2026 Jerome Bickenbach: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	48	3084	2829	22	22	219	12458

Overview

Jerome Bickenbach is affiliated with the University of Lucerne in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine. They have contributed significantly to subfields including Epidemiology, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics covered in Bickenbach's research include:

Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Spinal Cord Injury Research
Chronic Disease Management Strategies
Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
Frailty in Older Adults
Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders

Bickenbach's recent papers include:

Legal and Regulatory Approaches to Rehabilitation Planning: A Concise Overview of Current Laws and Policies Addressing Access to Rehabilitation in Five European Countries (2020), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Qualitative methodological approaches involving participants with intellectual disabilities: Scoping review of literature exploring death and dying (2023), published in Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
Identification of Classes of Functioning Trajectories and Their Predictors in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Attending Initial Rehabilitation in Switzerland (2021), published in Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation
Editorial: Strengthening Rehabilitation in Europe (2022), published in Health Policy
Examining the complexity of functioning in persons with spinal cord injury attending first rehabilitation in Switzerland using structural equation modelling (2020), published in Spinal Cord

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bickenbach include:

Jsabel Hodel
Carla Sabariego
Cristina Ehrmann
Gerold Stucki
Birgit Prodinger

Publication venues frequently featuring Bickenbach's work include:

Spinal Cord
South Eastern European Journal of Public Health
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation

Best Publications

Searching for an Operational Definition of Frailty: A Delphi Method Based Consensus Statement. The Frailty Operative Definition-Consensus Conference Project

Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas;Catherine Féart;Catherine Féart;Giovanni Mann;Jose Viña

1358
Citations
Models of disablement, universalism and the international classification of impairments, disabilities and handicaps.

Jerome E Bickenbach;Somnath Chatterji;E.M Badley;T.B Üstün

1193
Citations
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: a new tool for understanding disability and health

T.B. Üstün;S. Chatterji;J. Bickenbach;N. Kostanjsek

1025
Citations
Refinements of the ICF Linking Rules to strengthen their potential for establishing comparability of health information.

Alarcos Cieza;Nora Fayed;Jerome Bickenbach;Birgit Prodinger

606
Citations
The definition of disability: what is in a name?

Matilde Leonardi;Jerome Bickenbach;Tevfik Bedirhan Ustun;Nenad Kostanjsek

532
Citations
Systematic literature review on ICF from 2001 to 2009: its use, implementation and operationalisation

Milda Cerniauskaite;Rui Quintas;Christine Boldt;Alberto Raggi

362
Citations
Covid-19 and Post Intensive Care Syndrome: A Call for Action.

Henk J. Stam;Gerold Stucki;Jerome Bickenbach

328
Citations
Multiple-informant ranking of the disabling effects of different health conditions in 14 countries

T Bedirhan Üstün;Jurgen Rehm;Somnath Chatterji;Shekhar Saxena

298
Citations
Encyclopedia of disability

Gary L. Albrecht;Jerome Edmund Bickenbach;David T. Mitchell;Sharon L. Snyder

273
Citations
Rehabilitation: The health strategy of the 21st century.

Gerold Stucki;Jerome Bickenbach;Christoph Gutenbrunner;John L. Melvin

262
Citations
Functioning: the third health indicator in the health system and the key indicator for rehabilitation.

Gerold Stucki;Jerome Bickenbach

232
Citations
The Personal Factors of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health in the literature - a systematic review and content analysis.

Szilvia Geyh;Claudio Peter;Rachel Müller;Jerome E Bickenbach

220
Citations
Physical Disability and Social Policy

Jerome Edmund Bickenbach

219
Citations
Towards a conceptual description of rehabilitation as a health strategy.

Thorsten Meyer;Christoph Gutenbrunner;Jerome Bickenbach;Alarcos Cieza

210
Citations
Disability and schizophrenia: a systematic review of experienced psychosocial difficulties

Piotr Świtaj;Marta Anczewska;Anna Chrostek;Carla Sabariego

205
Citations
The World Report on Disability

Jerome Bickenbach

181
Citations
ROAMER: Roadmap for mental health research in Europe

Josep Maria Haro;José Luis Ayuso-Mateos;Istvan Bitter;Jacques Demotes-Mainard

164
Citations
Rethinking Disability

Unknown

160
Citations
Towards a minimal generic set of domains of functioning and health.

Alarcos Cieza;Cornelia Oberhauser;Jerome Bickenbach;Somnath Chatterji

150
Citations
Toward the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Rehabilitation Set: A Minimal Generic Set of Domains for Rehabilitation as a Health Strategy.

Birgit Prodinger;Birgit Prodinger;Alarcos Cieza;Cornelia Oberhauser;Jerome Bickenbach;Jerome Bickenbach

150
Citations
Ageing, Disability and the WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

Jerome E Bickenbach;Somnath Chatterji;Nenad Kostanjsek;T Bedirhan Üstün

144
Citations
WHO's ICF and Functional Status Information in Health Records

T. Bedirhan Üstün;Somnath Chatterji;Nenad Kostansjek;Jerome Bickenbach

143
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Autonomous University of Madrid

Matilde Leonardi Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta

Sergei Scherbov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Warren C. Sanderson Stony Brook University

Seppo Koskinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Christine Bigby La Trobe University

Luis Salvador-Carulla Australian National University

Tamar Heller University of Illinois at Chicago

Robin Room La Trobe University

Celso Arango Complutense University of Madrid

External Links

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