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D-Index
42
Citations
16609
World Ranking
4565
National Ranking
268

Geoff Norman 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 Geoff Norman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 169 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Geoff Norman 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 Geoff Norman 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: 261 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: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Geoff Norman is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with particular attention to several subfields including Family Practice, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Sociology and Political Science, and Education.

Their work encompasses multiple main topics, most notably Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills, Innovations in Medical Education, Radiology practices and education, Problem and Project Based Learning, Patient Safety and Medication Errors, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, and Health Policy Implementation Science.

Norman has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advances in Health Sciences Education
  • Medical Education
  • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • Perspectives on Medical Education
  • Quality of Life Research

Their recent papers cover a range of significant topics and were published in respected journals:

  • Dual process models of clinical reasoning: The central role of knowledge in diagnostic expertise (2024), Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • The challenges inherent with anchor-based approaches to the interpretation of important change in clinical outcome assessments (2022), Quality of Life Research
  • The scope of health professions education requires complementary and diverse approaches to knowledge synthesis (2022), Perspectives on Medical Education
  • Where we've come from, where we might go (2020), Advances in Health Sciences Education
  • The Once and Future Myths of Medical Education (2020), Journal of Graduate Medical Education

Norman has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Jonathan Sherbino
  • Sandra Monteiro
  • Matthew Sibbald
  • Thierry Pelaccia
  • Peter Wyer

Best Publications

  • Likert scales, levels of measurement and the "laws" of statistics.

    Geoff Norman

  • Measuring change over time: assessing the usefulness of evaluative instruments.

    Gordon Guyatt;Stephen Walter;Geoff Norman

  • The minimal relationship between simulation fidelity and transfer of learning

    Geoff Norman;Kelly Dore;Lawrence Grierson

  • Non-analytical models of clinical reasoning: the role of experience.

    Geoff Norman;Meredith Young;Lee Brooks

  • How medical students learn spatial anatomy

    Amit X Garg;Geoff Norman;Lawrence Sperotable

  • The GRADE approach is reproducible in assessing the quality of evidence of quantitative evidence syntheses

    Reem A. Mustafa;Nancy Santesso;Jan Brozek;Elie A. Akl;Elie A. Akl

  • Overconfidence in clinical decision making.

    Pat Croskerry;Geoff Norman

  • Expertise in medicine and surgery.

    Geoff Norman;Kevin Eva;Lee Brooks;Stan Hamstra

  • Dual processing and diagnostic errors.

    Geoff Norman

  • RCT = results confounded and trivial: the perils of grand educational experiments.

    Geoff Norman

  • PBL in the undergraduate MD program at McMaster University: three iterations in three decades.

    Alan J Neville;Geoff R Norman

  • Effect of sertraline on the recovery rate of cardiac autonomic function in depressed patients after acute myocardial infarction

    Allan McFarlane;Markad V. Kamath;Ernest L. Fallen;Victoria Malcolm

  • Research in medical education: three decades of progress

    Geoff Norman

  • The September epidemic of asthma hospitalization: School children as disease vectors

    Neil W. Johnston;Sebastian L. Johnston;Geoff R. Norman;Jennifer Dai

  • Teaching basic science to optimize transfer

    Geoff Norman

  • Self-assessment or self deception? A lack of association between nursing students’ self-assessment and performance

    Pamela Baxter;Geoff Norman

  • Evaluating agreement: conducting a reliability study.

    Paul J Karanicolas;Mohit Bhandari;Hans Kreder;Antonio Moroni

  • The clinical significance of quality of life assessments in oncology: a summary for clinicians

    Jeff A. Sloan;Marlene H. Frost;Rick Berzon;Rick Berzon;Amylou Dueck

  • Assessing the quality of published genetic association studies in meta-analyses: the quality of genetic studies (Q-Genie) tool

    Zahra N. Sohani;David Meyre;Russell J. de Souza;Philip G. Joseph

  • Relative effectiveness of high- versus low-fidelity simulation in learning heart sounds.

    Daniela de Giovanni;Trudie Roberts;Geoff Norman

  • Competency-Based Education: Milestones or Millstones1?

    Geoff Norman;John Norcini;Georges Bordage

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Sherbino
Jonathan Sherbino McMaster University
Lee R. Brooks
Lee R. Brooks McMaster University
Remy M. J. P. Rikers
Remy M. J. P. Rikers Utrecht University
Henk G. Schmidt
Henk G. Schmidt Erasmus University Rotterdam
Alan Schwartz
Alan Schwartz University of Illinois at Chicago
Amiram Gafni
Amiram Gafni McMaster University
Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer
Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer Maastricht University
Malcolm R. Sears
Malcolm R. Sears McMaster University
Georges Bordage
Georges Bordage University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin W. Eva
Kevin W. Eva University of British Columbia

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