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1677
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Simon Murphy 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 Murphy sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 315 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon Murphy 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 Murphy sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 58 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Simon Murphy is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and has an extensive publication record in the fields of health professions and psychology. Their research spans topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, community health and development, and health policy implementation science.

Their main research fields include:

  • Health Professions
  • Psychology

Within these fields, the scientist's work extends into subfields such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Education
  • Social Psychology

Key topics frequently addressed by Murphy include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Community Health and Development
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • School Health and Nursing Education
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Health, Psychology, and Well-being
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Simon Murphy's recent papers illustrate the scope of their research interests and contributions:

  • Co-production as an Emerging Methodology for Developing School-Based Health Interventions with Students Aged 11-16: Systematic Review of Intervention Types, Theories and Processes and Thematic Synthesis of Stakeholders' Experiences, 2020, Prevention Science
  • An app-, web- and social support-based weight loss intervention for adults with obesity: the HelpMeDoIt! feasibility RCT, 2020, Public Health Research
  • Measurement invariance of the short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale and latent mean differences (SWEMWBS) in young people by current care status, 2021, Quality of Life Research
  • Socioeconomic status, mental wellbeing and transition to secondary school: Analysis of the School Health Research Network/Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey in Wales, 2020, British Educational Research Journal
  • Using Latent Class Analysis to Explore Complex Associations Between Socioeconomic Status and Adolescent Health and Well-Being, 2021, Journal of Adolescent Health

The researcher has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Graham Moore
  • Rhiannon Evans
  • Lauren Copeland
  • Nicholas Page
  • Gillian Hewitt

Simon Murphy's work has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • BMC Public Health
  • BMJ Open
  • Public Health Research
  • Health Research Policy and Systems

Best Publications

  • The WHO Health Promoting School framework for improving the health and well‐being of students and their academic achievement

    Rebecca Langford;Christopher P Bonell;Hayley E Jones;Theodora Pouliou

  • The World Health Organization's Health Promoting Schools framework: a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Rebecca Langford;Christopher Bonell;Hayley Jones;Theodora Pouliou

  • Is teachers’ mental health and wellbeing associated with students’ mental health and wellbeing?

    Sarah Harding;Richard Morris;David Gunnell;Tamsin Ford

  • From complex social interventions to interventions in complex social systems: future directions and unresolved questions for intervention development and evaluation

    Graham F Moore;Rhiannon E Evans;Jemma Hawkins;Hannah Littlecott

  • Realist complex intervention science: Applying realist principles across all phases of the Medical Research Council framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions

    Adam Fletcher;Farah Jamal;Graham Moore;Rhiannon E. Evans

  • Development of a framework for the co-production and prototyping of public health interventions

    Jemma Hawkins;Kim Madden;Adam Fletcher;Luke Midgley

  • Health locus of control and health behaviour.

    Paul Norman;Paul Bennett;Christopher Smith;Simon Murphy

  • An evaluation of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the National Exercise Referral Scheme in Wales, UK: a randomised controlled trial of a public health policy initiative

    Simon Murphy;Rhiannon Tudor Edwards;Nefyn Howard Williams;Lawrence Matthew Raisanen

  • Systematic review of the effects of schools and school environment interventions on health: evidence mapping and synthesis

    C. Bonell;F. Jamal;A. Harden;H. Wells

  • School, Peer and Family Relationships and Adolescent Substance Use, Subjective Wellbeing and Mental Health Symptoms in Wales: a Cross Sectional Study.

    Graham F. Moore;Rebecca Cox;Rhiannon E. Evans;Britt Hallingberg

  • Using simple portable OSL measurements and laboratory characterisation to help understand complex and heterogeneous sediment sequences for luminescence dating

    David C.W. Sanderson;Simon Murphy

  • Psychology and Health Promotion

    Paul Bennett;Simon Murphy

  • Exploratory studies to decide whether and how to proceed with full-scale evaluations of public health interventions: a systematic review of guidance

    Britt Hallingberg;Ruth Turley;Jeremy Segrott;Daniel Wight

  • The effects of the school environment on student health: A systematic review of multi-level studies

    Chris Bonell;Will Parry;Helene Wells;Farah Jamal

  • The Health Promoting Schools Framework: Known Unknowns and an Agenda for Future Research:

    R M Langford;Christopher P Bonell;Kelli A Komro;Simon Murphy

  • Theories of how the school environment impacts on student health: systematic review and synthesis

    C.P. Bonell;A. Fletcher;F. Jamal;Helene Anne Wells

  • What is positive youth development and how might it reduce substance use and violence? A systematic review and synthesis of theoretical literature

    Chris Bonell;Kate Hinds;Kelly Dickson;James Thomas

  • Electronic-cigarette use among young people in Wales: evidence from two cross-sectional surveys.

    Graham Moore;Gillian Hewitt;John David Evans;Hannah Littlecott

  • Health locus of control and value for health in smokers and nonsmokers

    Paul Bennett;Paul Norman;Laurence Anthony Russell Moore;Simon Murphy

  • Implementation of a School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Intervention: Understanding Diffusion Processes Within Complex Systems

    Rhiannon Emily Evans;Simon Murphy;Jonathan Bryn Scourfield

  • Theories of behavioural change and their use in health promotion: some neglected areas

    Robin Bunton;Simon Murphy;Paul Bennett

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence Moore
Laurence Moore University of Glasgow
Graham Moore
Graham Moore Cardiff University
Adam Fletcher
Adam Fletcher Cardiff University
Chris Bonell
Chris Bonell London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Rona Campbell
Rona Campbell University of Bristol
Katy Tapper
Katy Tapper City, University of London
Matthew Hickman
Matthew Hickman University of Bristol
Paul Bennett
Paul Bennett Swansea University
Kerenza Hood
Kerenza Hood Cardiff University
Jonathan Scourfield
Jonathan Scourfield Cardiff University

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