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 Sidney H. Kennedy 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. 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 Peter Giacobbe, Sidney H. Kennedy 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 et al. profile →
  6. Subcallosal Cingulate Gyrus Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression
    2008 678 citations Peter Giacobbe, Sidney H. Kennedy et al. profile →
  7. Limbic–frontal circuitry in major depression: a path modeling metanalysis
    2004 556 citations 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 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. 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. 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sidney H. Kennedy Canada 101 10.0k 8.5k 8.2k 7.6k 6.2k 678 37.6k
Stephen R. Wisniewski United States 101 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 United Kingdom 9 10.6k 1.1× 7.8k 0.9× 6.0k 0.7× 6.8k 0.9× 7.8k 1.3× 15 28.8k
J. John Mann United States 104 10.4k 1.0× 15.8k 1.9× 6.6k 0.8× 6.6k 0.9× 4.3k 0.7× 640 47.3k
Benoit H. Mulsant Canada 86 13.6k 1.4× 5.1k 0.6× 5.4k 0.7× 6.7k 0.9× 3.8k 0.6× 750 29.8k
Roger S. McIntyre Canada 100 15.6k 1.6× 12.9k 1.5× 4.2k 0.5× 8.8k 1.2× 6.6k 1.1× 1.0k 46.1k
Guy M. Goodwin United Kingdom 100 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 Austria 91 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 Australia 125 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 United Kingdom 98 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 Sweden 61 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

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhukovsky, Peter, Madhukar H. Trivedi, Myrna M. Weissman, et al.. (2025). Generalizability of Treatment Outcome Prediction Across Antidepressant Treatment Trials in Depression. JAMA Network Open. 8(3). e251310–e251310. 8 indexed citations
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Ionescu, Adrian, Maura Furey, Manish K. Jha, et al.. (2025). A Phase 2 Randomized Trial of NBI-1065846 (TAK-041) in Patients With Anhedonia Associated With Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 45(5). 432–440.
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Mazurka, Raegan, Simone Cunningham, Stefanie Hassel, et al.. (2023). Relation of hippocampal volume and SGK1 gene expression to treatment remission in major depression is moderated by childhood maltreatment: A CAN-BIND-1 report. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 78. 71–80. 2 indexed citations
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Vairavan, Srinivasan, Qingqin S. Li, Seth Ness, et al.. (2023). Personalized relapse prediction in patients with major depressive disorder using digital biomarkers. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 18596–18596. 9 indexed citations
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Morton, Emma, Venkat Bhat, Peter Giacobbe, et al.. (2021). Predictors of Quality of Life Improvement with Escitalopram and Adjunctive Aripiprazole in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: A CAN-BIND Study Report. CNS Drugs. 35(4). 439–450. 5 indexed citations
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Rnic, Katerina, Young‐Eun Jung, Ivan J. Torres, et al.. (2021). Association between discrepancy in objective and subjective cognitive abilities and treatment response in patients with major depressive disorder: A CAN-BIND-1 study report. Journal of Affective Disorders. 295. 1095–1101. 6 indexed citations
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Allen, Timothy A., Kate L. Harkness, Raymond W. Lam, et al.. (2021). Interactions between neuroticism and stressful life events predict response to pharmacotherapy for major depression: A CAN‐BIND 1 report. Personality and Mental Health. 15(4). 273–282. 1 indexed citations
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Souza, Roberto, Paul D. Metzak, Stefanie Hassel, et al.. (2020). Aberrant limbic brain structures in young individuals at risk for mental illness. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 74(5). 294–302. 11 indexed citations
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Ceniti, Amanda K., et al.. (2018). Fatigue in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: Prevalence, Burden and Pharmacological Approaches to Management. CNS Drugs. 32(1). 65–74. 58 indexed citations
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Suh, Jee Su, Maiko Abel Schneider, Luciano Minuzzi, et al.. (2018). Cortical thickness in major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 88. 287–302. 110 indexed citations
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Santesteban‐Echarri, Olga, Glenda MacQueen, Benjamin A. Goldstein, et al.. (2018). Family functioning in youth at-risk for serious mental illness. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 87. 17–24. 19 indexed citations
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Fiori, Laura M., Juan Pablo López, Stéphane Richard‐Devantoy, et al.. (2017). Investigation of miR-1202, miR-135a, and miR-16 in Major Depressive Disorder and Antidepressant Response. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 20(8). 619–623. 54 indexed citations
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Fonseka, Trehani M., Glenda MacQueen, & Sidney H. Kennedy. (2017). Neuroimaging biomarkers as predictors of treatment outcome in Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. 233. 21–35. 122 indexed citations
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Salomons, Tim V., Katharine Dunlop, Sidney H. Kennedy, et al.. (2013). Resting-State Cortico-Thalamic-Striatal Connectivity Predicts Response to Dorsomedial Prefrontal rTMS in Major Depressive Disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 39(2). 488–498. 229 indexed citations
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McIntyre, Roger S., David J. Muzina, Maria Teresa Cruz Lourenço, et al.. (2009). Quetiapine XR efficacy and tolerability as monotherapy and as adjunctive treatment to conventional antidepressants in the acute and maintenance treatment of major depressive disorder: a review of registration trials. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy. 10(18). 3061–3075. 26 indexed citations
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Wilkins, Kate, Heather Gilmour, Joanna K. Soczynska, et al.. (2008). The effect of bipolar I disorder and major depressive disorder on workforce function. PubMed. 28(3). 84–91. 14 indexed citations
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Kennedy, Sidney H., et al.. (2008). A Double-Blind Comparison of Sexual Functioning, Antidepressant Efficacy, and Tolerability Between Agomelatine and Venlafaxine XR. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 28(3). 329–333. 163 indexed citations
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Tranter, Richard, Claire O’Donovan, Praful Chandarana, & Sidney H. Kennedy. (2002). Prevalence and outcome of partial remission in depression. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 27(4). 241–247. 116 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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