Bridget Young

15.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
208 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Bridget Young is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Bridget Young has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in General Health Professions, 71 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 54 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Bridget Young's work include Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (41 papers), Ethics in Clinical Research (39 papers) and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (39 papers). Bridget Young is often cited by papers focused on Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (41 papers), Ethics in Clinical Research (39 papers) and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (39 papers). Bridget Young collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Bridget Young's co-authors include Mary Dixon‐Woods, Alex J. Sutton, David R. Jones, Shona Agarwal, Peter Salmon, Paula Williamson, David Heney, Rachel Shaw, Tina Miller and Jonathan A. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Bridget Young

195 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence: A review of possible methods

2005 1.6k citations Mary Dixon‐Woods, Shona Agarwal et al. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy profile →
The COMET Handbook: version 1.0

2017 1.1k citations Paula Williamson, Jane Blazeby et al. Trials profile →
How can systematic reviews incorporate qualitative research? A critical perspective

2006 630 citations Mary Dixon‐Woods, David R. Jones et al. profile →
Synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence: a review of possible methods

2005 492 citations Mary Dixon‐Woods, Shona Agarwal et al. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy profile →
Appraising qualitative research for inclusion in systematic reviews: a quantitative and qualitative comparison of three methods

2007 446 citations Mary Dixon‐Woods, Alex J. Sutton et al. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Bridget Young	3.3k	2.7k	2.1k	1.8k	1.3k	208	10.2k
Sue Ziébland	3.9k 1.2×	2.6k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	228	10.5k
Patricia McInerney	3.8k 1.2×	2.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.8k 1.5×	43	13.3k
Sandy Oliver	5.3k 1.6×	2.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	206	11.7k
Jane Noyes	3.6k 1.1×	2.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	2.5k 2.0×	201	10.7k
Hanan Khalil	4.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	2.0k 1.6×	137	16.0k
Christina Godfrey	4.6k 1.4×	3.2k 1.2×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	2.2k 1.8×	99	16.4k
Claire Glenton	4.3k 1.3×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	2.1k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	136	10.5k
Cindy Stern	2.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	110	11.7k
Amanda Sowden	4.4k 1.3×	3.0k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.9k 1.5×	117	15.5k
Myfanwy Morgan	3.4k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	243	12.8k

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Sherratt, Frances, Andrew Mills, Adrian Gardner, et al.. (2025). Patient and parent perspectives on being invited to join a trial of night-time only versus full-time bracing for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Bone & Joint Open. 6(2). 135–146. 1 indexed citations

Young, Bridget, et al.. (2025). Developing intervention fidelity strategies for a behaviour change intervention delivered in primary care dental practices: the RETURN fidelity strategy. BMC Primary Care. 26(1). 43–43.

Starmer, Heather M., Joanne Patterson, Bridget Young, Jason C. Fleming, & Mary Gemma Cherry. (2024). Development of a head and neck lymphoedema specific quality of life tool: The Comprehensive Assessment of Lymphoedema Impact in the Head and Neck. Head & Neck. 46(5). 1103–1111. 2 indexed citations

Elliott, Daisy, Marcus Jepson, Bridget Young, et al.. (2024). The role of healthcare professionals’ communication in trial participation decisions: a qualitative investigation of recruitment consultations and patient interviews across three RCTs. Trials. 25(1). 829–829.

Aston, Stephen, Alex Howard, Lance Turtle, et al.. (2024). HAP-FAST: a feasibility study incorporating qualitative, mechanistic and costing sub-studies alongside a randomised pilot trial comparing chest x-ray to low-dose CT scan and empirical antibiotics to antibiotics guided by the BIOFIRE® FILM ARRAY® pneumonia plus panel in adults with suspected non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia. BMJ Open. 14(7). e088490–e088490. 2 indexed citations

Woolfall, Kerry, Anna Kearney, Lucy Frith, et al.. (2023). Guidance to inform research recruitment processes for studies involving critically ill patients. Journal of the Intensive Care Society. 25(1). 95–101. 2 indexed citations

Knapp, Peter, Jacqueline Martin‐Kerry, Thirimon Moe‐Byrne, et al.. (2023). The effectiveness and acceptability of multimedia information when recruiting children and young people to trials: the TRECA meta-analysis of SWATs. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(24). 1–112. 3 indexed citations

Perry, Daniel C., Daniel Hind, Nikki Totton, et al.. (2023). Bracing Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (BASIS) study – night-time versus full-time bracing in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: study protocol for a multicentre, randomized controlled trial. Bone & Joint Open. 4(11). 873–880. 5 indexed citations

Karumbi, Jamlick, Sarah L. Gorst, David Gathara, et al.. (2021). Inclusion of participants from low-income and middle-income countries in core outcome sets development: a systematic review. BMJ Open. 11(10). e049981–e049981. 15 indexed citations

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Woolfall, Kerry, et al.. (2021). Strategies to enhance recruitment and consent to intensive care studies: a qualitative study with researchers and patient–public involvement contributors. BMJ Open. 11(9). e048193–e048193. 10 indexed citations

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Young, Bridget, et al.. (2021). Patient participation in Delphi surveys to develop core outcome sets: systematic review. BMJ Open. 11(9). e051066–e051066. 31 indexed citations

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Elliott, Daisy, Marcus Jepson, Catherine Houghton, et al.. (2021). Recruiters’ perspectives and experiences of trial recruitment processes: a qualitative evidence synthesis protocol. BMJ Open. 11(10). e045233–e045233. 2 indexed citations

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Jones, Ashley P, Frances Sherratt, Matthew Peak, et al.. (2020). Different corticosteroid induction regimens in children and young people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: the SIRJIA mixed-methods feasibility study. Health Technology Assessment. 24(36). 1–152. 4 indexed citations

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Williamson, Paula, Jane Blazeby, Sara Brookes, et al.. (2020). Comments on Chevance et al ‘Improving the generalizability and credibility of core outcome sets (COS) by a large and international participation of diverse stakeholders’. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 3 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Van Thu, et al.. (2019). Overcoming Barriers to Mobilizing Collective Intelligence in Research: Qualitative Study of Researchers With Experience of Collective Intelligence. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21(7). e13792–e13792. 4 indexed citations

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Mills, Nicola, Daisy Gaunt, Jane Blazeby, et al.. (2017). Training health professionals to recruit into challenging randomized controlled trials improved confidence: the development of the QuinteT randomized controlled trial recruitment training intervention. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 95. 34–44. 24 indexed citations

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Woolfall, Kerry, Lucy Frith, Carrol Gamble, et al.. (2015). How parents and practitioners experience research without prior consent (deferred consent) for emergency research involving children with life threatening conditions: a mixed method study. BMJ Open. 5(9). e008522–e008522. 76 indexed citations

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Buck, Deborah, Carrol Gamble, Louise Dudley, et al.. (2014). From plans to actions in patient and public involvement: qualitative study of documented plans and the accounts of researchers and patients sampled from a cohort of clinical trials. BMJ Open. 4(12). e006400–e006400. 79 indexed citations

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Shilling, Valerie, et al.. (2011). Processes in recruitment to randomised controlled trials of medicines for children (RECRUIT): a qualitative study. Health Technology Assessment. 15(15). 1–116. 57 indexed citations

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Dixon‐Woods, Mary, Shona Agarwal, David R. Jones, Bridget Young, & Alex J. Sutton. (2005). Synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence: A review of possible methods. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 10(1). 45–53. 1551 indexed citations breakdown →

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