Zac E. Imel

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Zac E. Imel is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zac E. Imel has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Clinical Psychology, 44 papers in Social Psychology and 31 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Zac E. Imel's work include Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (36 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (24 papers) and Mental Health via Writing (16 papers). Zac E. Imel is often cited by papers focused on Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (36 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (24 papers) and Mental Health via Writing (16 papers). Zac E. Imel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Slovenia and United Kingdom. Zac E. Imel's co-authors include Bruce E. Wampold, David C. Atkins, Scott A. Baldwin, Matthew Jakupcak, Kevin M. Laska, Tracy L. Simpson, Shrikanth Narayanan, Jesse Owen, Steven G. Benish and Panayiotis Georgiou and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and Clinical Psychology Review.

In The Last Decade

Zac E. Imel

104 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Meta-analysis of dropout in treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.

2013 436 citations Zac E. Imel, Matthew Jakupcak et al. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Zac E. Imel	3.1k	1.7k	1.0k	905	628	109	5.2k
David D. Luxton	1.9k 0.6×	835 0.5×	516 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	901 1.4×	65	4.0k
Isaac R. Galatzer‐Levy	3.4k 1.1×	788 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	512 0.6×	526 0.8×	100	6.1k
Patrick D. Quinn	1.8k 0.6×	2.4k 1.4×	905 0.9×	725 0.8×	298 0.5×	93	5.4k
Kate H. Bentley	5.7k 1.8×	2.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.9×	737 0.8×	398 0.6×	91	7.3k
Marit Sijbrandij	3.8k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	986 1.0×	673 0.7×	967 1.5×	188	5.7k
Jaime Delgadillo	1.7k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	849 0.9×	466 0.7×	120	3.3k
Kevin M. King	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	982 1.0×	758 0.8×	1.0k 1.7×	152	6.1k
Denise M. Sloan	5.1k 1.6×	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.6×	468 0.5×	538 0.9×	152	7.2k
Enrique Baca‐García	4.6k 1.5×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	704 0.8×	671 1.1×	354	8.2k
Simon B. Goldberg	4.9k 1.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	539 0.9×	162	6.3k

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Lohani, Monika, et al.. (2025). Real-world stress and control: integrating ambulatory physiological and ecological momentary assessment technologies to explain daily wellbeing. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1438422–1438422. 1 indexed citations

Goldberg, Simon B., Scott A. Baldwin, Michael Tanana, et al.. (2025). Association of machine-learning-rated supportive counseling skills with psychotherapy outcome.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 93(2). 110–119.

Kopelovich, Sarah L., et al.. (2025). Preliminary investigation of an artificial intelligence-based cognitive behavioral therapy training tool.. Psychotherapy. 62(1). 12–21.

Peavy, K. Michelle, Christina S. Soma, Brian T. Pace, et al.. (2024). Improving the quality of counseling and clinical supervision in opioid treatment programs: how can technology help?. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. 19(1). 8–8. 3 indexed citations

Kuo, Patty, Vivek Srikumar, Michael Tanana, et al.. (2024). Identification of cultural conversations in therapy using natural language processing models.. Psychotherapy. 61(4). 259–268. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xinyao, et al.. (2023). A machine learning approach to identifying suicide risk among text-based crisis counseling encounters. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1110527–1110527. 9 indexed citations

Imel, Zac E., et al.. (2022). Leveraging Open Data and Task Augmentation to Automated Behavioral Coding of Psychotherapy Conversations in Low-Resource Scenarios. 5787–5795. 1 indexed citations

Owen, Jesse, et al.. (2021). Psychotherapy racial/ethnic disparities in treatment outcomes: The role of university racial/ethnic composition.. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 68(4). 418–424. 2 indexed citations

Goldberg, Simon B., et al.. (2019). The Structure of Competence: Evaluating the Factor Structure of the Cognitive Therapy Rating Scale. Behavior Therapy. 51(1). 113–122. 18 indexed citations

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Martínez, Victor R., Krishna Somandepalli, Simon B. Goldberg, et al.. (2019). Identifying Therapist and Client Personae for Therapeutic Alliance Estimation. PubMed. 2019. 1901–1905. 9 indexed citations

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Hirsch, Tad, et al.. (2016). Developing an Automated Report Card for Addiction Counseling: The Counselor Observer Ratings Expert for MI (CORE-MI).. AMIA. 5 indexed citations

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Huang, Che-Wei, et al.. (2016). A technology prototype system for rating therapist empathy from audio recordings in addiction counseling. PeerJ Computer Science. 2. e59–e59. 39 indexed citations

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Can, Doğan, Rebeca Marín, Panayiotis Georgiou, et al.. (2016). “It sounds like...”: A natural language processing approach to detecting counselor reflections in motivational interviewing.. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 63(3). 343–350. 45 indexed citations

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Tanana, Michael, Kevin A. Hallgren, Zac E. Imel, et al.. (2015). Recursive Neural Networks for Coding Therapist and Patient Behavior in Motivational Interviewing. 71–79. 18 indexed citations

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Lord, Sarah Peregrine, Doğan Can, Michael Yi, et al.. (2014). Advancing Methods for Reliably Assessing Motivational Interviewing Fidelity using the Motivational Interviewing Skills Code. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 49. 50–57. 22 indexed citations

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Baldwin, Scott A., Zac E. Imel, Scott R. Braithwaite, & David C. Atkins. (2014). Analyzing multiple outcomes in clinical research using multivariate multilevel models.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 82(5). 920–930. 115 indexed citations

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Hawkins, Eric J., Carol A. Malte, Joel R. Grossbard, et al.. (2013). Comparative Safety of Benzodiazepines and Opioids Among Veterans Affairs Patients With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Addiction Medicine. 7(5). 354–362. 14 indexed citations

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Imel, Zac E., John S. Baer, Steve Martino, Samuel A. Ball, & Kathleen M. Carroll. (2011). Mutual influence in therapist competence and adherence to motivational enhancement therapy. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 115(3). 229–236. 62 indexed citations

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Jakupcak, Matthew, Jessica Cook, Zac E. Imel, et al.. (2009). Posttraumatic stress disorder as a risk factor for suicidal ideation in Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 22(4). 303–306. 288 indexed citations

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Benish, Steven G., Zac E. Imel, & Bruce E. Wampold. (2007). The relative efficacy of bona fide psychotherapies for treating post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis of direct comparisons. Clinical Psychology Review. 28(5). 746–758. 214 indexed citations

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