Paul Stenner

7.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
101 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Paul Stenner is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Stenner has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 16 papers in Social Psychology and 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Paul Stenner's work include Q Methodology Applications (26 papers), Social Representations and Identity (7 papers) and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (6 papers). Paul Stenner is often cited by papers focused on Q Methodology Applications (26 papers), Social Representations and Identity (7 papers) and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (6 papers). Paul Stenner collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and Hong Kong. Paul Stenner's co-authors include Simon Watts, Steven Brown, A. Bowling, Monica Greco, Tara McFarquhar, Ann Bowling, Suzanne M. Skevington, Deborah Cooper, Christine P. Dancey and Peter Lunt and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Science & Medicine and Personality and Individual Differences.

In The Last Decade

Paul Stenner

95 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Doing Q ethodology: theory, method and interpretation

2005 877 citations Simon Watts, Paul Stenner profile →
Doing Q Methodological Research: Theory, Method and Interpretation

2012 861 citations Simon Watts, Paul Stenner profile →
Doing Q Methodological Research: Theory, Method & Interpretation

2012 536 citations Simon Watts, Paul Stenner profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Paul Stenner	1.4k	1.0k	632	562	344	101	4.1k
Steven R. Brown	1.8k 1.3×	807 0.8×	421 0.7×	228 0.4×	172 0.5×	81	3.7k
Hilary Bradbury	603 0.4×	1.5k 1.4×	320 0.5×	1.1k 2.0×	328 1.0×	40	5.1k
Pat Bazeley	317 0.2×	1.0k 1.0×	334 0.5×	883 1.6×	462 1.3×	39	4.2k
Donna M. Mertens	981 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	472 0.7×	1.2k 2.2×	580 1.7×	108	5.7k
George I. Balch	776 0.6×	451 0.4×	163 0.3×	262 0.5×	129 0.4×	23	2.2k
Martyn Denscombe	260 0.2×	1.2k 1.1×	353 0.6×	559 1.0×	267 0.8×	46	4.4k
Lisa A. Turner	305 0.2×	895 0.9×	459 0.7×	789 1.4×	513 1.5×	43	4.4k
David S. Cordray	529 0.4×	917 0.9×	639 1.0×	773 1.4×	713 2.1×	75	5.1k
Kathleen M. T. Collins	349 0.3×	668 0.6×	392 0.6×	776 1.4×	339 1.0×	65	3.4k
Michael Agar	241 0.2×	2.4k 2.3×	436 0.7×	1.0k 1.8×	431 1.3×	120	7.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Stenner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Stenner

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Andersen, Niels Åkerstrøm, Giacomo Carli, Paul Stenner, & Maria Rita Tagliaventi. (2025). A Pandemic of Possibilities: The Spread of Potentiality-Seeking Organisations under Conditions of the COVID-19 Lockdown. CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School). 3(2). 187–210. 1 indexed citations

Stenner, Paul, Amy Pearson, Steven K. Kapp, et al.. (2025). Using Q Methodology, a Group of Neurodivergent Neurodiversity Researchers Ask: What is the Neurodiversity Movement and what should it do?. 3. 2 indexed citations

Stenner, Paul. (2025). Crisis and Sensemaking: The Relevance of Liminal Experience and Metastability for a Sociocultural Psychology of Crisis. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 59(4). 70–70.

Stenner, Paul & Raffaele De Luca Picione. (2023). A Theoretically Informed Critical Review of Research Applying the Concept of Liminality to Understand Experiences with Cancer: Implications for a New Oncological Agenda in Health Psychology. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(11). 5982–5982. 10 indexed citations

Andersen, Niels Åkerstrøm & Paul Stenner. (2023). How the Welfare State Tries to Protect Itself Against the law: Luhmann and new Forms of Social Immune Mechanism. Law and Critique. 35(2). 257–279. 1 indexed citations

Keysar, Ariela, et al.. (2022). The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults. Åbo Akademi University Research Portal. 5 indexed citations

Beckwith, Helen, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Mark H. Freeston, et al.. (2022). A “transmission gap” between research and practice? A Q-methodology study of perceptions of the application of attachment theory among clinicians working with children and among attachment researchers. Attachment & Human Development. 24(6). 661–689. 3 indexed citations

Greco, Monica & Paul Stenner. (2017). From paradox to pattern shift: Conceptualising liminal hotspots and their affective dynamics. Theory & Psychology. 27(2). 147–166. 59 indexed citations

Stenner, Paul & Monica Greco. (2013). Affectivity. Informática na educação teoria & prática. 16(1). 1 indexed citations

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Stenner, Paul. (2011). James and Whitehead. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. III(1). 8 indexed citations

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Apfelbacher, Christian, Matthew Hankins, Paul Stenner, Anthony J. Frew, & Helen Smith. (2010). Measuring asthma‐specific quality of life: structured review. Allergy. 66(4). 439–457. 36 indexed citations

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Farrimond, Hannah, Hélène Joffé, & Paul Stenner. (2010). A Q-methodological study of smoking identities. Psychology and Health. 25(8). 979–998. 17 indexed citations

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Stenner, Paul. (2005). An outline of an autopoietic systems approach to emotion. Open Research Online (The Open University). 12. 8–22. 12 indexed citations

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Watts, Simon & Paul Stenner. (2005). The subjective experience of partnership love: A Q Methodological study. British Journal of Social Psychology. 44(1). 85–107. 63 indexed citations

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Stenner, Paul. (2004). Psychology and the Political: On the psychology of natural right and the political origins of modern psychology. UCL Discovery (University College London). 6 indexed citations

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Stenner, Paul. (2003). Dostoevsky and the Spirit of Critical Psychology.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Stenner, Paul & Simon Watts. (2003). Q methodology, quantum theory and subjectivity. Operant Subjectivity. 26(4). 155–173. 2 indexed citations

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Stenner, Paul, Deborah Cooper, & Suzanne M. Skevington. (2003). Putting the Q into quality of life; the identification of subjective constructions of health-related quality of life using Q methodology. Social Science & Medicine. 57(11). 2161–2172. 101 indexed citations

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Stenner, Paul, Christine P. Dancey, & Simon Watts. (2000). The understanding of their illness amongst people with irritable bowel syndrome: a Q methodological study. Social Science & Medicine. 51(3). 439–452. 99 indexed citations

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Stenner, Paul. (1999). Sincerity, authenticity and aspirational models. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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