Amanda C de C Williams

28.1k total citations · 9 hit papers
308 papers, 18.0k citations indexed

About

Amanda C de C Williams is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Amanda C de C Williams has authored 308 papers receiving a total of 18.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Pharmacology, 73 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 58 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Amanda C de C Williams's work include Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (129 papers), Pain Management and Placebo Effect (59 papers) and Pediatric Pain Management Techniques (47 papers). Amanda C de C Williams is often cited by papers focused on Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (129 papers), Pain Management and Placebo Effect (59 papers) and Pediatric Pain Management Techniques (47 papers). Amanda C de C Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Amanda C de C Williams's co-authors include Christopher Eccleston, Stephen Morley, Kenneth D. Craig, Emma Fisher, Tonya M. Palermo, Annmarie Caño, Leslie Hearn, Nadia Bianchi‐Berthouze, Phil Richardson and Judith Kappesser and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Psychological Bulletin and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Amanda C de C Williams

278 papers receiving 17.2k citations

Hit Papers

Handbook of pain assessment 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 2012 1999 1997 2016 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Handbook of pain assessment
    1995 1.3k citations Amanda C de C Williams profile →
  2. Psychological therapies for the management of chronic pain (excluding headache) in adults
    2012 1.1k citations Amanda C de C Williams, Christopher Eccleston et al. profile →
  3. Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of cognitive behaviour therapy and behaviour therapy for chronic pain in adults, excluding headache
    1999 1.1k citations Christopher Eccleston, Amanda C de C Williams et al. Pain profile →
  4. Psychological approaches to pain management: A practitioner's handbook
    1997 538 citations Amanda C de C Williams profile →
  5. Updating the definition of pain
    2016 480 citations Amanda C de C Williams et al. Pain profile →
  6. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Psychological Therapies for Children With Chronic Pain
    2014 452 citations Emma Fisher, Amanda C de C Williams et al. profile →
  7. Psychological therapies for the management of chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents
    2014 435 citations Christopher Eccleston, Amanda C de C Williams et al. profile →
  8. Psychological therapies for the management of chronic pain (excluding headache) in adults
    2020 396 citations Amanda C de C Williams, Emma Fisher et al. profile →
  9. Managing patients with chronic pain during the COVID-19 outbreak: considerations for the rapid introduction of remotely supported (eHealth) pain management services
    2020 332 citations Christopher Eccleston, Emma Fisher et al. Pain profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Amanda C de C Williams United Kingdom 63 7.2k 4.0k 4.0k 3.0k 2.3k 308 18.0k
Robert J. Gatchel United States 70 12.1k 1.7× 2.7k 0.7× 4.8k 1.2× 1.5k 0.5× 1.9k 0.8× 400 20.2k
Robert R. Edwards United States 80 10.1k 1.4× 5.3k 1.3× 5.4k 1.4× 2.6k 0.9× 1.9k 0.8× 415 21.2k
Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite United States 61 5.0k 0.7× 2.6k 0.7× 3.1k 0.8× 1.3k 0.4× 2.3k 1.0× 234 13.9k
Judith A. Turner United States 85 14.7k 2.0× 4.3k 1.1× 4.8k 1.2× 2.4k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 286 25.0k
Michael E. Robinson United States 74 8.9k 1.2× 5.1k 1.3× 5.2k 1.3× 1.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 307 17.5k
Gary J. Macfarlane United Kingdom 80 9.5k 1.3× 1.2k 0.3× 7.0k 1.8× 1.6k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 400 22.0k
Roger B. Fillingim United States 88 12.9k 1.8× 5.6k 1.4× 6.5k 1.6× 4.2k 1.4× 2.1k 0.9× 554 32.6k
Christopher Eccleston United Kingdom 90 14.2k 2.0× 7.9k 2.0× 6.3k 1.6× 8.3k 2.8× 5.3k 2.3× 329 29.6k
Joseph L. Riley United States 55 5.1k 0.7× 2.5k 0.6× 2.4k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 814 0.4× 233 12.4k
Patrick J. McGrath Canada 78 2.8k 0.4× 2.1k 0.5× 4.4k 1.1× 11.3k 3.8× 5.1k 2.2× 471 22.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sullivan, Mark D. & Amanda C de C Williams. (2025). Questioning the boundary between pain and suffering. Pain. 167(1). 1–7.
