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Henry W. W. Potts 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 Henry W. W. Potts sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 210 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Henry W. W. Potts 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 Henry W. W. Potts sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 49 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Henry W. W. Potts is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has produced a significant body of work primarily in the fields of medicine, health professions, and psychology. Their research interests span multiple subfields such as general health professions, clinical psychology, applied psychology, health, and sociology and political science.

The research topics covered by Potts reflect a focus on public health and behavioral science, with particular emphasis on COVID-19 and mental health, mobile health and mHealth applications, digital mental health interventions, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, behavioral health and interventions, physical activity and health, and electronic health records systems.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Potts are:

  • Adherence to the test, trace, and isolate system in the UK: results from 37 nationally representative surveys, 2021, BMJ
  • Physical Activity Behavior Before, During, and After COVID-19 Restrictions: Longitudinal Smartphone-Tracking Study of Adults in the United Kingdom, 2020, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Adherence to the test, trace and isolate system: results from a time series of 21 nationally representative surveys in the UK (the COVID-19 Rapid Survey of Adherence to Interventions and Responses [CORSAIR] study), 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Technological Capabilities to Assess Digital Excellence in Hospitals in High Performing Health Care Systems: International eDelphi Exercise, 2020, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • The mental health of staff working on intensive care units over the COVID-19 winter surge of 2020 in England: a cross sectional survey, 2022, British Journal of Anaesthesia

Frequent collaborators with Potts include Richard Amlôt, G. James Rubin, Louise Smith, Nicola T. Fear, and Susan Michie, indicating sustained collaborative efforts in related research areas.

Potts has published repeatedly in venues such as BMJ Open, Journal of Medical Internet Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Public Health, and the British Journal of Health Psychology. These publications demonstrate an engagement with both general medical and specialized public health audiences.

Best Publications

  • How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world

    Phillippa Lally;Cornelia H. M. van Jaarsveld;Henry W. W. Potts;Jane Wardle

  • Supporting thinking on sample sizes for thematic analyses: a quantitative tool

    Andrew J.B. Fugard;Henry W.W. Potts

  • Tensions and paradoxes in electronic patient record research: a systematic literature review using the meta-narrative method.

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Henry W W Potts;Geoff Wong;Pippa Bark

  • The impact of communications about swine flu (influenza A H1N1v) on public responses to the outbreak: Results from 36 national telephone surveys in the UK

    G.J. Rubin;H.W.W. Potts;S. Michie

  • Adoption and non-adoption of a shared electronic summary record in England: a mixed-method case study

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Katja Stramer;Tanja Bratan;Emma Byrne

  • Ethnicity and academic performance in UK trained doctors and medical students: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Katherine Woolf;Henry W W Potts;I C McManus

  • Adherence to the test, trace, and isolate system in the UK: results from 37 nationally representative surveys.

    Louise E Smith;Henry W W Potts;Richard Amlôt;Richard Amlôt;Nicola T Fear

  • Digital health behaviour change interventions targeting physical activity and diet in cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Anna L. Roberts;Abigail Fisher;Lee Smith;Malgorzata Heinrich

  • Survey of Doctors' Experience of Patients Using the Internet

    Henry W. W Potts;Jeremy C Wyatt

  • Changes in mental health of UK hospital consultants since the mid-1990s

    Cath Taylor;Jill Graham;Henry W W Potts;Michael A Richards

  • Cognitive workload changes for nurses transitioning from a legacy system with paper documentation to a commercial electronic health record.

    Lacey Colligan;Henry W.W. Potts;Chelsea T. Finn;Robert A. Sinkin

  • Physical Activity Behavior Before, During, and After COVID-19 Restrictions: Longitudinal Smartphone-Tracking Study of Adults in the United Kingdom.

    Hannah McCarthy;Henry W W Potts;Abigail Fisher

  • Computer aids and human second reading as interventions in screening mammography: Two systematic reviews to compare effects on cancer detection and recall rate

    Paul Taylor;Henry W.W. Potts

  • THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAIL

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Katja Stramer;Tanja Bratan;Emma Byrne

  • Advanced Breast Cancer Patients' Perceptions of Decision Making for Palliative Chemotherapy

    Elizabeth A. Grunfeld;E. Jane Maher;Susannah Browne;Pippa Ward

  • Adherence to the test, trace and isolate system: results from a time series of 21 nationally representative surveys in the UK (the COVID-19 Rapid Survey of Adherence to Interventions and Responses study)

    Louise E. Smith;Henry W. W. Potts;Richard Amlot;Nicola T. Fear

  • Why do older women delay presentation with breast cancer symptoms

    Caroline Burgess;H W W Potts;H Hamed;A M Bish

  • The devil's in the detail: final report of the independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record and HealthSpace programmes

    T Greenhalgh;K Stramer;T Bratan;E Byrne

  • Impact of hospital consultants' poor mental health on patient care

    Cath Taylor;Jill Graham;Henry Potts;Jenny Candy

  • The hidden medical school: A longitudinal study of how social networks form, and how they relate to academic performance

    Katherine Woolf;Henry W W Potts;Shalini Patel;I Chris McManus

  • Stress and burnout in doctors.

    J Graham;H W W Potts;A J Ramirez

  • The mediators of minority ethnic underperformance in final medical school examinations

    Katherine Woolf;I. Chris McManus;Henry W. W. Potts;Jane Dacre

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Nicola T. Fear
Nicola T. Fear King's College London
Lee Smith
Lee Smith Anglia Ruskin University
G. James Rubin
G. James Rubin King's College London
Andrew Steptoe
Andrew Steptoe University College London
Richard Amlôt
Richard Amlôt Public Health England
Jeremy C Wyatt
Jeremy C Wyatt University of Southampton
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh University of Oxford
Robin Williams
Robin Williams University of Edinburgh
Kathrin Cresswell
Kathrin Cresswell University of Edinburgh

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