Stewart W Mercer

31.1k total citations · 10 hit papers
341 papers, 19.7k citations indexed

About

Stewart W Mercer is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Epidemiology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Stewart W Mercer has authored 341 papers receiving a total of 19.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in General Health Professions, 148 papers in Epidemiology and 81 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Stewart W Mercer's work include Chronic Disease Management Strategies (143 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (66 papers) and Empathy and Medical Education (54 papers). Stewart W Mercer is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Disease Management Strategies (143 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (66 papers) and Empathy and Medical Education (54 papers). Stewart W Mercer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Hong Kong and China. Stewart W Mercer's co-authors include Bruce Guthrie, Graham Watt, Sally Wyke, Karen Barnett, Michael Norbury, Gary McLean, William Reynolds, Samuel Yeung Shan Wong, Keith Moffat and Paul Trayhurn and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Stewart W Mercer

320 papers receiving 19.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study

2012 4.7k citations Stewart W Mercer, Graham Watt et al. profile →
The consultation and relational empathy (CARE) measure: development and preliminary validation and reliability of an empathy-based consultation process measure

2004 645 citations Stewart W Mercer Family Practice profile →
Empathy and quality of care.

2002 581 citations Stewart W Mercer et al. PubMed profile →
Defining and measuring multimorbidity: a systematic review of systematic reviews

2018 518 citations Stewart W Mercer et al. profile →
Adapting clinical guidelines to take account of multimorbidity

2012 374 citations Bruce Guthrie, Stewart W Mercer et al. profile →
Impact of COVID-19 on loneliness, mental health, and health service utilisation: a prospective cohort study of older adults with multimorbidity in primary care

2020 272 citations Stewart W Mercer et al. British Journal of General Practice profile →
Management of multimorbidity using a patient-centred care model: a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial of the 3D approach

2018 267 citations Chris Salisbury, Mei‐See Man et al. profile →
Physical multimorbidity, health service use, and catastrophic health expenditure by socioeconomic groups in China: an analysis of population-based panel data

2020 250 citations Stewart W Mercer et al. profile →
Multimorbidity and functional impairment–bidirectional interplay, synergistic effects and common pathways

2018 241 citations Stewart W Mercer et al. profile →
Examining variation in the measurement of multimorbidity in research: a systematic review of 566 studies

2021 172 citations Ronan A Lyons, Stewart W Mercer et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stewart W Mercer United Kingdom	64	7.8k	7.2k	3.8k	3.7k	3.0k	341	19.7k
Bruce Guthrie United Kingdom	58	7.6k 1.0×	6.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.4×	4.7k 1.3×	2.1k 0.7×	288	17.8k
Kenneth M. Langa United States	85	4.3k 0.6×	6.0k 0.8×	7.8k 2.1×	2.5k 0.7×	4.0k 1.4×	416	29.0k
John D. Piette United States	74	5.4k 0.7×	7.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.4×	2.2k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	309	20.4k
Edward H. Wagner United States	84	9.2k 1.2×	13.9k 1.9×	2.8k 0.7×	4.3k 1.2×	5.0k 1.7×	279	32.8k
Kenneth E. Covinsky United States	78	2.6k 0.3×	6.4k 0.9×	3.0k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	3.7k 1.2×	286	21.7k
Peter Bower United Kingdom	82	4.0k 0.5×	12.2k 1.7×	2.6k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	4.6k 1.5×	450	24.3k
Hans‐Helmut König Germany	58	2.3k 0.3×	5.2k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	734	15.9k
J. André Knottnerus Netherlands	67	4.1k 0.5×	4.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	367	20.3k
David B. Reuben United States	64	2.5k 0.3×	5.1k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	299	15.6k
Christopher M. Callahan United States	58	2.0k 0.3×	5.1k 0.7×	4.6k 1.2×	1.5k 0.4×	2.3k 0.8×	186	14.6k

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Takahashi, Noriyuki, Hiroaki Nishikawa, Kunihiko Takahashi, et al.. (2025). Validity and reliability of the 2-item version compared with the 10-item version of the Japanese consultation and relational empathy (CARE) measure: primary analysis of a cross-sectional survey. BMC Primary Care. 26(1). 343–343.

