Sidney H. Kennedy

61.0k total citations · 12 hit papers
678 papers, 37.6k citations indexed

About

Sidney H. Kennedy is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sidney H. Kennedy has authored 678 papers receiving a total of 37.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 207 papers in Pharmacology, 168 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 142 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sidney H. Kennedy's work include Treatment of Major Depression (202 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (107 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (96 papers). Sidney H. Kennedy is often cited by papers focused on Treatment of Major Depression (202 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (107 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (96 papers). Sidney H. Kennedy collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Sidney H. Kennedy's co-authors include Roger S. McIntyre, Helen S. Mayberg, Raymond W. Lam, James Ted McDonald, Andrés M. Lozano, Sakina J. Rizvi, Clement Hamani, Sagar V. Parikh, Joanna K. Soczynska and David A. Seminowicz and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Sidney H. Kennedy

648 papers receiving 36.2k citations

Hit Papers

Deep Brain Stimulation fo... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2005 2016 2018 2004 2004 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression
    2005 2.7k citations Helen S. Mayberg, Andrés M. Lozano et al. profile →
  2. Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2016 Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder
    2016 767 citations Sidney H. Kennedy, Raymond W. Lam et al. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry profile →
  3. Effectiveness of theta burst versus high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with depression (THREE-D): a randomised non-inferiority trial
    2018 748 citations Daniel M. Blumberger, Fidel Vila‐Rodriguez et al. profile →
  4. Insights into the ‘healthy immigrant effect’: health status and health service use of immigrants to Canada
    2004 727 citations Sidney H. Kennedy et al. profile →
  5. Modulation of Cortical-Limbic Pathways in Major Depression
    2004 723 citations Sidney H. Kennedy, Helen S. Mayberg et al. profile →
  6. Subcallosal Cingulate Gyrus Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression
    2008 678 citations Andrés M. Lozano, Helen S. Mayberg et al. Biological Psychiatry profile →
  7. Limbic–frontal circuitry in major depression: a path modeling metanalysis
    2004 556 citations Helen S. Mayberg, Sidney H. Kennedy et al. profile →
  8. Changes in Regional Brain Glucose Metabolism Measured With Positron Emission Tomography After Paroxetine Treatment of Major Depression
    2001 552 citations Sidney H. Kennedy, Helen S. Mayberg et al. American Journal of Psychiatry profile →
  9. Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2016 Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder
    2016 423 citations Sagar V. Parikh, Lena C. Quilty et al. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry profile →
  10. Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2016 Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder
    2016 381 citations Roumen Milev, Peter Giacobbe et al. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry profile →
  11. Assessing anhedonia in depression: Potentials and pitfalls
    2016 364 citations Sakina J. Rizvi, Diego A. Pizzagalli et al. profile →
  12. The Healthy Immigrant Effect: Patterns and Evidence from Four Countries
    2014 363 citations Sidney H. Kennedy et al. profile →

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Sidney H. Kennedy 10.0k 8.5k 8.2k 7.6k 6.2k 678 37.6k
Stephen R. Wisniewski 13.3k 1.3× 7.8k 0.9× 4.1k 0.5× 13.0k 1.7× 7.7k 1.2× 492 42.6k
M. Hamilton 10.6k 1.1× 7.8k 0.9× 6.0k 0.7× 6.8k 0.9× 7.8k 1.3× 15 28.8k
Roger S. McIntyre 15.6k 1.6× 12.9k 1.5× 4.2k 0.5× 8.8k 1.2× 6.6k 1.1× 1.0k 46.1k
Benoit H. Mulsant 13.6k 1.4× 5.1k 0.6× 5.4k 0.7× 6.7k 0.9× 3.8k 0.6× 750 29.8k
J. John Mann 10.4k 1.0× 15.8k 1.9× 6.6k 0.8× 6.6k 0.9× 4.3k 0.7× 640 47.3k
Guy M. Goodwin 14.3k 1.4× 6.7k 0.8× 9.0k 1.1× 5.4k 0.7× 6.6k 1.1× 476 35.0k
Siegfried Kasper 10.1k 1.0× 5.0k 0.6× 5.6k 0.7× 8.0k 1.1× 6.3k 1.0× 1.0k 34.8k
Michael Berk 22.7k 2.3× 10.0k 1.2× 4.3k 0.5× 5.3k 0.7× 4.5k 0.7× 1.4k 68.2k
Paolo Fusar‐Poli 16.6k 1.7× 9.6k 1.1× 9.6k 1.2× 4.3k 0.6× 5.4k 0.9× 560 35.5k
Marie Åsberg 9.0k 0.9× 7.5k 0.9× 3.3k 0.4× 6.1k 0.8× 4.6k 0.7× 222 25.1k

