John Humphreys

12.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
200 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

John Humphreys is a scholar working on Emergency Medical Services, General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, John Humphreys has authored 200 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Emergency Medical Services, 107 papers in General Health Professions and 43 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in John Humphreys's work include Global Health Workforce Issues (130 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (62 papers) and Global Health and Surgery (35 papers). John Humphreys is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Workforce Issues (130 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (62 papers) and Global Health and Surgery (35 papers). John Humphreys collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Qatar. John Humphreys's co-authors include Matthew McGrail, John Wakerman, Catherine Joyce, Deborah Russell, Michael Jones, M. G. A. Wilson, Judith A. Jones, Anthony Scott, Penny Buykx and Fiona Judd and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

John Humphreys

197 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

Rural and remote health 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2021 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. Rural and remote health
    2012 307 citations John Humphreys profile →
  2. Interventions for health workforce retention in rural and remote areas: a systematic review
    2021 118 citations Deborah Russell, Supriya Mathew et al. Human Resources for Health 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 Humphreys Australia 50 4.0k 3.1k 1.8k 1.1k 1.1k 200 8.4k
Leslie Curry United States 43 5.5k 1.4× 893 0.3× 2.8k 1.5× 1.7k 1.6× 874 0.8× 207 13.6k
Rebecca Lawton United Kingdom 53 3.8k 1.0× 1.6k 0.5× 2.2k 1.2× 742 0.7× 566 0.5× 228 13.1k
Nicole Lurie United States 63 6.6k 1.6× 2.0k 0.6× 2.8k 1.6× 3.4k 3.1× 2.6k 2.4× 285 18.4k
Richard H. Glazier Canada 64 4.3k 1.1× 515 0.2× 2.3k 1.3× 1.9k 1.7× 1.5k 1.4× 334 14.7k
Jonathan E. Fielding United States 57 5.6k 1.4× 625 0.2× 2.4k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 213 11.9k
Rahim Moineddin Canada 61 2.4k 0.6× 349 0.1× 2.0k 1.1× 910 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 462 13.9k
Mark A. Schuster United States 65 5.4k 1.4× 722 0.2× 2.5k 1.4× 1.3k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 327 15.0k
Susan C. Scrimshaw United States 31 3.5k 0.9× 1.4k 0.5× 4.0k 2.2× 380 0.3× 649 0.6× 69 9.3k
Adnan A. Hyder United States 52 2.5k 0.6× 603 0.2× 5.1k 2.9× 852 0.8× 869 0.8× 438 12.5k
Kelly K. O’Brien Canada 35 4.3k 1.1× 542 0.2× 2.7k 1.5× 834 0.8× 830 0.8× 151 16.2k

Countries citing papers authored by John Humphreys

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Humphreys

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Humphreys

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Humphreys. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Humphreys 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 Humphreys. John Humphreys 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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Russell, Deborah, Yuejen Zhao, Steven Guthridge, et al.. (2024). Patterns of health workforce turnover and retention in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in remote communities of the Northern Territory and Western Australia, 2017–2019. Human Resources for Health. 22(1). 58–58. 4 indexed citations
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Liddle, Zania, Michelle S. Fitts, Lisa Bourke, et al.. (2024). Attitudes to Short-Term Staffing and Workforce Priorities of Community Users of Remote Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services: A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 21(4). 482–482. 1 indexed citations
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Jones, Michael, Yuejen Zhao, Steven Guthridge, et al.. (2021). Effects of turnover and stability of health staff on quality of care in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 11(10). e055635–e055635. 8 indexed citations
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Wakerman, John, John Humphreys, Deborah Russell, et al.. (2019). Remote health workforce turnover and retention: what are the policy and practice priorities?. Human Resources for Health. 17(1). 99–99. 133 indexed citations
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McGrail, Matthew, Peter Wingrove, Stephen Petterson, et al.. (2017). Measuring the attractiveness of rural communities in accounting for differences of rural primary care workforce supply. Rural and Remote Health. 17(2). 3925–3925. 26 indexed citations
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Bourke, Lisa, James D. Best, John Wakerman, John Humphreys, & Julian Wright. (2015). Reflection on the Development of a Research Agenda in Rural Health. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(1). 1–22. 7 indexed citations
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Humphreys, John. (2015). Education Premiums in Cambodia: Dummy Variables Revisited and Recent Data. Econ journal watch. 12(3). 339–345. 3 indexed citations
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Thomas, Susan, John Wakerman, & John Humphreys. (2015). Ensuring equity of access to primary health care in rural and remote Australia - what core services should be locally available?. International Journal for Equity in Health. 14(1). 111–111. 116 indexed citations
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Hills, Danny, Catherine Joyce, & John Humphreys. (2013). Workplace aggression prevention and minimisation in Australian clinical medical practice settings – a national study. Australian Health Review. 37(5). 607–613. 10 indexed citations
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Bourke, Lisa, Judy Taylor, John Humphreys, & John Wakerman. (2013). “Rural health is subjective, everyone sees it differently”: Understandings of rural health among Australian stakeholders. Health & Place. 24. 65–72. 30 indexed citations
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Buykx, Penny, et al.. (2012). How do small rural primary health care services sustain themselves in a constantly changing health system environment?. BMC Health Services Research. 12(1). 81–81. 30 indexed citations
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Humphreys, John, et al.. (2009). Un ardid grande como un toro. Harvard business review. 87(5). 19–25. 4 indexed citations
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Humphreys, John, Pim Kuipers, Leigh Kinsman, et al.. (2009). How far can systematic reviews inform policy development for “wicked” rural health service problems?. Australian Health Review. 33(4). 592–600. 12 indexed citations
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Humphreys, John, et al.. (2006). Cuán bajos estamos dispuestos a llegar. Harvard business review. 84(4). 28–39. 12 indexed citations
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Wakerman, John, et al.. (2006). A systematic review of primary health care delivery models in rural and remote Australia 1993 - 2006. BMC Health Services Research. 44 indexed citations
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Iacono, Teresa, et al.. (2004). Health care service provision for country people with developmental disability: an Australian perspective. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 25(3). 265–284. 41 indexed citations
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Humphreys, John, et al.. (2003). An evaluation of videoconferencing in a rural community pharmacy. 22(2). 154–157. 1 indexed citations
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Humphreys, John, et al.. (1998). A modified framework for rural general practice: The importance of recruitment and retention. Social Science & Medicine. 46(8). 939–945. 34 indexed citations

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