Richard A. Burns

22.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
133 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

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Richard A. Burns is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. Burns has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Social Psychology, 43 papers in Health and 26 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard A. Burns's work include Health disparities and outcomes (40 papers), Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (28 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (10 papers). Richard A. Burns is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (40 papers), Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (28 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (10 papers). Richard A. Burns collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Richard A. Burns's co-authors include Kaarin J. Anstey, Robert B. Burns, M. Anthony Machin, Tim D. Windsor, Peter Butterworth, Dimity A. Crisp, Mary A. Luszcz, Nicolas Cherbuin, Rebecca McKetin and Helen Christensen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Burns

122 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard A. Burns Australia	28	653	640	479	457	372	133	2.9k
Miguel A. Ruíz Spain	26	674 1.0×	878 1.4×	233 0.5×	318 0.7×	540 1.5×	134	3.1k
Shaunna L. Clark United States	24	683 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	317 0.7×	352 0.8×	435 1.2×	67	4.5k
Stéphanie M. van den Berg Netherlands	30	520 0.8×	558 0.9×	359 0.7×	443 1.0×	191 0.5×	95	3.2k
Norm O’Rourke Canada	28	633 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	444 0.9×	704 1.5×	721 1.9×	124	3.6k
Gareth Hagger‐Johnson United Kingdom	24	555 0.8×	385 0.6×	302 0.6×	207 0.5×	439 1.2×	56	2.4k
Donald Sharpe Canada	24	376 0.6×	947 1.5×	204 0.4×	544 1.2×	397 1.1×	64	2.8k
Janet Sayers New Zealand	17	981 1.5×	1.1k 1.8×	271 0.6×	420 0.9×	712 1.9×	100	3.4k
Kelly Harrington United States	16	580 0.9×	1.0k 1.6×	163 0.3×	268 0.6×	353 0.9×	40	3.4k
Simon Moore United Kingdom	28	604 0.9×	615 1.0×	392 0.8×	123 0.3×	482 1.3×	121	2.5k
Karen L. Siedlecki United States	24	538 0.8×	421 0.7×	342 0.7×	634 1.4×	172 0.5×	69	2.7k

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Dagnew, Amare Belachew, Nicolas Cherbuin, Nasser Bagheri, & Richard A. Burns. (2025). Identifying the Factors That Drive Health Service Utilization Among Healthy and Non‐Healthy Agers in a Sample of Older Ethiopians: A Cross‐Sectional Study. Health Science Reports. 8(1). e70351–e70351.

Crisp, Dimity A., Debra Rickwood, Richard A. Burns, & Emily Bariola. (2025). The complete mental health of Australia’s adolescents and emerging adults: distress and wellbeing across 3 nationally representative community samples. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 34. e16–e16.

Northey, Joseph M., Ananthan Ambikairajah, Oli Ahmed, et al.. (2025). Sleep characteristics and brain structure: A systematic review with meta-analysis. Sleep Medicine. 129. 316–329. 3 indexed citations

Parkinson, Anne, Richard A. Burns, Geoffrey Herkes, et al.. (2025). Measuring Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: A Rapid Review. Patient. 18(6). 623–644.

Shou, Yiyun, Amelia Gulliver, Louise M. Farrer, et al.. (2024). Psychological mechanisms of the development of suicidal ideation: Longitudinal cohort study. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 54(3). 593–605.

Burns, Richard A., et al.. (2024). Neural correlates of the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory: A cross‐sectional structural neuroimaging study in middle‐aged adults. Psychophysiology. 61(8). e14574–e14574. 2 indexed citations

Burns, Richard A., et al.. (2024). Examining the mental health services among people with mental disorders: a literature review. BMC Psychiatry. 24(1). 568–568. 4 indexed citations

Crisp, Dimity A., et al.. (2023). The emotion regulation strategies of flourishing adults. Current Psychology. 43(14). 12816–12827. 6 indexed citations

MacKinlay, Elizabeth, et al.. (2023). The lived experience of frailty: what does it mean to be frail?. Journal of Religion Spirituality & Aging. 36(3). 269–292.

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Burns, Richard A., et al.. (2022). A Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Literacy Study Among Australian Adults. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 12–30. 5 indexed citations

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Cherbuin, Nicolas, Katsuya Iijima, Sebastiana Kalula, et al.. (2021). Societal Need for Interdisciplinary Ageing Research: An International Alliance of Research Universities “Ageing, Longevity and Health” Stream (IARU-ALH) Position Statement. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 42–47. 4 indexed citations

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Burns, Richard A., Shea J. Andrews, Nicolas Cherbuin, & Kaarin J. Anstey. (2020). Role of apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 (APOE*ε4) as an independent risk factor for incident depression over a 12-year period in cognitively intact adults across the lifespan. BJPsych Open. 6(3). e47–e47. 9 indexed citations

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Burns, Richard A. & Dimity A. Crisp. (2019). The long-term mental health of Australia’s tertiary students. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 55(9). 1223–1230. 5 indexed citations

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Burns, Richard A., et al.. (2019). BMI trajectories and risk factors among 2-11-year-old children by their immigrant status: evidence from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. BMJ Open. 9(7). e026845–e026845. 5 indexed citations

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Burns, Richard A., Davina French, Mary A. Luszcz, Hal Kendig, & Kaarin J. Anstey. (2019). Heterogeneity in the Health and Functional Capacity of Adults Aged 85+ as Risk for Mortality. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 67(5). 1036–1042. 4 indexed citations

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Fairweather‐Schmidt, A. Kate, et al.. (2015). The utility of non‐specific measures of resilience across the lifespan: An investigation of structural invariance across gender and age cohorts. Australian Journal of Psychology. 68(1). 3–10. 3 indexed citations

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Burns, Richard A. & M. Anthony Machin. (2012). Psychological wellbeing and the diathesis-stress hypothesis model: The role of psychological functioning and quality of relations in promoting subjective well-being in a life events study. Personality and Individual Differences. 54(3). 321–326. 45 indexed citations

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Burns, Richard A., et al.. (2012). Alcohol and smoking consumption behaviours in older Australian adults: prevalence, period and socio-demographic differentials in the DYNOPTA sample. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 48(3). 493–502. 5 indexed citations

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Burns, Richard A., Kaarin J. Anstey, & Tim D. Windsor. (2010). Subjective Well-Being Mediates the Effects of Resilience and Mastery on Depression and Anxiety in a Large Community Sample of Young and Middle-Aged Adults. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 45(3). 240–248. 119 indexed citations

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Anstey, Kaarin J., Richard A. Burns, Peter Butterworth, et al.. (2009). Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Life Events as Antecedents of Depressive Symptoms in Middle and Early-Old Age: Path Through Life Study. Psychosomatic Medicine. 71(9). 937–943. 11 indexed citations

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