Simon Leigh

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 783 citations indexed

About

Simon Leigh is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Applied Psychology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Leigh has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 783 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in General Health Professions, 10 papers in Applied Psychology and 9 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Simon Leigh's work include Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (14 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (10 papers) and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (9 papers). Simon Leigh is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (14 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (10 papers) and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (9 papers). Simon Leigh collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. Simon Leigh's co-authors include Tim Andrews, Alan Dix, Maciej Hyzy, Raymond Bond, Lu Bai, Maurice Mulvenna, Phil Mellor, Sebastian Stevens, Jing Ouyang and B.M.G. Cheetham and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Simon Leigh

42 papers receiving 748 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.

  1. System Usability Scale Benchmarking for Digital Health Apps: Meta-analysis
    2022 154 citations Maciej Hyzy, Raymond Bond et al. JMIR mhealth and uhealth profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Leigh United Kingdom 14 287 211 133 105 85 46 783
Dallas Swendeman United States 11 600 2.1× 241 1.1× 177 1.3× 158 1.5× 37 0.4× 25 1.0k
Hee‐Seung Kim South Korea 20 1.0k 3.5× 216 1.0× 207 1.6× 242 2.3× 109 1.3× 58 2.0k
Oliver Gibson United Kingdom 16 596 2.1× 121 0.6× 143 1.1× 141 1.3× 84 1.0× 36 1.3k
Jennifer M. Radin United States 17 171 0.6× 71 0.3× 134 1.0× 311 3.0× 29 0.3× 35 1.2k
Stan Kachnowski India 11 443 1.5× 89 0.4× 108 0.8× 81 0.8× 82 1.0× 23 791
Santosh Krishna United States 9 953 3.3× 260 1.2× 174 1.3× 140 1.3× 81 1.0× 15 1.4k
Sheridan Miyamoto United States 17 328 1.1× 58 0.3× 163 1.2× 88 0.8× 69 0.8× 46 821
José S Marcano Belisario United Kingdom 14 437 1.5× 178 0.8× 365 2.7× 65 0.6× 65 0.8× 20 1.2k
Sarah Iribarren United States 19 913 3.2× 358 1.7× 219 1.6× 227 2.2× 66 0.8× 64 1.6k
Barbara Barry United States 17 182 0.6× 42 0.2× 211 1.6× 106 1.0× 26 0.3× 53 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Leigh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Leigh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Simon Leigh. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Simon Leigh. The network helps show where Simon Leigh may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Leigh

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

All Works

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Mundle, Shuchita, Jill Durocher, Hillary Bracken, et al.. (2024). Oral misoprostol alone, compared with oral misoprostol followed by oxytocin, in women induced for hypertension of pregnancy: A multicentre randomised trial. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 131(11). 1532–1544. 3 indexed citations
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Hyzy, Maciej, et al.. (2024). Don’t judge a book or health app by its cover: User ratings and downloads are not linked to quality. PLoS ONE. 19(3). e0298977–e0298977. 5 indexed citations
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Bond, Raymond, et al.. (2024). Quality Assessment of Digital Health Apps: Umbrella Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e58616–e58616. 1 indexed citations
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Baines, Rebecca, et al.. (2023). Association Between the Characteristics of mHealth Apps and User Input During Development and Testing: Secondary Analysis of App Assessment Data. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 11. e46937–e46937. 4 indexed citations
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Baines, Rebecca, et al.. (2023). Attitudes Toward Personal Health Data Sharing Among People Living With Sickle Cell Disorder, Exemplar for Study of Rare Disease Populations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(2). 68–76. 4 indexed citations
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Hyzy, Maciej, Raymond Bond, Maurice Mulvenna, et al.. (2023). Quality of Digital Health Interventions Across Different Health Care Domains: Secondary Data Analysis Study. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 11. e47043–e47043. 5 indexed citations
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Baines, Rebecca, Sebastian Stevens, Hannah Bradwell, et al.. (2023). Patient and Public Willingness to Share Personal Health Data for Third-Party or Secondary Uses: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e50421–e50421. 13 indexed citations
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Hyzy, Maciej, Raymond Bond, Maurice Mulvenna, et al.. (2022). System Usability Scale Benchmarking for Digital Health Apps: Meta-analysis. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 10(8). e37290–e37290. 154 indexed citations breakdown →
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Baines, Rebecca, et al.. (2022). Navigating Medical Device Certification: A Qualitative Exploration of Barriers and Enablers Amongst Innovators, Notified Bodies and Other Stakeholders. Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science. 57(2). 238–250. 10 indexed citations
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Leigh, Simon, et al.. (2021). To Tweet or Not to Tweet: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Media Use by Global Diabetes Researchers. Pharmaceutical Medicine. 35(6). 353–365. 1 indexed citations
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Leigh, Simon, et al.. (2020). Barriers and Facilitators to the Adoption of Mobile Health Among Health Care Professionals From the United Kingdom: Discrete Choice Experiment. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 8(7). e17704–e17704. 51 indexed citations
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Leigh, Simon, et al.. (2019). The role of health-care providers in mHealth adoption. The Lancet Digital Health. 1(2). e58–e59. 49 indexed citations
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Pennington, Becky, Brendan Collins, Simon Leigh, et al.. (2018). The cost-effectiveness of seven behavioural interventions to prevent drug misuse in vulnerable populations. International Journal of Drug Policy. 57. 42–50. 3 indexed citations
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Mundle, Shuchita, Hillary Bracken, Brian Faragher, et al.. (2018). Foley Catheterisation Versus Oral Misoprostol for Induction of Labour in Hypertensive Women in India (INFORM): A Multicentre, Open-Label, Randomised Controlled Trial. Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 73(1). 3–5. 2 indexed citations
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Leigh, Simon, et al.. (2016). A Tale of Two Thresholds: A Framework for Prioritization within the Cancer Drugs Fund. Value in Health. 19(5). 567–576. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Xin & Simon Leigh. (2010). Integrated environmental management system with environmental performance evalutation across the supply chain: A systematic and balanced scorecard approach. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 2 indexed citations
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Ezingeard, Jean‐Noël, et al.. (2000). Knowledge management at Ernst & Young UK: getting value through knowledge flows. International Conference on Information Systems. 807–822. 17 indexed citations

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