Angus Thomson

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 844 citations indexed

About

Angus Thomson is a scholar working on Health, Epidemiology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Angus Thomson has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 844 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Health, 17 papers in Epidemiology and 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Angus Thomson's work include Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (29 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (15 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (10 papers). Angus Thomson is often cited by papers focused on Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (29 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (15 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (10 papers). Angus Thomson collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. Angus Thomson's co-authors include Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau, Nick Sevdalis, Ana Wheelock, Marisa Miraldo, Charles Vincent, Michael Watson, Anam Parand, Lawrence C. Madoff, Melissa Cumming and John S. Brownstein and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Angus Thomson

33 papers receiving 800 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.

The 5As: A practical taxonomy for the determinants of vaccine uptake

2015 307 citations Angus Thomson, Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau et al. Vaccine profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Angus Thomson France	16	629	364	257	212	130	34	844
Robb Butler Denmark	17	788 1.3×	426 1.2×	322 1.3×	243 1.1×	105 0.8×	31	1.1k
Maryline Vivion Canada	10	918 1.5×	338 0.9×	355 1.4×	381 1.8×	95 0.7×	21	1.1k
DL Heymann United Kingdom	6	393 0.6×	258 0.7×	344 1.3×	140 0.7×	274 2.1×	6	903
Wilhelmina L.M. Ruijs Netherlands	21	600 1.0×	591 1.6×	319 1.2×	100 0.5×	124 1.0×	53	1.1k
Zhuoying Huang China	15	482 0.8×	318 0.9×	303 1.2×	94 0.4×	114 0.9×	54	725
P E Fine United Kingdom	7	391 0.6×	336 0.9×	479 1.9×	121 0.6×	271 2.1×	9	1.0k
M. Patricia deHart United States	11	1.2k 1.9×	659 1.8×	471 1.8×	219 1.0×	120 0.9×	19	1.4k
Melanie Schuster Germany	11	1.2k 2.0×	504 1.4×	645 2.5×	394 1.9×	168 1.3×	13	1.5k
Melanie Marti Switzerland	7	533 0.8×	363 1.0×	362 1.4×	156 0.7×	101 0.8×	13	829
Cristina Giambi Italy	20	694 1.1×	932 2.6×	338 1.3×	91 0.4×	99 0.8×	38	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Angus Thomson

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Winters, Maike, et al.. (2025). Debunking COVID-19 vaccine misinformation with an audio drama in Ghana, a randomized control trial. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 8955–8955. 3 indexed citations

Winters, Maike, et al.. (2024). Moral foundations messaging to improve vaccine attitudes: An online randomized experiment from Argentina. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(11). e0003276–e0003276.

Cook, John, et al.. (2024). Co-designing and pilot testing a digital game to improve vaccine attitudes and misinformation resistance in Ghana. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 20(1). 2407204–2407204. 1 indexed citations

Blazek, Katrina, et al.. (2024). Attitudes and behaviors of maternal Tdap vaccination in Panama, Peru, and Colombia: An international cross-sectional study. Vaccine. 42(7). 1698–1703. 2 indexed citations

Thomson, Angus, et al.. (2023). The AIMS approach: regulating receptivity in patient-provider vaccine conversations. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1120326–1120326. 5 indexed citations

Ellingson, Mallory K., Saad B. Omer, Nick Sevdalis, & Angus Thomson. (2023). Validation of the Vaccination Trust Indicator (VTI) in a multi-country survey of adult vaccination attitudes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). e0001820–e0001820. 7 indexed citations

MacDonald, Noni E., Walter A. Orenstein, Margie Danchin, et al.. (2022). Empowering Health Workers to Build Public Trust in Vaccination: Experience from the International Pediatric Association’s Online Vaccine Trust Course, 2020–2021. Vaccine. 41(2). 435–443. 5 indexed citations

Attwell, Katie, Cornelia Betsch, Ève Dubé, et al.. (2021). Increasing vaccine acceptance using evidence-based approaches and policies: Insights from research on behavioural and social determinants presented at the 7th Annual Vaccine Acceptance Meeting. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 105. 188–193. 21 indexed citations

Kassianos, George, Ashis Banerjee, Alan Hampson, et al.. (2020). Key policy and programmatic factors to improve influenza vaccination rates based on the experience from four high-performing countries. Drugs in Context. 9. 1–13. 17 indexed citations

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Attwell, Katie, Ève Dubé, Arnaud Gagneur, et al.. (2019). Vaccine acceptance: Science, policy, and practice in a ‘post-fact’ world. Vaccine. 37(5). 677–682. 23 indexed citations

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Holt, Daphné, Peter M English, S Glismann, et al.. (2018). Lessons from an online vaccine communication project. Vaccine. 36(44). 6509–6511. 17 indexed citations

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Wheelock, Ana, Marisa Miraldo, Angus Thomson, Charles Vincent, & Nick Sevdalis. (2017). Evaluating the importance of policy amenable factors in explaining influenza vaccination: a cross-sectional multinational study. BMJ Open. 7(7). e014668–e014668. 23 indexed citations

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Cumming, Melissa, et al.. (2016). Publicly Available Online Tool Facilitates Real-Time Monitoring Of Vaccine Conversations And Sentiments. Health Affairs. 35(2). 341–347. 46 indexed citations

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Wheelock, Ana, et al.. (2015). Socio-Psychological Factors Driving Adult Vaccination: A Qualitative Study (vol 9, e113503, 2014). PLoS ONE. 10. 8 indexed citations

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Rimmelzwaan, Guus F., Isabel Leroux‐Roels, Sarah C. Gilbert, & Angus Thomson. (2015). Influenza vaccines: Where do we stand? Where do we go?. Vaccine. 33(49). 7026–7028. 2 indexed citations

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Thomson, Angus, et al.. (2015). The 5As: A practical taxonomy for the determinants of vaccine uptake. Vaccine. 34(8). 1018–1024. 307 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wheelock, Ana, Angus Thomson, & Nick Sevdalis. (2013). Social and psychological factors underlying adult vaccination behavior: lessons from seasonal influenza vaccination in the US and the UK. Expert Review of Vaccines. 12(8). 893–901. 69 indexed citations

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Thomson, Angus, et al.. (2010). Civil society: A critical new advocate for vaccination in Europe. Vaccine. 29(4). 624–628. 15 indexed citations

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Kerry, Joseph P. & Angus Thomson. (1969). A note on the intraperitoneal injection of sheep with oil adjuvant vaccines. Veterinary Record. 85(4). 84–85. 4 indexed citations

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Barr, Mollie, et al.. (1952). ANTIGENIC EFFICIENCY OF FLUID AND PRECIPITATED DIPHTHERIA PROPHYLACTICS. The Lancet. 260(6739). 803–805. 10 indexed citations

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