Ryan Balzan

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Ryan Balzan is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Philosophy and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Balzan has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 35 papers in Philosophy and 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ryan Balzan's work include Schizophrenia research and treatment (41 papers), Mental Health and Psychiatry (35 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (14 papers). Ryan Balzan is often cited by papers focused on Schizophrenia research and treatment (41 papers), Mental Health and Psychiatry (35 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (14 papers). Ryan Balzan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Germany and Canada. Ryan Balzan's co-authors include Paul Delfabbro, Todd S. Woodward, Neophytos Georgiou, Cherrie Galletly, Steffen Moritz, Julie Mattiske, Christina Andreou, Mahesh Menon, Dennis Liu and Cynthia Shannon Weickert and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology Review and Frontiers in Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Balzan

68 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

COVID-19-related conspiracy beliefs and their relationship with perceived stress and pre-existing conspiracy beliefs

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan Balzan Australia	25	1.2k	688	530	482	376	74	2.2k
Jai Shah Canada	26	1.1k 0.9×	403 0.6×	356 0.7×	285 0.6×	746 2.0×	141	2.1k
Sinan Gülöksüz Netherlands	32	1.7k 1.3×	528 0.8×	917 1.7×	572 1.2×	944 2.5×	162	3.6k
Łukasz Gawęda Poland	23	1.0k 0.8×	518 0.8×	486 0.9×	304 0.6×	525 1.4×	121	1.6k
John Stirling United Kingdom	24	1.3k 1.0×	290 0.4×	397 0.7×	1.2k 2.4×	917 2.4×	54	3.0k
Jee In Kang South Korea	30	783 0.6×	245 0.4×	695 1.3×	679 1.4×	912 2.4×	115	2.5k
Rachel Loewy United States	32	2.5k 2.0×	849 1.2×	895 1.7×	1.1k 2.3×	1.2k 3.1×	84	3.8k
Christian G. Huber Switzerland	27	894 0.7×	313 0.5×	205 0.4×	313 0.6×	1.1k 2.9×	165	2.4k
Dragan M. Švrakić United States	29	964 0.8×	309 0.4×	787 1.5×	530 1.1×	2.8k 7.4×	61	5.1k
Ellen S. Herbener United States	30	1.4k 1.1×	343 0.5×	810 1.5×	684 1.4×	747 2.0×	42	2.4k
Michel Maziade Canada	37	1.5k 1.2×	235 0.3×	423 0.8×	871 1.8×	1.4k 3.8×	118	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Balzan

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Wade, Tracey, et al.. (2025). A randomized controlled feasibility trial of a single-session metacognitive training intervention for reducing eating disorder risk factors. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. 55(1). 35–52.

Gonçalves, A., Susana Ochoa, Steffen Moritz, et al.. (2025). Metacognitive training (MCT) for psychosis: a systematic review and grade recommendations. European Psychiatry. 68(1). e80–e80. 1 indexed citations

Balzan, Ryan, et al.. (2024). The contributions of risk-taking and impulsivity to jumping to conclusions in the psychosis spectrum. Schizophrenia Research. 269. 116–119. 1 indexed citations

Lavigne, Katie M., Jiaying Zhao, Ryan Balzan, et al.. (2023). Dimensions of beliefs without strong supporting evidence and reasons for holding them. Heliyon. 9(9). e19833–e19833.

Balzan, Ryan, et al.. (2023). Interventions for perinatal borderline personality disorder and complex trauma: a systematic review. Archives of Women s Mental Health. 26(3). 295–309. 5 indexed citations

Balzan, Ryan, et al.. (2023). A randomized controlled feasibility trial of metacognitive training with adolescents receiving treatment for anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 56(9). 1820–1825. 8 indexed citations

Weickert, Thomas W., Ellen Ji, Cherrie Galletly, et al.. (2023). Toll-Like Receptor mRNA Levels in Schizophrenia: Association With Complement Factors and Cingulate Gyrus Cortical Thinning. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 50(2). 403–417. 7 indexed citations

Moritz, Steffen, Mahesh Menon, Ryan Balzan, & Todd S. Woodward. (2022). Metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT): past, present, and future. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 273(4). 811–817. 32 indexed citations

Moritz, Steffen, et al.. (2022). Whodunit – A novel video-based task for the measurement of jumping to conclusions in the schizophrenia spectrum. Psychiatry Research. 317. 114862–114862. 3 indexed citations

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Balzan, Ryan, et al.. (2021). Hasty decision-making in individuals at higher risk of developing an eating disorder. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 75. 101717–101717. 2 indexed citations

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Balzan, Ryan, et al.. (2020). Jumping to conclusions in the less-delusion-prone? Further evidence from a more reliable beads task. Consciousness and Cognition. 83. 102956–102956. 14 indexed citations

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Kindler, Jochen, Chai K. Lim, Cynthia Shannon Weickert, et al.. (2019). Dysregulation of kynurenine metabolism is related to proinflammatory cytokines, attention, and prefrontal cortex volume in schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry. 25(11). 2860–2872. 211 indexed citations

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Leanza, Letizia, Amatya Mackintosh, Thies Lüdtke, et al.. (2018). Investigation of sex differences in delusion-associated cognitive biases. Psychiatry Research. 272. 515–520. 7 indexed citations

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King, Daniel L., et al.. (2018). T236. TECHNOLOGY LITERACY AND ENGAGEMENT IN PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 44(suppl_1). S208–S208. 1 indexed citations

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Moritz, Steffen, Thies Lüdtke, Gerit Pfuhl, Ryan Balzan, & Christina Andreou. (2017). Liberale Akzeptanz als kognitiver Mechanismus bei Psychose: Eine 2-Stufen-Theorie der Pathogenese schizophrener Positivsymptome. Verhaltenstherapie. 27(2). 108–118. 3 indexed citations

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Galletly, Cherrie, Varinderpal S. Dhillon, Dennis Liu, et al.. (2017). Shorter telomere length in people with schizophrenia: A preliminary study from Australia. Schizophrenia Research. 190. 46–51. 17 indexed citations

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Gawęda, Łukasz, et al.. (2016). The relationship between cognitive biases and psychological dimensions of delusions: The importance of jumping to conclusions. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 56. 51–56. 13 indexed citations

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Chen, Junwen, et al.. (2016). An investigation into the jumping-to-conclusions bias in social anxiety. Consciousness and Cognition. 48. 55–65. 6 indexed citations

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Balzan, Ryan & Cherrie Galletly. (2015). Metacognitive therapy (MCT+) in patients with psychosis not receiving antipsychotic medication: A case study. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 967–967. 11 indexed citations

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Weickert, Thomas W., Danielle Weinberg, Rhoshel Lenroot, et al.. (2015). Adjunctive raloxifene treatment improves attention and memory in men and women with schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry. 20(6). 685–694. 109 indexed citations

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