John Bligh

9.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
159 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

John Bligh is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Animal Science and Zoology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Bligh has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 32 papers in Physiology and 27 papers in Animal Science and Zoology. Recurrent topics in John Bligh's work include Innovations in Medical Education (58 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (21 papers) and Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (16 papers). John Bligh is often cited by papers focused on Innovations in Medical Education (58 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (21 papers) and Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (16 papers). John Bligh collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Slovakia and Italy. John Bligh's co-authors include Glennys Parsell, Alan Bleakley, Karen Mattick, Paul A. Bradley, J. McLachlan, Judy Searle, Julie Brice, M. Maskrey, W. H. Cottle and Matt Wilkes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Journal of Physiology and Journal of Applied Physiology.

In The Last Decade

John Bligh

156 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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. The development of a questionnaire to assess the readiness of health care students for interprofessional learning (RIPLS)
    1999 686 citations John Bligh et al. Medical Education profile →
  2. Glossary of terms for thermal physiology.
    1973 570 citations John Bligh 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
John Bligh United Kingdom 41 2.5k 1.7k 1.3k 732 569 159 6.5k
Jay Schulkin United States 66 3.2k 1.3× 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 1.1× 329 0.4× 97 0.2× 573 18.1k
Charles C. Berry United States 62 2.0k 0.8× 830 0.5× 1.9k 1.4× 268 0.4× 377 0.7× 158 16.1k
David Cook Canada 32 799 0.3× 472 0.3× 654 0.5× 331 0.5× 83 0.1× 145 4.3k
Douglas Carroll United Kingdom 67 913 0.4× 1.4k 0.8× 1.6k 1.2× 166 0.2× 280 0.5× 323 14.5k
Holger Ursin Norway 57 449 0.2× 2.3k 1.3× 952 0.7× 115 0.2× 124 0.2× 182 11.3k
Andrew Wilson Australia 44 1.2k 0.5× 1.9k 1.1× 312 0.2× 136 0.2× 114 0.2× 383 7.2k
Douglas A. Granger United States 65 1.7k 0.7× 1.0k 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 2.0k 2.8× 139 0.2× 340 15.8k
Jonathan C. K. Wells United Kingdom 76 10.3k 4.1× 2.9k 1.7× 9.5k 7.1× 449 0.6× 295 0.5× 603 26.8k
Tania B. Huedo–Medina United States 33 844 0.3× 1.3k 0.8× 643 0.5× 228 0.3× 234 0.4× 113 8.6k
Chantal Simon France 54 2.5k 1.0× 911 0.5× 2.8k 2.1× 86 0.1× 420 0.7× 294 8.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Bligh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Bligh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Bligh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Bligh 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 John Bligh. John Bligh 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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Bligh, John & Julie Brice. (2008). What is the value of good medical education research?. Medical Education. 42(7). 652–653. 14 indexed citations
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Bleakley, Alan & John Bligh. (2007). Looking forward – looking back: aspects of the contemporary debate about teaching and learning medicine. Medical Teacher. 29(2-3). 79–82. 6 indexed citations
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Bleakley, Alan & John Bligh. (2006). Students Learning from Patients: Let’s Get Real in Medical Education. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 13(1). 89–107. 174 indexed citations
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Mattick, Karen & John Bligh. (2006). Undergraduate ethics teaching: revisiting the Consensus Statement. Medical Education. 40(4). 329–332. 31 indexed citations
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Knight, Lynn & John Bligh. (2006). Physicians’ Perceptions of Clinical Teaching: A Qualitative Analysis in the Context of Change. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 11(3). 221–234. 20 indexed citations
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Brice, Julie & John Bligh. (2005). ‘Dear Editor …’: advice on writing a covering letter. Medical Education. 39(9). 876–876. 1 indexed citations
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Mattick, Karen, Ian Dennis, & John Bligh. (2004). Approaches to learning and studying in medical students: validation of a revised inventory and its relation to student characteristics and performance. Medical Education. 38(5). 535–543. 132 indexed citations
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Bligh, John, et al.. (1999). Community-based medical education : towards a shared agenda for learning. Oxford University Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Bradley, Paul A. & John Bligh. (1999). One year's experience with a clinical skills resource centre. Medical Education. 33(2). 114–120. 55 indexed citations
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Hanitzsch, Renate & John Bligh. (1998). Light potentiation of horizontal cells in the isolated rabbit retina. Documenta Ophthalmologica. 97(1). 41–55. 4 indexed citations
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Walley, T, et al.. (1997). Integrating clinical pharmacology in a new problem based medical undergraduate curriculum. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 43(1). 15–19. 4 indexed citations
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Bligh, John, et al.. (1997). Information technology in medical education: current and future applications. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 73(865). 701–704. 54 indexed citations
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Bligh, John, et al.. (1997). Computer‐based learning materials for medical education: a model production. Medical Education. 31(3). 197–201. 11 indexed citations
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Bligh, John & Peter Slade. (1996). A questionnaire examining learning in general practice. Medical Education. 30(1). 65–70. 12 indexed citations
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Mekjavić, Igor B. & John Bligh. (1989). Core threshold temperatures for sweating. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. 67(9). 1038–1044. 23 indexed citations
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Bligh, John. (1988). Random case analysis and trainee assessment.. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 38(313). 374–375. 2 indexed citations
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Bligh, John. (1984). The Doctrinal Premises of Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Scholar Commons (University of South Carolina). 19(1). 12.
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Madden, J. S. & John Bligh. (1983). An absence of alcohol policy. BMJ. 286(6362). 396.3–396. 1 indexed citations
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Bligh, John, et al.. (1977). Unimpaired thermoregulation in the sheep after depletion of hypothalamic noradrenaline by 6-hydroxydopamine [proceedings].. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 265(1). 51P–52P. 3 indexed citations
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Bligh, John. (1973). Temperature regulation in mammals and other vertebrates. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 226 indexed citations

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