Alan Williams

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
117 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Alan Williams is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Williams has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 18 papers in General Health Professions and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alan Williams's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (17 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (15 papers) and Healthcare cost, quality, practices (7 papers). Alan Williams is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (17 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (15 papers) and Healthcare cost, quality, practices (7 papers). Alan Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Alan Williams's co-authors include Paul Dolan, Paul Kind, Claire Gudex, Angela Robinson, Robert J. Carey, Myron Miller, A. R. Prest, Nancy Devlin, Paul Hansen and Linda C. Duffy and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Finance, Biochemistry and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alan Williams

109 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Variations in population health status: results from a Un... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1998 1996 250 500 750
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. Variations in population health status: results from a United Kingdom national questionnaire survey
    1998 936 citations Paul Kind, Paul Dolan et al. profile →
  2. The time trade-off method: Results from a general population study
    1996 596 citations Paul Dolan, Claire Gudex et al. Health Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Williams United Kingdom 24 1.7k 1.0k 366 343 259 117 3.8k
John A. Nyman United States 33 1.0k 0.6× 1.3k 1.3× 176 0.5× 422 1.2× 274 1.1× 114 3.1k
Robert L. Ohsfeldt United States 35 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 464 1.3× 621 1.8× 385 1.5× 163 4.0k
Karen Gerard United Kingdom 31 2.9k 1.7× 1.8k 1.7× 257 0.7× 164 0.5× 478 1.8× 73 4.8k
Paul Grootendorst Canada 28 1.5k 0.9× 579 0.6× 479 1.3× 379 1.1× 328 1.3× 120 4.0k
Charles E. Phelps United States 40 3.0k 1.8× 2.4k 2.3× 584 1.6× 420 1.2× 439 1.7× 156 6.2k
Ariel Linden United States 31 941 0.5× 895 0.9× 520 1.4× 160 0.5× 356 1.4× 104 3.7k
Jeanne Jackson United States 26 620 0.4× 681 0.7× 232 0.6× 364 1.1× 232 0.9× 71 3.5k
Kathryn A. Phillips United States 37 1.7k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 476 1.3× 207 0.6× 649 2.5× 142 5.1k
Clas Rehnberg Sweden 28 883 0.5× 748 0.7× 163 0.4× 339 1.0× 186 0.7× 84 2.6k
Dimitris Niakas Greece 36 1.1k 0.6× 1.8k 1.8× 419 1.1× 226 0.7× 455 1.8× 170 4.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Williams

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Williams, Alan, et al.. (2024). Design of a Serious Game to Teach Esports Concepts and Career Pathways. The UWS Academic Portal (University of the West of Scotland). 18(1). 855–862.
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Rautela, Mahindra, Alan Williams, & Alexander Scheinker. (2024). A conditional latent autoregressive recurrent model for generation and forecasting of beam dynamics in particle accelerators. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 18157–18157. 2 indexed citations
3.
Williams, Alan, et al.. (2011). UvrD2 Is Essential in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but Its Helicase Activity Is Not Required. Journal of Bacteriology. 193(17). 4487–4494. 25 indexed citations
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Akins, Paul T., et al.. (2011). The Genesis of Low Pressure Hydrocephalus. Neurocritical Care. 15(3). 461–468. 34 indexed citations
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Williams, Alan, A. Mostyn, & Rachel Fyson. (2008). Nursing and social work students' perceptions of lecturing by non-university practitioners. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 23(1). 98–100. 7 indexed citations
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Williams, Alan & Dillon Mayhew. (2008). Graduated Licensing and Beyond. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 35(3). S324–S333. 28 indexed citations
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Williams, Alan. (2005). Thinking about equity in health care. Journal of Nursing Management. 13(5). 397–402. 13 indexed citations
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Williams, Alan. (2005). An Aging Population—Burden or Blessing?. Value in Health. 8(4). 447–450. 11 indexed citations
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Williams, Alan. (2004). What Could be Nicer than NICE. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 38 indexed citations
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Deretic, Dusanka, Alan Williams, & Nancy Ransom. (2004). Distribution of fusion regulators in photoreceptor cells.. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 45(13). 2440–2440. 1 indexed citations
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Devlin, Nancy, Paul Hansen, Paul Kind, & Alan Williams. (2002). Logical inconsistencies in survey respondents' health state valuations ‐ a methodological challenge for estimating social tariffs. Health Economics. 12(7). 529–544. 86 indexed citations
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Williams, Alan. (2001). Economics of coronary artery bypass grafting. 1985.. PubMed. 79(7). 681–4. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Alan. (1999). Experiments with 'medieval steel' plates. 32(2). 82–86. 2 indexed citations
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Robinson, Angela, Paul Dolan, & Alan Williams. (1997). Valuing health status using VAS and TTO: What lies behind the numbers?. Social Science & Medicine. 45(8). 1289–1297. 142 indexed citations
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Gudex, Claire, Paul Dolan, Paul Kind, & Alan Williams. (1996). Health state valuations from the general public using the Visual Analogue Scale. Quality of Life Research. 5(6). 521–531. 217 indexed citations
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Williams, Alan. (1996). Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures. 3 indexed citations
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Faden, Howard, et al.. (1995). Epidemiology of Nasopharyngeal Colonization with Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae in the First 2 Years of Life. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 172(1). 132–135. 100 indexed citations
18.
Williams, Alan. (1994). Content-based Language Teaching: Making Which Connections?. 4(1). 10. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Alan, et al.. (1993). A Randomised Trial of Cyclophosphamide With and Without Low Dose Alpha-Interferon in the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Myeloma. Leukemia & lymphoma. 9(3). 243–246. 5 indexed citations
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Williams, Alan. (1967). Output budgeting and the contribution of micro-economics to efficiency in government. 10 indexed citations

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