Werner Brouwer

19.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
334 papers, 12.6k citations indexed

About

Werner Brouwer is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Werner Brouwer has authored 334 papers receiving a total of 12.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 241 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 199 papers in General Health Professions and 43 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Werner Brouwer's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (212 papers), Global Health Care Issues (100 papers) and Healthcare Policy and Management (86 papers). Werner Brouwer is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (212 papers), Global Health Care Issues (100 papers) and Healthcare Policy and Management (86 papers). Werner Brouwer collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Werner Brouwer's co-authors include Job van Exel, Marc Koopmanschap, Frans Rutten, Bernard van den Berg, Marieke Krol, Arthur E. Attema, Pieter van Baal, Renske Hoefman, Ana Bobinac and Erik Schut and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Neurology and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Werner Brouwer

321 papers receiving 12.1k 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.

Handbook of Health Economics

2001 697 citations Werner Brouwer et al. profile →
The iMTA Productivity Cost Questionnaire

2015 315 citations Werner Brouwer, Leona Hakkaart‐van Roijen et al. profile →
Discounting in Economic Evaluations

2018 241 citations Werner Brouwer et al. PharmacoEconomics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Werner Brouwer	6.3k	5.8k	1.9k	1.3k	1.2k	334	12.6k
Job van Exel	3.1k 0.5×	3.5k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	994 0.8×	277	8.7k
Paul Kind	6.9k 1.1×	4.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	990 0.8×	146	17.9k
Marc Koopmanschap	4.0k 0.6×	4.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	994 0.8×	769 0.6×	153	10.6k
Steffie Woolhandler	4.0k 0.6×	5.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	564 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	221	12.5k
Julie Ratcliffe	3.9k 0.6×	3.5k 0.6×	944 0.5×	887 0.7×	793 0.7×	351	9.9k
David U. Himmelstein	3.7k 0.6×	5.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	557 0.4×	1.0k 0.9×	225	11.6k
Nancy Devlin	6.2k 1.0×	3.5k 0.6×	966 0.5×	711 0.6×	521 0.4×	237	11.2k
Joanna Coast	4.8k 0.8×	4.0k 0.7×	690 0.4×	576 0.5×	785 0.7×	234	10.0k
Lisa I. Iezzoni	4.6k 0.7×	5.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	837 0.7×	872 0.7×	274	17.5k
Willard G. Manning	7.3k 1.2×	6.7k 1.1×	702 0.4×	576 0.5×	940 0.8×	167	13.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Werner Brouwer

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Reckers‐Droog, Vivian, et al.. (2025). Nothing about us, without us? A reflection on and call for involving children in the process of valuing child health. The European Journal of Health Economics.

Groot, Saskia de, Tim A. Kanters, Louis Wagner, et al.. (2024). Effectiveness of Seizure Dogs for People With Severe Refractory Epilepsy. Neurology. 102(6). e209178–e209178. 1 indexed citations

Brouwer, Werner, et al.. (2023). Production Losses due to Absenteeism and Presenteeism: The Influence of Compensation Mechanisms and Multiplier Effects. PharmacoEconomics. 41(9). 1103–1115. 22 indexed citations

Brouwer, Werner, et al.. (2023). What Constitutes Well-being? Five Views Among Adult People from the Netherlands on what is Important for a Good Life. Applied Research in Quality of Life. 18(6). 3141–3167. 6 indexed citations

Al‐Janabi, Hareth, Werner Brouwer, John Cullinan, et al.. (2023). Recommendations for Emerging Good Practice and Future Research in Relation to Family and Caregiver Health Spillovers in Health Economic Evaluations: A Report of the SHEER Task Force. PharmacoEconomics. 42(3). 343–362. 17 indexed citations

Wouterse, Bram, Pieter van Baal, Matthijs Versteegh, & Werner Brouwer. (2023). The Value of Health in a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Theory Versus Practice. PharmacoEconomics. 41(6). 607–617. 15 indexed citations

Sabat, Iryna, Sebastian Neumann‐Böhme, Saskia Knies, et al.. (2022). Psychometric evaluation of the Mental Health Quality of Life (MHQoL) instrument in seven European countries. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 20(1). 129–129. 3 indexed citations

Busschbach, Jan J.V., et al.. (2021). The Mental Health Quality of Life Questionnaire (MHQoL): development and first psychometric evaluation of a new measure to assess quality of life in people with mental health problems. Quality of Life Research. 31(2). 633–643. 38 indexed citations

Balkom, Anton J.L.M. van, Daniëlle C. Cath, Gert‐Jan Hendriks, et al.. (2021). Development and psychometric evaluation of the Decision Tool Anxiety Disorders, OCD and PTSD (DTAOP): Facilitating the early detection of patients in need of highly specialized care. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0256384–e0256384. 2 indexed citations

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Sajjad, Ayesha, et al.. (2021). Productivity of Working at Home and Time Allocation Between Paid Work, Unpaid Work and Leisure Activities During a Pandemic. PharmacoEconomics. 40(1). 77–90. 16 indexed citations

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Péntek, Márta, Job van Exel, László Gulàcsi, et al.. (2020). Acceptable health and ageing: results of a cross-sectional study from Hungary. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 18(1). 346–346. 5 indexed citations

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Baji, Petra, Werner Brouwer, Job van Exel, et al.. (2020). Validation of the Hungarian version of the CarerQol instrument in informal caregivers: results from a cross-sectional survey among the general population in Hungary. Quality of Life Research. 30(2). 629–641. 9 indexed citations

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Baji, Petra, M. Farkas, Dominik Golicki, et al.. (2020). Development of Population Tariffs for the CarerQol Instrument for Hungary, Poland and Slovenia: A Discrete Choice Experiment Study to Measure the Burden of Informal Caregiving. PharmacoEconomics. 38(6). 633–643. 10 indexed citations

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Tarricone, Rosanna, Oriana Ciani, Aleksandra Torbica, et al.. (2020). Lifecycle evidence requirements for high-risk implantable medical devices: a European perspective. Expert Review of Medical Devices. 17(10). 993–1006. 24 indexed citations

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Brouwer, Werner, et al.. (2020). Psychometric evaluation of the Health-Risk Attitude Scale (HRAS-13): assessing the reliability, dimensionality and validity in the general population and a patient population. Psychology and Health. 37(1). 34–50. 8 indexed citations

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Knies, Saskia, et al.. (2020). Broadening the application of health technology assessment in the Netherlands: a worthwhile destination but not an easy ride?. Health Economics Policy and Law. 16(4). 440–456. 15 indexed citations

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Versteegh, Matthijs, et al.. (2019). Severity-Adjusted Probability of Being Cost Effective. PharmacoEconomics. 37(9). 1155–1163. 56 indexed citations

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Baal, Pieter van, et al.. (2018). A cost‐effectiveness threshold based on the marginal returns of cardiovascular hospital spending. Health Economics. 28(1). 87–100. 41 indexed citations

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Knies, Saskia, Johan L. Severens, & Werner Brouwer. (2018). Integrating clinical and economic evidence in clinical guidelines: More needed than ever!. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 25(4). 561–564. 8 indexed citations

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Baal, Pieter van, Talitha Feenstra, Johan Polder, Rudolf T. Hoogenveen, & Werner Brouwer. (2011). Economic evaluation and the postponement of health care costs. Research portal (Tilburg University). 43 indexed citations

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