Rachel Ellaway

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
172 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Rachel Ellaway is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel Ellaway has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 50 papers in General Health Professions and 43 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Rachel Ellaway's work include Innovations in Medical Education (82 papers), Empathy and Medical Education (21 papers) and Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (19 papers). Rachel Ellaway is often cited by papers focused on Innovations in Medical Education (82 papers), Empathy and Medical Education (21 papers) and Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (19 papers). Rachel Ellaway collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Rachel Ellaway's co-authors include Ken Masters, David Topps, Joanna Bates, Martin Pusic, Lisa Graves, Terry Poulton, Adina Kalet, David A. Cook, Terri Cameron and Calvin L. Chou and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Science & Medicine and Journal of General Internal Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Rachel Ellaway

157 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rachel Ellaway Canada	32	2.1k	1.0k	848	562	412	172	3.7k
John Sandars United Kingdom	36	2.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	1.6k 1.8×	686 1.2×	412 1.0×	201	5.4k
Martin R. Fischer Germany	33	2.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	1.2k 2.1×	526 1.3×	277	5.2k
Ara Tekian United States	31	2.2k 1.0×	764 0.7×	506 0.6×	613 1.1×	340 0.8×	184	3.2k
Teresa M. Chan Canada	35	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.7×	577 0.7×	639 1.1×	362 0.9×	305	5.0k
Lorainne Tudor Car Singapore	32	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	693 0.8×	188 0.3×	894 2.2×	122	4.5k
Sally A. Santen United States	33	2.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	543 0.6×	1.0k 1.8×	363 0.9×	297	4.3k
Annette Burgess Australia	32	2.0k 1.0×	817 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	444 0.8×	291 0.7×	101	3.2k
Anthony J Levinson Canada	17	1.2k 0.6×	682 0.7×	619 0.7×	270 0.5×	335 0.8×	38	2.6k
Vernon Curran Canada	33	1.9k 0.9×	2.2k 2.1×	537 0.6×	153 0.3×	354 0.9×	105	3.8k
Charlotte E. Rees United Kingdom	46	3.5k 1.7×	3.0k 2.9×	906 1.1×	870 1.5×	231 0.6×	168	6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachel Ellaway

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Patocka, Catherine, Lara Cooke, Irene Ma, & Rachel Ellaway. (2025). Untangling feedback: Mapping the patterns behind the practice. Medical Education. 59(11). 1196–1203. 1 indexed citations

Ellaway, Rachel, Martina Kelly, Kent G. Hecker, & Tasha R. Wyatt. (2025). Myths of contestation in the medical education curriculum: A dialogical exploration. Medical Education.

Hubinette, Maria, Tasha R. Wyatt, & Rachel Ellaway. (2024). Refracting the concept of physician advocacy using the prism of professional resistance. MedEdPublish. 14. 210–210. 1 indexed citations

MacLeod, Anna, Rachel Ellaway, & Jennifer Cleland. (2024). A meta‐study analysing the discourses of discourse analysis in health professions education. Medical Education. 58(9). 1058–1070. 5 indexed citations

Patocka, Catherine, Lara Cooke, Irene Ma, & Rachel Ellaway. (2024). Navigating discourses of feedback: developing a pattern system of feedback. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 30(3). 755–775. 2 indexed citations

Ellaway, Rachel, Bridget C. OʼBrien, Jonathan Sherbino, et al.. (2024). Is There a Problem With Evidence in Health Professions Education?. Academic Medicine. 99(8). 841–848. 4 indexed citations

Wyatt, Tasha R., et al.. (2023). Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review. Social Science & Medicine. 320. 115727–115727. 15 indexed citations

Teunissen, Pim W., Christopher Watling, Rachel Ellaway, et al.. (2021). Contextual Competence: How residents develop competent performance in new settings. Medical Education. 55(9). 1100–1109. 30 indexed citations

Ellaway, Rachel, et al.. (2021). An undergraduate medical curriculum framework for providing care to transgender and gender diverse patients: A modified Delphi study. Perspectives on Medical Education. 11(1). 36–44. 10 indexed citations

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Gottlieb, Michael, Teresa M. Chan, Fareen Zaver, & Rachel Ellaway. (2021). Confidence‐competence alignment and the role of self‐confidence in medical education: A conceptual review. Medical Education. 56(1). 37–47. 66 indexed citations

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Bates, Joanna, et al.. (2018). Embracing standardisation and contextualisation in medical education. Medical Education. 53(1). 15–24. 61 indexed citations

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Ellaway, Rachel. (2016). Moral agency and the medical education researcher. Medical Education. 51(1). 3–5. 4 indexed citations

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Topps, David, et al.. (2016). Putting the ghost in the machine: exploring human-machine hybrid virtual patient systems for health professional education.

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Poulton, Terry, et al.. (2014). Exploring the Efficacy of Replacing Linear Paper-Based Patient Cases in Problem-Based Learning With Dynamic Web-Based Virtual Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 16(11). e240–e240. 33 indexed citations

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Ellaway, Rachel. (2011). eMedical Teacher. Medical Teacher. 33(12). 1038–1040. 1 indexed citations

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Ellaway, Rachel, et al.. (2010). HSVO: a functional XML specification for integrating simulation devices. Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems. 6(11). 1 indexed citations

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Ellaway, Rachel, et al.. (2010). VERSE: Workfl ows for Simulation and Virtual World Telemetry and Control.. Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems. 6(11). 81–84. 1 indexed citations

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Ellaway, Rachel, Roger Kneebone, Kevin Lachapelle, & David Topps. (2009). Practica continua: Connecting and combining simulation modalities for integrated teaching, learning and assessment. Medical Teacher. 31(8). 725–731. 19 indexed citations

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Begg, Michael, Rachel Ellaway, David Dewhurst, & Hamish Macleod. (2007). Transforming Professional Healthcare Narratives into Structured Game-Informed-Learning Activities. NSUWorks (Nova Southeastern University). 3(6). 6. 16 indexed citations

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Ellaway, Rachel, et al.. (2002). The cube and the advantages of assimilation.. 851–856. 1 indexed citations

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