Charles Abraham

39.8k total citations · 11 hit papers
273 papers, 25.4k citations indexed

About

Charles Abraham is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Applied Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Abraham has authored 273 papers receiving a total of 25.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in General Health Professions, 100 papers in Applied Psychology and 42 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Charles Abraham's work include Behavioral Health and Interventions (95 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (48 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (30 papers). Charles Abraham is often cited by papers focused on Behavioral Health and Interventions (95 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (48 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (30 papers). Charles Abraham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Netherlands. Charles Abraham's co-authors include Susan Michie, Michelle Richardson, Rod Bond, Wendy Hardeman, Marie Johnston, Jill Francis, Benjamin Gardner, Paschal Sheeran, Caroline E Wood and Martin Eccles and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Charles Abraham

266 papers receiving 24.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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 Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy (v1) of 93 Hierarchically Clustered Techniques: Building an International Consensus for the Reporting of Behavior Change Interventions

2013 4.8k citations Susan Michie, Michelle Richardson et al. Annals of Behavioral Medicine profile →
Psychological correlates of university students' academic performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

2012 2.4k citations Michelle Richardson, Charles Abraham et al. profile →
A taxonomy of behavior change techniques used in interventions.

2008 1.9k citations Charles Abraham, Susan Michie Health Psychology profile →
Effective techniques in healthy eating and physical activity interventions: A meta-regression.

2009 1.6k citations Susan Michie, Charles Abraham et al. Health Psychology profile →
Systematic review of reviews of intervention components associated with increased effectiveness in dietary and physical activity interventions

2011 826 citations Colin Greaves, Charles Abraham et al. BMC Public Health profile →
Psychosocial correlates of heterosexual condom use: A meta-analysis.

1999 654 citations Charles Abraham et al. profile →
Interventions to change health behaviours: evidence-based or evidence-inspired?

2004 610 citations Susan Michie, Charles Abraham Psychology and Health profile →
Towards parsimony in habit measurement: Testing the convergent and predictive validity of an automaticity subscale of the Self-Report Habit Index

2012 599 citations Charles Abraham et al. profile →
Mainstream consumers driving plug-in battery-electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars: A qualitative analysis of responses and evaluations

2011 534 citations Charles Abraham et al. profile →
Behaviour change techniques: the development and evaluation of a taxonomic method for reporting and describing behaviour change interventions (a suite of five studies involving consensus methods, randomised controlled trials and analysis of qualitative data)

2015 414 citations Susan Michie, Caroline E Wood et al. Health Technology Assessment profile →
A review and content analysis of engagement, functionality, aesthetics, information quality, and change techniques in the most popular commercial apps for weight management

2016 255 citations Charles Abraham et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles Abraham United Kingdom	66	8.8k	7.6k	4.6k	3.9k	3.7k	273	25.4k
Marie Johnston United Kingdom	71	9.8k 1.1×	5.9k 0.8×	4.7k 1.0×	3.4k 0.9×	3.0k 0.8×	326	26.7k
Ralf Schwarzer Germany	77	6.3k 0.7×	8.8k 1.2×	3.2k 0.7×	6.7k 1.7×	3.3k 0.9×	353	26.6k
Lucy Yardley United Kingdom	78	7.8k 0.9×	4.2k 0.5×	3.7k 0.8×	3.3k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	418	28.5k
Mark Conner United Kingdom	93	5.0k 0.6×	14.2k 1.9×	5.6k 1.2×	6.0k 1.5×	3.1k 0.9×	387	40.0k
Linda M. Collins United States	57	4.4k 0.5×	3.4k 0.4×	2.1k 0.4×	3.8k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	196	17.6k
Hein de Vries Netherlands	65	5.3k 0.6×	6.1k 0.8×	3.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.5×	6.3k 1.7×	559	17.2k
Brian R. Flay United States	78	5.7k 0.6×	3.9k 0.5×	3.4k 0.7×	5.3k 1.3×	6.9k 1.9×	312	20.8k
Nanné K. de Vries Netherlands	65	4.0k 0.4×	3.8k 0.5×	4.3k 0.9×	2.4k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	413	15.8k
Geoffrey T. Fong Canada	80	4.8k 0.5×	6.4k 0.8×	6.2k 1.3×	2.9k 0.7×	14.6k 4.0×	572	30.0k
Geoffrey C. Williams United States	59	3.8k 0.4×	4.8k 0.6×	2.5k 0.5×	3.7k 0.9×	2.0k 0.5×	188	17.7k

