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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 49 2941 2694 507 461 251 9966

John Holmes publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by John Holmes between 1984 and 2021, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. John Holmes published across 38 years, from 1984 to 2021, averaging 6.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 38 publications in 2016. 43 of the 230 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1984 to 2021. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 38. Peak 38 publications in 2016. 1984: 1 publication 1985: 1 publication 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 1 publication 2003: 4 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 8 publications 2014: 19 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 38 publications 2017: 18 publications 2018: 23 publications 2019: 12 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 26 publications
1984 2021

230 publications in total across all disciplines

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John Holmes: publications per year, 1984 to 2021
Year Publications
1984 1
1985 1
1986 0
1987 0
1988 0
1989 0
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 1
1994 0
1995 0
1996 1
1997 0
1998 0
1999 2
2000 6
2001 1
2002 1
2003 4
2004 6
2005 7
2006 5
2007 4
2008 4
2009 3
2010 4
2011 4
2012 4
2013 8
2014 19
2015 10
2016 38
2017 18
2018 23
2019 12
2020 17
2021 26
Total 230
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John Holmes 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 John Holmes sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 244–253 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 251 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167 251
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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John Holmes 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 John Holmes sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 49 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 260 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: 49 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186 49
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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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

  • 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
Anne Corbett
Anne Corbett University of Exeter
John Keady
John Keady University of Manchester
Robert West
Robert West University College London
Eileen Kaner
Eileen Kaner Newcastle University
Anne Lingford-Hughes
Anne Lingford-Hughes Imperial College London

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