Philip B. Ward

26.9k citations

278 papers · 17.7k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 66

Impact in

Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.1%
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
Biological Psychiatry top 0.2%

Papers in

Psychiatry and Mental health 94
- Schizophrenia research and treatment 76
Cognitive Neuroscience 74
- Neuroscience and Music Perception 33
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies 28

Co-authors: Simon Rosenbaum Brendon Stubbs Davy Vancampfort Felipe Barreto Schuch Stanley V. Catts Joseph Firth Robyn Langdon Justin Richards
Journals: Schizophrenia Research (21 papers)Psychiatry Research (12 papers)Journal of Affective Disorders (10 papers)Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (10 papers)Early Intervention in Psychiatry (9 papers)
Partner nations: Australia Belgium United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Philip B. Ward

264 papers receiving 17.4k citations

Hit Papers

11 papers align trajectories log scale

Exercise as medicine for depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis with meta-regression 2023 · 202 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 British Journal of Sports Medicine
2019 Depression and Anxiety
2018 American Journal of Psychiatry
2017 World Psychiatry
2017 NeuroImage
2017 World Psychiatry
2016 Journal of Psychiatric Research
2016 Journal of Affective Disorders
2016 World Psychiatry
2015 World Psychiatry
2014 The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

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1	A culturally sensitive act-belong-commit-based school intervention reduces the burden of anxiety and depression in adolescents: A pilot cluster-randomized trial from Uganda Journal of Affective Disorders ·Davy Vancampfort, Philip B. Ward, Japheth Kwiringira, Tine Van Damme, Simon Rosenbaum, James Mugisha	2025	2
2	Evaluation of a smoking cessation program for adults with severe mental illness in a public mental health service Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing ·Hamish Fibbins, Philip B. Ward, Rachel Morell, Oscar Lederman, Scott Teasdale, Kimberley Davies, Bernadette McGuigan, Jackie Curtis	2024	0
3	Metabolic syndrome risk prediction in an Australian sample with first-episode psychosis using the psychosis metabolic risk calculator: A validation study Australasian Psychiatry ·Scott Teasdale, Oliver Ardill‐Young, Rachel Morell, Philip B. Ward, Golam M. Khandaker, Rachel Upthegrove, Jackie Curtis, Benjamin I. Perry	2024	0
4	Effectiveness of lifestyle interventions for improving the physical health of children and adolescents taking antipsychotic medications: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis BMJ Open ·Patrick Hawker, Jessica Bellamy, Catherine McHugh, Tsz Ying Wong, Katrina Williams, Amanda Wood, Vicki Anderson, Bruce J. Tonge, Philip B. Ward, Emma Sciberras, Mark A. Bellgrove, Timothy J. Silk, Ping‐I Lin, Valsamma Eapen	2023	0
5	Exercise as medicine for depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis with meta-regression British Journal of Sports Medicine ·Andreas Heißel, Darlene Heinen, Luisa Leonie Brokmeier, Nora Skarabis, Maria Kangas, Davy Vancampfort, Brendon Stubbs, Joseph Firth, Philip B. Ward, Simon Rosenbaum, Mats Hallgren, Felipe Barreto Schuch Hit paper breakdown →	2023	202
6	Web-based exercise interventions for patients with depressive and anxiety disorders: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry ·Lara Carneiro, Simon Rosenbaum, Philip B. Ward, Filipe Manuel Clemente, Rodrigo Ramírez‐Campillo, Renato Sobral Monteiro-Júnior, Alexandre Martins, José Afonso	2021	15
7	Dietary Intake, Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle-Related Factors in People with Schizophrenia Issues in Mental Health Nursing ·Raquel Costa, Scott Teasdale, Sandra Abreu, Tânia Bastos, Michel Probst, Simon Rosenbaum, Philip B. Ward, Rui Corredeira	2019	15
8	Barriers, attitudes, confidence, and knowledge of nurses regarding metabolic health screening and intervention in people with mental illness: a pilot study from Uganda African Health Sciences ·Davy Vancampfort, Andrew Watkins, Philip B. Ward, Michel Probst, Marc D. Binder, Tine Van Damme, James Mugisha	2019	7
9	The Role of Sport, Exercise, and Physical Activity in Closing the Life Expectancy Gap for People with Mental Illness: An International Consensus Statement by Exercise and Sports Science Australia, American College of Sports Medicine, British Association of Sport and Exercise Science, and Sport and Exercise Science New Zealand Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine ·Simon Rosenbaum, Anita Hobson-Powell, Kade Davison, Robert Stanton, Lynette L. Craft, Michael Duncan, Catherine Elliot, Philip B. Ward	2018	31
