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Neil D. Weinstein 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 Neil D. Weinstein sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 110 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Neil D. Weinstein 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 Neil D. Weinstein sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Neil D. Weinstein is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple intersecting academic disciplines, reflecting a focus on psychology, social sciences, and health professions.

Their contributions include work in several specialized subfields such as applied psychology, sociology and political science, and general health professions. These areas align with the broader scope of their documented topics of interest and research output.

Main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Risk Perception and Management
  • Community Health and Development

Neil D. Weinstein has published in prominent venues such as The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology. One notable paper is "The Precaution Adoption Process Model," published in 2020 within that encyclopedia. This publication has attracted a significant number of citations, indicating its presence in ongoing scholarly conversations.

Frequent collaborators noted in association with their work include:

  • Peter M. Sandman
  • Susan J. Blalock

The scientist's interdisciplinary approach combines theoretical and applied elements from psychology and health-related disciplines to explore how individuals perceive and manage risk, and how behavioral change processes unfold within communities. Their research contributions help map out the dynamics underlying health behaviors and interventions.

Best Publications

  • Unrealistic optimism about future life events

    Neil D. Weinstein

  • Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: the example of vaccination.

    Noel T. Brewer;Gretchen B. Chapman;Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard

  • The precaution adoption process.

    Neil D. Weinstein

  • Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems: conclusions from a community-wide sample

    Neil D. Weinstein

  • Why it won't happen to me: Perceptions of risk factors and susceptibility.

    Neil D. Weinstein

  • Optimistic biases about personal risks

    Neil D. Weinstein

  • Testing four competing theories of health-protective behavior.

    Neil D. Weinstein

  • Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems.

    Neil D. Weinstein

  • Stage theories of health behavior: conceptual and methodological issues.

    Neil D. Weinstein;Alexander J. Rothman;Stephen R. Sutton

  • Risk perceptions and their relation to risk behavior.

    Noel T. Brewer;Neil D. Weinstein;Cara L. Cuite;James E. Herrington

  • Effects of personal experience on self-protective behavior

    Neil D. Weinstein

  • Unrealistic Optimism: Present and Future

    Neil D. Weinstein;William M. Klein

  • The Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS): Development, Design, and Dissemination

    David E. Nelson;Gary L. Kreps;Bradford W. Hesse;Robert T. Croyle

  • Individual differences in reactions to noise: A longitudinal study in a college dormitory.

    Neil D. Weinstein

  • Resistance of Personal Risk Perceptions to Debiasing Interventions

    Neil D. Weinstein;William M. Klein

  • A model of the precaution adoption process: evidence from home radon testing.

    Neil D. Weinstein;Peter M. Sandman

  • Smokers' unrealistic optimism about their risk.

    N D Weinstein;S E Marcus;R P Moser

  • Risk perceptions: assessment and relationship to influenza vaccination.

    Neil D. Weinstein;Abbie Kwitel;Kevin D. McCaul;Renee E. Magnan

  • The Precaution Adoption Process Model

    Neil D. Weinstein;Peter M. Sandman;Susan J. Blalock

  • Reducing unrealistic optimism about illness susceptibility.

    Neil D. Weinstein

Frequent Co-Authors

William M. P. Klein
William M. P. Klein National Institutes of Health
Alexander J. Rothman
Alexander J. Rothman University of Minnesota
James A. Shepperd
James A. Shepperd University of Florida
Michael A. Diefenbach
Michael A. Diefenbach Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Meg Gerrard
Meg Gerrard University of Connecticut
Frederick X. Gibbons
Frederick X. Gibbons University of Connecticut
Linda D. Cameron
Linda D. Cameron University of California, Merced
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen Carnegie Mellon University
Kevin D. McCaul
Kevin D. McCaul North Dakota State University
Stephen Sutton
Stephen Sutton University of Cambridge

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