Sam Parsons

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Sam Parsons is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Parsons has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Clinical Psychology, 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 10 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Sam Parsons's work include Health disparities and outcomes (10 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (5 papers). Sam Parsons is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (10 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (5 papers). Sam Parsons collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Australia. Sam Parsons's co-authors include Elaine Fox, Anne‐Wil Kruijt, John Bynner, Charlotte Booth, Johnny van Doorn, Alexander Etz, Sophia Crüwell, Hannah Moshontz, Jesse C. Niebaum and Matthew C. Makel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Abnormal Psychology and International Journal of Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

Sam Parsons

47 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Psychological Science Needs a Standard Practice of Reporting the Reliability of Cognitive-Behavioral Measurements

2019 277 citations Sam Parsons, Anne‐Wil Kruijt et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam Parsons United Kingdom	15	357	336	307	193	179	54	1.2k
Carmen Moret‐Tatay Spain	18	207 0.6×	376 1.1×	230 0.7×	108 0.6×	304 1.7×	97	1.2k
Nicholas Benson United States	17	391 1.1×	193 0.6×	233 0.8×	203 1.1×	479 2.7×	60	1.1k
Samantha Bouwmeester Netherlands	18	281 0.8×	290 0.9×	143 0.5×	146 0.8×	255 1.4×	59	947
Nicolas Becker Germany	15	524 1.5×	137 0.4×	214 0.7×	259 1.3×	183 1.0×	51	1.2k
Gerardo Prieto Spain	19	240 0.7×	136 0.4×	188 0.6×	273 1.4×	203 1.1×	100	1.2k
W. Joel Schneider United States	20	456 1.3×	163 0.5×	238 0.8×	117 0.6×	340 1.9×	50	1.2k
Joel S. Steele United States	18	200 0.6×	358 1.1×	426 1.4×	484 2.5×	445 2.5×	37	1.5k
Ty W. Boyer United States	13	139 0.4×	282 0.8×	156 0.5×	332 1.7×	344 1.9×	33	1.1k
Wouter D. Weeda Netherlands	17	260 0.7×	444 1.3×	184 0.6×	150 0.8×	123 0.7×	37	1.2k
Irene Rebollo Netherlands	15	464 1.3×	243 0.7×	187 0.6×	125 0.6×	191 1.1×	24	913

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Parsons

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20 of 20 papers shown

Parsons, Sam, et al.. (2024). The effects of life experiences and polygenic risk for depression on the development of positive and negative cognitive biases across adolescence: The CogBIAS hypothesis. Development and Psychopathology. 37(1). 361–370.

Parsons, Sam, et al.. (2024). Same sex-attraction as a predictor of suicide and self-harm behaviours: The role of bullying and social support. Journal of Affective Disorders. 350. 396–402.

Parsons, Sam & Ethan M. McCormick. (2024). Limitations of two time point data for understanding individual differences in longitudinal modeling — What can difference reveal about change?. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 66. 101353–101353. 16 indexed citations

Parsons, Sam, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Ulman Lindenberger, & Rogier Kievit. (2024). Longitudinal stability of cortical grey matter measures varies across brain regions, imaging metrics, and testing sites in the ABCD study. Imaging Neuroscience. 2.

Fitzsimons, Emla, Sam Parsons, & Ingrid Schoon. (2024). The OHC penalty in the UK: maternal experience and child development. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. 16(1). 45–74.

Pennington, Charlotte R., et al.. (2023). Relationships between the race implicit association test and other measures of implicit and explicit social cognition. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1197298–1197298. 2 indexed citations

Parsons, Sam, Rogier Kievit, Duncan E. Astle, et al.. (2023). Challenges and Solutions to the Measurement of Neurocognitive Mechanisms in Developmental Settings. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 8(8). 815–821. 8 indexed citations

Green, Michael J., Jane Maddock, Giorgio Di Gessa, et al.. (2022). The UK Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and smoking, alcohol consumption and vaping during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from eight longitudinal population surveys. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 345–345. 6 indexed citations

Maddock, Jane, Michael J. Green, Giorgio Di Gessa, et al.. (2022). The UK Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and diet, physical activity, and sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from eight longitudinal population surveys. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 147–147. 6 indexed citations

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Demkowicz, Ola, Margarita Panayiotou, Sam Parsons, et al.. (2021). Looking Back to Move Forward: Reflections on the Strengths and Challenges of the COVID-19 UK Mental Health Research Response. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12. 622562–622562. 16 indexed citations

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Lim, Michele C., et al.. (2021). Anxiety, stress, and binge eating tendencies in adolescence: a prospective approach. Journal of Eating Disorders. 9(1). 94–94. 23 indexed citations

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Pownall, Madeleine, Flávio Azevedo, Alaa Aldoh, et al.. (2021). Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: A bank of lesson plans and resources.. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. 10(3). 342–349. 11 indexed citations

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Booth, Charlotte, et al.. (2020). Anxiety and Depressive Symptom Trajectories in Adolescence and the Co-Occurring Development of Cognitive Biases: Evidence from the CogBIAS Longitudinal Study. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 48(12). 1617–1633. 15 indexed citations

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Dodd, Helen F., et al.. (2020). Trajectories of anxiety when children start school: The role of behavioral inhibition and attention bias to angry and happy faces.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 129(7). 701–712. 10 indexed citations

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Crüwell, Sophia, Johnny van Doorn, Alexander Etz, et al.. (2019). Seven Easy Steps to Open Science. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 227(4). 237–248. 77 indexed citations

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Kruijt, Anne‐Wil, Sam Parsons, & Elaine Fox. (2019). A meta-analysis of bias at baseline in RCTs of attention bias modification: No evidence for dot-probe bias towards threat in clinical anxiety and PTSD.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 128(6). 563–573. 75 indexed citations

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Booth, Charlotte, Sam Parsons, Lauren C. Heathcote, et al.. (2017). The CogBIAS longitudinal study protocol: cognitive and genetic factors influencing psychological functioning in adolescence. BMC Psychology. 5(1). 41–41. 11 indexed citations

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Bann, David, Mark Hamer, Sam Parsons, George B. Ploubidis, & Alice Sullivan. (2016). Does an elite education benefit health? Findings from the 1970 British Cohort Study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 46(1). dyw045–dyw045. 19 indexed citations

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Bynner, John & Sam Parsons. (2006). Does Numeracy Matter More?. IOE EPrints. 200 indexed citations

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Bynner, John, et al.. (2005). Measuring basic skills for longitudinal study: the design and development of instruments for use with cohort members in the age 34 follow-up in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). IOE EPrints. 13 indexed citations

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