Thomas Ward

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Ward is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Philosophy and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Ward has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 16 papers in Philosophy and 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Ward's work include Schizophrenia research and treatment (20 papers), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (16 papers) and Mental Health and Psychiatry (16 papers). Thomas Ward is often cited by papers focused on Schizophrenia research and treatment (20 papers), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (16 papers) and Mental Health and Psychiatry (16 papers). Thomas Ward collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Thomas Ward's co-authors include Philippa Garety, Mar Rus‐Calafell, Richard Emsley, Tom Craig, Emmanuelle Peters, Mark Huckvale, Julian Leff, Elizabeth Howarth, Mike Jackson and Kevin P. Haggerty and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Ward

49 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Advances in the use of virtual reality to treat mental health conditions

2024 44 citations Imogen Bell, Roos Pot-Kolder et al. Nature Reviews Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Ward United Kingdom	18	582	334	297	296	224	54	1.1k
Ji‐Won Hur South Korea	20	353 0.6×	252 0.8×	147 0.5×	420 1.4×	114 0.5×	63	1.0k
Emma Černis United Kingdom	17	724 1.2×	453 1.4×	296 1.0×	361 1.2×	78 0.3×	40	1.0k
Olga Santesteban‐Echarri Canada	14	379 0.7×	252 0.8×	104 0.4×	393 1.3×	288 1.3×	41	1.1k
Miriam Fornells‐Ambrojo United Kingdom	19	1.1k 1.9×	196 0.6×	477 1.6×	791 2.7×	83 0.4×	42	1.6k
Frank Röhricht United Kingdom	22	564 1.0×	210 0.6×	365 1.2×	402 1.4×	55 0.2×	51	1.1k
Zeno Kupper Switzerland	18	517 0.9×	415 1.2×	173 0.6×	837 2.8×	110 0.5×	37	1.4k
Nynke Boonstra Netherlands	15	565 1.0×	136 0.4×	255 0.9×	396 1.3×	43 0.2×	73	940
Timothy R. Campellone United States	17	412 0.7×	345 1.0×	88 0.3×	208 0.7×	299 1.3×	25	798
Stefan Westermann Germany	22	631 1.1×	645 1.9×	259 0.9×	665 2.2×	306 1.4×	58	1.4k
José M. García‐Montes Spain	19	639 1.1×	289 0.9×	312 1.1×	524 1.8×	45 0.2×	53	1.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cipriani, Andrea, Thomas Ward, Sinéad Lambe, et al.. (2025). Beyond counting clicks: rethinking engagement in digital mental health. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 1–3.

Ward, Thomas, Nikos Xanidis, Clementine Edwards, et al.. (2025). Relational work with distressing voices mirroring experiences of discrimination and marginalisation: Three illustrative cases of an extended form of AVATAR therapy ( AV ‐ EXT ). Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice.

Rus‐Calafell, Mar, Tobias Teismann, Silvia Schneider, et al.. (2025). Using Virtual Reality Social Environments to Promote Outcomes' Generalization of AVATAR Therapy for Distressing Voices: A Case Study. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 81(6). 516–525. 2 indexed citations

Hardy, Amy, et al.. (2024). Co-designing technology to improve psychological therapy for psychosis: SloMo, a blended digital therapy for fear of harm from others. Schizophrenia Research. 274. 526–534. 2 indexed citations

Allan, Stephanie, Philippa Garety, Tom Craig, et al.. (2024). “There’s no us vs. them, it’s just us”: a creative approach to centring lived experience within the AVATAR2 trial. BMC Psychiatry. 24(1). 807–807. 1 indexed citations

Bell, Imogen, Roos Pot-Kolder, Albert Rizzo, et al.. (2024). Advances in the use of virtual reality to treat mental health conditions. Nature Reviews Psychology. 3(8). 552–567. 44 indexed citations breakdown →

Hardy, Amy, Nadine Keen, David Van Den Berg, et al.. (2023). Trauma therapies for psychosis: A state‐of‐the‐art review. Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice. 97(1). 74–90. 15 indexed citations

Ward, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Changes in the eating disorder voice over time and the association of voice characteristics at baseline with clinical symptoms in patients with anorexia nervosa. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. 31(1).

Ward, Thomas, Amy Hardy, Nicola Collett, et al.. (2022). SlowMo therapy, a new digital blended therapy for fear of harm from others: An account of therapy personalisation within a targeted intervention. Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice. 95(2). 423–446. 6 indexed citations

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Hardy, Amy, Thomas Ward, Richard Emsley, et al.. (2022). Bridging the Digital Divide in Psychological Therapies: Observational Study of Engagement With the SlowMo Mobile App for Paranoia in Psychosis. JMIR Human Factors. 9(3). e29725–e29725. 14 indexed citations

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Cardi, Valentina, et al.. (2022). A proof-of-concept study for the use of a computerised avatar to embody the eating disorder voice in anorexia nervosa. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity. 27(8). 3499–3506. 7 indexed citations

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Greenwood, Kathryn, Sam Robertson, Thomas Ward, et al.. (2021). The impact of Patient and Public Involvement in the SlowMo study: Reflections on peer innovation. Health Expectations. 25(1). 191–202. 10 indexed citations

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Garety, Philippa, Thomas Ward, Richard Emsley, et al.. (2021). Digitally supported CBT to reduce paranoia and improve reasoning for people with schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis: the SlowMo RCT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(11). 1–90. 8 indexed citations

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Hardy, Amy, Thomas Ward, Daniel Freeman, et al.. (2020). Measuring Reasoning in Paranoia: Development of the Fast and Slow Thinking Questionnaire. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open. 1(1). 4 indexed citations

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Baumeister, David, Thomas Ward, Philippa Garety, et al.. (2020). Need for care, adversity exposure and perceived stress in clinical and healthy voice-hearers. Psychological Medicine. 51(11). 1944–1950. 4 indexed citations

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Hardy, Amy, Jonathan West, Thomas Ward, et al.. (2018). How Inclusive, User-Centered Design Research Can Improve Psychological Therapies for Psychosis: Development of SlowMo. JMIR Mental Health. 5(4). e11222–e11222. 46 indexed citations

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Peters, Emmanuelle, Thomas Ward, Mike Jackson, et al.. (2017). Clinical relevance of appraisals of persistent psychotic experiences in people with and without a need for care: an experimental study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 4(12). 927–936. 44 indexed citations

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Garety, Philippa, Thomas Ward, Daniel Freeman, et al.. (2017). SlowMo, a digital therapy targeting reasoning in paranoia, versus treatment as usual in the treatment of people who fear harm from others: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 18(1). 510–510. 37 indexed citations

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Craig, Tom, Mar Rus‐Calafell, Thomas Ward, et al.. (2017). AVATAR therapy for auditory verbal hallucinations in people with psychosis: a single-blind, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Psychiatry. 5(1). 31–40. 248 indexed citations

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Ward, Thomas, Emmanuelle Peters, Mike Jackson, Fern Day, & Philippa Garety. (2017). OUP accepted manuscript. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 44(1). 126–136. 17 indexed citations

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