Sally O’Keeffe

805 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 483 citations indexed

About

Sally O’Keeffe is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sally O’Keeffe has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 483 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Clinical Psychology, 5 papers in Social Psychology and 5 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Sally O’Keeffe's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 papers), Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (8 papers) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (5 papers). Sally O’Keeffe is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 papers), Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (8 papers) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (5 papers). Sally O’Keeffe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany. Sally O’Keeffe's co-authors include Nick Midgley, Peter Martin, Emily Stapley, Mary Target, Lorna French, Ian Goodyer, Eilis Kennedy, Paul Wilkinson, Rose McCabe and Mary Ryan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine and Journal of Affective Disorders.

In The Last Decade

Sally O’Keeffe

19 papers receiving 470 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Developing Typologies in Qualitative Research: The Use of Ideal-type Analysis

2022 84 citations Emily Stapley, Sally O’Keeffe et al. International Journal of Qualitative Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sally O’Keeffe United Kingdom	11	328	135	63	56	45	23	483
Karol Konaszewski Poland	13	384 1.2×	158 1.2×	80 1.3×	107 1.9×	36 0.8×	54	543
Viola Sallay Hungary	11	175 0.5×	223 1.7×	95 1.5×	42 0.8×	62 1.4×	61	458
Khadeeja Munawar Malaysia	14	283 0.9×	186 1.4×	71 1.1×	121 2.2×	41 0.9×	32	537
Keith Tudor New Zealand	15	614 1.9×	189 1.4×	63 1.0×	144 2.6×	29 0.6×	120	857
Katharine Lacefield United States	7	235 0.7×	210 1.6×	129 2.0×	79 1.4×	80 1.8×	9	510
Theodore T. Bartholomew United States	11	214 0.7×	173 1.3×	96 1.5×	68 1.2×	32 0.7×	43	383
Mary McNaughton-Cassill United States	12	226 0.7×	135 1.0×	86 1.4×	65 1.2×	52 1.2×	19	483
John McLeod United Kingdom	17	428 1.3×	293 2.2×	66 1.0×	136 2.4×	45 1.0×	47	730
Tenzin Yangchen United States	7	125 0.4×	91 0.7×	44 0.7×	56 1.0×	30 0.7×	12	319
Yvonne Dolan United States	9	463 1.4×	138 1.0×	53 0.8×	72 1.3×	21 0.5×	20	604

Countries citing papers authored by Sally O’Keeffe

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Sally O’Keeffe's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Sally O’Keeffe with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Sally O’Keeffe more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Sally O’Keeffe

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sally O’Keeffe. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sally O’Keeffe. The network helps show where Sally O’Keeffe may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sally O’Keeffe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sally O’Keeffe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sally O’Keeffe based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sally O’Keeffe. Sally O’Keeffe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

O’Keeffe, Sally, Mary Ryan, Stefan Priebe, et al.. (2025). Enhanced psychosocial assessment and rapid follow-up care for people presenting to emergency departments with self-harm and/or suicidal ideation: the Assured feasibility study and internal pilot trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 11(1). 20–20. 1 indexed citations

McCabe, Rose, Sally O’Keeffe, Dennis Ougrin, et al.. (2025). Protocol of a randomised controlled trial of a novel brief psychological intervention for young people presenting to emergency departments in the UK with self-harm or suicidal ideation with recent self-harm: the SASH study (Supporting Adolescents with Self-Harm). BMJ Open. 15(9). e101015–e101015.

Goodwin, Jane, Sally O’Keeffe, Nawaraj Bhattarai, et al.. (2024). Adapting Safety Plans for Autistic Adults with Involvement from the Autism Community. Autism in Adulthood. 7(3). 293–302. 6 indexed citations

O’Keeffe, Sally, et al.. (2024). Re-imagining crisis care: experiences of delivering and receiving the Assured brief psychological intervention for people presenting to Emergency Departments with self-harm. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 15. 1271674–1271674. 6 indexed citations

O’Keeffe, Sally, et al.. (2024). The development of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy process with a depressed adolescent: an empirical case study. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 50(3). 418–438.

Loades, Maria, Nick Midgley, Sally O’Keeffe, et al.. (2023). In Context: Lessons About Adolescent Unipolar Depression From the Improving Mood With Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Therapies Trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 63(2). 122–135. 4 indexed citations

O’Keeffe, Sally, et al.. (2023). Innovative moments with young patients treated for depression: An analysis of post‐therapy interviews. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. 31(1).

Meier, Jasmin, et al.. (2023). The therapy process with depressed adolescents who drop out of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: an empirical case study. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 49(3). 393–411. 2 indexed citations

O’Keeffe, Sally, et al.. (2023). An Ideal-Type Analysis of People’s Perspectives on Care Plans Received from the Emergency Department following a Self-Harm or Suicidal Crisis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(19). 6883–6883.

10.

Stapley, Emily, Sally O’Keeffe, & Nick Midgley. (2022). Developing Typologies in Qualitative Research: The Use of Ideal-type Analysis. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 21. 84 indexed citations breakdown →

11.

O’Keeffe, Sally & Nick Midgley. (2021). A commentary on ‘dropout from randomised controlled trials of psychological treatments for depression in children and youth: A systematic review and meta-analyses’. Journal of Affective Disorders. 299. 142–143. 1 indexed citations

12.

O’Keeffe, Sally, et al.. (2021). Essentials of ideal-type analysis: A qualitative approach to constructing typologies.. American Psychological Association eBooks. 24 indexed citations

13.

O’Keeffe, Sally, Peter Martin, & Nick Midgley. (2020). When adolescents stop psychological therapy: Rupture–repair in the therapeutic alliance and association with therapy ending.. Psychotherapy. 57(4). 471–490. 44 indexed citations

14.

O’Keeffe, Sally, et al.. (2020). Parents’ understanding and motivation to take part in a randomized controlled trial in the field of adolescent mental health: a qualitative study. Trials. 21(1). 952–952. 8 indexed citations

15.

Fonagy, Peter, Alessandra Lemma, Mary Target, et al.. (2019). Dynamic interpersonal therapy for moderate to severe depression: a pilot randomized controlled and feasibility trial. Psychological Medicine. 50(6). 1010–1019. 23 indexed citations

16.

O’Keeffe, Sally, Peter Martin, Ian Goodyer, et al.. (2019). Prognostic Implications for Adolescents With Depression Who Drop Out of Psychological Treatment During a Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 58(10). 983–992. 20 indexed citations

17.

O’Keeffe, Sally, Peter Martin, Mary Target, & Nick Midgley. (2019). ‘I Just Stopped Going’: A Mixed Methods Investigation Into Types of Therapy Dropout in Adolescents With Depression. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 75–75. 83 indexed citations

18.

Midgley, Nick, Shirley Reynolds, Raphael Kelvin, et al.. (2018). Therapists’ techniques in the treatment of adolescent depression.. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. 28(4). 413–428. 20 indexed citations

19.

Dunn, Valerie, Sally O’Keeffe, Emily Stapley, & Nick Midgley. (2018). Facing Shadows: working with young people to coproduce a short film about depression. Research Involvement and Engagement. 4(1). 46–46. 14 indexed citations

20.

O’Keeffe, Sally, et al.. (2017). Predicting dropout in adolescents receiving therapy for depression. Psychotherapy Research. 28(5). 708–721. 58 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact