Robert Jakob

714 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 373 citations indexed

About

Robert Jakob is a scholar working on Applied Psychology, General Health Professions and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Jakob has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 373 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Applied Psychology, 5 papers in General Health Professions and 2 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Robert Jakob's work include Digital Mental Health Interventions (6 papers), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (5 papers) and Technology Use by Older Adults (2 papers). Robert Jakob is often cited by papers focused on Digital Mental Health Interventions (6 papers), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (5 papers) and Technology Use by Older Adults (2 papers). Robert Jakob collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Singapore. Robert Jakob's co-authors include Tobias Kowatsch, Severin Haug, Jacqueline L. Mair, Alicia Salamanca-Sanabria, Elgar Fleisch, Samira Harperink, Jan-Niklas Kramer, Peter Tinschert, Filipe Barata and Mareike Augsburger and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Medical Internet Research, Annals of Behavioral Medicine and JMIR mhealth and uhealth.

In The Last Decade

Robert Jakob

6 papers receiving 365 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Factors Influencing Adherence to mHealth Apps for Prevention or Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: Systematic Review

2022 189 citations Robert Jakob, Samira Harperink et al. Journal of Medical Internet Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Jakob Switzerland	4	230	183	80	46	38	6	373
Jan-Niklas Kramer Switzerland	8	256 1.1×	212 1.2×	125 1.6×	56 1.2×	35 0.9×	14	416
Samantha van Beurden United Kingdom	9	249 1.1×	141 0.8×	59 0.7×	109 2.4×	91 2.4×	15	407
Samira Harperink Switzerland	3	189 0.8×	169 0.9×	29 0.4×	54 1.2×	39 1.0×	4	326
Karina Karolina De Santis Germany	11	155 0.7×	117 0.6×	37 0.5×	45 1.0×	44 1.2×	34	383
Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon United States	10	165 0.7×	138 0.8×	36 0.5×	110 2.4×	41 1.1×	17	412
Sumathy Ravi Australia	3	148 0.6×	136 0.7×	25 0.3×	35 0.8×	57 1.5×	6	327
Kathleen Mehari United States	3	156 0.7×	90 0.5×	101 1.3×	45 1.0×	24 0.6×	5	302
Esther Granado‐Font Spain	7	343 1.5×	140 0.8×	147 1.8×	177 3.8×	68 1.8×	10	503
Cindy Hooker Australia	8	240 1.0×	152 0.8×	145 1.8×	101 2.2×	40 1.1×	11	353
Dominique Alexandra Reinwand Germany	10	173 0.8×	184 1.0×	68 0.8×	56 1.2×	57 1.5×	15	366

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Jakob

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Jakob, Robert, et al.. (2024). Factors associated with adherence to a public mobile nutritional health intervention: Retrospective cohort study. Computers in Human Behavior Reports. 15. 100445–100445. 1 indexed citations

2.

Jakob, Robert, et al.. (2024). Predicting early user churn in a public digital weight loss intervention. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1–16. 3 indexed citations

3.

Mair, Jacqueline L., Alicia Salamanca-Sanabria, Mareike Augsburger, et al.. (2023). Effective Behavior Change Techniques in Digital Health Interventions for the Prevention or Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: An Umbrella Review. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 57(10). 817–835. 51 indexed citations

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Jakob, Robert, Samira Harperink, Elgar Fleisch, et al.. (2022). Factors Influencing Adherence to mHealth Apps for Prevention or Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(5). e35371–e35371. 189 indexed citations breakdown →

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Castro, Raquel Paz, Severin Haug, Rudolf Debelak, et al.. (2021). Engagement With a Mobile Phone–Based Life Skills Intervention for Adolescents and Its Association With Participant Characteristics and Outcomes: Tree-Based Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(1). e28638–e28638. 10 indexed citations

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Tinschert, Peter, Robert Jakob, Filipe Barata, Jan-Niklas Kramer, & Tobias Kowatsch. (2017). The Potential of Mobile Apps for Improving Asthma Self-Management: A Review of Publicly Available and Well-Adopted Asthma Apps. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 5(8). e113–e113. 119 indexed citations

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