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D-Index
72
Citations
17554
World Ranking
697
National Ranking
130

Peter Fisher 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 Peter Fisher sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 265 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Fisher 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 Peter Fisher sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Peter Fisher is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Oncology, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work addresses a range of main topics including Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes; Cancer survivorship and care; Family Support in Illness; Cardiac Health and Mental Health; Ocular Oncology and Treatments; Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units; and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life.

Frequently, Peter Fisher has published in several notable venues. These include Frontiers in Psychology, Psycho-Oncology, Journal of Affective Disorders, Research Involvement and Engagement, and Journal of Cancer Survivorship.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Fisher are:

  • What is the prevalence of fear of cancer recurrence in cancer survivors and patients? A systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis, 2022, Psycho-Oncology
  • Where and with whom does a brief social-belonging intervention promote progress in college?, 2023, Science
  • Improving the Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions for Depression and Anxiety in Cardiac Rehabilitation: PATHWAY-A Single-Blind, Parallel, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Group Metacognitive Therapy, 2021, Circulation
  • Understanding the identity of lived experience researchers and providers: a conceptual framework and systematic narrative review, 2023, Research Involvement and Engagement
  • Uncertainty and test anxiety: Psychometric properties of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale - 12 (IUS-12) among university students, 2020, International Journal of Educational Research

Peter Fisher has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include Mary Gemma Cherry, Stephen L. Brown, Laura Hope-Stone, Adrian Wells, and David Reeves.

Best Publications

  • The pixel: A snare and a delusion

    P. Fisher

  • Mouse mutants lacking the type 2 IGF receptor (IGF2R) are rescued from perinatal lethality in Igf2 and Igf1r null backgrounds.

    Thomas Ludwig;Jonathan Eggenschwiler;Peter Fisher;A.Joseph D'Ercole

  • Causes and consequences of error in digital elevation models

    Peter F. Fisher;Nicholas J. Tate

  • A critical synthesis of remotely sensed optical image change detection techniques

    Andrew P. Tewkesbury;Andrew P. Tewkesbury;Alexis J. Comber;Nicholas J. Tate;Alistair Lamb

  • How effective are cognitive and behavioral treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder? A clinical significance analysis.

    Peter L. Fisher;Adrian Wells

  • Mouse mutant embryos overexpressing IGF-II exhibit phenotypic features of the Beckwith–Wiedemann and Simpson–Golabi–Behmel syndromes

    Jonathan Eggenschwiler;Thomas Ludwig;Peter Fisher;Philip A. Leighton

  • Metacognitive therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a case series.

    Peter L. Fisher;Adrian Wells

  • Recovery rates in generalized anxiety disorder following psychological therapy: an analysis of clinically significant change in the STAI-T across outcome studies since 1990.

    Peter L. Fisher;Robert C. Durham

  • Algorithm and implementation uncertainty in viewshed analysis

    Peter F. Fisher

  • First experiments in viewshed uncertainty : the accuracy of the viewshed area

    Peter F. Fisher

  • Metacognitive Therapy in Recurrent and Persistent Depression: A Multiple-Baseline Study of a New Treatment

    Adrian Wells;Peter Fisher;Samuel Myers;Jon Wheatley

  • International Virtual Field Trips: A New Direction?

    John Stainfield;Peter Fisher;Bob Ford;Michael Solem

  • Where is Helvellyn? Fuzziness of multi‐scale landscape morphometry

    Peter Fisher;Jo Wood;Tao Cheng

  • Belief domains of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44) and their specific relationship with obsessive-compulsive symptoms

    Samuel G. Myers;Peter L. Fisher;Adrian Wells

  • Spatial analysis of remote sensing image classification accuracy

    Alexis Comber;Peter Fisher;Chris Brunsdon;Abdulhakim Khmag

  • Imagery rescripting as a brief stand-alone treatment for depressed patients with intrusive memories.

    Chris R. Brewin;Jon Wheatley;Trishna Patel;Pasco Fearon

  • The evaluation of fuzzy membership of land cover classes in the suburban zone

    Peter F Fisher;Sumith Pathirana

  • Sorites paradox and vague geographies

    Peter Fisher

  • Modelling the Errors in Areal Interpolation between Zonal Systems by Monte Carlo Simulation

    P F Fisher;M Langford

  • Experimental modification of beliefs in obsessive–compulsive disorder: a test of the metacognitive model

    Peter L. Fisher;Adrian Wells

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Wells
Adrian Wells University of Manchester
Peter Salmon
Peter Salmon University of Liverpool
Alexis J. Comber
Alexis J. Comber University of Leeds
Jo Wood
Jo Wood City, University of London
Bridget Young
Bridget Young University of Liverpool
Chris R. Brewin
Chris R. Brewin University College London
Wenzhong Shi
Wenzhong Shi Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Alfred Stein
Alfred Stein University of Twente
Odin Hjemdal
Odin Hjemdal Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Emmanuelle Peters
Emmanuelle Peters King's College London

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