Carl May

32.7k total citations · 13 hit papers
380 papers, 20.3k citations indexed

About

Carl May is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carl May has authored 380 papers receiving a total of 20.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 189 papers in General Health Professions, 95 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 61 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Carl May's work include Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation (52 papers), Chronic Disease Management Strategies (45 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (45 papers). Carl May is often cited by papers focused on Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation (52 papers), Chronic Disease Management Strategies (45 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (45 papers). Carl May collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Carl May's co-authors include Tracy Finch, Frances S Mair, Víctor M. Montori, Elizabeth Murray, Tim Rapley, Mark J. Johnson, Anne Rogers, Christopher Dowrick, Anne MacFarlane and Shaun Treweek and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Carl May

363 papers receiving 19.6k citations

Hit Papers

Implementing, Embedding, and Integrating Practices: An Ou... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2009 2010 2009 2009 2016 400 800 1.2k
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. Implementing, Embedding, and Integrating Practices: An Outline of Normalization Process Theory
    2009 1.3k citations Carl May, Tracy Finch profile →
  2. Normalisation process theory: a framework for developing, evaluating and implementing complex interventions
    2010 859 citations Elizabeth Murray, Tracy Finch et al. profile →
  3. Development of a theory of implementation and integration: Normalization Process Theory
    2009 808 citations Carl May, Frances S Mair et al. profile →
  4. We need minimally disruptive medicine
    2009 516 citations Carl May, Víctor M. Montori et al. profile →
  5. Implementation, context and complexity
    2016 514 citations Carl May, Tracy Finch et al. profile →
  6. Cumulative complexity: a functional, patient-centered model of patient complexity can improve research and practice
    2012 489 citations Nathan D. Shippee, Carl May et al. profile →
  7. Rethinking the patient: using Burden of Treatment Theory to understand the changing dynamics of illness
    2014 456 citations Carl May, David T. Eton et al. profile →
  8. Understanding the implementation of complex interventions in health care: the normalization process model
    2007 451 citations Carl May, Tracy Finch et al. profile →
  9. Towards a general theory of implementation
    2013 413 citations Carl May profile →
  10. Using Normalization Process Theory in feasibility studies and process evaluations of complex healthcare interventions: a systematic review
    2018 389 citations Carl May, Melissa Girling et al. profile →
  11. Factors that promote or inhibit the implementation of e-health systems: an explanatory systematic review
    2012 360 citations Frances S Mair, Carl May et al. profile →
  12. Promoting professional behaviour change in healthcare: what interventions work, and why? A theory-led overview of systematic reviews
    2015 304 citations Carl May et al. BMJ Open profile →
  13. Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: a normalisation process theory coding manual for qualitative research and instrument development
    2022 104 citations Carl May, Tracy Finch et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Carl May United Kingdom 73 10.4k 4.9k 3.4k 2.6k 1.6k 380 20.3k
Michel Wensing Netherlands 72 12.9k 1.2× 5.5k 1.1× 3.0k 0.9× 4.1k 1.6× 1.7k 1.0× 627 25.1k
Martin Eccles United Kingdom 65 14.5k 1.4× 7.2k 1.5× 2.3k 0.7× 3.8k 1.5× 2.2k 1.3× 190 29.0k
Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 75 7.3k 0.7× 3.8k 0.8× 3.9k 1.2× 3.4k 1.3× 1.4k 0.8× 714 23.2k
Benjamin F. Crabtree United States 64 9.0k 0.9× 3.3k 0.7× 2.3k 0.7× 2.4k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 265 17.1k
Frances S Mair United Kingdom 63 7.3k 0.7× 3.8k 0.8× 3.7k 1.1× 2.7k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 324 17.7k
Jill Francis United Kingdom 52 9.9k 1.0× 4.5k 0.9× 1.9k 0.6× 1.8k 0.7× 2.4k 1.4× 254 22.6k
David W. Baker United States 70 14.8k 1.4× 2.6k 0.5× 2.9k 0.9× 2.4k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 250 24.5k
Elizabeth Murray United Kingdom 67 9.4k 0.9× 3.5k 0.7× 2.0k 0.6× 1.4k 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 259 17.7k
Catherine Pope United Kingdom 50 8.4k 0.8× 4.4k 0.9× 1.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 2.6k 1.6× 195 21.1k
Peter Bower United Kingdom 82 12.2k 1.2× 4.6k 0.9× 4.0k 1.2× 2.9k 1.1× 4.3k 2.6× 450 24.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carl May

