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Sheina Orbell 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 Sheina Orbell sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 137 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sheina Orbell 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 Sheina Orbell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sheina Orbell is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span psychology and medicine, with a focus on applied psychology, social psychology, general health professions, sociology and political science, and clinical psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include behavioral health and interventions, antibiotic use and resistance, environmental education and sustainability, urban green space and health, mental health research topics, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, and the intersection of health, psychology, and well-being.

Their recent publications reflect diverse areas of psychological research, with notable papers such as:

  • Attitudes, Habits, and Behavior Change, 2021, Annual Review of Psychology
  • The common sense model of illness self-regulation: a conceptual review and proposed extended model, 2021, Health Psychology Review
  • Psychological benefits of outdoor physical activity in natural versus urban environments: A systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies, 2022, Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being
  • Developing habit-based health behaviour change interventions: twenty-one questions to guide future research, 2021, Psychology and Health
  • Loosening the GRIP (Gender Roles Inhibiting Prosociality) to Promote Gender Equality, 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Review

Orbell frequently publishes in journals such as Health Psychology Review and PsycTESTS Dataset, with multiple contributions in each, as well as the Annual Review of Psychology, Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being, and Psychology and Health.

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Orbell's research, with regular co-authors including Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, Alistair Thorpe, Leanne Andrews, and Bas Verplanken. These partnerships span multiple studies and topics within psychology and health behavior.

Best Publications

  • Reflections on past behavior: A self-report index of habit strength

    Bas Verplanken;Sheina Orbell

  • A Meta-Analytic Review of the Common-Sense Model of Illness Representations

    Martin S. Hagger;Sheina Orbell

  • Prediction and Intervention in Health-Related Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of Protection Motivation Theory

    Sarah Milne;Paschal Sheeran;Sheina Orbell

  • Psychosocial correlates of heterosexual condom use: a meta-analysis.

    Paschal Sheeran;Charles Abraham;Sheina Orbell

  • Combining motivational and volitional interventions to promote exercise participation: Protection motivation theory and implementation intentions

    Sarah Milne;Sheina Orbell;Paschal Sheeran

  • Implementation Intentions and the Theory of Planned Behavior

    Sheina Orbell;Sarah Hodgkins;Paschal Sheeran

  • Implementation intentions and repeated behaviour: augmenting the predictive validity of the theory of planned behaviour

    Paschal J. Sheeran;Sheina Orbell

  • Augmenting the Theory of Planned Behavior: Roles for Anticipated Regret and Descriptive Norms

    Paschal Sheeran;Sheina Orbell

  • The automatic component of habit in health behavior: habit as cue-contingent automaticity.

    Sheina Orbell;Bas Verplanken

  • Using Implementation Intentions to Increase Attendance for Cervical Cancer Screening

    Paschal J. Sheeran;Sheina Orbell

  • Do intentions predict condom use? Meta-analysis and examination of six moderator variables.

    Paschal Sheeran;Sheina Orbell

  • ‘Inclined abstainers’: A problem for predicting health-related behaviour

    Sheina Orbell;Paschal Sheeran

  • The Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation: Meta-Analysis and Test of a Process Model

    Martin S. Hagger;Severine Koch;Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis;Sheina Orbell

  • Does the Temporal Stability of Behavioral Intentions Moderate Intention-Behavior and Past Behavior-Future Behavior Relations?

    Paschal Sheeran;Sheina Orbell;David Trafimow

  • Motivational and volitional processes in action initiation: A field study of the role of implementation intentions

    Sheina Orbell;Paschal Sheeran

  • Attitudes, Habits, and Behavior Change.

    Bas Verplanken;Sheina Orbell

  • Evidence that intentions based on attitudes better predict behaviour than intentions based on subjective norms.

    Paschal Sheeran;Paul Norman;Sheina Orbell

  • Individual differences in sensitivity to health communications: consideration of future consequences.

    Sheina Orbell;Marco Perugini;Tim Rakow

  • Self-schemas and the theory of planned behaviour

    Paschal Sheeran;Sheina Orbell

  • Antecedents of children's physical activity intentions and behaviour: Predictive validity and longitudinal effects

    Martin s. Hagger;Nikos Chatzisarantis;Stuart J.H. Biddle;Sheina Orbell

  • Temporal framing and the decision to take part in type 2 diabetes screening: effects of individual differences in consideration of future consequences on persuasion.

    Sheina Orbell;Martin Hagger

Frequent Co-Authors

Paschal Sheeran
Paschal Sheeran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Martin S. Hagger
Martin S. Hagger University of California, Merced
Kyra Hamilton
Kyra Hamilton Griffith University
Bas Verplanken
Bas Verplanken University of Bath
Robert J. C. Steele
Robert J. C. Steele University of Dundee
Barbara Mullan
Barbara Mullan Curtin University
Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston University of Aberdeen
Charles Abraham
Charles Abraham University of Exeter
Nick Hopkins
Nick Hopkins University of Dundee

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