Alice Spann

849 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 464 citations indexed

About

Alice Spann is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Occupational Therapy and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alice Spann has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 464 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in General Health Professions, 2 papers in Occupational Therapy and 2 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Alice Spann's work include Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (3 papers), Chronic Disease Management Strategies (2 papers) and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (2 papers). Alice Spann is often cited by papers focused on Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (3 papers), Chronic Disease Management Strategies (2 papers) and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (2 papers). Alice Spann collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Austria. Alice Spann's co-authors include Luc de Witte, Mark Hawley, Sarah Abdi, Ellen Stewart, Marieke Spreeuwenberg, Ariane Laplante-Lévesque, Giulia Barbareschi, Chapal Khasnabis, Satish Mishra and Michael Allen and has published in prestigious journals such as Patient Education and Counseling, BMC Geriatrics and Health & Social Care in the Community.

In The Last Decade

Alice Spann

8 papers receiving 452 citations

Hit Papers

Understanding the care and support needs of older people:... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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. Understanding the care and support needs of older people: a scoping review and categorisation using the WHO international classification of functioning, disability and health framework (ICF)
    2019 332 citations Sarah Abdi, Alice Spann et al. BMC Geriatrics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alice Spann United Kingdom 6 219 108 98 90 54 10 464
Sarah Abdi United Kingdom 7 256 1.2× 77 0.7× 96 1.0× 82 0.9× 61 1.1× 7 537
Sônia Maria Soares Brazil 13 313 1.4× 67 0.6× 68 0.7× 69 0.8× 44 0.8× 55 559
Maria Célia de Freitas Brazil 16 328 1.5× 57 0.5× 78 0.8× 105 1.2× 46 0.9× 126 790
Bonnie Jeffery Canada 15 295 1.3× 125 1.2× 208 2.1× 81 0.9× 58 1.1× 38 627
Véronique Dubé Canada 10 219 1.0× 56 0.5× 66 0.7× 52 0.6× 80 1.5× 30 592
Christel Borg Sweden 8 175 0.8× 112 1.0× 217 2.2× 70 0.8× 20 0.4× 20 495
Karla Cristina Giacomin Brazil 15 434 2.0× 97 0.9× 186 1.9× 95 1.1× 33 0.6× 70 736
Hossein Matlabi Iran 12 140 0.6× 94 0.9× 80 0.8× 86 1.0× 33 0.6× 64 432
Lia Araújo Portugal 14 109 0.5× 67 0.6× 199 2.0× 60 0.7× 25 0.5× 50 473
Lara B. Russell Canada 14 311 1.4× 73 0.7× 121 1.2× 38 0.4× 51 0.9× 28 680

Countries citing papers authored by Alice Spann

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alice Spann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alice Spann

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Spann, Alice, et al.. (2024). Nurses’ experiences with ad-hoc patient education in an Austrian acute care setting – A qualitative multicentric study. Patient Education and Counseling. 130. 108401–108401.
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Layton, Natasha, et al.. (2024). Guidelines for assistive technology service provision – A scoping review. Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology. 19(8). 2806–2817. 5 indexed citations
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Mishra, Satish, Ariane Laplante-Lévesque, Giulia Barbareschi, et al.. (2022). Assistive technology needs, access and coverage, and related barriers and facilitators in the WHO European region: a scoping review. Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology. 19(2). 474–485. 29 indexed citations
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Spann, Alice, et al.. (2021). Benefits and barriers of technologies supporting working carers—A scoping review. Health & Social Care in the Community. 30(1). e1–e15. 9 indexed citations
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Spann, Alice, et al.. (2019). Challenges of combining work and unpaid care, and solutions: A scoping review. Health & Social Care in the Community. 28(3). 699–715. 36 indexed citations
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Abdi, Sarah, et al.. (2019). Understanding the care and support needs of older people: a scoping review and categorisation using the WHO international classification of functioning, disability and health framework (ICF). BMC Geriatrics. 19(1). 195–195. 332 indexed citations breakdown →
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Spann, Alice & Ellen Stewart. (2018). Barriers and facilitators of older people's mHealth usage: A qualitative review of older people's views. Human Technology. 264–296. 33 indexed citations

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