Ray Pawson
Impact in
- General Health Professions top 0.1%
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Community Health and Development
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Public Administration top 1%
Papers in
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- Health Policy Implementation Science 10
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes 3
- Community Health and Development 3
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- Evaluation and Performance Assessment 15
- Co-authors
- Trisha Greenhalgh (16 shared papers)Geoff Wong (16 shared papers)Kieran Walshe (3 shared papers)Gill Harvey (3 shared papers)Gill Westhorp (10 shared papers)Jeanette Buckingham (4 shared papers)Ana Manzano (4 shared papers)Nick Tilley (6 shared papers)
- Journals
- Evaluation (12 papers)British Journal of Sociology (5 papers)American Journal of Evaluation (4 papers)Journal of Advanced Nursing (2 papers)BMC Medicine (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomCanadaUnited States
In The Last Decade
Ray Pawson
81 papers receiving 9.6k citations
Ray Pawson's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 189
- General Health Professions 2.9k
- Public Administration 333
- Management Science and Operations Research 1.0k
- Research and Theory 36
- Health 329
Countries citing papers authored by Ray Pawson
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Fields of papers citing papers by Ray Pawson
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Ray Pawson, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 83 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Realist review - a new method of systematic review designed for complex policy interventions Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 2211 |
| 2 | RAMESES publication standards: realist syntheses Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 954 |
| 3 | The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 853 |
| 4 | Evidence-based Policy: The Promise of `Realist Synthesis' Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 507 |
| 5 | RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 411 |
| 6 | Realist synthesis - an introduction | 2004 | 374 |
| 7 | 2013 | 316 | |
| 8 | 2010 | 316 | |
| 9 | 2002 | 285 | |
| 10 | 2009 | 272 | |
| 11 | 2011 | 251 | |
| 12 | 2013 | 234 | |
| 13 | 2012 | 230 | |
| 14 | 2006 | 220 | |
| 15 | 2011 | 208 | |
| 16 | 2014 | 192 | |
| 17 | 2017 | 165 | |
| 18 | 1996 | 159 | |
| 19 | 2006 | 138 | |
| 20 | 1994 | 125 |
About Ray Pawson
Ray Pawson is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 83 papers that have together received 10.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evaluation and Performance Assessment (15 papers), Health Policy Implementation Science (10 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (5 papers), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 papers), Critical Realism in Sociology (4 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (3 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (3 papers) and Community Health and Development (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Health Professions (2.9k citations), Public Administration (333 citations), Management Science and Operations Research (1.0k citations), Research and Theory (36 citations) and Health (329 citations). Ray Pawson has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Frequent co-authors include Trisha Greenhalgh, Geoff Wong, Kieran Walshe, Gill Harvey, Gill Westhorp, Jeanette Buckingham, Ana Manzano, Nick Tilley, Joanne Greenhalgh and Lesley Owen. Their work appears in journals such as Evaluation, British Journal of Sociology, American Journal of Evaluation, Journal of Advanced Nursing and BMC Medicine.
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