Melissa Palmer

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Melissa Palmer is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Palmer has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in General Health Professions, 26 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 14 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Melissa Palmer's work include Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (29 papers), Reproductive Health and Contraception (21 papers) and Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (12 papers). Melissa Palmer is often cited by papers focused on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (29 papers), Reproductive Health and Contraception (21 papers) and Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (12 papers). Melissa Palmer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Melissa Palmer's co-authors include Kaye Wellings, Caroline Free, Catherine H Mercer, Wendy Macdowall, Sharmani Barnard, Clare Tanton, Margaret Johnson, Jessica Datta, Pablo Perel and Anna Glasier and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Palmer

50 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Prevalence of infertility and help seeking among 15 000 women and men

2016 296 citations Jessica Datta, Melissa Palmer et al. profile →

Peers

Melissa Palmer

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PHEOH

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Summer L. Martins United States

Zahra Behboodi Moghadam Iran

María Yolanda Makuch Brazil

Linda Piccinino United States

Kendra Hatfield‐Timajchy United States

Kyle G Jones United Kingdom

Brittany M. Charlton United States

Mariam R. Chacko United States

Ellen Hardy Brazil

Maria Gallo United States

Summer L. Martins United States

Melissa Palmer

538 ×1.0

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591 ×1.9

PHEOH

136 ×0.5

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296 ×1.1

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138 ×0.9

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Citations per year, relative to Melissa Palmer Melissa Palmer (= 1×) peers Summer L. Martins

Countries citing papers authored by Melissa Palmer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melissa Palmer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa Palmer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Melissa Palmer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Melissa Palmer 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 Melissa Palmer. Melissa Palmer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Patterson, Sophie, et al.. (2025). Preference for Face‐to‐Face Contraceptive Service Delivery Post‐ COVID ‐19 Pandemic: A Cross‐Sectional Study. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 132(13). 2186–2197.

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Palmer, Melissa, et al.. (2025). Assessing the Impact of a Routine Requirement for In-Person Abortion Care for Adolescents in England and Wales: A Prepost Evaluation. Journal of Adolescent Health. 77(2). 229–236.

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Palmer, Melissa, et al.. (2024). Art Therapy and Narrative Therapy Interventions for Pain Management: A Case Study with a Post-Quadruple Amputation Oncology Patient. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 28(6). 853–858.

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Berendes, Sima, Melissa Palmer, Ford Hickson, et al.. (2024). Age, sex and sexual orientation effects in the Safetxt trial: secondary data analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 101(2). 94–100.

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Scott, Rachel, Rebecca Meiksin, Patricia A. Lohr, et al.. (2024). How can patient experience of abortion care be improved? Evidence from the SACHA study. Women s Health. 20. 912653363–912653363. 5 indexed citations

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Kelly, Charlotte, Rebecca Meiksin, Rachel Scott, et al.. (2024). Patient and public involvement in abortion research: reflections from the Shaping Abortion for Change (SACHA) Study. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. 50(2). 142–145. 1 indexed citations

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Calvert, Clara, Rachel Scott, Melissa Palmer, et al.. (2023). Rates of sexual partner acquisition from nationally representative surveys: variation between countries and by age, sex, wealth, partner and HIV status. Sexual Health. 21(1). NULL–NULL.

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Baraitser, Paula, Caroline Free, Wendy V. Norman, et al.. (2022). Improving experience of medical abortion at home in a changing therapeutic, technological and regulatory landscape: a realist review. medRxiv. 2 indexed citations

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Baraitser, Paula, Caroline Free, Wendy V. Norman, et al.. (2022). Improving experience of medical abortion at home in a changing therapeutic, technological and regulatory landscape: a realist review. BMJ Open. 12(11). e066650–e066650. 10 indexed citations

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Lohr, Patricia A., Rebecca Meiksin, Sharon Cameron, et al.. (2022). Should COVID-specific arrangements for abortion continue? The views of women experiencing abortion in Britain during the pandemic. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. 48(4). 288–294. 11 indexed citations

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Berendes, Sima, et al.. (2021). Sexual health interventions delivered to participants by mobile technology: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 97(3). 190–200. 19 indexed citations

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Palmer, Melissa, et al.. (2021). Contraception in Person-Contraception Online (CiP-CO) cohort study. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. 48(2). 93–102. 1 indexed citations

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Free, Caroline, Ona McCarthy, Melissa Palmer, et al.. (2020). Safetxt: a safer sex intervention delivered by mobile phone messaging on sexually transmitted infections (STI) among young people in the UK - protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 10(3). e031635–e031635. 10 indexed citations

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Palmer, Melissa, et al.. (2020). A cohort study of the service-users of online contraception. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. 46(4). 287–293. 10 indexed citations

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Slaymaker, Emma, Rachel Scott, Melissa Palmer, et al.. (2020). Trends in sexual activity and demand for and use of modern contraceptive methods in 74 countries: a retrospective analysis of nationally representative surveys. The Lancet Global Health. 8(4). e567–e579. 42 indexed citations

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Mapp, Fiona, Kaye Wellings, Catherine H Mercer, et al.. (2019). Help-seeking for genitourinary symptoms: a mixed methods study from Britain’s Third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3). BMJ Open. 9(10). e030612–e030612. 7 indexed citations

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Palmer, Melissa, Kaye Wellings, Limin Huang, et al.. (2018). An ecological perspective on risk factors for repeat induced abortion in China. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare. 18. 43–47. 8 indexed citations

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Wilson, Emma, Caroline Free, Tim P. Morris, et al.. (2017). Effect of an internet-based sexually transmitted infection testing and results service on diagnoses and testing uptake: a single-blind, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. 390. S95–S95. 1 indexed citations

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Macdowall, Wendy, et al.. (2017). UG2 The association between birth order and sexual health outcomes:how is birth order associated with learning about sex, early sexual experience, and sexual risk behaviour?. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 93(Suppl 1). A15.2–A15. 1 indexed citations

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Macdowall, Wendy, Kyle G Jones, Clare Tanton, et al.. (2015). Associations between source of information about sex and sexual health outcomes in Britain: findings from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3). BMJ Open. 5(3). e007837–e007837. 35 indexed citations

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