Thomas A. Widiger

58.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
364 papers, 20.7k citations indexed

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Thomas A. Widiger is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Philosophy and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. Widiger has authored 364 papers receiving a total of 20.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 311 papers in Clinical Psychology, 106 papers in Philosophy and 58 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. Widiger's work include Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (286 papers), Personality Traits and Psychology (146 papers) and Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (107 papers). Thomas A. Widiger is often cited by papers focused on Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (286 papers), Personality Traits and Psychology (146 papers) and Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (107 papers). Thomas A. Widiger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Thomas A. Widiger's co-authors include Donald R. Lynam, Timothy J. Trull, Douglas B. Samuel, Joshua D. Miller, Cristina Crego, Stephanie N. Mullins‐Sweatt, Paul T. Costa, Allen Frances, Erik Simonsen and Lee Anna Clark and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Widiger

362 papers receiving 19.3k 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.

Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder: Shifting to a dimensional model.

2007 667 citations Thomas A. Widiger, Timothy J. Trull profile →
The borderline diagnosis I: psychopathology, comorbidity, and personaltity structure

2002 573 citations Thomas A. Widiger et al. profile →
The clinical characterization of the adult patient with depression aimed at personalization of management

2020 254 citations Thomas A. Widiger et al. World Psychiatry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas A. Widiger United States	76	17.9k	4.5k	3.7k	2.9k	2.4k	364	20.7k
Andrew E. Skodol United States	80	19.3k 1.1×	5.7k 1.3×	2.9k 0.8×	4.8k 1.7×	2.1k 0.9×	265	22.3k
Drew Westen United States	69	12.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.4×	2.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	3.0k 1.2×	193	16.3k
Leslie C. Morey United States	66	12.6k 0.7×	3.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	254	14.4k
Kristian E. Markon United States	56	10.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.4×	4.3k 1.2×	2.1k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	147	13.8k
Timothy J. Trull United States	61	10.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.4×	4.9k 1.3×	2.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	243	14.7k
R. Michael Bagby Canada	68	12.0k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	6.2k 1.7×	7.8k 2.7×	3.7k 1.5×	313	20.0k
Otto F. Kernberg United States	55	11.2k 0.6×	2.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	1.5k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	270	13.4k
Steffen Moritz Germany	71	7.3k 0.4×	4.2k 0.9×	6.8k 1.8×	9.1k 3.1×	1.8k 0.7×	643	18.2k
Aidan G.C. Wright United States	59	8.7k 0.5×	1.5k 0.3×	4.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.4×	2.2k 0.9×	263	11.5k
Bruce E. Wampold United States	64	12.9k 0.7×	943 0.2×	3.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	6.5k 2.7×	268	18.3k

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Widiger, Thomas A., et al.. (2025). Personality Disorders: Current Conceptualizations and Challenges. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. 21(1). 169–192. 4 indexed citations

DeShong, Hilary L., Ben Porter, Karen Kelley, et al.. (2024). Development and Validation of the Five-Factor Borderline Inventory–Super Short Form and Screener. Assessment. 32(4). 488–500.

DeYoung, Colin G., Roman Kotov, Robert F. Krueger, et al.. (2021). Answering Questions About the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): Analogies to Whales and Sharks Miss the Boat. Clinical Psychological Science. 10(2). 279–284. 17 indexed citations

Simms, Leonard J., Aidan G.C. Wright, David C. Cicero, et al.. (2021). Development of Measures for the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Collaborative Scale Development Project. Assessment. 29(1). 3–16. 60 indexed citations

Widiger, Thomas A., Martin Sellbom, Michael S. Chmielewski, et al.. (2018). Personality in a Hierarchical Model of Psychopathology. Clinical Psychological Science. 7(1). 77–92. 106 indexed citations

Maples, Jessica, Nathan T. Carter, Lauren R. Few, et al.. (2015). Testing whether the DSM-5 personality disorder trait model can be measured with a reduced set of items: An item response theory investigation of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5.. Psychological Assessment. 27(4). 1195–1210. 229 indexed citations

Miller, Joshua D., Lauren R. Few, W. Keith Campbell, et al.. (2015). Development of a Short Form of the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory: The FFNI-SF.. Psychological Assessment. 27(3). 1110–1116. 148 indexed citations

Samuel, Douglas B., Donald R. Lynam, Thomas A. Widiger, & Samuel A. Ball. (2011). An expert consensus approach to relating the proposed DSM-5 types and traits.. Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment. 3(1). 1–16. 51 indexed citations

Widiger, Thomas A.. (2011). Personality and psychopathology. World Psychiatry. 10(2). 103–106. 327 indexed citations

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Samuel, Douglas B., Joshua D. Miller, Thomas A. Widiger, et al.. (2011). Conceptual changes to the definition of borderline personality disorder proposed for DSM-5.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 121(2). 467–476. 23 indexed citations

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Lynam, Donald R., Eric T. Gaughan, Joshua D. Miller, et al.. (2010). Assessing the basic traits associated with psychopathy: Development and validation of the Elemental Psychopathy Assessment.. Psychological Assessment. 23(1). 108–124. 241 indexed citations

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Widiger, Thomas A. & Erik Simonsen. (2005). Alternative Dimensional Models of Personality Disorder: Finding a Common Ground. Journal of Personality Disorders. 19(2). 110–130. 491 indexed citations

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Brinkley, Chad A., Joseph P. Newman, Thomas A. Widiger, & Donald R. Lynam. (2004). Two Approaches to Parsing the Heterogeneity of Psychopathy.. Clinical Psychology Science and Practice. 11(1). 69–94. 90 indexed citations

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Widiger, Thomas A.. (2003). Personality and depression in women. Journal of Affective Disorders. 74(1). 59–66. 22 indexed citations

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Trull, Timothy J., Thomas A. Widiger, Donald R. Lynam, & Paul T. Costa. (2003). Borderline personality disorder from the perspective of general personality functioning.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 112(2). 193–202. 134 indexed citations

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Lynam, Donald R. & Thomas A. Widiger. (2001). Using the five-factor model to represent the DSM-IV personality disorders: An expert consensus approach.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 110(3). 401–412. 466 indexed citations

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Widiger, Thomas A.. (1994). DSM-IV sourcebook. 386 indexed citations

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Widiger, Thomas A.. (1993). Validation strategies for the personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders. 7. 34–43. 15 indexed citations

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First, Michael B., Allen Frances, Thomas A. Widiger, Harold Alan Pincus, & Wendy Davis. (1992). DSM-IV and behavioral assessment. 14. 297–306. 9 indexed citations

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Landau, Steven, Richard Milich, & Thomas A. Widiger. (1991). Predictive Power Methods May Be More Helpful for Making a Diagnosis than Sensitivity and Specificity. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 1(5). 343–351. 26 indexed citations

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