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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
49
Citations
9966
World Ranking
2941
National Ranking
506

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Internal medicine

His primary areas of investigation include Psychiatry, Delirium, Psychological intervention, Dementia and Hip fracture. He has researched Psychiatry in several fields, including Poverty and Health care delivery. The Delirium study combines topics in areas such as Prospective cohort study, MEDLINE and Emergency medicine.

His Dementia research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Risk of mortality, Surgery, Central nervous system disease, Physical therapy and Depression. The study incorporates disciplines such as Incidence, Health care, Adverse effect, Intensive care medicine and Institutionalisation in addition to Systematic review. His research investigates the connection with Demography and areas like Harm which intersect with concerns in Environmental health.

His most cited work include:

  • Occurrence and outcome of delirium in medical in-patients: a systematic literature review (765 citations)
  • Psychiatric illness predicts poor outcome after surgery for hip fracture: a prospective cohort study (211 citations)
  • Interventions for preventing delirium in hospitalised patients (206 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

John Holmes mostly deals with Environmental health, Public health, Psychiatry, Psychological intervention and Harm. His Environmental health research focuses on Guideline and how it connects with Health promotion. His Public health research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Government and Public policy.

His Psychiatry research includes elements of Dementia and Health care. John Holmes interconnects Randomized controlled trial and Quality of life in the investigation of issues within Psychological intervention. John Holmes integrates several fields in his works, including Delirium and Hip fracture.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Environmental health (26.98%)
  • Public health (22.79%)
  • Psychiatry (16.28%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Environmental health (26.98%)
  • Public health (22.79%)
  • Alcohol consumption (9.77%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

John Holmes spends much of his time researching Environmental health, Public health, Alcohol consumption, Demography and Guideline. His studies deal with areas such as Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Cross-sectional study, Per capita and Harm as well as Environmental health. As a part of the same scientific study, John Holmes usually deals with the Per capita, concentrating on Systematic review and frequently concerns with Meta-analysis and Quality.

The various areas that John Holmes examines in his Harm study include PsycINFO, MEDLINE and Occupational safety and health. His work deals with themes such as Government, Public policy, Descriptive statistics and Demographic economics, which intersect with Public health. His work carried out in the field of Demography brings together such families of science as Multiple deprivation, Age at death, Confidence interval, Life expectancy and Substance abuse.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • All drinking is not equal: how a social practice theory lens could enhance public health research on alcohol and other health behaviours (98 citations)
  • Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID-19 infection on addictive disorders. (82 citations)
  • Alcohol Consumption and the Physical Availability of Take-Away Alcohol: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of the Days and Hours of Sale and Outlet Density (38 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Internal medicine

Environmental health, Public health, Guideline, Cross-sectional study and Alcohol consumption are his primary areas of study. His Environmental health study combines topics in areas such as Logistic regression, Health Survey for England, Survey data collection, MEDLINE and Risk factor. His research integrates issues of Socioeconomic status, Perception and Occupational safety and health in his study of MEDLINE.

John Holmes combines subjects such as Mental health, Psychiatry, Context and Health care delivery with his study of Public health. His work investigates the relationship between Guideline and topics such as Health promotion that intersect with problems in Descriptive statistics, Epidemiology, Trend analysis, Credibility and Publication. In his research, he performs multidisciplinary study on Cross-sectional study and Injury prevention.

Best Publications

  • Occurrence and outcome of delirium in medical in-patients: a systematic literature review

    Najma Siddiqi;Allan O. House;John D. Holmes

  • Frequency of Anxiety after Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies

    C. Alexia Campbell Burton;Jenni Murray;John Holmes;Felicity Astin

  • Effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on different income and socioeconomic groups: a modelling study

    John Holmes;Yang Meng;Petra S Meier;Alan Brennan

  • Psychiatric illness predicts poor outcome after surgery for hip fracture: a prospective cohort study

    John Holmes;Allan House

  • Interventions for preventing delirium in hospitalised patients

    N Siddiqi;R Stockdale;A M Britton;J Holmes

  • Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID-19 infection on addictive disorders.

    John Marsden;Shane Darke;Wayne Hall;Matthew Hickman

  • Psychiatric illness and mortality after hip fracture

    Sharon Nightingale;John Holmes;James Mason;Allan House

  • Are alcohol outlet densities strongly associated with alcohol-related outcomes? A critical review of recent evidence

    Gerhard Gmel;John Holmes;Joseph Studer

  • Psychiatric illness in hip fracture

    John D. Holmes;Allan O. House

  • Estimated Effects of Different Alcohol Taxation and Price Policies on Health Inequalities: A Mathematical Modelling Study

    Petra S. Meier;John Holmes;Colin Angus;Abdallah K. Ally

  • All drinking is not equal: how a social practice theory lens could enhance public health research on alcohol and other health behaviours

    Petra Sylvia Meier;Alan Warde;John Holmes

  • Trend analysis and modelling of gender-specific age, period and birth cohort effects on alcohol abstention and consumption level for drinkers in Great Britain using the General Lifestyle Survey 1984–2009

    Yang Meng;John Holmes;Daniel Hill-McManus;Alan Brennan

  • Alcohol Consumption and the Physical Availability of Take-Away Alcohol: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of the Days and Hours of Sale and Outlet Density

    Adam Sherk;Tim Stockwell;Tanya Chikritzhs;Sven Andréasson

  • The temporal relationship between per capita alcohol consumption and harm: a systematic review of time lag specifications in aggregate time series analyses.

    John Holmes;Petra S. Meier;Andrew Booth;Yelan Guo

  • Effect of Collaborative Care vs Usual Care on Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults With Subthreshold Depression: The CASPER Randomized Clinical Trial

    Simon Martin Gilbody;Helen Jane Lewis;Joy Ann Adamson;Katie Atherton

  • Estimation of own and cross price elasticities of alcohol demand in the UK--A pseudo-panel approach using the Living Costs and Food Survey 2001-2009.

    Yang Meng;Alan Brennan;Robin Purshouse;Daniel Hill-McManus

  • Delirium within the emergency care setting, occurrence and detection: a systematic review

    Ewan Alexander Barron;John Holmes

  • Increased circulating insulin-like growth factor-1 in late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

    Emma R L C Vardy;Penny J Rice;Peter C W Bowie;John D Holmes

  • Comparison of brief interventions in primary care on smoking and excessive alcohol consumption: a population survey in England

    Jamie Brown;Robert West;Colin Angus;Emma Beard

  • Developing a social practice-based typology of British drinking culture in 2009-2011: Implications for alcohol policy analysis

    Abdallah K. Ally;Melanie Lovatt;Petra S. Meier;Alan Brennan

  • The impact of spatial and temporal availability of alcohol on its consumption and related harms: A critical review in the context of UK licensing policies

    John Holmes;Yelan Guo;Ravi Maheswaran;James Nicholls

  • Why is adolescent drinking declining? A systematic review and narrative synthesis

    Rakhi Vashishtha;Michael Livingston;Amy Pennay;Paul Dietze

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra Meier
Petra Meier University of Glasgow
Alan Brennan
Alan Brennan University of Sheffield
Michael Livingston
Michael Livingston La Trobe University
Jamie Brown
Jamie Brown University College London
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
John Keady
John Keady University of Manchester
Anne Corbett
Anne Corbett University of Exeter
Anne Lingford-Hughes
Anne Lingford-Hughes Imperial College London
Eileen Kaner
Eileen Kaner Newcastle University
Dean McMillan
Dean McMillan University of York

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