Michael B. First

155.2k total citations · 14 hit papers
185 papers, 24.2k citations indexed

About

Michael B. First is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Philosophy and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael B. First has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 24.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Clinical Psychology, 65 papers in Philosophy and 57 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Michael B. First's work include Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (73 papers), Mental Health and Psychiatry (65 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (31 papers). Michael B. First is often cited by papers focused on Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (73 papers), Mental Health and Psychiatry (65 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (31 papers). Michael B. First collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Michael B. First's co-authors include Miriam Gibbon, Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B. W. Williams, Lorna Smith Benjamin, Deborah Blacker, A. John Rush, Harold Alan Pincus, Jerome C. Wakefield, Geoffrey M. Reed and Jeffrey G. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Michael B. First

181 papers receiving 23.3k citations

Hit Papers

Structured Clinical Inter... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1997 1997 1997 2009 1997 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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.

  1. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders
    1997 3.3k citations Robert L. Spitzer, Michael B. First et al. profile →
  2. Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis I disorders : SCID-I : clinical version : scoresheet
    1997 2.9k citations Michael B. First, Robert L. Spitzer et al. profile →
  3. Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis II personality disorders : SCID-II
    1997 2.7k citations Michael B. First, Robert L. Spitzer et al. profile →
  4. Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11
    2009 1.3k citations Jeffrey G. Johnson, Michael B. First et al. profile →
  5. User's guide for the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis II personality disorders : SCID-II
    1997 1.3k citations Michael B. First, Robert L. Spitzer et al. profile →
  6. User's guide for the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis I disorders : SCID-I : clinical version
    1997 917 citations Michael B. First, Robert L. Spitzer et al. profile →
  7. Handbook of Psychiatric Measures
    2000 746 citations Michael B. First et al. profile →
  8. New Appendix Criteria Open for a Broader Concept of Chronic Migraine
    2006 721 citations Michael B. First et al. profile →
  9. The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Personality Disorders (SCID-II). Part I: Description
    1995 605 citations Michael B. First, Robert L. Spitzer et al. profile →
  10. The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I) and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Disorders (SCID-II).
    2004 559 citations Michael B. First, Miriam Gibbon profile →
  11. Diagnosis and classification of disorders specifically associated with stress: proposals for ICD-11
    2013 546 citations Mark van Ommeren, Michael B. First et al. World Psychiatry profile →
  12. Proposals for mental disorders specifically associated with stress in the International Classification of Diseases-11
    2013 383 citations Geoffrey M. Reed, Mark van Ommeren et al. profile →
  13. Application of the ICD-11 classification of personality disorders
    2018 159 citations Michael B. First et al. profile →
  14. Emerging experience with selected new categories in the ICD‐11: complex PTSD, prolonged grief disorder, gaming disorder, and compulsive sexual behaviour disorder
    2022 110 citations Geoffrey M. Reed, Michael B. First et al. World Psychiatry profile →

