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Leadership in Health Services
H-index 7

Leadership in Health Services

1751-1879

Published by: Emerald Publishing

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/lhs

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 1069 6 7 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 12
Documents by Best Scientists*: 12
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 37
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.588
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Leadership in Health Services?

The topics of Health care, Nursing, Public relations, Originality and Medical education are the focal point of discussions in the journal. While Health care is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Quality (business), Operations management, Quality management and Knowledge management. In particular, the Operations management works presented emphasize discussions on Lean manufacturing.

Some problems in Nursing that were presented in Leadership in Health Services overlapped with concepts under Job satisfaction, Professional development, Organizational culture and Family medicine. Leadership development, Leadership studies, Shared leadership, Leadership style and Neuroleadership are all aspects of Public relations discussed in the journal. The work on Neuroleadership addressed in Leadership in Health Services expands to the thematically related Educational leadership.

Studies on Medical education discussed in it link to the field of Curriculum. It links adjacent topics like Health policy with Health promotion.

  • Health care (45.81%)
  • Nursing (32.36%)
  • Public relations (28.65%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Trends and approaches in lean healthcare (422 citations)
  • A study of relationship between managers' leadership style and employees' job satisfaction (338 citations)
  • Can lean save lives (248 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Leadership in Health Services:

The published papers are mainly concerned with subjects like Health care, Public relations, Operations management, Nursing and Social psychology. The works on Health care tackled in the published articles bring together disciplines like Teamwork, Human resources and Knowledge management. Learning environment, Healthcare system, Organizational culture and Medical education are some topics wherein Nursing research discussed in the journal articles has an impact.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Health care
  • Management
  • Nursing

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main points discussed in Leadership in Health Services deals with Originality, Medical education, Health care, Leadership development and Public relations. The work on Medical education tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Teamwork, Coaching, Health education, Public health and Experiential learning. Leadership in Health Services deals with Health care in conjunction with Job satisfaction and similar fields in Organizational commitment, Ethical leadership, Empowerment and Employee engagement.

Topics in Leadership development were tackled in line with various other fields like Appreciative inquiry, Leadership studies, Curriculum and Mentorship. The journal explores issues in Public relations which can be linked to other research areas like Health administration and Health care reform. It mainly concentrates on Quality (business) but also investigates its connection with concepts in disciplines such as

  • Scope (project management) which is related to area like Added value and Leadership style,
  • Home inspection which intersects with area such as Quality management..

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic and the role of responsible leadership in health care: thinking beyond employee well-being and organisational sustainability. (4 citations)
  • Can using a servant-leadership model of supervision mitigate against burnout and secondary trauma in the health and social care sector? (1 citations)
  • The content of the nurses in the lead programme for empowering community nurse leadership in implementing evidence (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Leadership in Health Services (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jennifer Bowerman (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Graham Dickson (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jiju Antony (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jo Lamb-White (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Anne Konu (6 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Leadership in Health Services (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Alberta (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of Gothenburg (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Toronto (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Eastern Finland (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Karolinska Institutet (7 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 31.25% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.18% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.55% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.18% of all publications and 59.09% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Authentic leadership and job satisfaction among long-term care nurses

    Carol Wong;Edmund J. Walsh;Kayla N. Basacco;Monica C. Mendes Domingues

    (2020)
    37 Citations
  • Leader empowering behaviour: relationships with nurse and patient outcomes.

    Karen Cziraki;Carol Wong;Michael Kerr;Joan Finegan

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Primary healthcare managers’ perceptions of management competencies at different management levels in digital health services: secondary analysis

    (2022)
    10 Citations
  • Challenges of primary health care leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden: a qualitative study of managers’ experiences

    (2023)
    7 Citations
  • Shared accountability in distributed leadership for improved healthcare access: a study of a US dental institution.

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • The evaluation of health care leadership development programmes: a scoping review of reviews.

    (2022)
    2 Citations
  • Evaluation of a leadership development impact assessment toolkit: a comparative case study of experts' perspectives in three Canadian provinces.

    (2022)
    2 Citations

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