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All Works

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Mayberg, Helen S., Mustafa M. Husain, Paul E. Holtzheimer, et al.. (2025). Revisiting subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation for depression: Long-term safety and effectiveness outcomes from a pooled analysis of 172 implanted patients. Brain stimulation. 18(5). 1632–1640.
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Elias, Gavin J.B., Michelle E. Beyn, Sakina J. Rizvi, et al.. (2025). Fluorodeoxyglucose–Positron Emission Tomography as a Preoperative Biomarker for Predicting and Optimizing Response to Subcallosal Cingulate Area Deep Brain Stimulation. Biological Psychiatry. 99(3). 210–217.
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Mazurka, Raegan, Diego A. Pizzagalli, Alexis E. Whitton, et al.. (2024). Stressful Life Events and Reward Processing in Adults: Moderation by Depression and Anhedonia. Depression and Anxiety. 2024. 1–13. 2 indexed citations
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Harkness, Kate L., Trisha Chakrabarty, Sakina J. Rizvi, et al.. (2023). The Differential Relation of Emotional, Physical, and Sexual Abuse Histories to Antidepressant Treatment Remission and Persistence of Anhedonia in Major Depression: A CAN-BIND-1 Report. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 68(8). 586–595. 3 indexed citations
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Ballester, Pedro L., Jee Su Suh, Stefanie Hassel, et al.. (2023). Gray matter volume drives the brain age gap in schizophrenia: a SHAP study. Schizophrenia. 9(1). 3–3. 25 indexed citations
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Elias, Gavin J.B., Jürgen Germann, Alexandre Boutet, et al.. (2023). Local neuroanatomical and tract-based proxies of optimal subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation. Brain stimulation. 16(5). 1259–1272. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, JianLi, Sidney H. Kennedy, Glenda MacQueen, et al.. (2023). Factors Associated with Transition to Serious Mental Illness: Facteurs associés à la transition à une maladie mentale grave. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 69(2). 79–88.
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Frey, Benício N., Roumen Milev, Arun Ravindran, et al.. (2023). The course of insomnia symptoms during the acute treatment of major depressive disorder: A CAN-BIND-1 report. Psychiatry Research. 325. 115222–115222. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Helen, et al.. (2022). Nitrous oxide for the treatment of psychiatric disorders: A systematic review of the clinical trial landscape. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 146(2). 126–138. 14 indexed citations
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Dhami, Prabhjot, Lena C. Quilty, Rudolf Uher, et al.. (2022). Response Inhibition and Predicting Response to Pharmacological and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatments for Major Depressive Disorder: A Canadian Biomarker Integration Network for Depression Study. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 8(2). 162–170. 6 indexed citations
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Kloiber, Stefan, et al.. (2022). Neurochemical Alterations in Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD): A Systematic Review of Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Studies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(9). 4754–4754. 4 indexed citations
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Ali, Mohammad, Jee Su Suh, Stefanie Hassel, et al.. (2022). A detailed manual segmentation procedure for the hypothalamus for 3T T1-weighted MRI. MethodsX. 9. 101864–101864. 1 indexed citations
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Pandi‐Perumal, Seithikurippu R., Vijay Kumar Chattu, Nevin F. W. Zaki, et al.. (2021). ‘Distant socializing,’ not ‘social distancing’ as a public health strategy for COVID-19. Pathogens and Global Health. 115(6). 357–364. 10 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Sing Paris, Rajamannar Ramasubbu, Fidel Vila‐Rodriguez, et al.. (2021). Treatment‐resistant major depressive disorder: Canadian expert consensus on definition and assessment. Depression and Anxiety. 38(4). 456–467. 55 indexed citations
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Ballester, Pedro L., Taiane de Azevedo Cardoso, Stefanie Hassel, et al.. (2021). Brain age in mood and psychotic disorders: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 145(1). 42–55. 46 indexed citations
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Santesteban‐Echarri, Olga, Glenda MacQueen, Benjamin A. Goldstein, et al.. (2020). Personality and risk for serious mental illness. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 15(1). 133–139. 5 indexed citations
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Conde‐Agudelo, Agustín, Aris T. Papageorghiou, Sidney H. Kennedy, & José Villar. (2013). Novel biomarkers for predicting intrauterine growth restriction: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 120(6). 681–694. 113 indexed citations
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Kennedy, Sidney H., et al.. (2001). Clinical Guidelines for the Treatment of Depressive Disorders IV. Medications and Other Biological Treatments. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 46(1_suppl). 38S–58S. 133 indexed citations
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Levitan, Robert D., Alain Lesage, Sagar V. Parikh, Paula Goering, & Sidney H. Kennedy. (1997). Reversed neurovegetative symptoms of depression: a community study of Ontario. American Journal of Psychiatry. 154(7). 934–940. 73 indexed citations

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