Kate Laffan

946 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 579 citations indexed

About

Kate Laffan is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Kate Laffan has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 579 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Social Psychology, 5 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 5 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Kate Laffan's work include Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (8 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (5 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 papers). Kate Laffan is often cited by papers focused on Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (8 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (5 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 papers). Kate Laffan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and United States. Kate Laffan's co-authors include Leonhard K. Lades, Liam Delaney, Michael Daly, Pablo Navarrete-Hernández, Paul Dolan, Carol Graham, Michael Prinzing, Cass R. Sunstein, Laura Kudrna and Barbara L. Fredrickson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Kate Laffan

14 papers receiving 559 citations

Hit Papers

Daily emotional well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
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. Daily emotional well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic
    2020 305 citations Leonhard K. Lades, Kate Laffan et al. British Journal of Health Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kate Laffan United Kingdom 8 168 165 161 126 69 19 579
Qilong Cao China 12 119 0.7× 169 1.0× 89 0.6× 73 0.6× 23 0.3× 26 484
Nathan Reigner United States 9 234 1.4× 441 2.7× 138 0.9× 134 1.1× 46 0.7× 11 828
Linda Powers Tomasso United States 8 132 0.8× 54 0.3× 167 1.0× 78 0.6× 64 0.9× 14 436
Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo Singapore 16 180 1.1× 282 1.7× 527 3.3× 95 0.8× 190 2.8× 34 978
Vilija Malinauskienė Lithuania 17 209 1.2× 175 1.1× 295 1.8× 218 1.7× 54 0.8× 56 1.0k
Miglė Bacevičienė Lithuania 18 149 0.9× 398 2.4× 427 2.7× 94 0.7× 92 1.3× 61 1.2k
Hector A. Olvera‐Alvarez United States 12 240 1.4× 477 2.9× 312 1.9× 107 0.8× 38 0.6× 22 1.1k
Dorothy L. Schmalz United States 14 206 1.2× 126 0.8× 116 0.7× 213 1.7× 47 0.7× 38 695
Luigi Janiri Italy 6 87 0.5× 118 0.7× 389 2.4× 198 1.6× 68 1.0× 10 760
Sophia Betrò Italy 7 91 0.5× 145 0.9× 384 2.4× 199 1.6× 67 1.0× 10 830

Countries citing papers authored by Kate Laffan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kate Laffan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kate Laffan

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Briguglio, Marie, Natalia V. Czap, & Kate Laffan. (2025). Wellbeing and Policy. Siti Hasmah Digital Library-MMU Institutiona Repository (Multimedia University).
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Prinzing, Michael, et al.. (2024). Pro-environmental behaviors and well-being in everyday life. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 98. 102394–102394. 7 indexed citations
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Laffan, Kate. (2024). Context counts: an exploration of the situational correlates of meat consumption in three Western European countries. Behavioural Public Policy. 8(4). 685–700. 5 indexed citations
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Prinzing, Michael & Kate Laffan. (2024). Leveraging the link between pro-environmental behaviour and well-being to encourage sustainable lifestyle shifts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 1 indexed citations
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Laffan, Kate, et al.. (2024). The greenest of green: Preferences for homegrown renewables in Ireland. Energy Research & Social Science. 114. 103577–103577.
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Navarrete-Hernández, Pablo & Kate Laffan. (2023). The impact of small-scale green infrastructure on the affective wellbeing associated with urban sites. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 9687–9687. 16 indexed citations
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Laffan, Kate, Leonhard K. Lades, & Liam Delaney. (2023). Paths that lead astray: Examining the situational predictors of intention-behaviour gaps in meat consumption. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 89. 102045–102045. 20 indexed citations
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Laffan, Kate, et al.. (2023). Les Misérables: An analysis of low SWB across the world. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1107939–1107939.
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Laffan, Kate, et al.. (2022). Double trouble: Concurrently targeting water and electricity using normative messages in the Middle East. Energy Research & Social Science. 88. 102496–102496. 3 indexed citations
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Dolan, Paul, Kate Laffan, & Laura Kudrna. (2021). The Welleye: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding and Promoting Wellbeing. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 716572–716572. 7 indexed citations
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Dolan, Paul, Richard Layard, Gus O’Donnell, et al.. (2021). How a focus on wellbeing can help us make better policy decisions. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science).
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Dolan, Paul, et al.. (2021). Who’s miserable now? Identifying clusters of people with the lowest subjective wellbeing in the UK. Social Choice and Welfare. 58(4). 679–710. 1 indexed citations
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Laffan, Kate, Cass R. Sunstein, & Paul Dolan. (2021). Facing it: assessing the immediate emotional impacts of calorie labelling using automatic facial coding. Behavioural Public Policy. 8(3). 572–589. 7 indexed citations
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Laffan, Kate, et al.. (2020). In defence of charity which benefits both giver and receiver. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(7). 670–672. 3 indexed citations
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Lades, Leonhard K., Kate Laffan, Michael Daly, & Liam Delaney. (2020). Daily emotional well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic. British Journal of Health Psychology. 25(4). 902–911. 305 indexed citations breakdown →
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Navarrete-Hernández, Pablo & Kate Laffan. (2019). A greener urban environment: Designing green infrastructure interventions to promote citizens’ subjective wellbeing. Landscape and Urban Planning. 191. 103618–103618. 92 indexed citations
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Graham, Carol, et al.. (2018). Well-being in metrics and policy. Science. 362(6412). 287–288. 58 indexed citations
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Dolan, Paul & Kate Laffan. (2016). Bad Air Days: The Effects of Air Quality on Different Measures of Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. 7(1). 147–195. 27 indexed citations

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