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John Torous

John Torous has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on Evaluation & benchmarks; often with Hongbin Na, Ling Chen, Shaoxiong Ji.

2 papers in our library · 2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 89 · 802 works · 36,000 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 28 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8585

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 Affiliations

🏥Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBoston · United States2014–2026 · 609 paperscurrent🎓Harvard UniversityCambridge · United States2013–2026 · 521 paperscurrent🏥Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston · United States2015–2016 · 16 papers🏥Massachusetts Mental Health CenterBoston · United States2014–2023 · 9 papers🏥Beth Israel Deaconess HospitalPlymouth · United States2019–2020 · 4 papers🎓Emory UniversityAtlanta · United States2021–2025 · 3 papers🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States2016–2025 · 3 papers🎓University of California, Los AngelesLos Angeles · United States2021–2025 · 3 papers🎓Uppsala UniversityUppsala · Sweden2021–2024 · 3 papers🏥Massachusetts General HospitalBoston · United States2020–2022 · 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 61 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Computer Science · 2 worksPsychology · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 2 worksSocial Psychology · 2 works

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20262 papers

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. You Never Know a Person, You Only Know Their Defenses: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations (2026 · 15 citations)
    Psychological defenses are mostly automatic coping strategies. They shape what help seekers reveal and whether they accept or push back against support. Emotional support dialogue systems do not model them, and no public conversational dataset has been annotated with them. The authors address this gap with…
  2. Overview of the PsyDefDetect Shared Task at BioNLP 2026: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations (2026 · 13 citations)
    Emotional support dialogue systems have mostly modeled empathy, supporter strategies and affect. They have largely ignored how help-seekers' words reveal psychological defenses, which shape what people disclose and whether they accept help. The PsyDefDetect shared task at BioNLP@ACL 2026 addresses this gap. Systems…

 Co-authors here

12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 28 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 8 citing papers with a page here →.

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