| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The theory of planned behaviour: Reactions and reflections | Psychology and Health | 2011 | 2,581 |
| 2 | The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) | Psychology and Health | 2002 | 2,232 |
| 3 | Health promotion from the perspective of social cognitive theory | Psychology and Health | 1998 | 1,895 |
| 4 | What is an adequate sample size? Operationalising data saturation for theory-based interview studies | Psychology and Health | 2010 | 1,833 |
| 5 | The beliefs about medicines questionnaire: The development and evaluation of a new method for assessing the cognitive representation of medication | Psychology and Health | 1999 | 1,764 |
| 6 | Beyond the divide between cognition and discourse: Using interpretative phenomenological analysis in health psychology | Psychology and Health | 1996 | 1,427 |
| 7 | A refined taxonomy of behaviour change techniques to help people change their physical activity and healthy eating behaviours: The CALO-RE taxonomy | Psychology and Health | 2011 | 1,386 |
| 8 | A Meta-Analytic Review of the Common-Sense Model of Illness Representations | Psychology and Health | 2003 | 1,254 |
| 9 | Dilemmas in qualitative health research | Psychology and Health | 2000 | 1,192 |
| 10 | The illness perception questionnaire: A new method for assessing the cognitive representation of illness | Psychology and Health | 1996 | 1,168 |
| 11 | Bridging the intention–behaviour gap: Planning, self-efficacy, and action control in the adoption and maintenance of physical exercise | Psychology and Health | 2005 | 975 |
| 12 | A critical evaluation of the use of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) in health psychology | Psychology and Health | 2006 | 758 |
| 13 | Self-regulation and Self-management in Asthma: Exploring The Role of Illness Perceptions and Treatment Beliefs in Explaining Non-adherence to Preventer Medication | Psychology and Health | 2002 | 666 |
| 14 | Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour in Behaviour Change Interventions: A Systematic Review | Psychology and Health | 2002 | 635 |
| 15 | Interventions to change health behaviours: evidence-based or evidence-inspired? | Psychology and Health | 2004 | 612 |
| 16 | Self-regulation, health, and behavior: A perceptual-cognitive approach | Psychology and Health | 1998 | 565 |
| 17 | on the clinical validity of the maslach burnout inventory and the burnout measure | Psychology and Health | 2001 | 563 |
| 18 | Social cognition models and health behaviour: A structured review | Psychology and Health | 2000 | 538 |
| 19 | Forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping strategy that can reduce health risks and promote health resilience: theory, review, and hypotheses | Psychology and Health | 2004 | 527 |
| 20 | Scary warnings and rational precautions: A review of the psychology of fear appeals | Psychology and Health | 2001 | 494 |
| 21 | Physical activity: Health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions | Psychology and Health | 2017 | 480 |
| 22 | A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire | Psychology and Health | 2015 | 464 |
| 23 | Perceived Emotional Intelligence, Stress Reactivity, and Symptom Reports: Further Explorations Using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale | Psychology and Health | 2002 | 419 |
| 24 | Subjective social status: reliability and predictive utility for global health | Psychology and Health | 2004 | 410 |
| 25 | Effects of an intervention based on self-determination theory on self-reported leisure-time physical activity participation | Psychology and Health | 2009 | 388 |
| 26 | Tobacco smoking: Health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions | Psychology and Health | 2017 | 381 |
| 27 | Measuring depressive symptoms in illness populations: Psychometric properties of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale | Psychology and Health | 1988 | 353 |
| 28 | The PDQ-8: Development and validation of a short-form parkinson's disease questionnaire | Psychology and Health | 1997 | 351 |
| 29 | Pain as an assault on the self: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the psychological impact of chronic benign low back pain | Psychology and Health | 2007 | 344 |
| 30 | Emotion work and job stressors and their effects on burnout | Psychology and Health | 2001 | 342 |
| 31 | How Much is Too Much? The Development and Validation of the Exercise Dependence Scale | Psychology and Health | 2002 | 339 |
| 32 | Introduction to special issue on burnout and health | Psychology and Health | 2001 | 332 |
| 33 | Exercise and body image: A meta-analysis | Psychology and Health | 2006 | 314 |
| 34 | Planning and Self-Efficacy in the Adoption and Maintenance of Breast Self-Examination: A Longitudinal Study on Self-Regulatory Cognitions | Psychology and Health | 2003 | 302 |
| 35 | Binge-Drinking: A Test of the Role of Group Norms in the Theory of Planned Behaviour | Psychology and Health | 2003 | 281 |
| 36 | Optimism, Vulnerability, and self-beliefs as health-related cognitions: A systematic overview | Psychology and Health | 1994 | 272 |
| 37 | Why does self-rated health predict mortality? An update on current knowledge and a research agenda for psychologists | Psychology and Health | 2011 | 272 |
| 38 | Perceived Control and the Optimistic Bias: A Meta-Analytic Review | Psychology and Health | 2002 | 266 |
| 39 | Binge drinking: Health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions | Psychology and Health | 2017 | 256 |
| 40 | The role of motives in exercise participation† | Psychology and Health | 2008 | 244 |
| 41 | The women's health questionnaire: A measure of mid-aged women's perceptions of their emotional and physical health | Psychology and Health | 1992 | 239 |
| 42 | How well do the theory of reasoned action and theory of planned behaviour predict intentions and attendance at screening programmes? A meta-analysis | Psychology and Health | 2008 | 235 |
| 43 | Finding benefit in breast cancer: Relations with personality, coping, and concurrent well-being | Psychology and Health | 2005 | 220 |
| 44 | What have we learned about burnout and health? | Psychology and Health | 2001 | 217 |
| 45 | Adoption and maintenance of physical activity: Planning interventions in young, middle-aged, and older adults | Psychology and Health | 2006 | 214 |
| 46 | Predicting stage transitions for smoking cessation applying the attitude-social influence-efficacy model | Psychology and Health | 1998 | 213 |
| 47 | Perceived self-efficacy in health behaviour research: Conceptualisation, measurement and correlates | Psychology and Health | 2000 | 210 |
| 48 | Perceived control, depressive symptomatology, and professional burnout: A review of the evidence | Psychology and Health | 1996 | 209 |
| 49 | The use of implementation intentions and the decision balance sheet in promoting exercise behaviour | Psychology and Health | 2003 | 203 |
| 50 | Coping strategies and quality of life in women with advanced breast cancer and their family caregivers | Psychology and Health | 2004 | 203 |
