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Julie Leask 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 Julie Leask sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 201 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Julie Leask 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 Julie Leask sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Julie Leask is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on medicine and social sciences. Their work spans various subfields including health, epidemiology, sociology and political science, general health professions, and infectious diseases.

Their main research topics cover:

  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Cervical Cancer and HPV Research

Leask has published in a variety of academic venues, most notably:

  • Vaccine
  • Vaccines
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Medical Journal of Australia
  • UNC Libraries

Selected recent papers include:

  • Toward effective government communication strategies in the era of COVID-19, 2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • COVID-19 is rapidly changing: Examining public perceptions and behaviors in response to this evolving pandemic, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • COVID-19 Misinformation Trends in Australia: Prospective Longitudinal National Survey, 2020, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Examining Australian public perceptions and behaviors towards a future COVID-19 vaccine, 2021, BMC Infectious Diseases

Leask has worked collaboratively with several frequent coauthors, such as:

  • Margie Danchin
  • Jessica Kaufman
  • Kerrie Wiley
  • Holly Seale
  • Maria Christou-Ergos

Their contributions also include book publications, notably:

  • The COVID-19 vaccine communication handbook: A practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation, 2021, published by Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece

Best Publications

  • Increasing Vaccination: Putting Psychological Science Into Action:

    Noel T. Brewer;Gretchen B. Chapman;Alexander J. Rothman;Julie Leask

  • Communicating with parents about vaccination: a framework for health professionals

    Julie Leask;Paul Kinnersley;Cath Jackson;Francine Cheater

  • Toward effective government communication strategies in the era of COVID-19

    Bernadette Hyland-Wood;John Gardner;Julie Leask;Ullrich K.H. Ecker

  • Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for vaccination decisions.

    Cornelia Betsch;Noel T. Brewer;Pauline Brocard;Patrick Davies

  • Antivaccination activists on the world wide web

    P Davies;S Chapman;J Leask

  • Face-to-face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination

    Jessica Kaufman;Rebecca Ryan;Louisa Walsh;Dell Horey

  • Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition.

    Katrine Bach Habersaat;Cornelia Betsch;Margie Danchin;Cass R. Sunstein

  • Vaccine hesitancy, refusal and access barriers: The need for clarity in terminology.

    Helen Bedford;Katie Attwell;Margie Danchin;Helen Marshall

  • Associations Between Exposure to and Expression of Negative Opinions About Human Papillomavirus Vaccines on Social Media: An Observational Study

    Adam G Dunn;Julie Leask;Xujuan Zhou;Kenneth D Mandl

  • COVID-19 is rapidly changing: Examining public perceptions and behaviors in response to this evolving pandemic.

    Holly Seale;Anita E. Heywood;Julie Leask;Meru Sheel

  • Mapping information exposure on social media to explain differences in HPV vaccine coverage in the United States.

    Adam G. Dunn;Didi Surian;Julie Leask;Aditi Dey

  • Media coverage of health issues and how to work more effectively with journalists: a qualitative study.

    Julie Leask;Claire Hooker;Catherine King

  • Barriers to access to health care for newly resettled sub-Saharan refugees in Australia.

    Mohamud Sheikh-Mohammed;C Raina Macintyre;Nicholas J Wood;Julie Leask

  • Target the fence-sitters

    Julie Leask

  • The MMR vaccination and autism controversy in United Kingdom 1998-2005: inevitable community outrage or a failure of risk communication?

    David C. Burgess;Margaret A. Burgess;Margaret A. Burgess;Julie Leask;Julie Leask

  • Uptake of influenza vaccine by pregnant women: a cross-sectional survey

    Kerrie E Wiley;Peter D Massey;Spring C Cooper;Nicholas J Wood

  • Mandate vaccination with care.

    Saad B. Omer;Cornelia Betsch;Julie Leask

  • COVID-19 misinformation trends in Australia: Prospective longitudinal national survey

    Kristen Pickles;Erin Cvejic;Brooke Nickel;Tessa Copp

  • “Do-it-yourself”: Vaccine rejection and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)

    Katie Attwell;Paul Russell Ward;Samantha B Meyer;Philippa Rokkas

  • What maintains parental support for vaccination when challenged by anti-vaccination messages? A qualitative study.

    Julie Leask;Julie Leask;Simon Chapman;Penelope Hawe;Margaret Burgess

  • "Will they just pack up and leave?" - attitudes and intended behaviour of hospital health care workers during an influenza pandemic.

    Holly Seale;Julie Leask;Kieren Po;C Raina MacIntyre;C Raina MacIntyre

  • Parental attitudes, beliefs, behaviours and concerns towards childhood vaccinations in Australia: A national online survey.

    Maria Yui Kwan Chow;Margie Danchin;Harold W Willaby;Sonya Pemberton

  • Face‐to‐face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination

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Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Booy
Robert Booy University of Sydney
Peter McIntyre
Peter McIntyre University of Otago
Lyndal Trevena
Lyndal Trevena University of Sydney
Simon Chapman
Simon Chapman University of Sydney
Paul Ward
Paul Ward Torrens University Australia
David Isaacs
David Isaacs Children's Hospital at Westmead
Cornelia Betsch
Cornelia Betsch Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Kirsten McCaffery
Kirsten McCaffery University of Sydney
Julia M.L. Brotherton
Julia M.L. Brotherton University of Melbourne
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol

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