Robert Aunger

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Robert Aunger is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Aunger has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Robert Aunger's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (25 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (9 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (8 papers). Robert Aunger is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (25 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (9 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (8 papers). Robert Aunger collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. Robert Aunger's co-authors include Valérie Curtis, Val Curtis, Tamer Rabie, Mícheál de Barra, V. Curtis, Wolf‐Peter Schmidt, Gaby Judah, Benjamin Gardner, Gillian R. Bentley and Mark Stoneking and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Robert Aunger

87 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Evidence that disgust evolved to protect from risk of disease

2004 588 citations Val Curtis, Robert Aunger et al. profile →
Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour

2011 471 citations Valérie Curtis, Mícheál de Barra et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Aunger United Kingdom	28	951	906	800	755	464	91	4.0k
Valérie Curtis United Kingdom	25	839 0.9×	1.7k 1.9×	531 0.7×	613 0.8×	715 1.5×	44	4.1k
Lawrence S. Sugiyama United States	27	341 0.4×	313 0.3×	607 0.8×	544 0.7×	232 0.5×	59	2.4k
Val Curtis United Kingdom	25	567 0.6×	2.1k 2.3×	418 0.5×	362 0.5×	637 1.4×	45	4.0k
Daniel J. Hruschka United States	31	243 0.3×	268 0.3×	845 1.1×	782 1.0×	706 1.5×	91	3.6k
Ricardo Godoy United States	42	277 0.3×	816 0.9×	732 0.9×	591 0.8×	676 1.5×	161	5.1k
Britta Renner Germany	37	412 0.4×	218 0.2×	814 1.0×	780 1.0×	878 1.9×	173	5.1k
Johannes Haushofer United States	23	629 0.7×	184 0.2×	909 1.1×	905 1.2×	725 1.6×	67	4.3k
Theodore D. Wachs United States	35	257 0.3×	1.6k 1.8×	559 0.7×	794 1.1×	625 1.3×	112	6.3k
David Mellor Australia	52	354 0.4×	268 0.3×	1.9k 2.3×	1.7k 2.3×	1.8k 3.8×	371	10.9k
Ruth Mace United Kingdom	53	307 0.3×	339 0.4×	3.1k 3.9×	1.4k 1.8×	494 1.1×	183	8.7k

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Aunger, Robert, Sebastian Deterding, Xiaoyang Zhao, & Weston Baxter. (2024). Applying the Barker School concept of ‘behaviour settings’ to virtual contexts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1910). 20230291–20230291. 2 indexed citations

Aunger, Robert, et al.. (2024). Experimenting to increase the effectiveness of a national campaign on hygiene behavior in Tanzania. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 16703–16703. 2 indexed citations

Aunger, Robert, Albina Gallyamova, & Dmitry Grigoryev. (2024). Network psychometric-based identification and structural analysis of a set of evolved human motives. Personality and Individual Differences. 233. 112921–112921.

Aunger, Robert, et al.. (2023). Lessons from a successful national sanitation programme: the case of Nyumba ni Choo in Tanzania. Health Promotion International. 38(5).

Lines, Jo, et al.. (2023). Rice farmers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards mosquitoes in irrigation schemes in Côte d’Ivoire: a qualitative study. Malaria Journal. 22(1). 352–352. 2 indexed citations

Bonell, Chris, V. Curtis, Robert Dreibelbis, et al.. (2020). How to set up government-led national hygiene communication campaigns to combat COVID-19: a strategic blueprint. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14 indexed citations

Watson, Julie, et al.. (2020). Child handwashing in an internally displaced persons camp in Northern Iraq: A qualitative multi-method exploration of motivational drivers and other handwashing determinants. PLoS ONE. 15(2). e0228482–e0228482. 13 indexed citations

Gon, Giorgia, Said M. Ali, Robert Aunger, et al.. (2020). A Practical Guide to Using Time-and-Motion Methods to Monitor Compliance With Hand Hygiene Guidelines: Experience From Tanzanian Labor Wards. Global Health Science and Practice. 8(4). 827–837. 2 indexed citations

Aunger, Robert, et al.. (2019). Theory-driven formative research to inform the design of a national sanitation campaign in Tanzania. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0221445–e0221445. 13 indexed citations

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Tidwell, James B., Fern Terris‐Prestholt, Matthew Quaife, & Robert Aunger. (2019). Understanding demand for higher quality sanitation in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia through stated and revealed preference analysis. Social Science & Medicine. 232. 139–147. 14 indexed citations

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Tidwell, James B., et al.. (2019). Effect of a behaviour change intervention on the quality of peri-urban sanitation in Lusaka, Zambia: a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Planetary Health. 3(4). e187–e196. 28 indexed citations

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Judah, Gaby, Benjamin Gardner, Michael G. Kenward, Bianca DeStavola, & Robert Aunger. (2018). Exploratory study of the impact of perceived reward on habit formation. BMC Psychology. 6(1). 62–62. 39 indexed citations

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Watson, Julie, et al.. (2018). Child's play: Harnessing play and curiosity motives to improve child handwashing in a humanitarian setting. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 222(2). 177–182. 35 indexed citations

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Aunger, Robert & Valérie Curtis. (2016). Behaviour Centred Design: towards an applied science of behaviour change. Health Psychology Review. 10(4). 425–446. 129 indexed citations

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Aunger, Robert, Katie Greenland, George B. Ploubidis, et al.. (2016). The Determinants of Reported Personal and Household Hygiene Behaviour: A Multi-Country Study. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0159551–e0159551. 31 indexed citations

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Rajaraman, Divya, Kiruba Sankar Varadharajan, Katie Greenland, et al.. (2014). Implementing effective hygiene promotion: lessons from the process evaluation of an intervention to promote handwashing with soap in rural India. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 1179–1179. 22 indexed citations

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Krentel, Alison & Robert Aunger. (2011). Causal chain mapping: a novel method to analyse treatment compliance decisions relating to lymphatic filariasis elimination in Alor, Indonesia. Health Policy and Planning. 27(5). 384–395. 12 indexed citations

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Curtis, V., et al.. (2009). Planned, motivated and habitual hygiene behaviour: an eleven country review. Health Education Research. 24(4). 655–673. 356 indexed citations

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Aunger, Robert. (2007). Tooth brushing as routine behaviour. International Dental Journal. 57. 364–376. 49 indexed citations

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Rubio, Miguel, Robert Aunger, & Val Curtis. (2006). Serotonin – A link between disgust and immunity?. Medical Hypotheses. 68(1). 61–66. 37 indexed citations

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