Ana Rita Pedro

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 887 citations indexed

About

Ana Rita Pedro is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana Rita Pedro has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 887 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in General Health Professions, 11 papers in Clinical Psychology and 8 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Ana Rita Pedro's work include Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (10 papers), COVID-19 and Mental Health (9 papers) and Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (7 papers). Ana Rita Pedro is often cited by papers focused on Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (10 papers), COVID-19 and Mental Health (9 papers) and Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (7 papers). Ana Rita Pedro collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Greece and Brazil. Ana Rita Pedro's co-authors include Sónia Dias, Ana Gama, P.A. Laires, Patrícia Soares, Marta Moniz, Carla Nunes, João Victor Rocha, Andreia Leite, Ana Escoval and Odete Amaral and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Ana Rita Pedro

28 papers receiving 866 citations

Hit Papers

Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300 400
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. Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
    2021 486 citations Patrícia Soares, João Victor Rocha et al. Vaccines profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ana Rita Pedro Portugal 13 534 278 231 175 168 37 887
Rachael Piltch‐Loeb United States 17 500 0.9× 274 1.0× 413 1.8× 148 0.8× 140 0.8× 65 965
João Victor Rocha Portugal 13 464 0.9× 272 1.0× 216 0.9× 165 0.9× 177 1.1× 29 828
Annie Wai-Ling Cheung Hong Kong 16 423 0.8× 286 1.0× 171 0.7× 163 0.9× 141 0.8× 51 965
Patrícia Soares Portugal 12 499 0.9× 353 1.3× 208 0.9× 197 1.1× 117 0.7× 47 933
Marta Moniz Portugal 8 486 0.9× 292 1.1× 204 0.9× 190 1.1× 68 0.4× 31 719
Ali Moghtaderi United States 12 446 0.8× 217 0.8× 206 0.9× 139 0.8× 213 1.3× 40 934
Pierre Arwidson France 16 664 1.2× 400 1.4× 289 1.3× 276 1.6× 168 1.0× 54 1.3k
Jennifer A. Andersen United States 13 381 0.7× 170 0.6× 159 0.7× 111 0.6× 157 0.9× 57 676
Teresa Gavaruzzi Italy 15 397 0.7× 188 0.7× 207 0.9× 108 0.6× 343 2.0× 38 1.1k
Trenton M. White Spain 10 593 1.1× 382 1.4× 264 1.1× 226 1.3× 68 0.4× 29 939

Countries citing papers authored by Ana Rita Pedro

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ana Rita Pedro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ana Rita Pedro

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ana Rita Pedro. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ana Rita Pedro based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ana Rita Pedro. Ana Rita Pedro is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Fronteira, Inês, et al.. (2025). Factors that contribute to physician burnout, interventions to prevent and mitigate burnout and knowledge gaps—a Delphi study. Frontiers in Public Health. 13. 1540214–1540214.
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Dias, Sónia, et al.. (2024). Efficacy of health literacy interventions aimed to improve health gains of higher education students—a systematic review. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 882–882. 15 indexed citations
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Pedro, Ana Rita, et al.. (2023). Artificial intelligence in medicine: A comprehensive survey of medical doctor’s perspectives in Portugal. PLoS ONE. 18(9). e0290613–e0290613. 34 indexed citations
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Pedro, Ana Rita, et al.. (2023). Portuguese Version of the HLS-EU-Q6 and HLS-EU-Q16 Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(4). 2892–2892. 12 indexed citations
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Santos, Eduardo, et al.. (2023). Effectiveness of health literacy interventions on the health outcomes of higher education students. European Journal of Public Health. 33(Supplement_2).
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Soares, Patrícia, João Victor Rocha, Ana Gama, et al.. (2022). Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy after Implementation of a Mass Vaccination Campaign. Vaccines. 10(2). 281–281. 7 indexed citations
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Lopes, Sílvia, Patrícia Soares, Ana Gama, et al.. (2022). Association between perception of COVID-19 risk, confidence in health services and avoidance of emergency department visits: results from a community-based survey in Portugal. BMJ Open. 12(7). e058600–e058600. 5 indexed citations
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Moniz, Marta, Ana Gama, P.A. Laires, et al.. (2022). Non-adherence to COVID-19 lockdown: who are they? A cross-sectional study in Portugal. Public Health. 211. 5–13. 11 indexed citations
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Gama, Ana, et al.. (2022). The links of stress, substance use and socio-demographic factors with domestic violence during the Covid-19 pandemic in Portugal. Journal of Public Health. 45(2). 491–498. 12 indexed citations
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Soares, Patrícia, João Victor Rocha, Marta Moniz, et al.. (2021). Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy. Vaccines. 9(3). 300–300. 486 indexed citations breakdown →
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Amaral, Odete, Ana Rita Pedro, Nélio Veiga, Ana Escoval, & Manuela Ferreira. (2021). Literacia em saúde em estudantes do ensino supeior: comparaçã entre estudantes de enfermagem e estudantes de outras áreas literacia em saúde em estudantes do ensino superior de viseu.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 97–106. 3 indexed citations
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Gama, Ana, et al.. (2020). Domestic Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 38(Suppl. 1). 32–40. 25 indexed citations
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Laires, P.A., Sónia Dias, Ana Gama, et al.. (2020). The Association Between Chronic Disease and Serious COVID-19 Outcomes and Its Influence on Risk Perception: Survey Study and Database Analysis. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 7(1). e22794–e22794. 63 indexed citations
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Ribeiro, Manuel, et al.. (2020). Awareness about barriers to medication adherence in cardiovascular patients and strategies used in clinical practice by Portuguese clinicians: a nationwide study. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. 43(3). 629–636. 8 indexed citations
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Costa, Filipa Alves da, et al.. (2015). Primary non-adherence in Portugal: findings and implications. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. 37(4). 626–635. 30 indexed citations
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Verger, E., et al.. (1992). [Palliative care in cancer patients. Frequency and priority of symptoms].. PubMed. 99(15). 565–7. 7 indexed citations

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