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 Mental Health Services in the United ... 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, Harold Alan Pincus 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, Harold Alan Pincus 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, Benjamin G. Druss et al. Psychological Medicine profile →
  12. National Patterns in Antidepressant Medication Treatment
    2009 570 citations Mark Olfson, Steven C. Marcus 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, Benjamin G. Druss et al. profile →
  18. The Use of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia
    2016 275 citations Mark Olfson et al. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 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 →

Peers

Mark Olfson
Comparison fields: 5 of 203
  • Clinical Psychology 21.3k
  • Psychiatry and Mental health 15.7k
  • Social Psychology 12.6k
  • General Health Professions 8.1k
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 6.6k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Completeness and Quality of Data for Children in Medicaid Comprehensive Managed Care Compared to Fee‐for‐Service, 2001–2019
2025 ·Health Services Research ·Kristen Lloyd, Sanika Rege, Stephen Crystal, Mark Olfson, Daniel B. Horton, Hillary Samples
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National Trends in Inpatient Psychiatric Bed Supply, 2011 to 2023
2025 ·JAMA Psychiatry ·(unknown), Mark Olfson, Adam Sacarny
0
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Longitudinal Trajectories of Symptom Change During Antidepressant Treatment Among Managed Care Patients With Depression and Anxiety
2025 ·Biological Psychiatry ·Jyotishman Pathak, Judith Cukor, (unknown), Zhenxing Xu, Fei Wang, Mark Olfson, Samprit Banerjee, Gregory E. Simon, George S. Alexopoulos
0
4
Clinical characteristics and functioning of adults with bipolar I disorder: Evidence from the mental and substance use disorders prevalence study
2024 ·Journal of Affective Disorders ·(unknown), Mark Olfson, Lisa B. Dixon, Lydia Chwastiak, Maria Monroe‐DeVita, Ronald C. Kessler, Robert D. Gibbons, Mark J. Edlund, Heidi Guyer, Noah T. Kreski, Scott Graupensperger, (unknown), T. Scott Stroup
0
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Correction: Social connectedness as a determinant of mental health: A scoping review
2024 ·PLoS ONE ·Priya Wickramaratne, Tenzin Yangchen, Lauren Lepow, Braja Gopal Patra, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Ardesheer Talati, Prakash Adekkanattu, Euijung Ryu, Joanna M. Biernacka, Alexander W. Charney, J. John Mann, Jyotishman Pathak, Mark Olfson, Myrna M. Weissman
1
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Behavioural disorders after prenatal exposure to anaesthesia for maternal surgery
2024 ·British Journal of Anaesthesia ·Caleb Ing, Jeffrey H. Silber, (unknown), Mark Olfson, (unknown), Joseph G. Reiter, (unknown), Stanford Chihuri, (unknown), Cynthia Gyamfi‐Bannerman, Melanie M. Wall, Guohua Li
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Physician Antipsychotic Overprescribing Letters and Cognitive, Behavioral, and Physical Health Outcomes Among People With Dementia
2024 ·JAMA Network Open ·(unknown), Michael L. Barnett, (unknown), Kali S. Thomas, Mark Olfson, Kiros Berhane, Adam Sacarny
4
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Drug overdose risk with benzodiazepine treatment in young adults: Comparative analysis in privately and publicly insured individuals
2023 ·Addiction ·Greta Bushnell, Moira A. Rynn, Tobias Gerhard, Katherine M. Keyes, Deborah S. Hasin, Magdalena Cerdá, Abner Nyandege, Mark Olfson
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Prevalence and Correlates of Mental Disorders in Children Aged 9 and 10 Years: Results From the ABCD Study
2023 ·Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry ·Mark Olfson, Melanie M. Wall, (unknown), Carlos Blanco
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10
Gender Differences in the Association Between Screen Time and Depression
2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Mark Olfson
4
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Geographic Variation, Economic Activity, and Labor Market Characteristics in Trajectories of Suicide in the United States, 2008–2020
2023 ·American Journal of Epidemiology ·Katherine M. Keyes, Sasikiran Kandula, Gonzalo Martínez‐Alés, (unknown), (unknown), Shannon M. Monnat, Caroline Rutherford, Mark Olfson, Madelyn S. Gould, Jeffrey Shaman
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12
Treatment of US Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
2023 ·JAMA Network Open ·Mark Olfson, Melanie M. Wall, Shuai Wang, Gonzalo Laje, Carlos Blanco
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Associations of Patient Race and Ethnicity With Emergency Department Disposition for Mental Health Visits in the United States
2023 ·The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry ·(unknown), Mark Olfson
0
14
Phenotypic distinctions in depression and anxiety: a comparative analysis of comorbid and isolated cases
2023 ·Psychological Medicine ·(unknown), Brandon J. Coombes, Euijung Ryu, Vanessa Pazdernik, Gregory D. Jenkins, Richard S. Pendegraft, Joanna M. Biernacka, Mark Olfson
7
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Prognosis and risk of suicide after cancer diagnosis
2023 ·Cancer ·Connor J. Kinslow, (unknown), Mark Olfson, Melanie M. Wall, Petros Petridis, David P. Horowitz, Tony J. C. Wang, Lisa A. Kachnic, Simon K. Cheng, Holly G. Prigerson, James B. Yu, Alfred I. Neugut
6
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Co-substance use of nicotine vaping and non-cigarette tobacco products among U.S. grade 12 students from 2017-2019
2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Noah T. Kreski, Magdalena Cerdá, Qixuan Chen, Deborah S. Hasin, Sílvia S. Martins, Richard Miech, Mark Olfson, Katherine M. Keyes
0
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Time use and associations with internalizing symptoms from 1991 to 2019 among US adolescents
2022 ·SSM - Population Health ·Noah T. Kreski, Qixuan Chen, Mark Olfson, Magdalena Cerdá, Deborah S. Hasin, Sílvia S. Martins, Pia M. Mauro, Katherine M. Keyes
8
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Proceedings of the Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) 2020: Virtual Conference: Part 2
2020 ·Addiction Science & Clinical Practice ·Morgan C. Shields, (unknown), Paula M. Brochu, Jenny Zhen‐Duan, (unknown), Irene Falgas‐Bagué, Margarita Alegrı́a, Jesse M. Hinde, Bryan R. Garner, (unknown), (unknown), Elizabeth Ball, Stephen Tueller, Manuel Cano, Arthur Robin Williams, Mark Olfson, Stephen Crystal
4
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National Trends in the Use of Outpatient Psychotherapy
2002 ·American Journal of Psychiatry ·Mark Olfson, Steven C. Marcus, Benjamin G. Druss, Harold Alan Pincus
140
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False positive results: a challenge for psychiatric screening in primary care
1997 ·American Journal of Psychiatry ·Andrew C. Leon, Laura Portera, Mark Olfson, Myrna M. Weissman, Roger G. Kathol, Leslie H. Farber, David V. Sheehan, Andreas M. Pleil
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