Varsha D. Badal

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 565 citations indexed

About

Varsha D. Badal is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Varsha D. Badal has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 565 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 8 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Varsha D. Badal's work include Mental Health Research Topics (10 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (5 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (4 papers). Varsha D. Badal is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Research Topics (10 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (5 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (4 papers). Varsha D. Badal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. Varsha D. Badal's co-authors include Dilip V. Jeste, Rob Knight, Tanya T. Nguyen, Emily R. Murray, Petras J. Kundrotas, Ilya A. Vakser, Ho‐Cheol Kim, Colin A. Depp, Ellen Lee and Kaoru Shinkawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, Nutrients and Schizophrenia Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Varsha D. Badal

23 papers receiving 558 citations

Hit Papers

The Gut Microbiome, Aging, and Longevity: A Systematic Re... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
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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. The Gut Microbiome, Aging, and Longevity: A Systematic Review
    2020 333 citations Varsha D. Badal, Rob Knight 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
Varsha D. Badal United States 9 314 170 53 52 46 24 565
Shi‐Heng Wang Taiwan 14 174 0.6× 82 0.5× 20 0.4× 34 0.7× 67 1.5× 63 683
Simon Spichak Ireland 7 304 1.0× 133 0.8× 65 1.2× 10 0.2× 145 3.2× 8 644
Zhongli Yang China 18 468 1.5× 177 1.0× 20 0.4× 23 0.4× 139 3.0× 52 913
Laura Mählmann Switzerland 15 313 1.0× 234 1.4× 21 0.4× 34 0.7× 191 4.2× 15 701
Bojing Liu Sweden 12 168 0.5× 150 0.9× 30 0.6× 7 0.1× 39 0.8× 28 826
Ning Yuan China 8 247 0.8× 71 0.4× 23 0.4× 34 0.7× 251 5.5× 21 625
Gemma F. Cross United Kingdom 11 163 0.5× 154 0.9× 51 1.0× 80 1.5× 15 0.3× 15 600
Liemin Ruan China 12 199 0.6× 136 0.8× 34 0.6× 26 0.5× 122 2.7× 30 600

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Varsha D. Badal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Varsha D. Badal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Varsha D. Badal 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 Varsha D. Badal. Varsha D. Badal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Badal, Varsha D., et al.. (2025). Evaluating natural language processing derived linguistic features associated with current suicidal ideation, past attempts, and future suicidal behavior. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 187. 25–33. 1 indexed citations
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Dalkner, Nina, Raeanne C. Moore, Colin A. Depp, et al.. (2024). A meta-cognitive Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Self-assessment of sorting performance. Psychiatry Research. 334. 115831–115831. 3 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Jenna Reinen, Elizabeth W. Twamley, et al.. (2024). Investigating Acoustic and Psycholinguistic Predictors of Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Modeling Study. JMIR Aging. 7. e54655–e54655. 2 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Laura M. Campbell, Colin A. Depp, et al.. (2024). Dynamic influence of mood on subjective cognitive complaints in mild cognitive impairment: A time series network analysis approach. International Psychogeriatrics. 37(2). 100007–100007. 1 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., et al.. (2024). Using machine learning modeling to identify childhood abuse victims on the basis of personality inventory responses. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 180. 8–15. 1 indexed citations
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Goel, Sanchit, Varsha D. Badal, Colin A. Depp, et al.. (2024). Decoding loneliness: Can explainable AI help in understanding language differences in lonely older adults?. Psychiatry Research. 339. 116078–116078. 4 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Colin A. Depp, Amy E. Pinkham, & Philip D. Harvey. (2023). Dynamics of task-based confidence in schizophrenia using seasonal decomposition approach. Schizophrenia Research Cognition. 32. 100278–100278. 3 indexed citations
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Parrish, Emma M., Samantha A. Chalker, Varsha D. Badal, et al.. (2023). Childhood trauma and real-world social experiences in psychosis. Schizophrenia Research. 252. 279–286. 3 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Ellen Lee, Rebecca Daly, et al.. (2022). Dynamics of Loneliness Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Pilot Study of Ecological Momentary Assessment With Network Analysis. Frontiers in Digital Health. 4. 814179–814179. 8 indexed citations
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Yamada, Yasunori, Kaoru Shinkawa, Masatomo Kobayashi, et al.. (2022). Automated Analysis of Drawing Process to Estimate Global Cognition in Older Adults: Preliminary International Validation on the US and Japan Data Sets. JMIR Formative Research. 6(5). e37014–e37014. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Ning, Fan Luo, Varsha D. Badal, et al.. (2021). Learning Models for Suicide Prediction from Social Media Posts. 87–92. 23 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Emma M. Parrish, Jason Holden, Colin A. Depp, & Eric Granholm. (2021). Dynamic contextual influences on social motivation and behavior in schizophrenia: a case-control network analysis. Schizophrenia. 7(1). 62–62. 14 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Colin A. Depp, Peter Hitchcock, et al.. (2021). Computational methods for integrative evaluation of confidence, accuracy, and reaction time in facial affect recognition in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research Cognition. 25. 100196–100196. 8 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Camille Nebeker, Kaoru Shinkawa, et al.. (2021). Do Words Matter? Detecting Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults Using Natural Language Processing. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12. 728732–728732. 23 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Sarah Graham, Colin A. Depp, et al.. (2020). Prediction of Loneliness in Older Adults Using Natural Language Processing: Exploring Sex Differences in Speech. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 29(8). 853–866. 30 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Yannis Katsis, Ho‐Cheol Kim, et al.. (2019). Challenges in the construction of knowledge bases for human microbiome-disease associations. Microbiome. 7(1). 129–129. 33 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Petras J. Kundrotas, & Ilya A. Vakser. (2018). Natural language processing in text mining for structural modeling of protein complexes. BMC Bioinformatics. 19(1). 84–84. 26 indexed citations
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Badal, Varsha D., Petras J. Kundrotas, & Ilya A. Vakser. (2015). Text Mining for Protein Docking. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(12). e1004630–e1004630. 15 indexed citations

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