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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 484 68 73 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 99
Documents by Best Scientists*: 95
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 22
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.992
Impact Factor: 2.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine?

The journal facilitates discussions on Clinical psychology, Social psychology, Gerontology, Psychological intervention and Developmental psychology. Topics in Clinical psychology were tackled in line with various other fields like Psychosocial, Mental health, Psychiatry and Depression (differential diagnoses). It explores research in Depression (differential diagnoses) and the adjacent study of Anxiety.

The journal features Social psychology research that overlaps with concepts in Risk perception. The journal explores topics in Psychological intervention which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Intervention (counseling) and Applied psychology.

  • Clinical psychology (27.57%)
  • Social psychology (15.81%)
  • Gerontology (11.76%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Coping, acculturation, and psychological adaptation among migrants: a theoretical and empirical review and synthesis of the literature (132 citations)
  • Strategies for improving the quality of verbal patient and family education: a review of the literature and creation of the EDUCATE model (73 citations)
  • Autonomous and controlled motivational regulations for multiple health-related behaviors: between- and within-participants analyses (71 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine:

The journal articles mainly deal with areas of study such as Clinical psychology, Social psychology, Psychological intervention, Gerontology and Bioinformatics. The most cited publications tackle studies in Psychiatry and the interrelated subject of Exploratory factor analysis and Construct validity to gain insights into Clinical psychology. The most cited articles explore research in Coping (psychology) and overlapping concepts in Psychological research, Empirical research and Psychological adaptation to expand the discourse in Social psychology.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Social psychology
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The concepts of Clinical psychology, Social psychology, Psychological intervention, Family medicine and Intervention (counseling) are tackled in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. The Clinical psychology study presented in the journal encompasses related topics like Anger and also examines its connection to subjects such as Infertility. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Social psychology, it also covered topics in Test (assessment), Risk perception and Feature (computer vision).

Some problems in Psychological intervention that were presented in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine overlapped with concepts under Evidence synthesis, Interpersonal ties, Public hospital and Health promotion. In Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, Physical therapy, Randomized controlled trial and Key (cryptography) are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Intervention (counseling) research. The featured Depression (differential diagnoses) studies mainly concentrate on Mental health but also cover areas of interest in Coping (psychology).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Too many zeros and/or highly skewed? A tutorial on modelling health behaviour as count data with Poisson and negative binomial regression. (3 citations)
  • Aspirin non-adherence in pregnant women at risk of preeclampsia (ANA): a qualitative study. (1 citations)
  • Demographic and contextual factors as moderators of the relationship between pet ownership and health. (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Xiaoming Li (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Vera Araujo-Soares (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Mauri Marttunen (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Frank Doyle (5 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Wayne State University (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Helsinki (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • King's College London (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University College London (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Curtin University (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 2.17% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.56% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 24.44% of all publications and 46.67% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Focusing on fidelity: narrative review and recommendations for improving intervention fidelity within trials of health behaviour change interventions

    Elaine C. Toomey;Wendy Hardeman;N. Hankonen;M. Byrne

    (2020)
    190 Citations
  • Developing an open science ‘mindset’

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Assessing and ensuring fidelity of the nationally implemented English NHS diabetes prevention programme: lessons learned for the implementation of large-scale behaviour change programmes

    (2022)
    30 Citations
  • What factors are most influential in increasing cervical cancer screening attendance? An online study of UK-based women.

    Sarah Wilding;Sarah Wighton;Daisy Halligan;Robert West

    (2020)
    29 Citations
  • Analysing N-of-1 observational data in health psychology and behavioural medicine: a 10-step SPSS tutorial for beginners.

    Suzanne McDonald;Rute Vieira;Derek W. Johnston

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Using an exploratory sequential mixed methods design to adapt an Illness Perception Questionnaire for African Americans with diabetes: the mixed data integration process.

    Olayinka O. Shiyanbola;Deepika Rao;Daniel Bolt;Carolyn Brown

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • What I thought was so important isn't really that important": international perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic."

    Irina Todorova;Liesemarie Albers;Nicole Aronson;Adriana Baban

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • The operationalization of self-identity in reasoned action models: a systematic review of self-identity operationalizations in three decades of research.

    Marwin H. M. Snippe;Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters;Gerjo Kok

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • The impact of COVID-19 on the eating habits of families engaged in a healthy eating pilot trial: a thematic analysis

    (2022)
    19 Citations
  • 'I felt less alone knowing I could contribute to the forum': psychological distress and use of an online infertility peer support forum.

    Siobhan Bernadette Laura O'Connell;Eden Noah Gelgoot;Eden Noah Gelgoot;Paul Henry Grunberg;Paul Henry Grunberg;Joy Schinazi

    (2021)
    18 Citations

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