Robert West

Dados Biográficos

ID3582210
NOMERobert West
PRENOMESRobert
SOBRENOMEWest
ASSINATURAWEST R
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0001-7305-3654
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS158
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES109
TOTAL COMO AUTOR158
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1919
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H6

  • Treating depression in Muslim communities

    Open AccessGhazala Mir, Robert West et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2026

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  • A reply to Luc Bovens

    Open AccessRalph Hertwig, Susan Michie et al.ARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2025Referências: 4

  • Moving from nudging to boosting

    Open AccessRalph Hertwig, Susan Michie et al.ARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2025Citada por: 5Referências: 8

    The COVID-19 pandemic provided a stark reminder that societies will struggle to address global challenges unless they are able to change behaviour at scale. The widely adopted ‘nudge’ approach epitomizes an individualistic, deficit model of human cognition and motivation that leverages or overcomes people’s weaknesses and biases to get them to do things they would otherwise not. By contrast, we argue that tackling the challenges facing humanity r…

  • On the conversational persuasiveness of GPT-4

    Open AccessFrancesco Salvi, Maria Helena Ribeiro et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025Citada por: 2Referências: 54

    Early work has found that large language models (LLMs) can generate persuasive content. However, evidence on whether they can also personalize arguments to individual attributes remains limited, despite being crucial for assessing misuse. This preregistered study examines AI-driven persuasion in a controlled setting, where participants engaged in short multiround debates. Participants were randomly assigned to 1 of 12 conditions in a 2 × 2 × 3 de…

  • Pragmatic evaluation of methods for retrieving unpublished information on comparator interventions in a systematic review of smoking cessation trials

    Open AccessNeža Javornik, Daniel J H Powell et al.ARTICLEPsychology & Health2024

  • Open access improves the dissemination of science

    Open AccessPuyu Yang, Ahad Shoaib et al.ARTICLEScientometrics2024

    Wikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access movement aims to make scientific knowledge openly available, and we might intuitively expect open access to help further Wikipedia’s mission. However, the extent of this relationship remains largely unknown. To fill this gap, we analyse a large dataset of citations from t…

  • Bidirectional association between frailty and quality of life within English longitudinal study of aging

    Open AccessAli Alattas, Farag Shuweihdi et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2024

    The study provides empirical evidence that supports a bidirectional association between QoL and frailty in older individuals who reside at home. These results offer valuable insights for healthcare providers, as participants did not exhibit an advanced need for health services. Additionally, involving participants in evaluating and assessing these services enhances their effectiveness and overall benefit

  • The Amplification Paradox in Recommender Systems

    Open AccessMaria Helena Ribeiro, Veniamin Veselovsky et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the International…2023

    Automated audits of recommender systems found that blindly following recommendations leads users to increasingly partisan, conspiratorial, or false content. At the same time, studies using real user traces suggest that recommender systems are not the primary driver of attention toward extreme content; on the contrary, such content is mostly reached through other means, e.g., other websites. In this paper, we explain the following apparent paradox…

  • Knowledge of Self-Isolation Rules in the UK for Those Who Have Symptoms of Covid-19

    Open AccessLouise Smith, Robert West et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Approximately 63% of UK adults between November 2020 and February 2022 appeared to know the main rules regarding self-isolation if symptomatic with COVID-19. Knowledge was lower in younger than older people, men than women, those living in England compared with Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, and those living in more deprived areas

  • A randomised controlled trial of volitional and motivational interventions to improve cervical cancer screening uptake

    Open AccessSarah Wilding, Sarah Wighton et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Referências: 26

    The study did not support any benefit of either VHS or SNA interventions alone or in combination on cervical cancer screening uptake. It did demonstrate alarmingly low levels of screening uptake at 16 weeks which were well below the average rate. Future research needs to urgently investigate and understand the barriers to uptake following on from the COVID-19 pandemic

  • How does arthritis affect employment? Longitudinal evidence on 18,000 British adults with arthritis compared to matched controls

    Open AccessNajma Rajah, Edward J D Webb et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Referências: 24

    Policy interventions to support people with arthritis who wish to remain in work might be designed with people in routine work in mind, and targeted at those working in smaller private firms. More research on the cost-effectiveness of those interventions is needed

  • Open science communication

    Open AccessMartin Mckee, Danny Altmann et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the complex relationship between science and policy. Policymakers have had to make decisions at speed in conditions of uncertainty, implementing policies that have had profound consequences for people's lives. Yet this process has sometimes been characterised by fragmentation, opacity and a disconnect between evidence and policy. In the United Kingdom, concerns about the secrecy that initially surrounded…

  • Co-design of an oral health intervention (Habit) delivered by health visitors for parents of children aged 9–12 months

    Open AccessJenny Owen, Kara Gray‐Burrows et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    ISRCTN55332414, Registration Date 11/11/2021

