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Alastair Ager publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alastair Ager sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 190 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Alastair Ager D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alastair Ager sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Alastair Ager is primarily affiliated with Queen Margaret University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the field of psychology with a significant focus on clinical psychology, general health professions, social psychology, health, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The main topics of Ager's research include:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms

Ager has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Conflict and Health
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • Social Science & Medicine

Recent publications by Ager cover a range of topics related to health systems, psychological support, and policy analysis. Some of the notable recent papers include:

  • Understanding the health needs of internally displaced persons: A scoping review, 2021, Journal of Migration and Health
  • The Effect of Psychological First Aid Training on Knowledge and Understanding about Psychosocial Support Principles: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • An analysis of policy and funding priorities of global actors regarding noncommunicable disease in low- and middle-income countries, 2021, Globalization and Health
  • Health system resilience: a critical review and reconceptualisation, 2023, The Lancet Global Health
  • Annual Research Review: A multilevel bioecological analysis of factors influencing the mental health and psychosocial well-being of refugee children, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Ager has collaborated frequently with several researchers, among them:

  • Rebecca Horn
  • Stella Arakelyan
  • Karin Diaconu
  • Kanykey Jailobaeva
  • Sophie Witter

In recognition of their contributions, Ager was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Understanding Integration: A Conceptual Framework

    Alastair Ager;Alison Strang

  • Refugee integration: Emerging trends and remaining agendas

    Alison Strang;Alastair Ager

  • Mental health in complex emergencies

    RF Mollica;B Lopes Cardozo;HJ Osofsky;B Raphael

  • A Systematic Review of Prevalence Studies of Gender-Based Violence in Complex Emergencies

    Lindsay Stark;Alastair Ager

  • Psychological Distress, Depression, Anxiety, and Burnout among International Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Longitudinal Study

    Barbara Lopes Cardozo;Carol Gotway Crawford;Cynthia Eriksson;Julia Zhu

  • Resilience in Context: A Brief and Culturally Grounded Measure for Syrian Refugee and Jordanian Host-Community Adolescents.

    Catherine Panter-Brick;Kristin Hadfield;Rana Dajani;Mark Eggerman

  • Stress, Mental Health, and Burnout in National Humanitarian Aid Workers in Gulu, Northern Uganda

    Alastair Ager;Eba Pasha;Gary Yu;Thomas Duke

  • The impact of the school‐based Psychosocial Structured Activities (PSSA) program on conflict‐affected children in northern Uganda

    Alastair Ager;Bree Akesson;Lindsay Stark;Eirini Flouri

  • Refugees : perspectives on the experience of forced migration

    Alastair Ager

  • Outside Looking In? Studies of the Community Integration of People with Learning Disabilities

    Fiona Myers;Alastair Ager;Patricia Kerr;Susan Myles

  • Faith and the Discourse of Secular Humanitarianism

    Alastair Ager;Joey Ager

  • Annual Research Review: Resilience and child well-being – public policy implications

    Alastair Ager

  • Insecurity, distress and mental health: experimental and randomized controlled trials of a psychosocial intervention for youth affected by the Syrian crisis.

    Catherine Panter-Brick;Rana Dajani;Mark Eggerman;Sabrina Hermosilla

  • Defining Best Practice in Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Settings: A Delphi Study

    Alastair Ager;Lindsay Stark;Bree Akesson;Neil G. Boothby

  • A modular yeast biosensor for low-cost point-of-care pathogen detection.

    Nili Ostrov;Miguel Jimenez;Sonja Billerbeck;James Ronald Brisbois

  • Measuring violence against women amidst war and displacement in northern Uganda using the “neighbourhood method”

    Lindsay Stark;Les Roberts;Wendy Wheaton;Anne Acham

  • Understanding the health needs of internally displaced persons: A scoping review.

    David Cantor;Jina Swartz;Bayard Roberts;Aula Abbara

  • The impact of structured activities among Palestinian children in a time of conflict

    Maryanne Loughry;Alastair Ager;Eirini Flouri;Vivian Khamis

  • Health service resilience in Yobe state, Nigeria in the context of the Boko Haram insurgency: a systems dynamics analysis using group model building.

    Alastair K. Ager;Alastair K. Ager;Martina Lembani;Abdulaziz Mohammed;Garba Mohammed Ashir

  • Issues in the definition and implementation of “best practice” for staff delivery of interventions for challenging behaviour

    Alastair Ager;Fiona O’May

  • Patterns of health service utilization and perceptions of needs and services in rural Orissa

    Alastair Ager;Katy Pepper

Frequent Co-Authors

Malcolm MacLachlan
Malcolm MacLachlan National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Sophie Witter
Sophie Witter Queen Margaret University
Catherine Panter-Brick
Catherine Panter-Brick Yale University
Miranda Olff
Miranda Olff University of Amsterdam
Eirini Flouri
Eirini Flouri University College London
David John Felce
David John Felce Cardiff University
Gilbert Burnham
Gilbert Burnham Johns Hopkins University
Chris Hatton
Chris Hatton Manchester Metropolitan University
Wietse A. Tol
Wietse A. Tol Johns Hopkins University
David W. Foy
David W. Foy Pepperdine University

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