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Simon Chapman 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 Simon Chapman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 528 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon Chapman 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 Simon Chapman 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

Simon Chapman is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Business, Management and Accounting. Their work features a focus on several subfields including Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Marketing, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The scientist's research spans multiple main topics such as Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Synthesis and Biological Activity, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Environmental Conservation and Management.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Simon Chapman include:

  • E-cigarette Transitions Among US Youth and Adults: Results from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study (2013-2018), 2022, Journal of Prevention
  • Response to Mendelsohn, Borland and Hall's 'Could vaping help lower smoking rates in Australia?', 2020, Drug and Alcohol Review

The scientist's work has appeared in journals and venues such as:

  • Journal of Prevention
  • Drug and Alcohol Review
  • American Journal of Public Health
  • Addiction
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Simon Chapman frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among whom are Mike Daube, Olatokunbo Osibogun, Matthew Peters, Zoran Bursac, and Wasim Maziak.

In addition to journal publications, Simon Chapman has published books with Sydney University Press eBooks, including two editions of Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The Cigarette Papers

    Simon Chapman

  • Health promoting schools and health promotion in schools: two systematic reviews

    D Lister-Sharp;S Chapman;S Stewart-Brown;A Sowden

  • Antivaccination activists on the world wide web

    P Davies;S Chapman;J Leask

  • Impact of Tobacco Control Policies and Mass Media Campaigns on Monthly Adult Smoking Prevalence

    Melanie A. Wakefield;Sarah Durkin;Matthew J. Spittal;Mohammad Siahpush

  • Is “YouTube” telling or selling you something? Tobacco content on the YouTube video-sharing website

    Becky Freeman;Simon Chapman

  • Markers of the denormalisation of smoking and the tobacco industry

    S Chapman;B Freeman

  • The impact of smoke-free workplaces on declining cigarette consumption in Australia and the United States.

    S Chapman;R Borland;M Scollo;R C Brownson

  • The global research neglect of unassisted smoking cessation: causes and consequences.

    Simon Chapman;Ross MacKenzie

  • Australia's 1996 gun law reforms: faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings

    S. Chapman;Philip A. Alpers;Kingsley Agho;Marc Jones

  • Self-exempting beliefs about smoking and health: differences between smokers and ex-smokers.

    S. Chapman;Wai Leng Wong;W. Smith

  • Public health advocacy and tobacco control : making smoking history

    Simon Chapman

  • The case for the plain packaging of tobacco products

    Becky Freeman;Simon Chapman;Matthew Rimmer

  • Impact of news of celebrity illness on breast cancer screening: Kylie Minogue's breast cancer diagnosis.

    Simon Chapman;Kim Mcleod;Melanie Wakefield;Simon Holding

  • Effects of workplace smoking bans on cigarette consumption.

    R Borland;S Chapman;N Owen;D Hill

  • Digital junk: food and beverage marketing on Facebook.

    Becky Freeman;Bridget Kelly;Louise Baur;Kathy Chapman

  • 'A healthy lifestyle might be the death of you': discourses on diet, cholesterol control and heart disease in the press and among the lay public.

    Deborah Lupton;Simon Chapman

  • Preventing dog bites in children: randomised controlled trial of an educational intervention.

    Simon Chapman;John Cornwall;Joanne Righetti;Lynne Sung

  • Tobacco Control Advocacy in Australia: Reflections on 30 Years of Progress

    Simon Chapman;Melanie Wakefield

  • "Bulletproof skeptics in life's jungle": which self-exempting beliefs about smoking most predict lack of progression towards quitting?

    Wendy Oakes;Simon Chapman;Ron Borland;James Balmford

  • Advocacy in public health: roles and challenges

    Simon Chapman

  • Advertising as information

    Simon Chapman

Frequent Co-Authors

Melanie Wakefield
Melanie Wakefield Cancer Council Victoria
Wayne Hall
Wayne Hall University of Queensland
Stacy M Carter
Stacy M Carter University of Wollongong
Ron Borland
Ron Borland University of Melbourne
Deborah Lupton
Deborah Lupton University of New South Wales
Lesley King
Lesley King University of Sydney
Adrian Bauman
Adrian Bauman University of Sydney
Julie Leask
Julie Leask University of Sydney
Andrew Milat
Andrew Milat New South Wales Department of Health
Sarah Durkin
Sarah Durkin Cancer Council Victoria

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