Catherine O’Donnell

13.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
155 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Catherine O’Donnell is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine O’Donnell has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in General Health Professions, 26 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Catherine O’Donnell's work include Primary Care and Health Outcomes (31 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (17 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (12 papers). Catherine O’Donnell is often cited by papers focused on Primary Care and Health Outcomes (31 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (17 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (12 papers). Catherine O’Donnell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and Netherlands. Catherine O’Donnell's co-authors include Frances S Mair, Foo Y. Liew, Tracy Finch, Carl May, Elizabeth Murray, Anne MacFarlane, Jill P. Pell, Luciana Ballini, Carlos Celis‐Morales and Siobhán O’Connor and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Catherine O’Donnell

145 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Normalisation process theory: a framework for developing, evaluating and implementing complex interventions

2010 859 citations Anne MacFarlane, Christopher Dowrick et al. BMC Medicine profile →
Understanding factors affecting patient and public engagement and recruitment to digital health interventions: a systematic review of qualitative studies

2016 423 citations Siobhán O’Connor, Peter Hanlon et al. profile →
Factors that promote or inhibit the implementation of e-health systems: an explanatory systematic review

2012 360 citations Frances S Mair, Catherine O’Donnell et al. profile →
Vitamin D concentrations and COVID-19 infection in UK Biobank

2020 339 citations Claire E. Hastie, Carlos Celis‐Morales et al. profile →
The effect of socioeconomic deprivation on the association between an extended measurement of unhealthy lifestyle factors and health outcomes: a prospective analysis of the UK Biobank cohort

2018 288 citations Hamish Foster, Carlos Celis‐Morales et al. profile →
A qualitative systematic review of studies using the normalization process theory to research implementation processes

2014 277 citations Catherine O’Donnell, Frances S Mair et al. profile →
Outcomes among confirmed cases and a matched comparison group in the Long-COVID in Scotland study

2022 126 citations Claire E. Hastie, David J. Lowe et al. Nature Communications profile →
True prevalence of long-COVID in a nationwide, population cohort study

2023 80 citations Claire E. Hastie, David J. Lowe et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Catherine O’Donnell United Kingdom	42	3.0k	1.6k	1.0k	1.0k	688	155	7.7k
Gbenga Ogedegbe United States	45	2.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	977 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	1.0k 1.5×	145	11.1k
Elizabeth Allen United Kingdom	45	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	626 0.9×	277	11.2k
Susan M. Sereika United States	59	2.7k 0.9×	2.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	1.8k 1.7×	509 0.7×	414	13.0k
Christopher B. Forrest United States	54	3.1k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	344 0.5×	264	9.9k
Alex Kiss Canada	55	1.5k 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	1.6k 1.5×	819 0.8×	206 0.3×	366	11.1k
Darren M. Ashcroft United Kingdom	63	2.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	347 0.5×	464	17.0k
Anna Odone Italy	42	1.2k 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	1.6k 1.5×	1.3k 1.9×	326	7.3k
Kerenza Hood United Kingdom	57	3.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.5×	2.2k 2.1×	1.5k 1.4×	416 0.6×	368	11.4k
Martin Gulliford United Kingdom	61	3.5k 1.2×	2.6k 1.6×	2.6k 2.5×	1.0k 1.0×	460 0.7×	319	14.8k
Silvia Evers Netherlands	48	2.2k 0.7×	975 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	261 0.4×	437	10.1k

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Mackenzie, Mhairi, Catherine O’Donnell, David A. Ellis, et al.. (2025). Fundamental causation and candidacy: Harnessing explanatory frames to better understand how structural determinants of health inequalities shape disengagement from primary healthcare. Social Science & Medicine. 374. 118043–118043.

Donaghy, Eddie, Heather Brant, Manal Etemadi, et al.. (2025). Mapping Variation in Delivery Models and Data Recording of Primary Care Social Prescribing Link Worker (SPLW) Schemes Across Five Regions in England and Scotland. Health & Social Care in the Community. 2025(1). 1 indexed citations

Brosnahan, Naomi, Alex McConnachie, Caroline Haig, et al.. (2025). Cost-effectiveness of the ReDIRECT/counterweight-plus weight management programme to alleviate symptoms of long COVID. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5592–5592.

