2026 Elizabeth Broadbent: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	63	3077	2833	14	12	223	19877

Overview

Elizabeth Broadbent is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as social psychology, clinical psychology, applied psychology, health, and demography.

The scientist's work focuses on topics including digital mental health interventions, COVID-19 and mental health, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), AI in service interactions, technology use by older adults, health disparities and outcomes, and empathy and medical education.

Elizabeth Broadbent has published papers in various academic venues, notably:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 5 publications
International Journal of Social Robotics - 4 publications
Frontiers in Psychology - 4 publications
BMJ Open - 3 publications
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction - 3 publications

Notable recent papers include:

"Mental health in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analyses from a community cohort study" (2020, BMJ Open)
"Depression, anxiety and stress during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a New Zealand cohort study on mental well-being" (2021, BMJ Open)
"Friends from the Future: A Scoping Review of Research into Robots and Computer Agents to Combat Loneliness in Older People" (2021, Clinical Interventions in Aging)
"The Effect of Design Features on Relationship Quality with Embodied Conversational Agents: A Systematic Review" (2020, International Journal of Social Robotics)
"A Digital Human for Delivering a Remote Loneliness and Stress Intervention to At-Risk Younger and Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Randomized Pilot Trial" (2021, JMIR Mental Health)

Frequent co-authors include:

Kate Loveys
Mikaela Law
Norina Gasteiger
Kavita Vedhara
Mark Sagar

Best Publications

The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire

Elizabeth Broadbent;Keith J. Petrie;Jodie Main;John Weinman

4008
Citations
Acceptance of Healthcare Robots for the Older Population: Review and Future Directions

Elizabeth Broadbent;Rebecca Q. Stafford;Bruce A. MacDonald

1002
Citations
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire

Elizabeth Broadbent;Carissa Wilkes;Heidi Koschwanez;John Weinman

750
Citations
The psychosocial effects of a companion robot: a randomized controlled trial.

Hayley Robinson;Bruce MacDonald;Ngaire Kerse;Elizabeth Broadbent

617
Citations
Interactions With Robots: The Truths We Reveal About Ourselves.

Elizabeth Broadbent

568
Citations
Explaining medically unexplained symptoms-models and mechanisms.

Winfried Rief;Elizabeth Broadbent

513
Citations
The Role of Healthcare Robots for Older People at Home: A Review

Hayley Robinson;Bruce A. MacDonald;Elizabeth Broadbent

496
Citations
Further development of an illness perception intervention for myocardial infarction patients: a randomized controlled trial.

Elizabeth Broadbent;Chris J. Ellis;Janine Thomas;Greg Gamble

477
Citations
Illness and treatment perceptions are associated with adherence to medications, diet, and exercise in diabetic patients.

Elizabeth Broadbent;Liesje Donkin;Julia C. Stroh

437
Citations
A text message programme designed to modify patients' illness and treatment beliefs improves self-reported adherence to asthma preventer medication.

Keith J. Petrie;Kate Perry;Elizabeth Broadbent;John Weinman

379
Citations
Psychological stress impairs early wound repair following surgery.

Elizabeth Broadbent;Keith J. Petrie;Patrick G. Alley;Roger J. Booth

339
Citations
Mental health in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analyses from a community cohort study.

Ru Jia;Kieran Ayling;Trudie Chalder;Adam Massey

314
Citations
Robots with display screens: a robot with a more humanlike face display is perceived to have more mind and a better personality.

Elizabeth Broadbent;Vinayak Kumar;Xingyan Li;John Sollers

273
Citations
Thoroughly modern worries: the relationship of worries about modernity to reported symptoms, health and medical care utilization.

Keith J Petrie;Borge Sivertsen;Borge Sivertsen;Mari Hysing;Mari Hysing;Elizabeth Broadbent;Elizabeth Broadbent

269
Citations
Attitudes towards health-care robots in a retirement village.

Elizabeth Broadbent;Rie Tamagawa;Anna Patience;Brett Knock

263
Citations
Age and gender factors in user acceptance of healthcare robots

I. H. Kuo;J. M. Rabindran;E. Broadbent;Y. I. Lee

239
Citations
Do slumped and upright postures affect stress responses? A randomized trial.

Shwetha Nair;Mark Sagar;John Sollers;Nathan Consedine

232
Citations
A Pilot Randomized Trial of a Companion Robot for People With Dementia Living in the Community.

Amy Liang;Isabell Piroth;Hayley Robinson;Bruce MacDonald

230
Citations
Does the Robot Have a Mind? Mind Perception and Attitudes Towards Robots Predict Use of an Eldercare Robot

Rebecca Q. Stafford;Bruce A. MacDonald;Chandimal Jayawardena;Daniel M. Wegner

223
Citations
Patients’ Expectations Predict Surgery Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis

Charlotte J. Auer;Julia A. Glombiewski;Bettina K. Doering;Alexander Winkler

180
Citations
Seeing what's happening on the inside: patients' views of the value of diagnostic cardiac computed tomography angiography.

Daniel A. Devcich;Christopher J. Ellis;Natasha Waltham;Elizabeth Broadbent

16
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith J. Petrie University of Auckland

John Weinman King's College London

Kavita Vedhara University of Nottingham

Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg

Urs M. Nater University of Vienna

Trudie Chalder King's College London

Mari Hysing University of Bergen

Rona Moss-Morris King's College London

Nathan S. Consedine University of Auckland

Nadine A. Kasparian Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

External Links

Personal website of Elizabeth Broadbent

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