Rocco J. Perla

3.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
41 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Rocco J. Perla is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Rocco J. Perla has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in General Health Professions, 9 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 5 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Rocco J. Perla's work include Healthcare Policy and Management (6 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (6 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (5 papers). Rocco J. Perla is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Policy and Management (6 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (6 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (5 papers). Rocco J. Perla collaborates with scholars based in United States, Uganda and Bulgaria. Rocco J. Perla's co-authors include James Carifio, Lloyd Provost, Samantha K. Murray, Gareth Parry, Bonnie Zell, C. Joseph McCannon, Elizabeth J. Bradbury, Risa Lavizzo‐Mourey, James S. Marks and Thomas H. Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Rocco J. Perla

39 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Ten Common Misunderstandings, Misconceptions, Persistent Myths and Urban Legends about Likert Scales and Likert Response Formats and their Antidotes

2007 705 citations James Carifio, Rocco J. Perla profile →
Resolving the 50‐year debate around using and misusing Likert scales

2008 658 citations James Carifio, Rocco J. Perla profile →
The run chart: a simple analytical tool for learning from variation in healthcare processes

2011 385 citations Rocco J. Perla, Lloyd Provost et al. BMJ Quality & Safety profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rocco J. Perla United States	16	554	247	239	239	234	41	2.4k
Paul Beatty United Kingdom	16	461 0.8×	136 0.6×	351 1.5×	252 1.1×	205 0.9×	43	2.0k
Steve Campbell United Kingdom	15	452 0.8×	103 0.4×	360 1.5×	268 1.1×	134 0.6×	46	2.3k
Bobby Milstein United States	18	1.1k 1.9×	280 1.1×	371 1.6×	325 1.4×	171 0.7×	33	2.5k
Paul Wilson United Kingdom	28	1.2k 2.2×	272 1.1×	202 0.8×	431 1.8×	168 0.7×	153	4.1k
Andrys Onsman Australia	11	342 0.6×	145 0.6×	373 1.6×	171 0.7×	261 1.1×	34	2.2k
Gerd Antes Germany	15	402 0.7×	212 0.9×	273 1.1×	450 1.9×	139 0.6×	40	3.9k
Carole L. Kimberlin United States	21	573 1.0×	174 0.7×	212 0.9×	391 1.6×	200 0.9×	62	2.2k
Kim Walker Australia	19	643 1.2×	114 0.5×	463 1.9×	258 1.1×	175 0.7×	78	2.5k
Guro Huby United Kingdom	20	969 1.7×	201 0.8×	296 1.2×	407 1.7×	106 0.5×	52	2.7k
Anthea Sutton United Kingdom	25	880 1.6×	226 0.9×	265 1.1×	333 1.4×	176 0.8×	85	2.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Perla, Rocco J. & James Carifio. (2018). Can our Conception of the Nature of Science be Tentative Without Qualification?. Journal of educational thought.. 42(2). 127–150. 1 indexed citations

Perla, Rocco J., et al.. (2014). The “Physician-Led Chart Audit. Journal of Patient Safety. 10(1). 72–79. 4 indexed citations

MacKenzie, Simon J., Don Goldmann, Rocco J. Perla, & Gareth Parry. (2014). Measuring Hospital-Wide Mortality—Pitfalls and Potential. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 38(3). 187–194. 11 indexed citations

Perla, Rocco J., Lloyd Provost, & Gareth Parry. (2013). Seven Propositions of the Science of Improvement. Quality Management in Health Care. 22(3). 170–186. 67 indexed citations

Perla, Rocco J., et al.. (2013). Whole-Patient Measure of Safety: Using Administrative Data to Assess the Probability of Highly Undesirable Events During Hospitalization. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 35(5). 20–31. 8 indexed citations

Perla, Rocco J., et al.. (2013). Sampling Considerations for Health Care Improvement. Quality Management in Health Care. 22(1). 36–47. 30 indexed citations

Carifio, James & Rocco J. Perla. (2013). Not Just a “Fleck” on the Epistemic Landscape: A Reappraisal of Ludwik Fleck’s Views of the Nature of Scientific Progress and Change in Relation to Contemporary Educational and Social Issues. Research in Science Education. 43(6). 2349–2366. 5 indexed citations

Perla, Rocco J., et al.. (2011). Large-Scale Improvement Initiatives in Healthcare: A Scan of the Literature. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 35(1). 30–40. 64 indexed citations

Perla, Rocco J.. (2011). The Physics of Health Care Improvement. JAMA. 305(21). 2223–2223. 2 indexed citations

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Perla, Rocco J. & James Carifio. (2011). Theory Creation, Modification, and Testing: An Information Processing Model and Theory of the Anticipated and Unanticipated Consequences of Research and Development. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(16). 84–110. 5 indexed citations

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Perla, Rocco J. & Gareth Parry. (2011). The epistemology of quality improvement: it's all Greek: Figure 1. BMJ Quality & Safety. 20(Suppl 1). i24–i27. 27 indexed citations

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Perla, Rocco J., Lloyd Provost, & Samantha K. Murray. (2011). The run chart: a simple analytical tool for learning from variation in healthcare processes. BMJ Quality & Safety. 20(1). 46–51. 385 indexed citations breakdown →

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Perla, Rocco J., et al.. (2010). Balancing Cost and Precision in Hospital Accountability Sampling. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 33(3). 5–9. 5 indexed citations

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Perla, Rocco J., et al.. (2010). Organizational and Leadership Perceptions Assessment: Opportunities and Challenges Using the Baldrige Companion Surveys. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 33(1). 14–21. 2 indexed citations

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Perla, Rocco J., et al.. (2010). A Healthy Bottom Line: Healthy Life Expectancy as an Outcome Measure for Health Improvement Efforts. Milbank Quarterly. 88(1). 30–53. 93 indexed citations

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Perla, Rocco J. & James Carifio. (2009). Toward a General and Unified View of Educational Research and Evaluation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(11). 38–55. 10 indexed citations

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Perla, Rocco J., et al.. (2009). A long-term forecast of MRSA daily burden using logistic modeling.. PubMed. 22(1). 26–9. 1 indexed citations

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Perla, Rocco J., Carol J. Peden, Donald A. Goldmann, & Robert Lloyd. (2009). Health care-associated infection reporting: The need for ongoing reliability and validity assessment. American Journal of Infection Control. 37(8). 615–618. 16 indexed citations

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Perla, Rocco J., et al.. (2006). Theory Resurrected: An Essay Review. 1 indexed citations

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Doern, Gary V., Angela B. Brueggemann, Rocco J. Perla, et al.. (1997). Multicenter laboratory evaluation of the bioMérieux Vitek antimicrobial susceptibility testing system with 11 antimicrobial agents versus members of the family Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 35(8). 2115–2119. 33 indexed citations

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