Nicky Knights

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 603 citations indexed

About

Nicky Knights is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Safety Research and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicky Knights has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 603 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Clinical Psychology, 8 papers in Safety Research and 2 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Nicky Knights's work include Child Welfare and Adoption (8 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (3 papers). Nicky Knights is often cited by papers focused on Child Welfare and Adoption (8 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (3 papers). Nicky Knights collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark. Nicky Knights's co-authors include Edmund Sonuga‐Barke, Mark Kennedy, Robert Kumsta, Jana Kreppner, Michael Rutter, Wolff Schlotz, Dennis Golm, Barbara Maughan, Graeme Fairchild and Sagari Sarkar and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nicky Knights

11 papers receiving 588 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.

Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study

2017 222 citations Edmund Sonuga‐Barke, Mark Kennedy et al. The Lancet profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicky Knights United Kingdom	8	333	182	99	85	84	11	603
Barbara J. Roeber United States	8	399 1.2×	151 0.8×	91 0.9×	113 1.3×	69 0.8×	8	605
Karen Bos United States	7	302 0.9×	200 1.1×	77 0.8×	69 0.8×	48 0.6×	9	514
Kristen L. Wiik United States	5	390 1.2×	282 1.5×	67 0.7×	73 0.9×	61 0.7×	5	538
Brian Quinn United States	3	397 1.2×	96 0.5×	104 1.1×	175 2.1×	49 0.6×	7	627
Donald P. Woolley United States	10	418 1.3×	65 0.4×	102 1.0×	60 0.7×	68 0.8×	15	698
Esther J.M. van der Vegt Netherlands	9	333 1.0×	144 0.8×	25 0.3×	86 1.0×	46 0.5×	12	456
Anna E. Johnson United States	10	474 1.4×	92 0.5×	63 0.6×	218 2.6×	138 1.6×	12	709
Florin Tibu United States	12	487 1.5×	90 0.5×	149 1.5×	189 2.2×	64 0.8×	16	765
Philip A. Kelly United Kingdom	8	505 1.5×	40 0.2×	90 0.9×	137 1.6×	49 0.6×	9	737
Yi‐Shin Sheu United States	5	398 1.2×	35 0.2×	83 0.8×	91 1.1×	89 1.1×	14	613

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Nadarzynski, Tom, Nicky Knights, Cynthia A. Graham, et al.. (2024). Achieving health equity through conversational AI: A roadmap for design and implementation of inclusive chatbots in healthcare. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(5). e0000492–e0000492. 24 indexed citations

Edwards, Christopher, Mark Kennedy, Nicky Knights, et al.. (2024). Neurodevelopmental problems in adulthood following severe early deprivation: A qualitative analysis of clinical needs and service user experiences. Adoption & Fostering. 48(1). 106–125. 1 indexed citations

Edwards, Christopher, Mark Kennedy, Nicky Knights, et al.. (2023). When people adopted from severely depriving institutions become parents: The experiences of young adult mothers from the ERA study and their adoptive parents. Adoption & Fostering. 47(4). 415–433. 1 indexed citations

Mackes, Nuria, Dennis Golm, Sagari Sarkar, et al.. (2020). Early childhood deprivation is associated with alterations in adult brain structure despite subsequent environmental enrichment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(1). 641–649. 129 indexed citations

Golm, Dennis, Barbara Maughan, Edward D. Barker, et al.. (2020). Why does early childhood deprivation increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adulthood? A developmental cascade model. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 61(9). 1043–1053. 37 indexed citations

Sonuga‐Barke, Edmund, Mark Kennedy, Dennis Golm, et al.. (2019). Adoptees’ responses to separation from, and reunion with, their adoptive parent at age 4 years is associated with long-term persistence of autism symptoms following early severe institutional deprivation. Development and Psychopathology. 32(2). 631–640. 2 indexed citations

Kennedy, Mark, Jana Kreppner, Nicky Knights, et al.. (2017). Adult disinhibited social engagement in adoptees exposed to extreme institutional deprivation: examination of its clinical status and functional impact. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 211(5). 289–295. 23 indexed citations

Kumsta, Robert, Wolff Schlotz, Dennis Golm, et al.. (2017). HPA axis dysregulation in adult adoptees twenty years after severe institutional deprivation in childhood. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 86. 196–202. 59 indexed citations

Sonuga‐Barke, Edmund, Mark Kennedy, Robert Kumsta, et al.. (2017). Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study. The Lancet. 389(10078). 1539–1548. 222 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kennedy, Mark, Jana Kreppner, Nicky Knights, et al.. (2016). Early severe institutional deprivation is associated with a persistent variant of adult attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: clinical presentation, developmental continuities and life circumstances in the English and Romanian Adoptees study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 57(10). 1113–1125. 74 indexed citations

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Kumsta, Robert, Jana Kreppner, Mark Kennedy, et al.. (2015). Psychological Consequences of Early Global Deprivation. European Psychologist. 20(2). 138–151. 31 indexed citations

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