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, Emese Verdes and Bedirhan Üstün 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 disea... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2007 2007 2007 2014 2012 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

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 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 Mayada Elsabbagh, Gauri Divan 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 Vikram Patel et al. 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 Vikram Patel 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 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 et al. profile →
  17. Scale up services for mental disorders: a call for action
    2007 536 citations 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 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 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 Vikram Patel et al. BMC Psychiatry profile →
  35. Transforming mental health systems globally: principles and policy recommendations
    2023 64 citations Vikram Patel et al. profile →
  36. Adverse childhood experiences and lifelong health
    2023 59 citations Supriya Bhavnani, Vikram Patel et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Vikram Patel 24.0k 18.1k 17.2k 10.0k 6.9k 652 55.0k
Andrew Steptoe 14.4k 0.6× 12.8k 0.7× 16.4k 1.0× 9.3k 0.9× 5.4k 0.8× 935 71.8k
Cathy D. Sherbourne 13.0k 0.5× 8.5k 0.5× 16.3k 0.9× 8.2k 0.8× 11.3k 1.6× 270 82.3k
Ellen E. Walters 28.9k 1.2× 15.2k 0.8× 9.8k 0.6× 5.7k 0.6× 12.2k 1.8× 68 59.9k
Jordi Alonso 14.3k 0.6× 8.2k 0.5× 10.8k 0.6× 6.3k 0.6× 8.4k 1.2× 465 54.4k
Anthony F. Jorm 23.2k 1.0× 20.1k 1.1× 13.3k 0.8× 5.9k 0.6× 14.7k 2.1× 777 59.5k
Bernd Löwe 23.1k 1.0× 10.0k 0.6× 9.4k 0.5× 5.7k 0.6× 9.4k 1.4× 364 51.3k
Hans‐Ulrich Wïttchen 31.6k 1.3× 13.0k 0.7× 7.8k 0.5× 8.2k 0.8× 14.2k 2.1× 807 67.4k
Janet B. W. Williams 40.8k 1.7× 17.0k 0.9× 15.4k 0.9× 10.0k 1.0× 16.3k 2.4× 118 89.7k
Wayne Katon 16.7k 0.7× 14.3k 0.8× 13.4k 0.8× 7.0k 0.7× 14.2k 2.1× 513 59.2k
Mark Olfson 21.3k 0.9× 12.6k 0.7× 8.1k 0.5× 6.6k 0.7× 15.7k 2.3× 687 48.0k

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All Works

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Rakesh, Divyangana, et al.. (2025). Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health. Nature Mental Health. 3(11). 1318–1330.
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Aggarwal, Shilpa, Michael Berk, Nilesh Shah, et al.. (2025). Effectiveness of ATMAN psychological intervention in reducing self-harm in young people in India: a mixed method case series. Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health. 12. e41–e41.
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Nikita, Nikita, Dipti P. Rana, Rupa G. Mehta, & Vikram Patel. (2025). Layout features and semantic similarity-based hybrid approach for thematic classification of paragraphs in documents. Knowledge and Information Systems. 67(11). 10035–10064. 1 indexed citations
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Singla, Daisy R., Andrea Lawson, Cindy‐Lee Dennis, et al.. (2025). Evidence-based psychotherapies for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and their underlying mechanisms. Nature Reviews Psychology. 4(12). 761–776.
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Singla, Daisy R., Richard Velleman, Bo Zhou, et al.. (2024). Interventions for improving adherence to psychological treatments for common mental disorders: a systematic review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. e83–e83. 2 indexed citations
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Bondre, Ameya, Abhishek Singh, Deepak Tugnawat, et al.. (2024). Remote coaching for supporting the implementation of treatment for depression in primary care in Madhya Pradesh, India: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1477444–1477444. 1 indexed citations
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Singla, Daisy R., Matthew J. Cohen, Cindy‐Lee Dennis, et al.. (2023). Scaling up quality-assured psychotherapy: The role of therapist competence on perinatal depression and anxiety outcomes. General Hospital Psychiatry. 83. 101–108. 7 indexed citations
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Craske, Michelle G., Mohammad M. Herzallah, Robin Nusslock, & Vikram Patel. (2023). From neural circuits to communities: an integrative multidisciplinary roadmap for global mental health. Nature Mental Health. 1(1). 12–24. 18 indexed citations
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Karra, Mahesh, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Relationship between Anemia and Postpartum Depression: Evidence from Malawi. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(4). 3178–3178. 3 indexed citations
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Bondre, Ameya, Ritu Shrivastava, Deepak Tugnawat, et al.. (2022). A qualitative exploration of perceived needs and barriers of individuals with schizophrenia, caregivers and clinicians in using mental health applications in Madhya Pradesh, India. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 100063–100063. 13 indexed citations
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Li, Zhihui, et al.. (2021). Associations of parental depression during adolescence with cognitive development in later life in China: A population-based cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 18(1). e1003464–e1003464. 15 indexed citations
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Divan, Gauri, Supriya Bhavnani, Kathy Leadbitter, et al.. (2021). Annual Research Review: Achieving universal health coverage for young children with autism spectrum disorder in low‐ and middle‐income countries: a review of reviews. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 62(5). 514–535. 59 indexed citations
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Ridley, Matthew, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, & Vikram Patel. (2020). Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms. Science. 370(6522). 599 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grewal, Parneet, Julianne Hall, Rima M. Dafer, et al.. (2020). Neurological manifestations and COVID-19: Experiences from a tertiary care center at the Frontline. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 415. 116969–116969. 114 indexed citations
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Patel, Vikram. (2019). Mental health: in the spotlight but a long way to go. International Health. 11(5). 324–326. 1 indexed citations
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Jindal, Devraj, Priti Gupta, Vamadevan S. Ajay, et al.. (2018). Development of mWellcare: an mHealth intervention for integrated management of hypertension and diabetes in low-resource settings. Global Health Action. 11(1). 1517930–1517930. 43 indexed citations
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Patel, Vikram, et al.. (1992). Diagonal Earlobe Creases and Atheromatous Disease: A Postmortem Study. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 26(3). 274–277. 33 indexed citations

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