4k 1.7× 7.0k 1.1× 513 59.2k
Kathleen R. Merikangas 31.4k 1.5× 17.2k 1.1× 11.4k 0.9× 6.6k 0.8× 7.8k 1.2× 419 68.4k
Ellen E. Walters 28.9k 1.4× 12.2k 0.8× 15.2k 1.2× 9.8k 1.2× 5.7k 0.9× 68 59.9k
Brenda W.J.H. Penninx 17.3k 0.8× 10.5k 0.7× 8.0k 0.6× 7.6k 0.9× 7.7k 1.2× 989 74.1k
Myrna M. Weissman 29.2k 1.4× 11.9k 0.8× 11.6k 0.9× 5.3k 0.7× 9.9k 1.5× 637 53.7k
Hans‐Ulrich Wïttchen 31.6k 1.5× 14.2k 0.9× 13.0k 1.0× 7.8k 1.0× 8.2k 1.2× 807 67.4k
Anthony F. Jorm 23.2k 1.1× 14.7k 0.9× 20.1k 1.6× 13.3k 1.6× 5.9k 0.9× 777 59.5k
Johan Ormel 15.3k 0.7× 7.9k 0.5× 9.1k 0.7× 5.8k 0.7× 3.5k 0.5× 484 39.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Olfson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Olfson, Mark, et al.. (2025). National Trends in Inpatient Psychiatric Bed Supply, 2011 to 2023. JAMA Psychiatry. 82(11). 1152–1152.
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Lloyd, Kristen, Sanika Rege, Stephen Crystal, et al.. (2025). Completeness and Quality of Data for Children in Medicaid Comprehensive Managed Care Compared to Fee‐for‐Service, 2001–2019. Health Services Research. 60(6). e14651–e14651. 2 indexed citations
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Pathak, Jyotishman, Judith Cukor, Zhenxing Xu, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal Trajectories of Symptom Change During Antidepressant Treatment Among Managed Care Patients With Depression and Anxiety. Biological Psychiatry. 97(9). S11–S11.
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Stone, Elizabeth M., Fenglong Xie, Jennifer Miles, et al.. (2025). Buprenorphine Dispensation After X-Waiver Elimination by Clinician Specialty. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 69(5). 108055–108055.
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Swanson, Jeffrey W., Michele M. Easter, Lydia Chwastiak, et al.. (2025). Mental disorders and criminal legal involvement: Evidence from a national diagnostic epidemiological survey. PLOS mental health.. 2(4). e0000257–e0000257.
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Wickramaratne, Priya, Tenzin Yangchen, Lauren Lepow, et al.. (2024). Correction: Social connectedness as a determinant of mental health: A scoping review. PLoS ONE. 19(11). e0314220–e0314220. 1 indexed citations
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Ing, Caleb, Jeffrey H. Silber, Mark Olfson, et al.. (2024). Behavioural disorders after prenatal exposure to anaesthesia for maternal surgery. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 132(5). 899–910. 7 indexed citations
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Olfson, Mark, Lisa B. Dixon, Lydia Chwastiak, et al.. (2024). Clinical characteristics and functioning of adults with bipolar I disorder: Evidence from the mental and substance use disorders prevalence study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 366. 317–325.
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Barnett, Michael L., et al.. (2024). Physician Antipsychotic Overprescribing Letters and Cognitive, Behavioral, and Physical Health Outcomes Among People With Dementia. JAMA Network Open. 7(4). e247604–e247604. 4 indexed citations
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Olfson, Mark, et al.. (2023). Prevalence and Correlates of Mental Disorders in Children Aged 9 and 10 Years: Results From the ABCD Study. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 62(8). 908–919. 12 indexed citations
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Olfson, Mark, et al.. (2023). Gender Differences in the Association Between Screen Time and Depression. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 100176–100176. 4 indexed citations
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Keyes, Katherine M., Sasikiran Kandula, Gonzalo Martínez‐Alés, et al.. (2023). Geographic Variation, Economic Activity, and Labor Market Characteristics in Trajectories of Suicide in the United States, 2008–2020. American Journal of Epidemiology. 193(2). 256–266. 6 indexed citations
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Olfson, Mark, Melanie M. Wall, Shuai Wang, Gonzalo Laje, & Carlos Blanco. (2023). Treatment of US Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. JAMA Network Open. 6(4). e2310999–e2310999. 3 indexed citations
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Bushnell, Greta, Moira A. Rynn, Tobias Gerhard, et al.. (2023). Drug overdose risk with benzodiazepine treatment in young adults: Comparative analysis in privately and publicly insured individuals. Addiction. 119(2). 356–368. 2 indexed citations
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Coombes, Brandon J., Euijung Ryu, Vanessa Pazdernik, et al.. (2023). Phenotypic distinctions in depression and anxiety: a comparative analysis of comorbid and isolated cases. Psychological Medicine. 53(16). 7766–7774. 7 indexed citations
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Keyes, Katherine M., Noah T. Kreski, Qixuan Chen, et al.. (2022). Temporal trends in alcohol, cannabis, and simultaneous use among 12th‐grade U.S. adolescents from 2000 to 2020: Differences by sex, parental education, and race and ethnicity. Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research. 46(9). 1677–1686. 12 indexed citations
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Shields, Morgan C., Paula M. Brochu, Jenny Zhen‐Duan, et al.. (2020). Proceedings of the Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) 2020: Virtual Conference: Part 2. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. 15(S2). 35–35. 4 indexed citations
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Geoffroy, Pierre A., María A. Oquendo, Philippe Courtet, et al.. (2020). Sleep complaints are associated with increased suicide risk independently of psychiatric disorders: results from a national 3-year prospective study. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(6). 2126–2136. 66 indexed citations
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Leon, Andrew C., Laura Portera, Mark Olfson, et al.. (1997). False positive results: a challenge for psychiatric screening in primary care. American Journal of Psychiatry. 154(10). 1462–1464. 34 indexed citations

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