O’Donnell, Catherine, Erin J. Campbell, Sabrina McCormick, & Susan C. Anenberg. (2024). Prenatal exposure to air pollution and maternal and fetal thyroid function: a systematic review of the epidemiological evidence. Environmental Health. 23(1). 78–78. 6 indexed citations

Vohra, K.G., Gaige Hunter Kerr, Catherine O’Donnell, et al.. (2024). Satellite data for environmental justice: a scoping review of the literature in the United States. Environmental Research Letters. 19(3). 33001–33001. 8 indexed citations

O’Donnell, Catherine, et al.. (2024). A systematic review of the experience of treatment burden of digital health for military personnel in primary healthcare.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 9–9. 1 indexed citations

Hastie, Claire E., David J. Lowe, Andrew McAuley, et al.. (2023). True prevalence of long-COVID in a nationwide, population cohort study. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7892–7892. 80 indexed citations breakdown →

Foster, Hamish, Jason M. R. Gill, Frances S Mair, et al.. (2023). Social connection and mortality in UK Biobank: a prospective cohort analysis. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 384–384. 19 indexed citations

Taylor, Anna, Tom Kingstone, Tracy A. Briggs, et al.. (2021). 'Reluctant pioneer': A qualitative study of doctors' experiences as patients with long COVID. Health Expectations. 24(3). 833–842. 61 indexed citations

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Isaacs, Anna, Nicola Burns, Sara Macdonald, & Catherine O’Donnell. (2020). ‘I don’t think there’s anything I can do which can keep me healthy’: how the UK immigration and asylum system shapes the health & wellbeing of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. Critical Public Health. 32(3). 422–432. 9 indexed citations

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Foster, Hamish, Keith Moffat, Nicola Burns, et al.. (2020). What do we know about demand, use and outcomes in primary care out-of-hours services? A systematic scoping review of international literature. BMJ Open. 10(1). e033481–e033481. 20 indexed citations

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Wet, Carl de, Paul Bowie, & Catherine O’Donnell. (2019). Facilitators and barriers to safer care in Scottish general practice: a qualitative study of the implementation of the trigger review method using normalisation process theory. BMJ Open. 9(9). e029914–e029914. 6 indexed citations

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Papadakaki, Maria, Christos Lionis, Aristoula Saridaki, et al.. (2017). Exploring barriers to primary care for migrants in Greece in times of austerity: Perspectives of service providers. European Journal of General Practice. 23(1). 129–135. 21 indexed citations

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Lionis, Christos, Maria Papadakaki, Aristoula Saridaki, et al.. (2016). Engaging migrants and other stakeholders to improve communication in cross-cultural consultation in primary care: a theoretically informed participatory study. BMJ Open. 6(7). e010822–e010822. 33 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Siobhán, Peter Hanlon, Catherine O’Donnell, et al.. (2016). Barriers and facilitators to patient and public engagement and recruitment to digital health interventions: protocol of a systematic review of qualitative studies. BMJ Open. 6(9). e010895–e010895. 15 indexed citations

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Devlin, Alison M., Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Marilyn Lennon, Catherine O’Donnell, & Frances S Mair. (2015). Charting Complex Change in dallas: Application of the e-Health Implementation Toolkit (e-HIT). Thrombosis Research. 198. 72–78. 1 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Catherine. (2013). Critical Infrastructure Resilience: Resilience Thinking in Australia's Federal Critical Infrastructure Protection Policy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Mackenzie, Mhairi, et al.. (2011). What is the 'problem' that outreach work seeks to address and how might it be tackled? Seeking theory in a primary health prevention programme. BMC Health Services Research. 11(1). 350–350. 32 indexed citations

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Watt, G., et al.. (2008). Living and health conditions of Palestinian refugees in an unofficial camp in the Lebanon: a cross-sectional survey. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 62(2). 91–97. 19 indexed citations

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Drummond, Neil, Alex McConnachie, Catherine O’Donnell, et al.. (2000). Social variation in reasons for contacting general practice out-of-hours: implications for daytime service provision?. PubMed. 50(455). 460–4. 23 indexed citations

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