Christopher Eccleston

43.3k total citations · 15 hit papers
329 papers, 29.6k citations indexed

About

Christopher Eccleston is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Eccleston has authored 329 papers receiving a total of 29.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 189 papers in Pharmacology, 128 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 125 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Christopher Eccleston's work include Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (181 papers), Pediatric Pain Management Techniques (121 papers) and Pain Management and Placebo Effect (112 papers). Christopher Eccleston is often cited by papers focused on Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (181 papers), Pediatric Pain Management Techniques (121 papers) and Pain Management and Placebo Effect (112 papers). Christopher Eccleston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Belgium and United States. Christopher Eccleston's co-authors include Geert Crombez, Amanda C de C Williams, Lance M. McCracken, Stephen Morley, Emma Fisher, Stefaan Van Damme, Kevin E. Vowles, Tonya M. Palermo, Edmund Keogh and Liesbet Goubert and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Psychological Bulletin and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Eccleston

317 papers receiving 28.8k citations

Hit Papers

Neuropathic pain 1996 2026 2006 2016 2017 1999 2012 1999 2003 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. Neuropathic pain
    2017 1.5k citations Luana Colloca, Didier Bouhassira et al. Nature Reviews Disease Primers profile →
  2. Pain demands attention: A cognitive–affective model of the interruptive function of pain.
    1999 1.3k citations Christopher Eccleston, Geert Crombez profile →
  3. 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 →
  4. 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 →
  5. Acceptance of chronic pain: component analysis and a revised assessment method
    2003 871 citations Lance M. McCracken, Kevin E. Vowles et al. Pain profile →
  6. Fear-Avoidance Model of Chronic Pain
    2012 697 citations Geert Crombez, Christopher Eccleston et al. profile →
  7. Research methods in psychology
    1996 588 citations Christopher Eccleston profile →
  8. 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 →
  9. 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 →
  10. 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 →
  11. 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 →
  12. Management of chronic pain in older adults
    2015 276 citations Christopher Eccleston et al. BMJ profile →
  13. Psychological therapies for the management of chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents
    2018 199 citations Emma Fisher, Gavin Stewart et al. profile →
  14. Delivering transformative action in paediatric pain: a Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission
    2020 177 citations Christopher Eccleston, Emma Fisher et al. profile →
  15. Antidepressants for pain management in adults with chronic pain: a network meta-analysis
    2023 73 citations Claire Friedrich, Christopher Eccleston et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher Eccleston United Kingdom 90 14.2k 8.3k 7.9k 6.3k 5.3k 329 29.6k
Francis J. Keefe United States 97 17.7k 1.2× 6.0k 0.7× 6.9k 0.9× 9.4k 1.5× 5.0k 0.9× 523 39.1k
Mark P. Jensen United States 96 18.7k 1.3× 6.2k 0.8× 8.0k 1.0× 8.8k 1.4× 4.3k 0.8× 685 39.3k
Geert Crombez Belgium 87 12.9k 0.9× 4.4k 0.5× 11.8k 1.5× 6.6k 1.0× 5.4k 1.0× 476 30.4k
Johan W.S. Vlaeyen Netherlands 92 25.2k 1.8× 3.3k 0.4× 10.6k 1.3× 11.4k 1.8× 3.4k 0.6× 430 35.3k
Dennis C. Turk United States 98 21.2k 1.5× 4.3k 0.5× 7.3k 0.9× 10.8k 1.7× 3.5k 0.7× 394 35.5k
Roger B. Fillingim United States 88 12.9k 0.9× 4.2k 0.5× 5.6k 0.7× 6.5k 1.0× 2.1k 0.4× 554 32.6k
Michael Von Korff United States 111 13.8k 1.0× 2.8k 0.3× 3.0k 0.4× 10.0k 1.6× 6.0k 1.1× 342 44.1k
Judith A. Turner United States 85 14.7k 1.0× 2.4k 0.3× 4.3k 0.5× 4.8k 0.8× 2.0k 0.4× 286 25.0k
Daniel J. Clauw United States 94 17.6k 1.2× 2.2k 0.3× 6.4k 0.8× 20.9k 3.3× 2.4k 0.4× 519 35.5k
Steven J. Linton Sweden 72 16.1k 1.1× 2.0k 0.2× 5.0k 0.6× 6.4k 1.0× 2.3k 0.4× 275 23.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Garfinkel, Susan & Christopher Eccleston. (2025). Interoception and pain: body–mind integration, rupture, and repair. Pain. 166(7). 1470–1474. 2 indexed citations
2.
