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9574
National Ranking
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Anna Chur-Hansen publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna Chur-Hansen sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 183 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Anna Chur-Hansen D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna Chur-Hansen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anna Chur-Hansen is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research spans several areas within medicine and health professions, with a total of 76 publications related to medicine and 38 focusing on health professions.

The specific subfields of study in their work include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Surgery

Research topics frequently addressed in their work encompass:

  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare

Their more recent publications include:

  • First-time mothers' perceptions of social support: Recommendations for best practice (2020), Health Psychology Open
  • Integrated Psychological Care Reduces Health Care Costs at a Hospital-Based Inflammatory Bowel Disease Service (2020), Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • The prevalence and evidence-based management of needle fear in adults with chronic disease: A scoping review (2021), PLoS ONE
  • Informed choice and unbiased support: Parents' experiences of decision-making in paediatric deafness (2021), SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
  • A Systematic Review of Studies on the Use of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression in Older People (2020), Mindfulness

Anna Chur-Hansen has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Anne Burke
  • Emily Duncanson
  • Shilpanjali Jesudason
  • Melissa Oxlad
  • Jane M. Andrews

Their publications appear often in journals such as:

  • Australian Journal of Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
  • Australian Psychologist
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings

Best Publications

  • Evaluating the outcome of communication skill teaching for entry-level medical students: does knowledge of empathy increase?

    Helen R Winefield;Anna Chur-Hansen

  • Mental health implications of human attachment to companion animals.

    Jasmin Peacock;Anna Chur-Hansen;Helen Winefield

  • Health Effects of Ownership of and Attachment to Companion Animals in an Older Population

    Helen R. Winefield;Anne Black;Anna Chur-Hansen

  • Neutralising the meat paradox: Cognitive dissonance, gender, and eating animals

    Elisha Dowsett;Carolyn Semmler;Heather Bray;Rachel A. Ankeny

  • Differences in resilience between ‘traditional’ and ‘non-traditional’ university students:

    Ethel Chung;Deborah Turnbull;Anna Chur-Hansen

  • Preferences for female and male nurses: the role of age, gender and previous experience --year 2000 compared with 1984

    Anna Chur-Hansen

  • Grief and bereavement issues and the loss of a companion animal: People living with a companion animal, owners of livestock, and animal support workers

    Anna Chur-Hansen

  • The neonatal nurses' view of their role in emotional support of parents and its complexities

    Melanie Turner;Anna Chur-Hansen;Helen Winefield

  • The assessment of parental stress and support in the neonatal intensive care unit using the Parent Stress Scale – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

    Melanie Turner;Anna Chur-Hansen;Helen Winefield;Melinda Stanners

  • Gaps in the evidence about companion animals and human health: some suggestions for progress.

    Anna Chur-Hansen;Cindy Stern;Cindy Stern;Helen Winefield

  • Separation from family and its impact on the mental health of Sudanese refugees in Australia: a qualitative study.

    Michael Savic;Anna Chur-Hansen;Mohammad Afzal Mahmood;Vivienne Moore

  • First-time mothers’ perceptions of social support: Recommendations for best practice:

    Tiffany De Sousa Machado;Anna Chur-Hansen;Clemence Due

  • Animal-Assisted Interventions in Children's Hospitals: A Critical Review of the Literature

    Anna Chur-Hansen;Michelle McArthur;Helen Winefield;Emma Hanieh

  • The Subjective Experience of Patients who Received Electroconvulsive Therapy

    Leslie Frank Koopowitz;Anna Chur-Hansen;Sally Reid;Miriam Blashki

  • On being a supervisor: the importance of feedback and how to give it

    Anna Chur-Hansen;Steven Mclean

  • The eating-related behaviours, disorders and expectations of candidates for bariatric surgery.

    M. Opolski;A. Chur-Hansen;G. Wittert

  • Methodological Considerations in Designing and Evaluating Animal-Assisted Interventions.

    Cindy Stern;Anna Chur-Hansen

  • The experiences, coping mechanisms, and impact of death and dying on palliative medicine specialists.

    Sofia C. Zambrano;Anna Chur-Hansen;Gregory B. Crawford

  • Who are non-traditional students? A systematic review of published definitions in research on mental health of tertiary students

    Ethel Chung;Deborah Turnbull;Anna Chur-Hansen

  • The prevalence and evidence-based management of needle fear in adults with chronic disease: A scoping review.

    Emily Duncanson;Emily Duncanson;Richard K Le Leu;Richard K Le Leu;Lisa Shanahan;Luke Macauley

  • Companion Animals for Elderly Women: The Importance of Attachment

    Anna Chur-Hansen;Helen Russell Winefield;Melinda Beckwith

  • Changes in problematic and disordered eating after gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding and vertical sleeve gastrectomy: a systematic review of pre-post studies.

    M. Opozda;A. Chur-Hansen;G. Wittert

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen R. Winefield
Helen R. Winefield University of Adelaide
Antonina Mikocka-Walus
Antonina Mikocka-Walus Deakin University
Deborah Turnbull
Deborah Turnbull University of Adelaide
Gary A. Wittert
Gary A. Wittert University of Adelaide
Paul Delfabbro
Paul Delfabbro University of Adelaide
Ashley Craig
Ashley Craig University of Sydney
Phillipa Hay
Phillipa Hay Western Sydney University
Peter R. Gibson
Peter R. Gibson University of Newcastle Australia
Stephen P. McDonald
Stephen P. McDonald University of Adelaide
Susan J. Hazel
Susan J. Hazel University of Adelaide

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