Vikram Patel

102.6k total citations · 36 hit papers
652 papers, 55.0k citations indexed

About

Vikram Patel is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Vikram Patel has authored 652 papers receiving a total of 55.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 300 papers in Social Psychology, 288 papers in Clinical Psychology and 204 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Vikram Patel's work include Mental Health Treatment and Access (291 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (145 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (84 papers). Vikram Patel is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Treatment and Access (291 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (145 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (84 papers). Vikram Patel collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and United States. Vikram Patel's co-authors include Atıf Rahman, Martin Prince, Alan J. Flisher, Shekhar Saxena, Crick Lund, Patrick D. McGorry, Sarah Hetrick, Somnath Chatterji, Bedirhan Üstün and Ajay Tandon and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Vikram Patel

627 papers receiving 52.7k citations

Hit Papers

Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health: r... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2007 2007 2007 2014 2012 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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. Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health: results from the World Health Surveys
    2007 3.0k citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  2. No health without mental health
    2007 2.5k citations Martin Prince, Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  3. Mental health of young people: a global public-health challenge
    2007 2.2k citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  4. The global prevalence of common mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis 1980–2013
    2014 1.8k citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  5. Global Prevalence of Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders
    2012 1.8k citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  6. The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technology-Based Health Behaviour Change or Disease Management Interventions for Health Care Consumers: A Systematic Review
    2013 1.3k citations Vikram Patel et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  7. Prevalence and determinants of common perinatal mental disorders in women in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review
    2011 1.2k citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  8. Poverty and common mental disorders in low and middle income countries: A systematic review
    2010 862 citations Crick Lund, Vikram Patel et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →
  9. The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service Delivery Processes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    2013 796 citations Vikram Patel et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  10. Poverty and common mental disorders in developing countries.
    2003 792 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  11. Social determinants of mental disorders and the Sustainable Development Goals: a systematic review of reviews
    2018 630 citations Crick Lund, Mark J. D. Jordans et al. profile →
  12. Treatment and prevention of mental disorders in low-income and middle-income countries
    2007 629 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  13. Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms
    2020 599 citations Matthew Ridley, Gautam Rao et al. Science profile →
  14. Poverty and mental disorders: breaking the cycle in low-income and middle-income countries
    2011 563 citations Crick Lund, Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  15. Gender, Poverty, and Postnatal Depression: A Study of Mothers in Goa, India
    2002 562 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  16. Addressing the burden of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition
    2015 560 citations Vikram Patel, Crick Lund et al. profile →
  17. Scale up services for mental disorders: a call for action
    2007 536 citations Crick Lund, Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  18. Effectiveness of an intervention led by lay health counsellors for depressive and anxiety disorders in primary care in Goa, India (MANAS): a cluster randomised controlled trial
    2010 502 citations Vikram Patel, Helen A. Weiss et al. profile →
  19. Improving the prevention and management of chronic disease in low-income and middle-income countries: a priority for primary health care
    2008 486 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  20. Psychological Treatments for the World: Lessons from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    2017 464 citations Daisy R. Singla, Bruce F. Chorpita et al. profile →
  21. Theory of Change: a theory-driven approach to enhance the Medical Research Council's framework for complex interventions
    2014 439 citations Crick Lund, Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  22. Non-specialist health worker interventions for the care of mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders in low- and middle-income countries
    2013 431 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  23. Depression in young people
    2022 411 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  24. Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes and maternal depression in Jharkhand and Orissa, India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
    2010 386 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  25. Interventions for Adolescent Mental Health: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
    2016 358 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  26. Digital technology for treating and preventing mental disorders in low-income and middle-income countries: a narrative review of the literature
    2017 348 citations John A. Naslund, Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  27. Income inequality and depression: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the association and a scoping review of mechanisms
    2018 348 citations Vikram Patel, Crick Lund et al. profile →
  28. A systematic review of the effectiveness of mental health promotion interventions for young people in low and middle income countries
    2013 333 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  29. Task‐Sharing Approaches to Improve Mental Health Care in Rural and Other Low‐Resource Settings: A Systematic Review
    2017 326 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  30. The global coverage of prevalence data for mental disorders in children and adolescents
    2016 302 citations George Patton, Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  31. The impact of digital technology on psychological treatments and their dissemination
    2017 287 citations Christopher G. Fairburn, Vikram Patel profile →
  32. The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial
    2016 280 citations Vikram Patel, Helen A. Weiss et al. profile →
  33. Preventive psychiatry: a blueprint for improving the mental health of young people
    2021 259 citations Michael Berk, Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  34. Factors associated with health service utilisation for common mental disorders: a systematic review
    2018 226 citations Rahul Shidhaye, Vikram Patel et al. BMC Psychiatry profile →
  35. Transforming mental health systems globally: principles and policy recommendations
    2023 64 citations Vikram Patel, Crick Lund et al. profile →
  36. Adverse childhood experiences and lifelong health
    2023 59 citations Mark Tomlinson, Vikram Patel et al. profile →

