Professor Jan Scott

Professor Jan Scott

Professor Jan Scott is Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Newcastle, UK, and a Distinguished Founding Fellow of the International Academy of Cognitive Therapy.

Professor Scott trained in psychiatry in Newcastle upon Tyne and was then a professor in Newcastle, Glasgow and the Institute of Psychiatry in London, before returning to Newcastle. Professor Scott also held visiting academic posts with Aaron Beck at the University of Penn in Philadelphia, Eugene Paykel at Cambridge University, and was the recipient of the RCPsych travelling scholarship to Johns Hopkins University, USA. She currently holds visiting posts in Paris, Trondheim and at the University of Sydney and is a Science without Borders Fellow in Brazil (especially working with academic centres and in early intervention settings in Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre). Her current H INDEX is reported as 90 and her ‘Research Interest Score’ (a metric used on research websites such as Research Gate) is higher than 99% of other research members. Whilst those quoted metrics attempt to measure productivity and the impact of publications, if a composite rating is used that combines research, publications, clinical expertise and key opinion leader status, her rankings in bipolar and unipolar disorders are (according to ‘Expert Mapper’): Worldwide Ranked 48th and 62nd, respectively.