Fleetwood, Kelly, Caroline Jackson, Stewart W Mercer, et al.. (2025). Robustly measuring multimorbidity using disparate linked datasets. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 283–283.

MacRae, Clare, Stewart W Mercer, Andrew Lawson, et al.. (2025). Impact of household size and co-resident multimorbidity on unplanned hospitalisation and transition to care home. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1718–1718.

Blackbourn, Luke A. K., Stuart J. McGurnaghan, Stewart W Mercer, et al.. (2024). Antidepressant and antipsychotic prescribing in patients with type 2 diabetes in Scotland: A time‐trend analysis from 2004 to 2021. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 90(11). 2802–2810. 2 indexed citations

Pati, Sanghamitra, Sanghamitra Pati, Abhinav Sinha, et al.. (2023). Childhood health and educational disadvantage are associated with adult multimorbidity in the global south: findings from a cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative surveys in India and Brazil. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 77(10). 617–624. 5 indexed citations

Davies, Laurie E., Stewart W Mercer, Katie Brittain, et al.. (2022). The association between multimorbidity and mobility disability-free life expectancy in adults aged 85 years and over: A modelling study in the Newcastle 85+ cohort. PLoS Medicine. 19(11). e1004130–e1004130. 8 indexed citations

MacRae, Clare, Stewart W Mercer, David Henderson, et al.. (2022). Age, sex, and socioeconomic differences in multimorbidity measured in four ways: UK primary care cross-sectional analysis. British Journal of General Practice. 73(729). e249–e256. 27 indexed citations

Mercer, Stewart W, et al.. (2022). Reliability and validity of the Arabic version of the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure. Family Practice. 39(6). 1176–1182. 3 indexed citations

Simpson, Robert, et al.. (2021). Mindfulness-based interventions for people with multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-aggregation of qualitative research studies. Disability and Rehabilitation. 44(21). 6179–6193. 17 indexed citations

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Simpson, Robert, Frances S Mair, & Stewart W Mercer. (2017). Mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with multiple sclerosis – a feasibility randomised controlled trial. BMC Neurology. 17(1). 94–94. 61 indexed citations

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Bikker, Annemieke, et al.. (2017). Assessing the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure in sexual health nurses’ consultations. BMC Nursing. 16(1). 71–71. 12 indexed citations

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Man, Mei‐See, Katherine Chaplin, Cindy Mann, et al.. (2016). Improving the management of multimorbidity in general practice: protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial (The 3D Study). BMJ Open. 6(4). e011261–e011261. 31 indexed citations

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McLean, Gary, Bruce Guthrie, Stewart W Mercer, & Graham Watt. (2015). General practice funding underpins the persistence of the inverse care law: cross-sectional study in Scotland. British Journal of General Practice. 65(641). e799–e805. 75 indexed citations

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Moffat, Keith & Stewart W Mercer. (2015). Challenges of managing people with multimorbidity in today’s healthcare systems. BMC Family Practice. 16(1). 129–129. 206 indexed citations

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Rycroft‐Malone, Jo, Rob Anderson, Rebecca Crane, et al.. (2014). Accessibility and implementation in UK services of an effective depression relapse prevention programme – mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT): ASPIRE study protocol. Implementation Science. 9(1). 62–62. 15 indexed citations

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Mercer, Stewart W, et al.. (2009). Public and private healthcare services utilization by non-institutional elderly in Hong Kong: Is the inverse care law operating?. Health Policy. 91(3). 229–238. 38 indexed citations

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Bikker, Annemieke, Stewart W Mercer, & David Reilly. (2005). A Pilot Prospective Study on the Consultation and Relational Empathy, Patient Enablement, and Health Changes over 12 Months in Patients Going to the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 11(4). 591–600. 108 indexed citations

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MacPherson, Hugh, et al.. (2003). Empathy, Enablement, and Outcome: An Exploratory Study on Acupuncture Patients' Perceptions. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 9(6). 869–876. 69 indexed citations

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Chambers, Ruth, et al.. (2002). Helping doctors with disabilities succeed in medicine.. PubMed. 52(484). 958–958. 1 indexed citations

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Mercer, Stewart W, et al.. (2002). Measuring the Impact of Rehabilitation Services on the Quality of Life of Disabled People in Cambodia. Disasters. 26(2). 175–191. 15 indexed citations

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