Sarah Dryhurst

3.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
19 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Sarah Dryhurst is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Dryhurst has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 3 papers in Health and 2 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Sarah Dryhurst's work include Risk Perception and Management (8 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (6 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 papers). Sarah Dryhurst is often cited by papers focused on Risk Perception and Management (8 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (6 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 papers). Sarah Dryhurst collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and New Zealand. Sarah Dryhurst's co-authors include Alexandra L. J. Freeman, Gabriel Recchia, John R. Kerr, Claudia R. Schneider, Sander van der Linden, Anne Marthe van der Bles, David Spiegelhalter, Jon Roozenbeek, Pierre Arwidson and Carole Dufouil and has published in prestigious journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, BMJ Open and Risk Analysis.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Dryhurst

17 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2020 2021 400 800 1.2k
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. Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world
    2020 1.3k citations Sarah Dryhurst, Claudia R. Schneider et al. Journal of Risk Research profile →
  2. Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world
    2020 849 citations Jon Roozenbeek, Claudia R. Schneider et al. Royal Society Open Science profile →
  3. COVID-19 risk perception: a longitudinal analysis of its predictors and associations with health protective behaviours in the United Kingdom
    2021 174 citations Claudia R. Schneider, Sarah Dryhurst et al. Journal of Risk Research profile →

Peers

Sarah Dryhurst
Claudia R. Schneider United Kingdom
Anne Marthe van der Bles Netherlands
Alexandra L. J. Freeman United Kingdom
John R. Kerr New Zealand
Gabriel Recchia United Kingdom
Todd K. Hartman United Kingdom
Sylvain Brouard France
Yulin Hswen United States
Matt Motta United States
Erika Franklin Fowler United States
Claudia R. Schneider United Kingdom
Sarah Dryhurst
Citations per year, relative to Sarah Dryhurst Sarah Dryhurst (= 1×) peers Claudia R. Schneider

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Dryhurst

Since Specialization
Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Dryhurst

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sarah Dryhurst. 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 Sarah Dryhurst. The network helps show where Sarah Dryhurst may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Dryhurst

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Pescaroli, Gianluca, et al.. (2025). Bridging gaps in research and practice for early warning systems: new datasets for public response. Frontiers in Communication. 10.
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Triolo, Federico, Sarah Dryhurst, Maurizio Mazzoleni, et al.. (2025). Exploring public risk perception of multiple hazards through network analysis. PubMed. 2(7). 100424–100424. 1 indexed citations
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Paniello-Castillo, Blanca, et al.. (2025). Risk perception of climate change and global crises: Influences of socio-economic drivers and political orientations. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 12(1).
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Recchia, Gabriel, et al.. (2023). Do colored cells in risk matrices affect decision‐making and risk perception? Insights from randomized controlled studies. Risk Analysis. 43(10). 2114–2128. 6 indexed citations
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Kerr, John R., Anne Marthe van der Bles, Sarah Dryhurst, et al.. (2023). The effects of communicating uncertainty around statistics, on public trust. Royal Society Open Science. 10(11). 230604–230604. 9 indexed citations
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Beard, SJ, et al.. (2023). Exploring Futures for the Science of Global Risk. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Schneider, Claudia R., John R. Kerr, Sarah Dryhurst, & John A. D. Aston. (2023). Communication of Statistics and Evidence in Times of Crisis. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 11(1). 1–26. 1 indexed citations
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Walshe, Rory, et al.. (2022). Introducing Stories Into Downward Counterfactual Analysis: Examples From a Potential Mediterranean Disaster. Frontiers in Earth Science. 10. 1 indexed citations
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Dryhurst, Sarah, Irina Dallo, John R. Kerr, et al.. (2022). Fighting misinformation in seismology: Expert opinion on earthquake facts vs. fiction. Frontiers in Earth Science. 10. 10 indexed citations
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Sallis, Hannah, et al.. (2022). Associations between COVID-19 risk perceptions and mental health, wellbeing, and risk behaviours. Journal of Risk Research. 25(11-12). 1372–1394. 6 indexed citations
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Freeman, Alexandra L. J., John R. Kerr, Gabriel Recchia, et al.. (2021). Communicating personalized risks from COVID-19: guidelines from an empirical study. Royal Society Open Science. 8(4). 201721–201721. 14 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Holly, Gabriel Recchia, Sarah Dryhurst, & Alexandra L. J. Freeman. (2021). How People Understand Risk Matrices, and How Matrix Design Can Improve their Use: Findings from Randomized Controlled Studies. Risk Analysis. 42(5). 1023–1041. 17 indexed citations
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Kerr, John R., Claudia R. Schneider, Gabriel Recchia, et al.. (2021). Correlates of intended COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across time and countries: results from a series of cross-sectional surveys. BMJ Open. 11(8). e048025–e048025. 87 indexed citations
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Schneider, Claudia R., Sarah Dryhurst, John R. Kerr, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 risk perception: a longitudinal analysis of its predictors and associations with health protective behaviours in the United Kingdom. Journal of Risk Research. 24(3-4). 294–313. 174 indexed citations breakdown →
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Padilla, Lace, et al.. (2021). Multiple Hazard Uncertainty Visualization Challenges and Paths Forward. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 579207–579207. 9 indexed citations
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Roozenbeek, Jon, Claudia R. Schneider, Sarah Dryhurst, et al.. (2020). Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world. Royal Society Open Science. 7(10). 201199–201199. 849 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dryhurst, Sarah, Claudia R. Schneider, John R. Kerr, et al.. (2020). Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world. Journal of Risk Research. 23(7-8). 994–1006. 1254 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dryhurst, Sarah, Anne Marthe van der Bles, Gabriel Recchia, et al.. (2020). Risk perception of COVID-19/coronavirus. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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