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Papers

(The median citation count of Health Psychology Review is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Why do people sit? A framework for targeted behavior change	439
Coping style and mental health amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a culture-moderated meta-analysis of 44 nations	109
Is thematic analysis used well in health psychology? A critical review of published research, with recommendations for quality practice and reporting	79
On social health: history, conceptualization, and population patterning	55
The concept of treatment beliefs in children and adolescents with chronic health conditions: a scoping review	52
Experiences of women who self-report Breast Implant Illness (BII): a qualitative evidence synthesis	46
Affective touch and regulation of stress responses	39
Acceptance and commitment therapy processes and their association with distress in cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	39
Insights into the complexities of symptom management for hemodialysis patients: a systematic review of qualitative studies	37
Post-traumatic stress symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder, and post-traumatic growth among cancer survivors: a systematic scoping review of interventions	36
Barriers and enablers to maintaining self-management behaviours after attending a self-management support intervention for type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis	33
Identifying the active ingredients of training interventions for healthcare professionals to promote and support increased levels of physical activity in adults with heart failure: a systematic review	32
Diagnostic uncertainty in patients, parents, and physicians: a compensatory control theory perspective	28
The effects of retirement on cognitive functioning based on a systematic review of longitudinal studies	28
Promoting physical activity during retirement age with psychological components: multilevel meta-analysis	27
Psychosocial determinants of alternative protein choices: a meta-review	26
Investigating stress and health behaviour relationships in daily life: towards a framework for advancing future research	26
Meditation and workplace health: a systematic review and meta-analysis of mental and cardiometabolic outcomes among employees	22
Habit and habitual behaviour	21
What factors are related to engagement with digital mental health interventions (DMHIs)? A meta-analysis of 117 trials	18
Efficacy of interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms induced by traumatic medical events: a systematic review	18
A scoping review of placebo and nocebo responses and effects: insights for clinical trials and practice	18
Attractor landscapes: a unifying conceptual model for understanding behaviour change across scales of observation	18
Gay community involvement and the sexual health behaviours of sexual minority men: a systematic review and directions for future research	15
Inhibitory control training to reduce appetitive behaviour: a meta-analytic investigation of effectiveness, potential moderators, and underlying mechanisms of change	14

The impact of psychosocial interventions on women with gynaecological cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
The relationship between expectancy, anxiety, and the nocebo effect: a systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for future research	13
Psychological, social and behavioural factors associated with disease/illness activity and adjustment to Lupus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Mindfulness-based psychosocial interventions and psychological wellbeing in cancer survivorship: a meta-analysis	13
The effects of graded tasks on physical activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Development of the social dimensions of health behaviour framework	12
Introduction to the special issue ‘New directions in the biology of stress’	11
Self-help interventions for persistent physical symptoms: a systematic review of behaviour change components and their potential effects	11
Psychological interventions for individuals with long COVID: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Experiences of psychological interventions in neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review and thematic synthesis	11
Toward an integrative perspective of personalised stress regulation: insights from perceptual control theory	10
Compendium of dyadic intervention techniques (DITs) to change health behaviours: a systematic review	10
Neuropsychological assessment in non-central nervous system cancer patients: a systematic review of cognitive screening and assessment within oncology practice	10
Employing illness perceptions and mindsets in health contexts: towards an integrative framework	10
Back to basics in the field of loneliness: progressing conceptualisation and definition of the term – an umbrella concept analysis	9
Differences in stress system (re-)activity between single and dual- or multitasking in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Climate hazards and psychological health among coastal communities in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence	9
Consistent hearing aid use in babies (CHerUB): a systematic review and mixed methods synthesis of barriers and facilitators using the theoretical domains framework	9
The iterative development and refinement of health psychology theories through formal, dynamical systems modelling: a scoping review and initial expert-derived ‘best practice’ recommendations	8
Assessment of stress and its relationship with health behaviour in daily life: a systematic review	8
The role of social identity and procedural fairness in shaping the impact of police interactions on mental health: a justice-identification model	8
The effects of community-based green exercise on health, wellbeing, and physical activity participation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the quantitative and qualitative literature	8
Adoption of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines within health psychology and behavioural medicine journal policies: a cross-sectional study	8
Behaviour change techniques and intervention characteristics in digital cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	7
Good mental health in people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review	6
A biobehavioural and social-structural model of inflammation and executive function in pediatric chronic health conditions	6
Emotion suppression and acute physiological responses to stress in healthy populations: a quantitative review of experimental and correlational investigations	6
Understanding health behaviours in context: A systematic review and meta-analysis of ecological momentary assessment studies of five key health behaviours	6
Protection motivation theory and health behaviour: conceptual review, discussion of limitations, and recommendations for best practice and future research	6
Contextualising flexible nonlinear periodization as a person-adaptive behavioral model for exercise maintenance	6
Maintenance of lifestyle changes following lifestyle interventions in breast cancer survivors: a systematic literature review	6
Physical activity interventions for the promotion of mental health outcomes in at-risk children and adolescents: a systematic review	6
Mapping interventions to increase uptake of breast and cervical cancer screening along the Intervention Ladder: a systematic review	6