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John Øvretveit

John Øvretveit

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
45
Citations
10015
World Ranking
3832
National Ranking
42

John Øvretveit 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 Øvretveit sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 198 publications — 63rd percentile

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

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

John Øvretveit 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 Øvretveit sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

John Øvretveit is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of Health Professions, particularly focusing on General Health Professions and related subfields such as Emergency Medical Services, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research addresses various topics including Health Policy Implementation Science, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Global Health Workforce Issues, Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Evaluation and Performance Assessment, and Mental Health and Patient Involvement.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by John Øvretveit include:
- Combining Improvement and Implementation Sciences and Practices for the Post COVID-19 Era (2021) published in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Supporting the Emotional Well-being of Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) published in Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management
- Aligning quality improvement efforts and policy goals in a national integrated health system (2022) published in Health Services Research
- Hauora Māori - Māori health: a right to equal outcomes in primary care (2024) published in International Journal for Equity in Health
- Is there equity of patient health outcomes across models of general practice in Aotearoa New Zealand? A national cross-sectional study (2023) published in International Journal for Equity in Health

The venues where John Øvretveit has frequently published encompass:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Global Implementation Research and Applications
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management
  • Health Services Research

Collaborations feature often in John Øvretveit's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Timothy Kenealy
  • Nelson Aguirre-Duarte
  • Nicolette Sheridan
  • Rawiri McKree Jansen
  • Matire Harwood

Best Publications

  • Quality collaboratives: lessons from research

    John C Ovretveit;Paul Bate;Paul Cleary;Shan Cretin

  • Health service quality : an introduction to quality methods for health services

    John Øvretveit

  • Evaluating Health Interventions: An Introduction to Evaluation of Health Treatments, Services, Policies, and Organizational Interventions

    John Øvretveit

  • Quality of Service: Making It Really Work

    Bo Edvardsson;Bertil Thomasson;John Ovretveit

  • Evaluation of quality improvement programmes

    J Øvretveit;D Gustafson

  • Understanding the conditions for improvement: research to discover which context influences affect improvement success

    John Øvretveit

  • Suffering in silence: a qualitative study of second victims of adverse events

    Susanne Ullström;Magna Andreen Sachs;Johan Hansson;John Øvretveit

  • Advancing the Science of Patient Safety

    Paul G. Shekelle;Peter J. Pronovost;Robert M. Wachter;Stephanie L. Taylor

  • Improving quality through effective implementation of information technology in healthcare.

    John Øvretveit;John Øvretveit;Tim Scott;Thomas G. Rundall;Stephen M. Shortell

  • TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN EUROPEAN HEALTHCARE

    John Øvretveit

  • What context features might be important determinants of the effectiveness of patient safety practice interventions

    Stephanie L. Taylor;Sydney Dy;Robbie Foy;Susanne Hempel

  • Patient focused registries can improve health, care, and science

    Eugene C Nelson;Mary Dixon-Woods;Paul B Batalden;Karen Homa

  • Interprofessional working for health and social care

    John Øvretveit;Peter Mathias;Tony Thompson

  • Purchasing for health : a multidisciplinary introduction to the theory and practice of health purchasing

    John Øvretveit

  • Using research to inform quality programmes

    John Øvretveit;David Gustafson

  • Using patient-reported outcome measurement to improve patient care.

    John Øvretveit;Lisa Zubkoff;Eugene C Nelson;Susan Frampton

  • The role of theory in research to develop and evaluate the implementation of patient safety practices

    Robbie Foy;John C. Ovretveit;Paul G. Shekelle;Peter J. Pronovost

  • Coordinating community care : multidisciplinary teams and care management

    John Øvretveit

  • Five ways to describe a multidisciplinary team

    John Øvretveit

  • How does context affect interventions to improve patient safety? An assessment of evidence from studies of five patient safety practices and proposals for research

    John C Ovretveit;Paul G. Shekelle;Sydney Dy;Kathryn M McDonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Exworthy
Mark Exworthy University of Birmingham
Paul G. Shekelle
Paul G. Shekelle RAND Corporation
Peter J. Pronovost
Peter J. Pronovost Case Western Reserve University
Robert M. Wachter
Robert M. Wachter University of California, San Francisco
Johan Hansson
Johan Hansson Karolinska Institute
Stephen M. Shortell
Stephen M. Shortell University of California, Berkeley
Sakari Suominen
Sakari Suominen University of Turku
Niek S. Klazinga
Niek S. Klazinga University of Amsterdam
Thomas G. Rundall
Thomas G. Rundall University of California, Berkeley
David H. Gustafson
David H. Gustafson University of Wisconsin–Madison

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