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D-Index
35
Citations
11084
World Ranking
6585
National Ranking
1055

Alan Williams publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Williams sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 135 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Alan Williams D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Williams sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alan Williams was affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom.

Their research spanned several interdisciplinary fields, with significant contributions to Sociology and Political Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Clinical Psychology, Education, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Key topics in their work included Sustainability in Higher Education, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Educational Games and Gamification, Digital Games and Media, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Optimism, Hope, and Well-being.

Frequent collaborators in their research included Rebecca Rawson, Uchechukwu V. Okere, Yasuhiro Kotera, Pauline Green, and James Chircop.

Williams published in various academic venues, frequently appearing in the International Journal of Higher Education and Sustainability and the European Conference on Games Based Learning, alongside contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, and Scientific Reports.

Their recent papers featured the following:

  • How will Education 4.0 influence learning in higher education? (2020, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education)
  • Dealing With Isolation Using Online Morning Huddles for University Lecturers During Physical Distancing by COVID-19: Field Notes (2020, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning)
  • Teaching Healthcare Professional Students in Online Learning during COVID-19: Reflection of University Lecturers (2020, Journal of Concurrent Disorders)
  • Teaching sustainability to online healthcare students: a viewpoint (2022, International Journal of Higher Education and Sustainability)
  • A conditional latent autoregressive recurrent model for generation and forecasting of beam dynamics in particle accelerators (2024, Scientific Reports)

Best Publications

  • Variations in population health status: results from a United Kingdom national questionnaire survey.

    Paul Kind;Paul Dolan;Claire Gudex;Alan Williams

  • Intergenerational equity: an exploration of the 'fair innings' argument

    Alan Williams

  • Economics of coronary artery bypass grafting.

    Alan Williams

  • The principles of practical cost-benefit analysis

    Robert Sugden;Alan H. Williams

  • The time trade-off method: results from a general population study.

    Paul Dolan;Claire Gudex;Paul Kind;Alan Williams

  • A social tariff for EuroQol: results from a UK general population survey

    Paul Dolan;Claire Gudex;Paul Kind;Alan Williams

  • QALY maximisation and people's preferences: a methodological review of the literature.

    Paul Dolan;Rebecca Shaw;Aki Tsuchiya;Alan Williams

  • Valuing health states: a comparison of methods.

    Paul Dolan;Claire Gudex;Paul Kind;Alan Williams

  • Equity in health

    Alan Williams;Richard Cookson

  • Health state valuations from the general public using the visual analogue scale

    Claire Gudex;Paul Dolan;Paul Kind;Alan Williams

  • Calculating the global burden of disease: time for a strategic reappraisal?

    Alan Williams

  • Cost-effectiveness analysis: is it ethical?

    A Williams

  • The Optimal Provision of Public Goods in a System of Local Government

    Alan Williams

  • Priority setting in public and private health care: a guide through the ideological jungle

    Alan Williams

  • The rationing debate. Rationing health care by age.

    A Williams;J G Evans

  • The cost-benefit approach.

    Alan Williams

  • Science or marketing at WHO? A commentary on 'World Health 2000'.

    Alan Williams

  • Logical inconsistencies in survey respondents' health state valuations -- a methodological challenge for estimating social tariffs.

    Nancy J Devlin;Paul Hansen;Paul Kind;Alan Williams

  • QALYs and ethics : A health economist's perspective

    Alan Williams

  • Cost-benefit analysis: Bastard science? and/or insidious poison in the body politick?

    Alan Williams

  • Chapter 35 Equity in health

    Alan Williams;Richard Cookson

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Kind
Paul Kind University of Leeds
Paul Dolan
Paul Dolan London School of Economics and Political Science
Aki Tsuchiya
Aki Tsuchiya University of Sheffield
Robert Sugden
Robert Sugden University of East Anglia
Nancy Devlin
Nancy Devlin University of Melbourne
Richard Cookson
Richard Cookson University of York
Alan Maynard
Alan Maynard University of York
Erik Nord
Erik Nord Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Stephen Birch
Stephen Birch University of Queensland
Arto Ohinmaa
Arto Ohinmaa University of Alberta

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