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All Works

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Smith, G. W., et al.. (2025). A systematic review of the use of burden of treatment theory. PubMed. 15. 2613281932–2613281932. 1 indexed citations
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Witzel, T. Charles, et al.. (2025). An (un)restricted living: a qualitative exploration of the mental health and well-being of people living with HIV in England. Social Science & Medicine. 377. 118109–118109.
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Finch, Tracy, Leah Bührmann, Sebastian Potthoff, et al.. (2024). Systematic review of applications and properties of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation outcomes: Study protocol. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 21–21. 1 indexed citations
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Boehmer, Kasey R., Megan E. Branda, Rachel Giblon, et al.. (2024). Care for patients living with chronic conditions using the ICAN Discussion Aid: A mixed methods cluster-randomized trial. PLoS ONE. 19(12). e0314605–e0314605.
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Lippiett, Kate, Alison Richardson, & Carl May. (2022). How do illness identity, patient workload and agentic capacity interact to shape patient and caregiver experience? Comparative analysis of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Health & Social Care in the Community. 30(6). e4545–e4555. 7 indexed citations
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Yardley, Lucy, Katherine Morton, Kate Greenwell, et al.. (2022). Digital interventions for hypertension and asthma to support patient self-management in primary care: the DIPSS research programme including two RCTs. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(11). 1–108. 2 indexed citations
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Boehmer, Kasey R., Katie Gallacher, Kate Lippiett, et al.. (2022). Minimally Disruptive Medicine. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 97(2). 210–220. 15 indexed citations
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Hounkpatin, Hilda, Geraldine Leydon, Kristin Veighey, et al.. (2020). Patients’ and kidney care team’s perspectives of treatment burden and capacity in older people with chronic kidney disease: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 10(12). e042548–e042548. 19 indexed citations
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Agreli, Heloise Lima Fernandes, Fiona Barry, Sile A. Creedon, et al.. (2019). Ethnographic study using Normalization Process Theory to understand the implementation process of infection prevention and control guidelines in Ireland. BMJ Open. 9(8). e029514–e029514. 10 indexed citations
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Morton, Katherine, Katherine Bradbury, Rebecca Band, et al.. (2018). Qualitative process study to explore the perceived burdens and benefits of a digital intervention for self-managing high blood pressure in Primary Care in the UK. BMJ Open. 8(5). e020843–e020843. 15 indexed citations
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Murray, Elizabeth, Jamie Ross, Kingshuk Pal, et al.. (2018). A web-based self-management programme for people with type 2 diabetes: the HeLP-Diabetes research programme including RCT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(5). 1–242. 25 indexed citations
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Gallacher, Katie, Víctor M. Montori, Carl May, & Frances S Mair. (2014). Treatment burden and multimorbidity. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 3 indexed citations
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Eton, David T., Djenane Ramalho de Oliveira, Jason S. Egginton, et al.. (2012). Building a measurement framework of burden of treatment in complex patients with chronic conditions: a qualitative study. Patient Related Outcome Measures. 3. 39–39. 267 indexed citations
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Robinson, Louise, Deborah Hutchings, Fiona Beyer, et al.. (2006). A systematic literature review of the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions to prevent wandering in dementia and evaluation of the ethical implications and acceptability of their use. Health Technology Assessment. 10(26). iii, ix–108. 97 indexed citations
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Pilgrim, David & Carl May. (1998). Social scientists and the British National Health Service. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 4 indexed citations
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May, Carl. (1997). Degrees of freedom: reflexivity, self-identity and self-help. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 5 indexed citations
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May, Carl. (1995). Patients' enquiries about cancer: nurses' coping strategies. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 2 indexed citations

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