Ruth Tennant

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
6 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Ruth Tennant is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Tennant has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in General Health Professions, 3 papers in Health and 3 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ruth Tennant's work include Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (3 papers), Health, psychology, and well-being (3 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (3 papers). Ruth Tennant is often cited by papers focused on Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (3 papers), Health, psychology, and well-being (3 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (3 papers). Ruth Tennant collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Australia. Ruth Tennant's co-authors include Sarah Stewart‐Brown, Scott Weich, Stephen Platt, Jane Parkinson, Stephen Joseph, Louise Hiller, Jenny Secker, Alan Tennant, John S. Clubb and Solomon Posen and has published in prestigious journals such as BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Quality of Life Research and Health and Quality of Life Outcomes.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Tennant

6 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): d... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2009 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation
    2007 3.3k citations Ruth Tennant, Louise Hiller et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes profile →
  2. Internal construct validity of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): a Rasch analysis using data from the Scottish Health Education Population Survey
    2009 857 citations Sarah Stewart‐Brown, Alan Tennant et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ruth Tennant United Kingdom 6 1.8k 1.5k 1.1k 683 522 6 4.4k
Jenny Secker United Kingdom 22 1.8k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 1.6k 1.4× 623 0.9× 462 0.9× 57 4.8k
Jane Parkinson United Kingdom 11 2.1k 1.1× 1.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.2× 903 1.3× 581 1.1× 20 4.9k
Ruth C. Cronkite United States 38 2.4k 1.3× 1.5k 1.0× 1.5k 1.4× 765 1.1× 403 0.8× 92 5.2k
Richard J. Contrada United States 35 1.6k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 855 0.8× 607 0.9× 677 1.3× 94 5.1k
Joan Epstein United States 12 1.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 1.5k 1.4× 837 1.2× 266 0.5× 17 4.7k
Peggy R. Barker United States 12 2.0k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.5× 879 1.3× 269 0.5× 14 4.8k
Jeanne Dalen United States 14 3.3k 1.8× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 389 0.6× 662 1.3× 33 4.9k
John W. Reich United States 33 1.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 786 0.7× 692 1.0× 609 1.2× 82 4.2k
Geir Arild Espnes Norway 32 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 1.6k 1.5× 476 0.7× 442 0.8× 111 3.9k
Carole K. Holahan United States 29 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 721 0.7× 522 0.8× 391 0.7× 91 4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ruth Tennant

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ruth Tennant

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ruth Tennant. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ruth Tennant. The network helps show where Ruth Tennant may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth Tennant

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

All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Stewart‐Brown, Sarah, Alan Tennant, Ruth Tennant, et al.. (2009). Internal construct validity of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): a Rasch analysis using data from the Scottish Health Education Population Survey. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 7(1). 15–15. 857 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tennant, Ruth, Stephen Joseph, & Sarah Stewart‐Brown. (2007). The Affectometer 2: a measure of positive mental health in UK populations. Quality of Life Research. 16(4). 687–95. 29 indexed citations
3.
Tennant, Ruth, et al.. (2007). A systematic review of reviews of interventions to promote mental health and prevent mental health problems in children and young people. Journal of Public Mental Health. 6(1). 25–32. 68 indexed citations
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Tennant, Ruth, Louise Hiller, Stephen Platt, et al.. (2007). The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 5(1). 63–63. 3279 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tennant, Ruth, Mohammed A. Mohammed, Jamie J. Coleman, & Una Martin. (2007). Monitoring patients using control charts: a systematic review. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 19(4). 187–194. 58 indexed citations
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Tennant, Ruth, et al.. (1964). THE MECHANISM OF THE ELEVATION OF SERUM ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE IN PREGNANCY. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 71(5). 735–739. 89 indexed citations

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