2026 Christopher G. Fairburn: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	137	127	110	23	20	388	83843
Medicine	137	1883	1755	197	189	385	83790

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Christopher G. Fairburn is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including social psychology, applied psychology, sociology and political science, and speech and hearing.

Fairburn's research topics encompass a variety of areas related to mental health and psychological disorders. These topics include:

Eating Disorders and Behaviors
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Mental Health Treatment and Access
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Digital Mental Health Interventions
COVID-19 and Mental Health

Their publications appear in established journals such as:

International Journal of Eating Disorders
The Lancet Psychiatry
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
PLoS Medicine
FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Fairburn include:

Comparative efficacy and acceptability of psychological interventions for the treatment of adult outpatients with anorexia nervosa: a systematic review and network meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
Effectiveness of a brief lay counsellor-delivered, problem-solving intervention for adolescent mental health problems in urban, low-income schools in India: a randomised controlled trial, 2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
Effectiveness and costs associated with a lay counselor-delivered, brief problem-solving mental health intervention for adolescents in urban, low-income schools in India: 12-month outcomes of a randomized controlled trial, 2021, PLoS Medicine
EMPOWER: Toward the Global Dissemination of Psychosocial Interventions, 2022, FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry
Digital training for non-specialist health workers to deliver a brief psychological treatment for depression in India: Protocol for a three-arm randomized controlled trial, 2021, Contemporary Clinical Trials

Fairburn has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

Vikram Patel
Daniel Michelson
Pim Cuijpers
Kanika Malik
Helen A. Weiss

Best Publications

Assessment of eating disorders: Interview or self‐report questionnaire?

Christopher G. Fairburn;Sarah J. Beglin

6118
Citations
Cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders: a "transdiagnostic" theory and treatment.

Christopher G Fairburn;Zafra Cooper;Roz Shafran

4329
Citations
Mediators and Moderators of Treatment Effects in Randomized Clinical Trials

Helena Chmura Kraemer;G. Terence Wilson;Christopher G. Fairburn;W. Stewart Agras

3245
Citations
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders

Christopher G. Fairburn

2912
Citations
Grand challenges in global mental health

Pamela Y. Collins;Vikram Patel;Vikram Patel;Sarah S. Joestl;Dana March;Dana March

2508
Citations
The eating disorder examination: A semi‐structured interview for the assessment of the specific psychopathology of eating disorders

Zafra Cooper;Christopher Fairburn

1753
Citations
Clinical perfectionism: a cognitive-behavioural analysis.

Roz Shafran;Zafra Cooper;Christopher G. Fairburn

1412
Citations
Binge eating: nature, assessment and treatment

C G Fairburn;G T Wilson

1398
Citations
Eating disorders and obesity : a comprehensive handbook

Kelly D. Brownell;Christopher G. Fairburn

1234
Citations
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for binge eating and bulimia nervosa: A comprehensive treatment manual.

Christopher G. Fairburn;Marsha D. Marcus;G. Terence Wilson

1217
Citations
Risk Factors for Bulimia Nervosa: A Community-Based Case-Control Study

Christopher G. Fairburn;Sarah L. Welch;Helen A. Doll;Beverley A. Davies

1183
Citations
A Multicenter Comparison of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Bulimia Nervosa

W. Stewart Agras;B. Timothy Walsh;Christopher G. Fairburn;G. Terence Wilson

1103
Citations
Studies of the epidemiology of bulimia nervosa.

Christopher G. Fairburn;Sarah J. Beglin

1085
Citations
Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Patients With Eating Disorders: A Two-Site Trial With 60-Week Follow-Up

Christopher G. Fairburn;Zafra Cooper;Helen A. Doll;Marianne E. O’Connor

1037
Citations
Risk factors for anorexia nervosa: three integrated case-control comparisons.

Christopher G. Fairburn;Zafra Cooper;Helen A. Doll;Sarah L. Welch

1009
Citations
The Eating Disorder Examination (12th edition).

Christopher G. Fairburn;Zafra Cooper

996
Citations
A cognitive behavioural theory of anorexia nervosa.

Christopher G Fairburn;Roz Shafran;Zafra Cooper

979
Citations
The natural course of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder in young women.

Christopher G. Fairburn;Zafra Cooper;Helen A. Doll;Patricia Norman

964
Citations
Risk Factors for Binge Eating Disorder: A Community-Based, Case-Control Study

Christopher G. Fairburn;Helen A. Doll;Sarah L. Welch;Phillipa J. Hay

866
Citations
Psychotherapy and bulimia nervosa : longer-term effects of interpersonal psychotherapy, behavior therapy, and cognitive behavior therapy

Christopher G. Fairburn;Rosemary Jones;Robert C. Peveler;R. A. Hope

851
Citations
Eating disorders

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408
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Zafra Cooper Yale University

Roz Shafran University College London

Denise E. Wilfley Washington University in St. Louis

Vikram Patel Harvard University

Helen Doll University of East Anglia

Ruth H. Striegel-Moore Wesleyan University

Peter J. Cooper University of Reading

Kathleen M. Pike Columbia University

Philip J. Cowen University of Oxford

G. Terence Wilson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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