John Powell

15.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
246 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

John Powell is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, John Powell has authored 246 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in General Health Professions, 42 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 33 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in John Powell's work include Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (36 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (24 papers) and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (18 papers). John Powell is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (36 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (24 papers) and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (18 papers). John Powell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. John Powell's co-authors include Günther Eysenbach, EunRyoung Sa, Oliver Kuß, Aileen Clarke, Margaret Thorogood, Anita Stern, Marina Englesakis, Carlos Rizo-Maestre, Frances Griffiths and Pam Lowe and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

John Powell

225 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

Empirical Studies Assessi... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2004 2006 2011 2020 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. Empirical Studies Assessing the Quality of Health Information for Consumers on the World Wide Web
    2002 1.4k citations John Powell et al. profile →
  2. Health related virtual communities and electronic support groups: systematic review of the effects of online peer to peer interactions
    2004 881 citations John Powell et al. profile →
  3. Why Are Health Care Interventions Delivered Over the Internet? A Systematic Review of the Published Literature
    2006 613 citations John Powell et al. Journal of Medical Internet Research profile →
  4. The Characteristics and Motivations of Online Health Information Seekers: Cross-Sectional Survey and Qualitative Interview Study
    2011 337 citations John Powell et al. Journal of Medical Internet Research profile →
  5. What is the clinical value of mHealth for patients?
    2020 263 citations John Powell et al. profile →
  6. The impact of social media influencers on health outcomes: Systematic review
    2023 54 citations John Powell et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
John Powell 4.5k 2.0k 1.6k 1.3k 1.1k 246 9.8k
Peter J. Schulz 3.7k 0.8× 1.9k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 837 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 319 10.6k
Richard P. Moser 3.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 1.0k 0.8× 768 0.7× 258 12.3k
Magnus Johannesson 3.6k 0.8× 2.6k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 510 0.4× 619 0.6× 301 19.2k
Robert P. Hawkins 2.9k 0.6× 2.2k 1.1× 710 0.5× 1.2k 0.9× 1.2k 1.1× 184 8.7k
Robert T. Croyle 2.5k 0.6× 2.0k 1.0× 914 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 492 0.4× 102 9.4k
Robert Hornik 2.6k 0.6× 2.6k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 1.7k 1.3× 784 0.7× 153 9.5k
Angela Fagerlin 5.5k 1.2× 1.6k 0.8× 720 0.5× 1.1k 0.9× 878 0.8× 316 13.0k
Kasisomayajula Viswanath 4.7k 1.0× 3.6k 1.8× 2.8k 1.8× 1.3k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 253 12.7k
Robert A. C. Ruiter 2.6k 0.6× 2.0k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 2.3k 1.7× 1.1k 0.9× 288 9.3k
Nancy K. Janz 4.4k 1.0× 1.9k 1.0× 1.0k 0.7× 1.4k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 188 16.0k

Countries citing papers authored by John Powell

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Powell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Powell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Powell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Powell 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 Powell. John Powell is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Ziébland, Sue, et al.. (2025). Implications of digital fertility tracking for clinical care: a qualitative systematic review. Reproductive Health. 22(1). 183–183.
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Jones, J., et al.. (2023). National quality standards for neuro rehabilitation in a community setting: Do they achieve their purpose?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 29(5). 865–873. 2 indexed citations
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Powell, John. (2022). Overcoming Toxic Polarization: Lessons in Effective Bridging. Minnesota journal of law & inequality. 2 indexed citations
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Turner, Andrew, Rebecca Morris, Lorraine McDonagh, et al.. (2022). Unintended consequences of patient online access to health records: a qualitative study in UK primary care. British Journal of General Practice. 73(726). e67–e74. 25 indexed citations
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Powell, John, Veronika Williams, Helen Atherton, et al.. (2019). Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of a Self-Guided Internet Intervention for Social Anxiety Symptoms in a General Population Sample: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(1). e16804–e16804. 27 indexed citations
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Muinga, Naomi, et al.. (2018). Implementing an Open Source Electronic Health Record System in Kenyan Health Care Facilities: Case Study. JMIR Medical Informatics. 6(2). e22–e22. 42 indexed citations
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Powell, John, et al.. (2015). RP OR NOT RP: THAT IS THE CO-CREATION QUESTION. Bournemouth University Research Online (Bournemouth University). 246–251. 2 indexed citations
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Kraak, Sarah, N. Bailey, Massimiliano Cardinale, et al.. (2012). Lessons for fisheries management from the EU cod recovery plan. Marine Policy. 37. 200–213. 56 indexed citations
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Powell, John, et al.. (2010). Corporate Prerogative, Race, and Identity under the Fourteenth Amendment. eYLS (Yale Law School). 32. 885. 4 indexed citations
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Powell, John & Jason Reece. (2009). The Future of Fair Housing and Fair Credit: From Crisis to Opportunity. Cleveland State law review. 57(2). 209. 2 indexed citations
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Powell, John. (2007). Structural Racism: Building upon the Insights of John Calmore. North Carolina law review. 86(3). 791. 141 indexed citations
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Powell, John. (2005). Dreaming of a Self Beyond Whiteness and Isolation. Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis). 18(1). 13–45. 5 indexed citations
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Powell, John. (1999). Welfare Reform for Real People: Engaging the Moral and Economic Debate. Minnesota journal of law & inequality. 17(1). 211.
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Powell, John. (1999). Whites Will Be Whites: The Failure to Interrogate Racial Privilege. USF Scholarship Repository (University of San Francisco). 34(3). 419. 6 indexed citations
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Powell, John. (1994). Agenda for the Post-Civil Rights Era, An. Berkley Law Scholarship Repository (University of California, Berkeley). 29. 889. 1 indexed citations
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Powell, John. (1992). Small Marks and Instinctual Responses: A Study in the Uses of Gladstone's Marginalia. 19(3). 1. 2 indexed citations
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Powell, John, et al.. (1990). Hostage to the Drug War: The National Purse, the Constitution and the Black Community. Berkley Law Scholarship Repository (University of California, Berkeley). 24. 557. 2 indexed citations
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Powell, John. (1985). International Broadcasting by Satellite. Praeger eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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