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Vikram Patel
Comparison fields: 5 of 220
  • Clinical Psychology 24.0k
  • Social Psychology 18.1k
  • General Health Professions 17.2k
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 10.0k
  • Psychiatry and Mental health 6.9k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health
2025 ·Nature Mental Health ·Divyangana Rakesh, (unknown), Teresa Vargas, Kate E. Pickett, Vikram Patel
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Effectiveness of ATMAN psychological intervention in reducing self-harm in young people in India: a mixed method case series
2025 ·Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health ·Shilpa Aggarwal, Michael Berk, Nilesh Shah, (unknown), Dimple Kondal, George Patton, Vikram Patel
0
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Layout features and semantic similarity-based hybrid approach for thematic classification of paragraphs in documents
2025 ·Knowledge and Information Systems ·Nikita Nikita, Dipti P. Rana, Rupa G. Mehta, Vikram Patel
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Interventions for improving adherence to psychological treatments for common mental disorders: a systematic review
2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), (unknown), Daisy R. Singla, Richard Velleman, Bo Zhou, (unknown), Vikram Patel, Matthew Prina, (unknown), (unknown), Urvita Bhatia, Abhijit Nadkarni
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Remote coaching for supporting the implementation of treatment for depression in primary care in Madhya Pradesh, India: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Ameya Bondre, Abhishek Singh, Deepak Tugnawat, (unknown), Azaz Khan, Ritu Shrivastava, Chunling Lu, Rohit Ramaswamy, Vikram Patel, Anant Bhan, John A. Naslund
1
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Scaling up quality-assured psychotherapy: The role of therapist competence on perinatal depression and anxiety outcomes
2023 ·General Hospital Psychiatry ·Daisy R. Singla, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Matthew J. Cohen, (unknown), Cindy‐Lee Dennis, (unknown), (unknown), Samantha Meltzer‐Brody, John A. Naslund, Vikram Patel, Paula Ravitz, Richard K. Silver, Crystal Edler Schiller, Simone N. Vigod, Nour Schoueri‐Mychasiw
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Protocol for an economic evaluation of scalable strategies to improve mental health among perinatal women: non-specialist care delivered via telemedicine vs. specialist care delivered in-person
2023 ·BMC Psychiatry ·Daisy R. Singla, Claire de Oliveira, Sean M. Murphy, Vikram Patel, (unknown), (unknown), Cindy‐Lee Dennis, Judy Kim, Paul Kurdyak, Andrea Lawson, Samantha Meltzer‐Brody, Benoit H. Mulsant, Nour Schoueri‐Mychasiw, Richard K. Silver, (unknown), Simone N. Vigod, Sarah Byford
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8
Exploring the Relationship between Anemia and Postpartum Depression: Evidence from Malawi
2023 ·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ·(unknown), Mahesh Karra, (unknown), Vikram Patel, David Canning
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Developing knowledge-based psychotherapeutic competencies in non-specialist providers: A pre-post study with a nested randomised controlled trial of a coach-supported versus self-guided digital training course for a problem-solving psychological intervention in India
2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Sonal Mathur, Helen A. Weiss, Melissa Neuman, Baptiste Leurent, Andy P. Field, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kanika Malik, Daniel Michelson, Vikram Patel
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10
From neural circuits to communities: an integrative multidisciplinary roadmap for global mental health
2023 ·Nature Mental Health ·Michelle G. Craske, Mohammad M. Herzallah, Robin Nusslock, Vikram Patel
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A qualitative exploration of perceived needs and barriers of individuals with schizophrenia, caregivers and clinicians in using mental health applications in Madhya Pradesh, India
2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Ameya Bondre, Ritu Shrivastava, (unknown), Deepak Tugnawat, Azaz Khan, Snehil Gupta, (unknown), Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Matcheri S. Keshavan, (unknown), Prabhat Chand, Jagadisha Thirthalli, Vikram Patel, John Torous, Abhijit R. Rozatkar, John A. Naslund, Anant Bhan
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Effectiveness and costs associated with a lay counselor–delivered, brief problem-solving mental health intervention for adolescents in urban, low-income schools in India: 12-month outcomes of a randomized controlled trial
2021 ·PLoS Medicine ·Kanika Malik, Daniel Michelson, Aoife M. Doyle, Helen A. Weiss, Giulia Greco, (unknown), (unknown), Sonal Mathur, Paulomi M. Sudhir, Michael King, Pim Cuijpers, Bruce F. Chorpita, Christopher G. Fairburn, Vikram Patel
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Associations of parental depression during adolescence with cognitive development in later life in China: A population-based cohort study
2021 ·PLoS Medicine ·Zhihui Li, (unknown), Vikram Patel
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Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms breakdown →
2020 ·Science ·Matthew Ridley, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Vikram Patel
599
15
Neurological manifestations and COVID-19: Experiences from a tertiary care center at the Frontline
2020 ·Journal of the Neurological Sciences ·(unknown), Parneet Grewal, Julianne Hall, (unknown), Rima M. Dafer, Rajeev Garg, Nicholas Osteraas, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Vikram Patel, James Conners, Sayona John, Ivan Da Silva
114
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Mental health: in the spotlight but a long way to go
2019 ·International Health ·Vikram Patel
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Development of mWellcare: an mHealth intervention for integrated management of hypertension and diabetes in low-resource settings
2018 ·Global Health Action ·Devraj Jindal, Priti Gupta, (unknown), Vamadevan S. Ajay, Shifalika Goenka, (unknown), (unknown), Pablo Perel, (unknown), Ambuj Roy, Nikhil Tandon, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Vikram Patel
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District mental healthcare plans for five low-and middle-income countries: Commonalities, variations and evidence gaps
2015 ·The British Journal of Psychiatry ·Charlotte Hanlon, Abebaw Fekadu, Mark J. D. Jordans, Fred Kigozi, Inge Petersen, Rahul Shidhaye, Simone Honikman, Crick Lund, Martin Prince, Shoba Raja, Graham Thornicroft, Mark Tomlinson, Vikram Patel
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HIV prevention while the bulldozers roll: Exploring the effect of the demolition of Goa's red-light area
2009 ·Social Science & Medicine ·Maryam Shahmanesh, Sonali Wayal, Gracy Andrew, Vikram Patel, Frances M. Cowan, Graham Hart
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Diagonal Earlobe Creases and Atheromatous Disease: A Postmortem Study
1992 ·Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London ·Vikram Patel, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andrew R. Davidson
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