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael B. First 14.0k 7.8k 4.6k 3.6k 2.9k 185 24.2k
Philip Spinhoven 14.1k 1.0× 6.6k 0.8× 7.5k 1.6× 3.6k 1.0× 4.2k 1.4× 439 26.2k
Winfried Rief 7.8k 0.6× 9.7k 1.2× 4.5k 1.0× 5.5k 1.5× 2.6k 0.9× 656 25.9k
Jim Mintz 9.1k 0.7× 13.4k 1.7× 3.4k 0.7× 5.2k 1.4× 3.0k 1.0× 447 28.1k
Jean Endicott 10.8k 0.8× 14.6k 1.9× 4.7k 1.0× 2.4k 0.7× 3.7k 1.3× 223 28.4k
Nicholas Tarrier 12.0k 0.9× 10.4k 1.3× 3.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.4× 4.2k 1.4× 301 20.3k
Aaron T. Beck 14.6k 1.0× 5.5k 0.7× 7.5k 1.6× 3.1k 0.9× 5.1k 1.7× 106 24.7k
R. Michael Bagby 12.0k 0.9× 7.8k 1.0× 6.2k 1.3× 2.2k 0.6× 3.7k 1.3× 313 20.0k
Jules Angst 10.9k 0.8× 16.7k 2.1× 7.1k 1.5× 3.1k 0.9× 3.3k 1.1× 544 30.9k
Y. Lecrubier 10.6k 0.8× 8.0k 1.0× 7.0k 1.5× 4.7k 1.3× 3.8k 1.3× 194 26.6k
William G. Iacono 14.9k 1.1× 6.4k 0.8× 7.4k 1.6× 6.1k 1.7× 3.8k 1.3× 594 29.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Reed, Geoffrey M., Michael B. First, T. S. Jaisoorya, et al.. (2024). The WHO Flexible Interview for ICD‐11 (FLII‐11). World Psychiatry. 23(3). 359–360. 2 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Daiki, Michael B. First, Takuro Shimbo, Shigenobu Kanba, & Yoji Hirano. (2020). Association of self‐reported religiosity with the development of major depression in multireligious country Japan. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 74(10). 535–541. 12 indexed citations
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Zimmerman, Mark, et al.. (2019). Differential Diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder Versus Bipolar Disorder. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 80(3). 18 indexed citations
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First, Michael B., et al.. (2018). SCID-5-S : gestructureerd klinisch interview voor DSM-5 Syndroomstoornissen. 8 indexed citations
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First, Michael B., Tahilia J. Rebello, Jared W. Keeley, et al.. (2018). Do mental health professionals use diagnostic classifications the way we think they do? A global survey. World Psychiatry. 17(2). 187–195. 78 indexed citations
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Rolin, Stephanie A., Lisa B. Dixon, David A. Adler, et al.. (2017). Why We Need to Enhance Suicide Postvention. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 205(7). 507–511. 26 indexed citations
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First, Michael B., et al.. (2017). SCID-5-P: Gestructureerd klinisch interview voor DSM-5 Persoonlijkheidsstoornissen. 11 indexed citations
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Keeley, Jared W., Geoffrey M. Reed, Michael C. Roberts, et al.. (2016). Developing a science of clinical utility in diagnostic classification systems: Field study strategies for ICD-11 mental and behavioral disorders.. American Psychologist. 71(1). 3–16. 108 indexed citations
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McCullough, James P., et al.. (2016). Introducing a Clinical Course-Graphing Scale for DSM-5 Mood Disorders. American Journal of Psychotherapy. 70(4). 383–392. 8 indexed citations
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First, Michael B. & Carl Erik Fisher. (2011). Body Integrity Identity Disorder: The Persistent Desire to Acquire a Physical Disability. Psychopathology. 45(1). 3–14. 59 indexed citations
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Crawford, Thomas N., Patricia Cohen, Michael B. First, et al.. (2009). Comorbid axis I and axis II disorders in early adolescence: outcomes 20 years later. 8(2). 3 indexed citations
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Wakefield, Jerome C., Mark F. Schmitz, Michael B. First, & Allan V. Horwitz. (2007). Extending the Bereavement Exclusion for Major Depression to Other Losses. Archives of General Psychiatry. 64(4). 433–433. 149 indexed citations
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First, Michael B., Robert L. Spitzer, Miriam Gibbon, Janet B. W. Williams, & Lorna Smith Benjamin. (1997). Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis II personality disorders : SCID-II. 2724 indexed citations breakdown →
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First, Michael B., Robert L. Spitzer, Miriam Gibbon, & Janet B. W. Williams. (1997). Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis I disorders : SCID-I : clinical version : scoresheet. 2894 indexed citations breakdown →
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First, Michael B., Robert L. Spitzer, Miriam Gibbon, & Janet B. W. Williams. (1997). User's guide for the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis II personality disorders : SCID-II. 1317 indexed citations breakdown →
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First, Michael B., Robert L. Spitzer, Miriam Gibbon, & Janet B. W. Williams. (1997). User's guide for the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis I disorders : SCID-I : clinical version. 917 indexed citations breakdown →
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First, Michael B., et al.. (1996). DSM-IV coding update. 4 indexed citations
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Davis, Wendy, et al.. (1993). DSM-IV in progress: Changes in mood, anxiety, and personality disorders. 44(11). 2 indexed citations
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First, Michael B., Allen Frances, Thomas A. Widiger, Harold Alan Pincus, & Wendy Davis. (1992). DSM-IV and behavioral assessment. 14. 297–306. 9 indexed citations
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First, Michael B., Janet B. W. Williams, & Robert L. Spitzer. (1988). DTREE: Microcomputer-Assisted Teaching of Psychiatric Diagnosis Using a Decision Tree Model. PubMed Central. 377. 1 indexed citations

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