Alex Gillespie

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
140 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Alex Gillespie is a scholar working on Social Psychology, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Gillespie has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Social Psychology, 31 papers in General Health Professions and 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Alex Gillespie's work include Social Representations and Identity (37 papers), Community Health and Development (21 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (15 papers). Alex Gillespie is often cited by papers focused on Social Representations and Identity (37 papers), Community Health and Development (21 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (15 papers). Alex Gillespie collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Norway. Alex Gillespie's co-authors include Tom W. Reader, Flora Cornish, Tania Zittoun, Brett Heasman, Brian O’Neill, Jane Roberts, Catherine Best, Emma‐Louise Aveling, Mark C. Noort and Jack Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Applied Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Alex Gillespie

125 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Patient complaints in healthcare systems: a systematic review and coding taxonomy

2014 280 citations Tom W. Reader, Alex Gillespie et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Gillespie United Kingdom	33	1.2k	948	947	511	466	140	4.2k
Cliódhna O’Connor Ireland	19	553 0.5×	849 0.9×	668 0.7×	788 1.5×	331 0.7×	61	3.8k
Paschal Sheeran United Kingdom	34	1.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.5×	795 0.8×	1.5k 3.0×	516 1.1×	66	5.9k
Sue Wilkinson United Kingdom	33	1.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.8×	738 0.8×	711 1.4×	88 0.2×	95	4.9k
Cindy Gallois Australia	47	1.5k 1.2×	1.7k 1.8×	1.3k 1.4×	535 1.0×	164 0.4×	218	6.5k
Heidi M. Levitt United States	40	2.4k 2.0×	1.3k 1.4×	752 0.8×	2.5k 5.0×	304 0.7×	139	5.9k
Marianne Schmid Mast Switzerland	32	1.1k 0.9×	897 0.9×	783 0.8×	378 0.7×	401 0.9×	111	3.1k
Corinne A. Moss‐Racusin United States	29	1.0k 0.9×	2.3k 2.4×	390 0.4×	641 1.3×	170 0.4×	58	5.6k
Dana R. Carney United States	23	1.4k 1.1×	2.0k 2.1×	351 0.4×	650 1.3×	679 1.5×	48	4.1k
Victor Savicki United States	23	1.3k 1.0×	929 1.0×	579 0.6×	1.3k 2.5×	86 0.2×	50	3.5k
Diane L. Putnick United States	38	2.0k 1.6×	1.3k 1.4×	605 0.6×	3.2k 6.2×	440 0.9×	147	7.5k

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Zittoun, Tania & Alex Gillespie. (2025). Theorising Human Development in Adult Life: A Complex, Multidimensional, Dynamic, Situated Model. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 59(4). 77–77.

Reader, Tom W., et al.. (2025). Safety Listening in High‐Risk Situations: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Safety Voice in Aviation. Risk Analysis. 45(11). 3700–3723.

Gillespie, Alex & Brady Wagoner. (2025). The looping effects of psychological theories: From anomaly to opportunity. Theory & Psychology.

Gillespie, Alex, et al.. (2025). From Play Date to Stress Fate: Juvenile Social Play Rescues Stress‐Induced Changes in Adult Social Behavior. Developmental Psychobiology. 67(1). e70020–e70020. 1 indexed citations

Gillespie, Alex, et al.. (2025). The repeated adjustment of measurement protocols method for developing high-validity text classifiers.. Psychological Methods.

Reader, Tom W., et al.. (2024). Safety Listening in Organizations: An Integrated Conceptual Review. Organizational Psychology Review. 15(1). 93–124. 6 indexed citations

Kay, Emma Sophia, Alex Gillespie, & Mick Cooper. (2023). From Conflict and Suppression to Reflection: Longitudinal Analysis of Multivoicedness in Clients Experiencing Depression. Journal of Constructivist Psychology. 37(3). 239–258. 4 indexed citations

Gillespie, Alex, et al.. (2023). It depends who you ask: Divergences in staff and external stakeholder narratives about the causes of a healthcare failure. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 31(4). 752–766. 1 indexed citations

Noort, Mark C., Tom W. Reader, & Alex Gillespie. (2021). Sounds of silence: Data for analysing muted safety voice in speech. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 37. 107186–107186. 1 indexed citations

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Noort, Mark C., Tom W. Reader, & Alex Gillespie. (2019). Speaking up to prevent harm: A systematic review of the safety voice literature. Safety Science. 117. 375–387. 99 indexed citations

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Baucal, Aleksandar, et al.. (2019). Reproducibility in Psychology: Theoretical Distinction of Different Types of Replications. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 54(1). 152–157. 12 indexed citations

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Noort, Mark C., Tom W. Reader, & Alex Gillespie. (2019). Walking the Plank: An Experimental Paradigm to Investigate Safety Voice. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 668–668. 15 indexed citations

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Heasman, Brett & Alex Gillespie. (2018). Neurodivergent intersubjectivity: Distinctive features of how autistic people create shared understanding. Autism. 23(4). 910–921. 121 indexed citations

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Heasman, Brett & Alex Gillespie. (2017). Perspective-taking is two-sided: Misunderstandings between people with Asperger’s syndrome and their family members. Autism. 22(6). 740–750. 96 indexed citations

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Wagoner, Brady & Alex Gillespie. (2017). Emergence in Conversational Remembering. VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet). 25–44. 2 indexed citations

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Kadianaki, Irini & Alex Gillespie. (2014). Alterity and the Transformation of Social Representations: A Sociocultural Account. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 49(1). 73–88. 11 indexed citations

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Gillespie, Alex & Flora Cornish. (2010). What can be said? Identity as a constraint on knowledge production. Stirling Online Research Repository (University of Stirling). 19(1). 26 indexed citations

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Gillespie, Alex. (2009). Returning To James: a methodological challenge: commentary on “reflexive and nonreflexive identity perceptions: finding a balance” (Katharina Hametner & Amrei C. Joerchel). London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science).

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Zittoun, Tania, Alex Gillespie, Flora Cornish, & Charis Psaltis. (2007). The Metaphor of the Triangle in Theories of Human Development. Human Development. 50(4). 208–229. 54 indexed citations

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Gillespie, Alex. (2006). Becoming other : from social interaction to self-reflection. 72 indexed citations

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