Laura Sheard

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Laura Sheard is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Sheard has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in General Health Professions, 21 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 19 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Laura Sheard's work include Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (12 papers), Patient Safety and Medication Errors (11 papers) and Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues (11 papers). Laura Sheard is often cited by papers focused on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (12 papers), Patient Safety and Medication Errors (11 papers) and Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues (11 papers). Laura Sheard collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Laura Sheard's co-authors include Charlotte N. E. Tompkins, Rebecca Lawton, Joanne Neale, Jane O’Hara, Claire Marsh, John Wright, Nat Wright, Gerry Armitage, Clive E Adams and Thomas Mills and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Laura Sheard

91 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Understanding COVID‐19 misinformation and vaccine hesitancy in context: Findings from a qualitative study involving citizens in Bradford, UK

2021 180 citations Bridget Lockyer, John Wright et al. Health Expectations profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laura Sheard United Kingdom	24	878	466	438	348	271	95	2.2k
Linda Martin Netherlands	20	521 0.6×	460 1.0×	331 0.8×	178 0.5×	159 0.6×	55	2.5k
Kenzie A. Cameron United States	31	1.1k 1.2×	395 0.8×	693 1.6×	501 1.4×	295 1.1×	149	3.3k
Nadia Islam United States	27	1.1k 1.2×	296 0.6×	458 1.0×	408 1.2×	452 1.7×	148	2.5k
Meredith Vanstone Canada	29	956 1.1×	280 0.6×	1.1k 2.4×	229 0.7×	427 1.6×	167	3.0k
Annamaria Bagnasco Italy	29	1.0k 1.1×	183 0.4×	509 1.2×	269 0.8×	434 1.6×	150	2.7k
Tarja Suominen Finland	36	1.8k 2.0×	245 0.5×	700 1.6×	352 1.0×	437 1.6×	204	3.7k
Michael J. Fine United States	22	1.1k 1.2×	644 1.4×	350 0.8×	329 0.9×	290 1.1×	48	2.5k
Judy Wright United Kingdom	30	652 0.7×	338 0.7×	449 1.0×	274 0.8×	269 1.0×	113	2.6k
Chau Trinh‐Shevrin United States	35	1.6k 1.8×	523 1.1×	699 1.6×	618 1.8×	668 2.5×	148	3.8k
Jonathan B. VanGeest United States	18	1.4k 1.5×	256 0.5×	521 1.2×	432 1.2×	265 1.0×	37	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Sheard

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ramsey, Lauren, Laura Sheard, Justin Waring, et al.. (2025). Humanizing processes after harm part 1: patient safety incident investigations, litigation and the experiences of those affected. Frontiers in Health Services. 4. 1473256–1473256. 6 indexed citations

O’Hara, Jane, Lauren Ramsey, Siobhan McHugh, et al.. (2025). Co-designing and testing the learn together guidance to support patient and family involvement in patient safety investigations: a mixed-methods study. PubMed. 13(18). 1–125. 1 indexed citations

Nixon, Laura, et al.. (2024). Navigating the complexity of a collaborative, system-wide public health programme: learning from a longitudinal qualitative evaluation of the ActEarly City Collaboratory. Health Research Policy and Systems. 22(1). 138–138. 2 indexed citations

Bellass, Sue, Krysia Canvin, Tracey Farragher, et al.. (2024). Understanding and improving the quality of primary care for people in prison: a mixed-methods study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12(46). 1–329.

Lawton, Rebecca, et al.. (2024). Do healthcare professionals work around safety standards, and should we be worried? A scoping review. BMJ Quality & Safety. 34(5). 317–329. 2 indexed citations

Murray, Jenni, et al.. (2024). Understanding the challenges and successes of implementing ‘hybrid’ interventions in healthcare settings: findings from a process evaluation of a patient involvement trial. BMJ Quality & Safety. 34(2). 92–99. 1 indexed citations

Lawton, Rebecca, Jenni Murray, Ruth Baxter, et al.. (2023). Evaluating an intervention to improve the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home for older people (Your Care Needs You): a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation. Trials. 24(1). 671–671. 4 indexed citations

Canvin, Krysia, et al.. (2023). Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on the delivery and receipt of prison healthcare: an international scoping review. Health & Justice. 11(1). 42–42.

Sheard, Laura, et al.. (2023). Understanding the organisational influences on the quality of and access to primary care in English prisons: a qualitative interview study. British Journal of General Practice. 73(735). e720–e727. 3 indexed citations

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Foy, Robbie, Krysia Canvin, Sue Bellass, et al.. (2023). The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional cluster-level analyses of prison healthcare data in the North of England. EClinicalMedicine. 63. 102171–102171. 4 indexed citations

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Fang, Chao, et al.. (2023). ‘I am just a shadow of who I used to be’—Exploring existential loss of identity among people living with chronic conditions of Long COVID. Sociology of Health & Illness. 46(1). 59–77. 23 indexed citations

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Canvin, Krysia, et al.. (2023). “It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”: A qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on prison healthcare in England. Health & Justice. 11(1). 6–6. 6 indexed citations

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Fang, Chao, et al.. (2022). ‘I don't know what to do or where to go’. Experiences of accessing healthcare support from the perspectives of people living with Long Covid and healthcare professionals: A qualitative study in Bradford, UK. Health Expectations. 26(1). 542–554. 48 indexed citations

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McCaughan, Dorothy, Laura Sheard, Nicky Cullum, Jo C Dumville, & Ian Chetter. (2020). Nurses’ and surgeons’ views and experiences of surgical wounds healing by secondary intention: A qualitative study. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 29(13-14). 2557–2571. 9 indexed citations

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McHugh, Siobhan, Rebecca Lawton, Jane O’Hara, & Laura Sheard. (2020). Does team reflexivity impact teamwork and communication in interprofessional hospital-based healthcare teams? A systematic review and narrative synthesis. BMJ Quality & Safety. 29(8). 672–683. 50 indexed citations

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Sheard, Laura, Claire Marsh, Thomas Mills, et al.. (2019). Using patient experience data to develop a patient experience toolkit to improve hospital care: a mixed-methods study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(36). 1–104. 22 indexed citations

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Baxter, Ruth, Jane O’Hara, Jenni Murray, et al.. (2018). Partners at Care Transitions: exploring healthcare professionals’ perspectives of excellence at care transitions for older people. BMJ Open. 8(9). e022468–e022468. 11 indexed citations

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Sheard, Laura, Claire Marsh, Jane O’Hara, et al.. (2017). Exploring how ward staff engage with the implementation of a patient safety intervention: a UK-based qualitative process evaluation. BMJ Open. 7(7). e014558–e014558. 24 indexed citations

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Birks, Yvonne, Jenni Murray, Laura Sheard, et al.. (2017). Partners at Care Transitions (PACT) —e xploring older peoples’ experiences of transitioning from hospital to home in the UK: protocol for an observation and interview study of older people and their families to understand patient experience and involvement in care at transitions. BMJ Open. 7(11). e018054–e018054. 19 indexed citations

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Clarke, Arabella, Ian Watt, Laura Sheard, John Wright, & Joy Adamson. (2016). Implementing electronic records in NHS secondary care organizations in England: policy and progress since 1998. British Medical Bulletin. 121(1). 95–106. 12 indexed citations

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