10	Trauma, anxiety, and depression in Iran: A report from the 3rd International Anxiety Congress in Iran edoc (University of Basel) ·Peter J. Norton, Ali Morad Heidari Gorji, Dena Sadeghi Bahmani, Serge Brand, Markus Burgmer, Christi Cabrera, Brett J. Deacon, Sean P. A. Drummond, Caitlin Hitchcock, Simon Rosenbaum, Philip B. Ward	2017	1
11	Type 2 Diabetes Among People With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychosomatic Medicine ·Davy Vancampfort, Simon Rosenbaum, Philip B. Ward, Zachary Steel, Oscar Lederman, Alice Veronica Lamwaka, Justin Richards, Brendon Stubbs	2016	73
12	Dropout from exercise randomized controlled trials among people with depression: A meta-analysis and meta regression Journal of Affective Disorders ·Brendon Stubbs, Davy Vancampfort, Simon Rosenbaum, Philip B. Ward, Justin Richards, Andrew Soundy, Nicola Veronese, Marco Solmi, Felipe Barreto Schuch	2015	208
13	Among Inpatients, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity Is Negatively Associated With Time Spent Walking The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease ·Simon Rosenbaum, Davy Vancampfort, Anne Tiedemann, Brendon Stubbs, Zachary Steel, Philip B. Ward, David Berle, Catherine Sherrington	2015	15
14	Associations Between Metabolic and Aerobic Fitness Parameters in Patients With Schizophrenia The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease ·Davy Vancampfort, Hannes Guelinkcx, Michel Probst, Brendon Stubbs, Simon Rosenbaum, Philip B. Ward, Marc D. Binder	2014	15
15	CEREBELLAR GREY MATTER DEFICITS, CANNABIS USE AND FIRST-EPISODE SCHIZOPHRENIA IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS Schizophrenia Research ·Martin Cohen, Paul E. Rasser, Gregory Peck, Vaughan J. Carr, Philip B. Ward, Paul M. Thompson, Patrick Johnston, Amanda Baker, Ulrich Schall	2010	6
16	An fMRI study of cerebral activation differences between cannabis users and schizophrenia patients during the Tower of London task Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology) ·Michael S. Cohen, Patrick Johnston, Tim Ehlkes, Vaughan J. Carr, Amanda Baker, Philip B. Ward, Ulrich Schall	2006	1
17	Functional brain imaging of auditory mismatch processing in schizophrenia Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology) ·Ulrich Schall, Patrick Johnston, James Todd, Philip B. Ward, Patricia T. Michie	2005	1
18	Vascular risk and low serum B12 predict white matter lesions in patients with major depression Journal of Affective Disorders ·Ian B. Hickie, Sharon L. Naismith, Philip B. Ward, Elizabeth Scott, Philip B. Mitchell, Kay Wilhelm, Gordon Parker	2005	27
19	Functional neuroanatomy of auditory sensory memory: an event-related fMRI study Australian Journal of Psychology ·Ulrich Schall, Patrick Johnston, James Todd, Philip B. Ward, Pat Michie	2003	3
20	Event-related potentials (ERPs) link semantic-processing deficits and auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia Schizophrenia Research ·Philip B. Ward, Charlene Levitan, SV Catts	1999	2

About Philip B. Ward

Philip B. Ward is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Applied Psychology and Clinical Psychology, having authored 278 papers that have together received 17.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Schizophrenia research and treatment (76 papers), Physical Activity and Health (54 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (33 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (28 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (23 papers), Eating Disorders and Behaviors (22 papers), Cardiac Health and Mental Health (22 papers) and Mental Health and Psychiatry (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Psychiatry and Mental health (6.0k citations), Biological Psychiatry (960 citations), Applied Psychology (1.3k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (4.0k citations) and Clinical Psychology (3.9k citations). Philip B. Ward has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, Belgium and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Simon Rosenbaum, Brendon Stubbs, Davy Vancampfort, Felipe Barreto Schuch, Stanley V. Catts, Joseph Firth, Robyn Langdon, Justin Richards, Patricia T. Michie and Sharon L. Naismith. Their work appears in journals such as Schizophrenia Research, Psychiatry Research, Journal of Affective Disorders, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry and Early Intervention in Psychiatry.

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