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Ennis, Stuart, Peter Heine, Harbinder Sandhu, et al.. (2023). Development of an online intervention for the Rehabilitation Exercise and psycholoGical support After covid-19 InfectioN (REGAIN) trial. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 10–10. 3 indexed citations

Banik, Anna, et al.. (2020). Associations between self-efficacy and sedentary behaviour: a meta-analysis. Psychology and Health. 36(3). 271–289. 29 indexed citations

Taylor, Rod S, Susannah Sadler, Fiona C Warren, et al.. (2019). The cost effectiveness of REACH-HF and home-based cardiac rehabilitation in the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction:a decision model-based analysis. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 1 indexed citations

King, Carina, Carrie Llewellyn, Maryam Shahmanesh, et al.. (2019). Sexual risk reduction interventions for patients attending sexual health clinics: a mixed-methods feasibility study. Health Technology Assessment. 23(12). 1–122. 11 indexed citations

Peters, Gjalt-Jorn, Charles Abraham, & Rik Crutzen. (2018). Full Disclosure: Doing behavioural science necessitates sharing. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 18 indexed citations

Hillier-Brown, Frances, Carolyn Summerbell, Helen Moore, et al.. (2017). A description of interventions promoting healthier ready-to-eat meals (to eat in, to take away, or to be delivered) sold by specific food outlets in England: a systematic mapping and evidence synthesis. BMC Public Health. 17(1). 93–93. 27 indexed citations

Eyre, Victoria, Chim C. Lang, Karen Smith, et al.. (2016). Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure—a facilitated self-care rehabilitation intervention in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (REACH-HFpEF) and their caregivers: rationale and protocol for a single-centre pilot randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 6(10). e012853–e012853. 19 indexed citations

Conner, Mark, Charles Abraham, Andrew Prestwich, et al.. (2016). Impact of goal priority and goal conflict on the intention–health-behavior relationship: Tests on physical activity and other health behaviors.. Health Psychology. 35(9). 1017–1026. 37 indexed citations

Taylor, R., Christopher Hayward, Victoria Eyre, et al.. (2015). Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF) facilitated self-care rehabilitation intervention in heart failure patients and caregivers: rationale and protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 5(12). e009994–e009994. 25 indexed citations

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Denford, Sarah, et al.. (2015). Review of reviews of school-based interventions to improve sexual health and reduce alcohol misuse. European Health Psychologist. 17. 661. 2 indexed citations

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Aarø, Leif Edvard, Catherine Mathews, Sylvia Kaaya, et al.. (2014). Promoting sexual and reproductive health among adolescents in southern and eastern Africa (PREPARE): project design and conceptual framework. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 54–54. 35 indexed citations

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Abraham, Charles, Blair T. Johnson, Marijn de Bruin, & Aleksandra Łuszczyńska. (2014). Enhancing Reporting of Behavior Change Intervention Evaluations. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 66(Supplement 3). S293–S299. 52 indexed citations

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Norman, Paul, Charles Abraham, & Mark Conner. (2013). Understanding and Changing Health Behaviour: From Health Beliefs to Self-Regulation. Psychology Press eBooks. 19–40. 104 indexed citations

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Michie, Susan, Michelle Richardson, Marie Johnston, et al.. (2013). The Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy (v1) of 93 Hierarchically Clustered Techniques: Building an International Consensus for the Reporting of Behavior Change Interventions. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 46(1). 81–95. 4817 indexed citations breakdown →

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Llewellyn, Carrie, Charles Abraham, Alec Miners, et al.. (2012). Multicentre RCT and economic evaluation of a psychological intervention together with a leaflet to reduce risk behaviour amongst men who have sex with men (MSM) prescribed post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV following sexual exposure (PEPSE): A protocol. BMC Infectious Diseases. 12(1). 70–70. 3 indexed citations

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Abraham, Charles & S. Michie. (2007). Developing a taxonomy of behaviour change intervention techniques. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Abraham, Charles & Frank van Diggelen. (2007). Host-Based GPS - an Emerging Architecture for High Volume Consumer Applications. Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2007). 2279–2284. 1 indexed citations

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Henderson, Marion, Daniel Wight, Gillian Raab, et al.. (2006). Impact of a theoretically based sex education programme (SHARE) delivered by teachers on NHS registered conceptions and terminations: final results of cluster randomised trial. BMJ. 334(7585). 133–133. 86 indexed citations

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Myers, Lynn B. & Charles Abraham. (2005). Beyond 'doctor's orders'. Psychologist. 18(11). 5285–5296. 4 indexed citations

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Abraham, Charles, et al.. (2004). Cognitive Impact of Research-Based School Sex Education.. FEBS Letters. 414(3). 571–5. 1 indexed citations

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