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Rebecca Pillai Riddell

Rebecca Pillai Riddell

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
31
Citations
4653
World Ranking
11152
National Ranking
775

Rebecca Pillai Riddell 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 Rebecca Pillai Riddell sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 103 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Rebecca Pillai Riddell 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 Rebecca Pillai Riddell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Rebecca Pillai Riddell is affiliated with York University in Canada and has a focused research portfolio primarily in Medicine and Psychology. Their work spans diverse subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The primary topics of their research encompass Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, Infant Health and Development, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, and Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control.

Frequently publishing within reputable venues, Rebecca Pillai Riddell has contributed multiple works to journals such as Pain, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, European Journal of Pain, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, and Children.

Recent papers include:

  • Non-pharmacological management of infant and young child procedural pain, 2023, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Quantification of neonatal procedural pain severity: a platform for estimating total pain burden in individual infants, 2020, Pain
  • Associations Between Early Childhood Parent-Child Attachment and Internalizing/Externalizing Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis, 2021, Marriage & Family Review
  • The impact of parental contact upon cortical noxious-related activity in human neonates, 2020, European Journal of Pain
  • Psychosocial and Neurobiological Vulnerabilities of the Hospitalized Preterm Infant and Relevant Non-pharmacological Pain Mitigation Strategies, 2021, Frontiers in Pediatrics

Their co-author network includes researchers such as David B. Flora, Hartley Garfield, Eitan Weinberg, Deena Savlov, and Oana Bucsea, indicating collaborative work primarily in pediatric and psychological research domains.

Best Publications

  • Cochrane Review: Non-pharmacological management of infant and young child procedural pain

    Rebecca R Pillai Riddell;Nicole M Racine;Kara Turcotte;Lindsay S Uman

  • Reducing the pain of childhood vaccination: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline (summary)

    Anna Taddio;Mary Appleton;Robert Bortolussi;Christine Chambers

  • Far From "Just a Poke": Common Painful Needle Procedures and the Development of Needle Fear.

    C. Meghan McMurtry;Rebecca Pillai Riddell;Anna Taddio;Nicole Racine

  • Reducing pain during vaccine injections: clinical practice guideline.

    Anna Taddio;C. Meghan McMurtry;Vibhuti Shah;Rebecca Pillai Riddell

  • Pharmacological and Combined Interventions to Reduce Vaccine Injection Pain in Children and Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Vibhuti Shah;Anna Taddio;C. Meghan McMurtry;Scott A. Halperin

  • The Infancy of Infant Pain Research: The Experimental Origins of Infant Pain Denial

    Elissa N. Rodkey;Rebecca Pillai Riddell

  • Exposure-based Interventions for the management of individuals with high levels of needle fear across the lifespan: a clinical practice guideline and call for further research

    C. Meghan McMurtry;Anna Taddio;Melanie Noel;Martin M. Antony

  • Cognitive and school functioning in children and adolescents with chronic pain: a critical review.

    Bruce D Dick;Rebecca Pillai Riddell

  • Procedural and Physical Interventions for Vaccine Injections: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials and Quasi-Randomized Controlled Trials

    Anna Taddio;Vibhuti Shah;C. Meghan McMurtry;Noni E. MacDonald

  • Systematic Review: Predisposing, Precipitating, Perpetuating, and Present Factors Predicting Anticipatory Distress to Painful Medical Procedures in Children

    Nicole M. Racine;Rebecca R. Pillai Riddell;Maria Khan;Masa Calic

  • Non-pharmacological pain management in the neonatal intensive care unit: Managing neonatal pain without drugs.

    Oana Bucsea;Rebecca Pillai Riddell

  • Interventions for Individuals With High Levels of Needle Fear: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials and Quasi-Randomized Controlled Trials.

    C. Meghan McMurtry;Melanie Noel;Anna Taddio;Martin M. Antony

  • Judgments of Infant Pain: The Impact of Caregiver Identity and Infant Age

    Rebecca R. Pillai Riddell;Kenneth D. Craig

  • The relationship between caregiver sensitivity and infant pain behaviors across the first year of life

    Rebecca Pillai Riddell;Rebecca Pillai Riddell;Rebecca Pillai Riddell;Lauren Campbell;David B. Flora;Nicole Racine

  • Nonpharmacological management of procedural pain in infants and young children: An abridged Cochrane review

    Rebecca Pillai Riddell;Nicole Racine;Kara Turcotte;Lindsay S Uman

  • Knowledge translation of the HELPinKIDS clinical practice guideline for managing childhood vaccination pain: usability and knowledge uptake of educational materials directed to new parents

    Anna Taddio;Vibhuti Shah;Eman Leung;Jane Wang

  • Understanding the psychosocial profile of women with fibromyalgia syndrome.

    Jill Shuster;Jana McCormack;Rebecca Pillai Riddell;Maggie E Toplak

  • Validation of the short-form McGill pain questionnaire-2 in younger and older people with cancer pain.

    Lynn R. Gauthier;Alycia Young;Robert H. Dworkin;Gary Rodin;Gary Rodin

  • Variability in infant acute pain responding meaningfully obscured by averaging pain responses.

    Rebecca Pillai Riddell;David B. Flora;Sara A. Stevens;Bonnie Stevens

  • A longitudinal analysis of the development of infant facial expressions in response to acute pain: immediate and regulatory expressions.

    Sara Ahola Kohut;Rebecca Pillai Riddell;Rebecca Pillai Riddell;David B. Flora;Harriet Oster

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine T. Chambers
Christine T. Chambers Dalhousie University
Melanie Noel
Melanie Noel University of Calgary
Bonnie Stevens
Bonnie Stevens University of Toronto
Nicole Racine
Nicole Racine University of Ottawa
David B. Flora
David B. Flora York University
Kenneth D. Craig
Kenneth D. Craig University of British Columbia
Joel Katz
Joel Katz York University
Noni MacDonald
Noni MacDonald Dalhousie University
Gordon J.G. Asmundson
Gordon J.G. Asmundson University of Regina
Scott A. Halperin
Scott A. Halperin Dalhousie University

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