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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Friedrich, Claire, Christopher Eccleston, Marc Serfaty, et al.. (2024). Antidepressants for pain management in adults with chronic pain: a network meta-analysis. Health Technology Assessment. 28(62). 1–155. 13 indexed citations
4.
Olson, KayLoni L. & Christopher Eccleston. (2024). Reconsidering the Role of Weight Loss in Treatment for Chronic Pain: Knee Osteoarthritis as an Exemplar. Journal of Pain. 25(12). 104647–104647. 2 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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Wylde, Vikki, Emily Sanderson, T. J. Peters, et al.. (2020). Screening to Identify Postoperative Pain and Cross‐Sectional Associations Between Factors Identified in This Process With Pain and Function, Three Months After Total Knee Replacement. Arthritis Care & Research. 74(5). 790–798. 7 indexed citations
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Crombez, Geert, et al.. (2020). Let’s talk about pain catastrophizing measures: an item content analysis. PeerJ. 8. e8643–e8643. 79 indexed citations
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Borsook, David, Andrew M. Youssef, Laura E. Simons, Igor Elman, & Christopher Eccleston. (2018). When pain gets stuck: the evolution of pain chronification and treatment resistance. Pain. 159(12). 2421–2436. 166 indexed citations
9.
Colloca, Luana, Didier Bouhassira, Ralf Baron, et al.. (2017). Neuropathic pain. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 3(1). 17002–17002. 1473 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blackburn, Maxine, Afroditi Stathi, Edmund Keogh, & Christopher Eccleston. (2015). Raising the topic of weight in general practice: perspectives of GPs and primary care nurses. BMJ Open. 5(8). e008546–e008546. 103 indexed citations
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Moore, Andrew, Sheena Derry, Christopher Eccleston, & Eija Kalso. (2013). Expect analgesic failure; pursue analgesic success. BMJ. 346(may03 1). f2690–f2690. 177 indexed citations
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Eccleston, Christopher. (2011). A normal psychology of chronic pain. Psychologist. 24(6). 422–425. 17 indexed citations
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Vervoort, Tine, Christopher Eccleston, Liesbet Goubert, Ann Buysse, & Geert Crombez. (2009). Children's catastrophic thinking about their pain predicts pain and disability 6 months later. European Journal of Pain. 14(1). 90–96. 76 indexed citations
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Jordan, Abbie, Christopher Eccleston, & Mike Osborn. (2006). Being a parent of the adolescent with complex chronic pain: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. European Journal of Pain. 11(1). 49–49. 147 indexed citations
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McCracken, Lance M., et al.. (2006). Concerns About Medication and Medication Use in Chronic Pain. Journal of Pain. 7(10). 726–734. 90 indexed citations
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McCracken, Lance M., Kevin E. Vowles, & Christopher Eccleston. (2005). Acceptance-based treatment for persons with complex, long standing chronic pain: a preliminary analysis of treatment outcome in comparison to a waiting phase. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 43(10). 1335–1346. 347 indexed citations
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Damme, Stefaan Van, Geert Crombez, & Christopher Eccleston. (2004). The anticipation of pain modulates spatial attention: evidence for pain-specificity in high-pain catastrophizers. Pain. 111(3). 392–399. 78 indexed citations
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Jordan, Abbie, Christopher Eccleston, Lance M. McCracken, et al.. (2004). Developing an inventory to assess the impact of chronic pain on the lives of adolescents. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 63.
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Goubert, Liesbet, Geert Crombez, & Christopher Eccleston. (2004). Hypnosis/distraction. Journal of Pain. 5(3). S96–S96.
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Crombez, Geert, Debora Vansteenwegen, Frank Baeyens, & Christopher Eccleston. (1998). Aandacht! Pijn : een experimentele analyse van het aandachtsopeisend karakter van pijn. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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