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Williams, Amanda C de C, et al.. (2025). Interpersonal dyadic influences on transitions between pain states: a narrative review and synthesis. Pain. 166(9). 1974–1995.
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Kappesser, Judith & Amanda C de C Williams. (2025). Give and take: an evolutionary framework for social transactions in pain. Pain. 166(8). 1723–1728.
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Olugbade, Temitayo, et al.. (2024). The EmoPain@Home Dataset: Capturing Pain Level and Activity Recognition for People With Chronic Pain in Their Homes. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 16(2). 471–484. 4 indexed citations
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Chevalier, Joshua M, Karla Therese L. Sy, Amanda C de C Williams, et al.. (2024). Cost-effectiveness of intervention combinations towards the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV in limited-resource settings: a mathematical modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. 12(3). e457–e466. 6 indexed citations
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Ferraro, Michael C, Andrew Moore, Amanda C de C Williams, et al.. (2023). Characteristics of retracted publications related to pain research: a systematic review. Pain. 164(11). 2397–2404. 11 indexed citations
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Olugbade, Temitayo, Marta Bieńkiewicz, Giulia Barbareschi, et al.. (2022). Human Movement Datasets: An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review. ACM Computing Surveys. 55(6). 1–29. 23 indexed citations
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Scott, Whitney, James Badenoch, Joseph Chilcot, et al.. (2021). Feasibility randomized‐controlled trial of online acceptance and commitment therapy for painful peripheral neuropathy in people living with HIV: The OPEN study. European Journal of Pain. 25(7). 1493–1507. 19 indexed citations
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Hamid, Aseel, Katrina Scior, & Amanda C de C Williams. (2020). Qualitative accounts from Syrian mental health professionals: shared realities in the context of conflict and forced displacement. BMJ Open. 10(5). e034291–e034291. 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Chongyang, Temitayo Olugbade, Akhil Mathur, et al.. (2019). Automatic Detection of Protective Behavior in Chronic Pain Physical Rehabilitation: A Recurrent Neural Network Approach.. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Patel, Nimisha, Amanda C de C Williams, & Blerina Këllezi. (2018). Reviewing outcomes of psychological interventions with torture survivors: Conceptual, methodological and ethical Issues. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 26(1). 15–15. 14 indexed citations
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Jafree, Daniyal J., Amanda C de C Williams, & Joanna M. Zakrzewska. (2017). Impact of pain and postoperative complications on patient-reported outcome measures 5 years after microvascular decompression or partial sensory rhizotomy for trigeminal neuralgia. Acta Neurochirurgica. 160(1). 125–134. 19 indexed citations
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Engeler, Daniel, Jan Borovicka, Paulo Dinis, et al.. (2015). EAU Guidelines on chronic pelvic pain. UCL Discovery (University College London). 34 indexed citations
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Williams, Amanda C de C, et al.. (2013). How do people understand their neuropathic pain? A Q-study. Pain. 155(2). 349–355. 5 indexed citations
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Williams, Amanda C de C, et al.. (2010). Understanding pain from torture: cultural considerations. UCL Discovery (University College London). 4 indexed citations
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Williams, Amanda C de C, et al.. (2000). Tibiofemoral movement 2: the loaded and unloaded living knee studied by MRI. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume. 82-B(8). 1196–1198. 125 indexed citations
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Koeze, T. H., et al.. (1987). Spinal cord stimulation and the relief of chronic pain.. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 50(11). 1424–1429. 39 indexed citations

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