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Social Sciences and Humanities
UK
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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101
Citations
37280
World Ranking
86
National Ranking
12

Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
37794
World Ranking
7977
National Ranking
780

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Carl May is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses extensively on the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a significant number of publications in General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: a normalisation process theory coding manual for qualitative research and instrument development, 2022, Implementation Science
  • Home and Online Management and Evaluation of Blood Pressure (HOME BP) using a digital intervention in poorly controlled hypertension: randomised controlled trial, 2021, BMJ
  • Remote shared decision making through telemedicine: A systematic review of the literature, 2021, Patient Education and Counseling
  • Towards an Implementation-STakeholder Engagement Model (I-STEM) for improving health and social care services, 2023, Health Expectations
  • Effectiveness of nurse-led group CBT for hot flushes and night sweats in women with breast cancer: Results of the MENOS4 randomised controlled trial, 2020, Psycho-Oncology

Carl May has frequently collaborated with several authors, including:

  • Frances S Mair
  • Alison Richardson
  • Tim Rapley
  • Geraldine Leydon
  • Tracy Finch

Their publications are commonly found in journals such as:

  • Trials
  • BMJ Open
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Implementation Science
  • NIHR Open Research

Carl May is recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Implementing, embedding, and integrating practices: An outline of Normalization Process Theory.

    Carl May;Tracy Finch

  • Normalisation process theory: A framework for developing, evaluating and implementing complex interventions

    Elizabeth Murray;Shaun Treweek;Catherine Pope;Anne MacFarlane

  • Development of a theory of implementation and integration: Normalization Process Theory

    Carl R May;Frances Mair;Tracy Finch;Anne E. MacFarlane

  • Implementation, context and complexity.

    Carl R. May;Carl R. May;Mark Johnson;Tracy Finch

  • We need minimally disruptive medicine

    Carl R. May;Victor M. Montori;Frances S. Mair

  • Understanding the implementation of complex interventions in health care: the normalization process model.

    Carl James May;Tracy Finch;Frances S. Mair;Luciana Ballini

  • Cumulative complexity: a functional, patient-centered model of patient complexity can improve research and practice

    Nathan D. Shippee;Nilay D. Shah;Carl R. May;Frances S. Mair

  • Rethinking the patient: using Burden of Treatment Theory to understand the changing dynamics of illness.

    Carl R. May;David T. Eton;Kasey Boehmer;Katie Gallacher

  • Towards a general theory of implementation.

    Carl James May

  • Systematic review of cost effectiveness studies of telemedicine interventions.

    Pamela S Whitten;Frances S Mair;Alan Haycox;Carl R May

  • Using Normalization Process Theory in feasibility studies and process evaluations of complex healthcare interventions: a systematic review

    Carl May;Amanda Cummings;Melissa Girling;Michael Bracher

  • Factors that promote or inhibit the implementation of e-health systems: an explanatory systematic review.

    Frances S Mair;Carl May;Catherine O’Donnell;Tracy Finch

  • A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health care

    Carl May

  • Promoting professional behaviour change in healthcare: what interventions work, and why? A theory-led overview of systematic reviews

    Mark J Johnson;Carl R May

  • From compliance to concordance: barriers to accomplishing a re-framed model of health care interactions.

    Paul Bissell;Carl R May;Peter R Noyce

  • Understanding Patients’ Experiences of Treatment Burden in Chronic Heart Failure Using Normalization Process Theory

    Katie Gallacher;Carl R. May;Victor M. Montori;Frances S. Mair

  • Barriers to advance care planning at the end of life: an explanatory systematic review of implementation studies.

    Susi Lund;Alison Richardson;Carl May

  • Building a measurement framework of burden of treatment in complex patients with chronic conditions: a qualitative study.

    David T Eton;Djenane Ramalho de Oliveira;Jason S Egginton;Jennifer L Ridgeway

  • Why is it difficult to implement e-health initiatives? A qualitative study

    Elizabeth Murray;Joanne Burns;Carl James May;Tracy Finch

  • Disclosing a diagnosis of dementia: a systematic review

    Claire Bamford;Sharon Lamont;Martin Eccles;Louise Robinson

  • An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

  • Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice: the case of telepsychiatry.

    Carl May;Linda Gask;Theresa Atkinson;Nicola Ellis

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Rapley
Tim Rapley Northumbria University
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray University College London
Catherine Pope
Catherine Pope University of Oxford
Lucy Yardley
Lucy Yardley University of Bristol
Linda Gask
Linda Gask University of Manchester
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Anne Rogers
Anne Rogers University of Southampton
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Martin Roland
Martin Roland University of Cambridge

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