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Papers

(The median citation count of Health Psychology Review is 5. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Affective touch and regulation of stress responses	306
Coping style and mental health amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a culture-moderated meta-analysis of 44 nations	75
On social health: history, conceptualization, and population patterning	73
Acceptance and commitment therapy processes and their association with distress in cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	59
The concept of treatment beliefs in children and adolescents with chronic health conditions: a scoping review	54
Experiences of women who self-report Breast Implant Illness (BII): a qualitative evidence synthesis	54
Why do people sit? A framework for targeted behavior change	51
Is thematic analysis used well in health psychology? A critical review of published research, with recommendations for quality practice and reporting	41
Insights into the complexities of symptom management for hemodialysis patients: a systematic review of qualitative studies	40
Post-traumatic stress symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder, and post-traumatic growth among cancer survivors: a systematic scoping review of interventions	34
The effects of retirement on cognitive functioning based on a systematic review of longitudinal studies	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	29
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	29
Diagnostic uncertainty in patients, parents, and physicians: a compensatory control theory perspective	29
Psychosocial determinants of alternative protein choices: a meta-review	28
Habit and habitual behaviour	26
Old ideas, new directions: re-examining the predictive utility of the hemodynamic profile of the stress response in healthy populations	24
Promoting physical activity during retirement age with psychological components: multilevel meta-analysis	24
Attractor landscapes: a unifying conceptual model for understanding behaviour change across scales of observation	23
Efficacy of interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms induced by traumatic medical events: a systematic review	22
What factors are related to engagement with digital mental health interventions (DMHIs)? A meta-analysis of 117 trials	19
Why do they care? A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis of personal and relational motivations for providing informal care	19
A scoping review of placebo and nocebo responses and effects: insights for clinical trials and practice	18
A machine-learning assisted review of the use of habit formation in medication adherence interventions for long-term conditions	17
Psychological, social and behavioural factors associated with disease/illness activity and adjustment to Lupus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	17

Mindfulness-based psychosocial interventions and psychological wellbeing in cancer survivorship: a meta-analysis	17
Inhibitory control training to reduce appetitive behaviour: a meta-analytic investigation of effectiveness, potential moderators, and underlying mechanisms of change	17
Gay community involvement and the sexual health behaviours of sexual minority men: a systematic review and directions for future research	17
Development of the social dimensions of health behaviour framework	16
How and why could smiling influence physical health? A conceptual review	16
The relationship between expectancy, anxiety, and the nocebo effect: a systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for future research	15
The impact of psychosocial interventions on women with gynaecological cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Self-help interventions for persistent physical symptoms: a systematic review of behaviour change components and their potential effects	13
White Paper: Open Digital Health – accelerating transparent and scalable health promotion and treatment	12
Evaluating group psychological interventions for mental health in women with infertility undertaking fertility treatment: A systematic review and meta-Analysis	12
A meta-analysis of loneliness and use of primary health care	11
Introduction to the special issue ‘New directions in the biology of stress’	11
Experiences of psychological interventions in neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review and thematic synthesis	11
Employing illness perceptions and mindsets in health contexts: towards an integrative framework	10
Neuropsychological assessment in non-central nervous system cancer patients: a systematic review of cognitive screening and assessment within oncology practice	9
Compendium of dyadic intervention techniques (DITs) to change health behaviours: a systematic review	9
Differences in stress system (re-)activity between single and dual- or multitasking in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
The role of social identity and procedural fairness in shaping the impact of police interactions on mental health: a justice-identification model	8
Assessment of stress and its relationship with health behaviour in daily life: a systematic review	8
Back to basics in the field of loneliness: progressing conceptualisation and definition of the term – an umbrella concept analysis	8
Climate hazards and psychological health among coastal communities in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence	8
The iterative development and refinement of health psychology theories through formal, dynamical systems modelling: a scoping review and initial expert-derived ‘best practice’ recommendations	7
Maintenance of lifestyle changes following lifestyle interventions in breast cancer survivors: a systematic literature review	7
Adoption of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines within health psychology and behavioural medicine journal policies: a cross-sectional study	7
Behaviour change techniques and intervention characteristics in digital cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	7
Insulin restriction or omission in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: a meta-synthesis of individuals’ experiences of diabulimia	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
Fear of progression in chronic illnesses other than cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of a transdiagnostic construct	6
Good mental health in people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review	6
Contextualising flexible nonlinear periodization as a person-adaptive behavioral model for exercise maintenance	5
Identifying the psychosocial barriers and facilitators associated with the uptake of genetic services for hereditary cancer syndromes: a systematic review of qualitative studies	5
Analysis of dynamic psychological processes to understand and promote physical activity behaviour using intensive longitudinal methods: a primer	5
Physical activity interventions for the promotion of mental health outcomes in at-risk children and adolescents: a systematic review	5
A biobehavioural and social-structural model of inflammation and executive function in pediatric chronic health conditions	5
Emotion suppression and acute physiological responses to stress in healthy populations: a quantitative review of experimental and correlational investigations	5