Melissa A. Brotman

11.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
189 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Melissa A. Brotman is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa A. Brotman has authored 189 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Clinical Psychology, 114 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 79 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Melissa A. Brotman's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (100 papers), Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (72 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (59 papers). Melissa A. Brotman is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (100 papers), Bipolar Disorder and Treatment (72 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (59 papers). Melissa A. Brotman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and United Kingdom. Melissa A. Brotman's co-authors include Ellen Leibenluft, Daniel S. Pine, Argyris Stringaris, Katharina Kircanski, Brendan A. Rich, Robert J. DeRubeis, Daniel P. Dickstein, Pablo Vidal‐Ribas, Kenneth E. Towbin and Amanda E. Guyer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Melissa A. Brotman

180 papers receiving 7.7k citations

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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.

The Affective Reactivity Index: a concise irritability scale for clinical and research settings

2012 412 citations Argyris Stringaris, Ellen Leibenluft et al. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry profile →
Reward Processing in Depression: A Conceptual and Meta-Analytic Review Across fMRI and EEG Studies

2018 345 citations Pablo Vidal‐Ribas, Melissa A. Brotman et al. profile →
The Status of Irritability in Psychiatry: A Conceptual and Quantitative Review

2016 331 citations Pablo Vidal‐Ribas, Melissa A. Brotman et al. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry profile →
Irritability in Youths: A Translational Model

2017 239 citations Melissa A. Brotman, Katharina Kircanski et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melissa A. Brotman United States	44	4.9k	4.3k	2.2k	2.0k	762	189	7.9k
Argyris Stringaris United Kingdom	48	5.5k 1.1×	4.6k 1.1×	2.7k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	766 1.0×	171	9.0k
Douglas S. Mennin United States	51	6.5k 1.3×	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	5.1k 2.5×	1.4k 1.9×	115	10.0k
Kristin R. Laurens Australia	43	3.1k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	2.4k 1.1×	871 0.4×	837 1.1×	178	6.7k
Amanda E. Guyer United States	42	4.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.4×	2.5k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.9×	112	7.2k
Erin B. McClure United States	32	3.2k 0.7×	1.7k 0.4×	3.2k 1.4×	2.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.8×	42	7.3k
Catharina A. Hartman Netherlands	54	3.9k 0.8×	4.7k 1.1×	4.5k 2.0×	1.7k 0.8×	937 1.2×	303	10.1k
Rachel G. Klein United States	57	4.9k 1.0×	5.1k 1.2×	2.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	688 0.9×	117	8.9k
Gabriele Masi Italy	39	2.9k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	721 0.4×	383 0.5×	261	5.4k
Wendy Reich United States	40	4.1k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	866 0.4×	575 0.8×	67	7.5k
Cecile D. Ladouceur United States	42	2.7k 0.5×	1.9k 0.4×	3.1k 1.4×	2.7k 1.4×	924 1.2×	149	6.6k

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Tseng, Wan‐Ling, Tami D. Benton, Melissa A. Brotman, et al.. (2025). Cross-Cultural Consortium on Irritability (C3I): An International Network for Research on Cultural Similarities and Differences in Irritability. PubMed. 4(1). 184–197.

Moore, Ashlee A., Christopher J. Patrick, James R. Yancey, et al.. (2025). Dispositional threat sensitivity as a liability for fear-related pathologies: Evidence from a child-aged twin sample. Development and Psychopathology. 37(5). 2661–2671.

Metcalf, Olivia, David Forbes, Lauren M. Henry, et al.. (2025). A Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention (Shift) to Manage Problem Anger After Trauma: Co-Design and Development Study. JMIR Human Factors. 12. e62960–e62960.

Henry, Lauren M., et al.. (2024). Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions to Promote Behavioral Health: Protocol for a Systematic Review. JMIR Research Protocols. 14. e58917–e58917. 2 indexed citations

Zugman, André, Elise M. Cardinale, Anderson M. Winkler, et al.. (2024). Structure-function coupling in network connectivity and associations with negative affectivity in a group of transdiagnostic adolescents. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9. 100094–100094.

Kircanski, Katharina, Elise M. Cardinale, Daniel S. Pine, et al.. (2024). Sleepless nights, sour moods: daily sleep‐irritability links in a pediatric clinical sample. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 65(9). 1175–1183. 3 indexed citations

Grasser, Lana Ruvolo, Matthew S. Goodwin, Reut Naim, et al.. (2023). Can peripheral psychophysiological markers predict response to exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy in youth with severely impairing irritability? A study protocol. BMC Psychiatry. 23(1). 926–926. 6 indexed citations

Henry, Lauren M., Reut Naim, Joe Kossowsky, et al.. (2023). Selecting an Ecological Momentary Assessment Platform: Tutorial for Researchers. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e51125–e51125. 7 indexed citations

Oler, Jonathan A., et al.. (2023). A preliminary study of the effects of an antimuscarinic agent on anxious behaviors and white matter microarchitecture in nonhuman primates. Neuropsychopharmacology. 49(2). 405–413.

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Stoddard, Joel, Elizabeth K. Reynolds, Ruth Paris, et al.. (2023). The Coronavirus Impact Scale: Construction, Validation, and Comparisons in Diverse Clinical Samples. PubMed. 1(1). 48–59. 28 indexed citations

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Metcalf, Olivia, Karen E. Lamb, Sophie Zaloumis, et al.. (2022). Ambulatory assessment to predict problem anger in trauma-affected adults: Study protocol. PLoS ONE. 17(12). e0278926–e0278926. 1 indexed citations

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Haller, Simone P., Gang Chen, Ashley R. Smith, et al.. (2022). Reliability of task‐evoked neural activation during face‐emotion paradigms: Effects of scanner and psychological processes. Human Brain Mapping. 43(7). 2109–2120. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Gang, Daniel S. Pine, Melissa A. Brotman, et al.. (2021). Hyperbolic trade-off: The importance of balancing trial and subject sample sizes in neuroimaging. NeuroImage. 247. 118786–118786. 41 indexed citations

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Lewis, Krystal M., Elise M. Cardinale, Emily Jones, et al.. (2020). Self-Efficacy As a Target for Neuroscience Research on Moderators of Treatment Outcomes in Pediatric Anxiety. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 30(4). 205–214. 10 indexed citations

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Leibenluft, Ellen, Melissa A. Brotman, Adam Fijtman, et al.. (2020). Differentiating irritable mood and disruptive behavior in adults. Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. 42(4). 375–386. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Gang, Paul A. Taylor, Simone P. Haller, et al.. (2017). Intraclass correlation: Improved modeling approaches and applications for neuroimaging. Human Brain Mapping. 39(3). 1187–1206. 86 indexed citations

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Wiggins, Jillian Lee, Melissa A. Brotman, Nancy E. Adleman, et al.. (2016). Neural Markers in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder and Familial Risk for Bipolar Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 56(1). 67–78. 42 indexed citations

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Stoddard, Joel, Banafsheh Sharif‐Askary, Melissa A. Brotman, et al.. (2016). An Open Pilot Study of Training Hostile Interpretation Bias to Treat Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 26(1). 49–57. 94 indexed citations

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Gold, Andrea L., Melissa A. Brotman, Nancy E. Adleman, et al.. (2016). Comparing Brain Morphometry Across Multiple Childhood Psychiatric Disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 55(12). 1027–1037.e3. 38 indexed citations

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Dickstein, Daniel P., Kenneth E. Towbin, Jan Willem van der Veen, et al.. (2009). Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial of Lithium in Youths with Severe Mood Dysregulation. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 19(1). 61–73. 109 indexed citations

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