2026 Harry Scarbrough: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	53	810	753	121	107	161	15802

Harry Scarbrough publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Harry Scarbrough sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 161 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Harry Scarbrough D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Harry Scarbrough sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Harry Scarbrough is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers on health professions and medicine, with a particular focus on the subfields of general health professions, economics and econometrics, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, health informatics, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

The main topics covered in their publications include health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life; health policy implementation science; artificial intelligence in healthcare and education; mental health and patient involvement; management and organizational studies; radiology practices and education; and qualitative comparative analysis research.

Among recent papers, notable works include:

"Professionals' responses to the introduction of AI innovations in radiology and their implications for future adoption: a qualitative study," 2021, published in BMC Health Services Research
"Making Digital Health 'Solutions' Sustainable in Healthcare Systems: A Practitioner Perspective," 2022, published in Frontiers in Digital Health
"From spreading to embedding innovation in health care: Implications for theory and practice," 2021, published in Health Care Management Review
"The AI of the Beholder: Intra-Professional Sensemaking of an Epistemic Technology," 2024, published in Journal of Management Studies
"Identifying core strategies and mechanisms for spreading a national medicines optimisation programme across England-a mixed-method study applying qualitative thematic analysis and Qualitative Comparative Analysis," 2022, published in Implementation Science Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Scarbrough include Alexandra Ziemann, Charitini Stavropoulou, Yiannis Kyratsis, Yaru Chen, and Gerardo Patriotta.

Key venues for their research publications have been Academy of Management Proceedings, Frontiers in Digital Health, Frontiers in Health Services, BMC Health Services Research, and Journal of Management Studies.

Scarbrough has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Frontiers Media: Digital Health Adoption: Looking Beyond the Role of Technology, released in 2023.

Best Publications

Knowledge management and innovation: networks and networking

Jacky Swan;Sue Newell;Harry Scarbrough;Donald Hislop

1385
Citations
Managing Knowledge Work and Innovation

Susan Newell;Maxine Robertson;Harry Scarbrough;Jacky Swan

970
Citations
Managing Knowledge Work

Sue Newell;Harry Scarbrough;Maxine Robertson;Jacky Swan

937
Citations
Knowledge management, HRM and the innovation process

Harry Scarbrough

762
Citations
Social practices and the management of knowledge in project environments

Mike Bresnen;Linda Edelman;Sue Newell;Harry Scarbrough

749
Citations
Knowledge Management in Practice: An Exploratory Case Study

Shan L. Pan;Harry Scarbrough

704
Citations
The Construction of `Communities of Practice' in the Management of Innovation:

Jacky Swan;Harry Scarbrough;Maxine Robertson

696
Citations
Project-Based Learning and the Role of Learning Boundaries:

Harry Scarbrough;Jacky Swan;Stéphane Laurent;Mike Bresnen

524
Citations
A Socio‐Technical View of Knowledge Sharing at Buckman Laboratories

Shan L. Pan;Harry Scarbrough

493
Citations
Explaining the Diffusion of Knowledge Management: The Role of Fashion

Harry Scarbrough;Jacky Swan

476
Citations
Recombination in the open-ended value landscape of digital innovation

Ola Henfridsson;Joe Nandhakumar;Harry Scarbrough;Nikiforos S. Panourgias

419
Citations
Sharing Knowledge Across Projects Limits to ICT-led Project Review Practices

Sue Newell;Mike Bresnen;Linda F. Edelman;Harry Scarbrough

417
Citations
Knowledge as Work: Conflicts in the Management of Knowledge Workers

Harry Scarbrough

389
Citations
The politics of networked innovation

Jacky Swan;Harry Scarbrough

338
Citations
The Benefits and Pitfalls of Social Capital: Empirical Evidence from Two Organizations in the United Kingdom†

Linda F. Edelman;Mike Bresnen;Sue Newell;Harry Scarbrough

328
Citations
Knowledge Creation in Professional Service Firms: Institutional Effects:

Maxine Robertson;Harry Scarbrough;Jacky Swan

327
Citations
Knowledge Management - The Next Fad to Forget People?

Jacky Swan;Harry Scarbrough;John Preston

320
Citations
Towards a second generation of KM? The people management challenge

Chris Carter;Harry Scarbrough

302
Citations
Path(ological) Dependency? Core Competencies from an Organizational Perspective

Harry Scarbrough

257
Citations
Knowledge Management: Concepts and Controversies

Jacky Swan;Harry Scarbrough

242
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacky Swan University of Warwick

Sue Newell University of Warwick

Maxine Robertson Queen Mary University of London

Robin Williams University of Edinburgh

Mike Bresnen Manchester Metropolitan University

Linda F. Edelman Bentley University

Rob Procter University of Warwick

Davide Nicolini University of Warwick

Kenneth Amaeshi European University Institute

Robert D. Galliers Bentley University

External Links

Personal website of Harry Scarbrough Google Scholar page

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