  • Lessons from the UK’s handling of Covid-19 for the future of scientific advice to government

    Open AccessSusan Michie, Philip Ball et al.ARTICLEContemporary Social Science2022Referências: 5

    Despite strong expertise and a sophisticated scientific advisory system, the UK’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been, and continues to be, weak in terms of preventing death and illness, and damage to the economy. This article argues that an important reason for this failure has been that the policies of the UK government have at critical times failed to take adequate account of scientific evidence, while at the same time attempts have bee…

  • Balfour et al. Respond

    David J K Balfour, Neal L Benowitz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2022Referências: 3

    AffiliationsDavid J. K. Balfour is retired from the Division of Systems Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. Neal L. Benowitz is with the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Suzanne M. Colby is with the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI. Dorothy K. Hatsukami is with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavio…

  • Balfour et al. Respond

    David J K Balfour, Neal L Benowitz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2022Referências: 6

  • Organizational Barriers to Oral Health Conversations Between Health Visitors and Parents of Children Aged 9–12 Months Old

    Open AccessIeva Eskytė, Kara Gray‐Burrows et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: Dental caries is the most prevalent preventable childhood disease and a major public health priority. Local authorities in England have a statutory responsibility to improve child health, including oral health, through the “Healthy Child Programme.” The “Healthy Child Programme,” which includes the provision of oral health advice is delivered by health visitors to parents of young children. To date, research has mainly concentrated on…

  • Differential benefits of explicit failure-driven and success-driven scaffolding in problem-solving prior to instruction

    Tanmay Sinha, Manu Kapur et al.ARTICLEJournal of Educational Psychology2021

    Unscaffolded problem-solving before receiving instruction can give students opportunities to entertain their exploratory hypotheses at the expense of experiencing initial failures. Prior literature has argued for the efficacy of such preparatory activities in preparing students to learn from instruction. Despite growing understanding of the underlying cognitive mechanisms, the pedagogical value of success or failure in initial problem-solving att…

  • Wikipedia citations

    Open AccessHarshdeep Singh, Robert West et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2021

    Wikipedia’s content is based on reliable and published sources. To this date, relatively little is known about what sources Wikipedia relies on, in part because extracting citations and identifying cited sources is challenging. To close this gap, we release Wikipedia Citations, a comprehensive data set of citations extracted from Wikipedia. We extracted29.3 million citations from 6.1 million English Wikipedia articles as of May 2020, and classifi…

  • Association between cigarette smoking status and voting intentions

    Open AccessSharon Cox, Jamie Brown et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Controlling for a range of other factors, current as compared with never-smokers appear more likely to intend not to vote, to be undecided, to vote for Labour or a non-mainstream party, and less likely to vote for the Liberal Democrats, compared with the Conservative party

  • The impact of celebrity influence and national media coverage on users of an alcohol reduction app

    Open AccessClaire Garnett, Olga Perski et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Celebrity influence leading to national media coverage in the UK of the Drink Less app was associated with more people downloading the app who were male, older and engaged with the app; and did not appear to impact employment inequality

  • Social care costs for community‐dwelling older people living with frailty

    Open AccessС Николова, Anne Heaven et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2021

    International evidence indicates that older people with frailty are more likely to access social care services, compared to nonfrail older people. There is, however, no robust evidence on costs of social care provided for community-dwelling older people living with frailty in their own homes. The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between community-dwelling older people living with frailty, defined using the cumulative d…

  • Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes

    David J K Balfour, Neal L Benowitz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2021Citada por: 8Referências: 117

    The topic of e-cigarettes is controversial. Opponents focus on e-cigarettes’ risks for young people, while supporters emphasize the potential for e-cigarettes to assist smokers in quitting smoking. Most US health organizations, media coverage, and policymakers have focused primarily on risks to youths. Because of their messaging, much of the public—including most smokers—now consider e-cigarette use as dangerous as or more dangerous than smoking.…

  • Mitigating and learning from the impact of Covid‐19 infection on addictive disorders

    Open AccessJohn Marsden, Shane Darke et al.ARTICLEAddiction2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures required to address it are cutting a swathe through people's lives and the global economy. People with addictive disorders are particularly badly affected as a result of poverty, physical and mental health vulnerabilities and disruption of access to services. The pandemic may well increase the extent and severity of some addictive disorders. Current research is suffering from the termination of face-to-face …

  • Auditing radicalization pathways on YouTube

    Open AccessMaria Helena Ribeiro, Manoel Horta Ribeiro et al.CONFERENCEProceedings of the 2020…2020

    Non-profits, as well as the media, have hypothesized the existence of a radicalization pipeline on YouTube, claiming that users systematically progress towards more extreme content on the platform. Yet, there is to date no substantial quantitative evidence of this alleged pipeline. To close this gap, we conduct a large-scale audit of user radicalization on YouTube. We analyze 330,925 videos posted on 349 channels, which we broadly classified into…