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John Wakerman 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 Wakerman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 142 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John Wakerman 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 Wakerman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

John Wakerman is affiliated with Charles Darwin University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on health professions and medicine, with specific contributions in the fields of general health professions, emergency medical services, public health, environmental and occupational health, health, and emergency medicine.

Wakerman's main topics of work include:

  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Global Health and Surgery
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies

Their recent papers cover a range of subjects related to rural and remote health care, workforce retention, telehealth, and pandemic responses. These include:

  • Interventions for health workforce retention in rural and remote areas: a systematic review (2021), published in Human Resources for Health
  • Telehealth in remote Australia: a supplementary tool or an alternative model of care replacing face-to-face consultations? (2023), published in BMC Health Services Research
  • Remote health service vulnerabilities and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), published in Australian Journal of Rural Health
  • Remoteness, models of primary care and inequity: Medicare under-expenditure in the Northern Territory (2022), published in Australian Health Review
  • Understanding and responding to the cost and health impact of short-term health staffing in remote and rural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health services: a mixed methods study protocol (2021), published in BMJ Open

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Deborah Russell
  • Supriya Mathew
  • Yuejen Zhao
  • Michelle S. Fitts
  • Zania Liddle

Wakerman's research is often published in venues that focus on rural health and health services, which include:

  • Australian Journal of Rural Health
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Human Resources for Health
  • BMJ Open
  • Australian Health Review

Best Publications

  • Systematic review of effective retention incentives for health workers in rural and remote areas: Towards evidence-based policy

    Penelope Buykx;John Stirling Humphreys;John Wakerman;Dennis R Pashen

  • Primary health care delivery models in rural and remote Australia – a systematic review

    John Wakerman;John Stirling Humphreys;Robert Wells;Pim Kuipers

  • Understanding rural and remote health: a framework for analysis in Australia.

    Lisa Bourke;John Stirling Humphreys;John Wakerman;Judy Taylor;Judy Taylor;Judy Taylor

  • Interventions for health workforce retention in rural and remote areas: a systematic review

    Deborah Russell;Supriya Mathew;Michelle Fitts;Zania Liddle

  • Remote health workforce turnover and retention: what are the policy and practice priorities?

    John Wakerman;John Humphreys;Deborah J. Russell;Steven Guthridge

  • Psychosocial safety climate as an antecedent of work characteristics and psychological strain: A multilevel model

    Maureen Dollard;Tessa Opie;Suzanne Lenthall;John Wakerman

  • Defining remote health

    John Wakerman

  • Helping policy-makers address rural health access problems.

    Deborah Russell;John Stirling Humphreys;Bernadette Maree Ward;Marita Chisholm

  • Ensuring equity of access to primary health care in rural and remote Australia - what core services should be locally available?

    Susan L Thomas;John Wakerman;John Stirling Humphreys

  • Organisational intervention to reduce occupational stress and turnover in hospital nurses in the Northern Territory, Australia

    Greg Rickard;Suzanne Lenthall;Maureen Dollard;Tessa Opie

  • Patterns of resident health workforce turnover and retention in remote communities of the Northern Territory of Australia, 2013–2015

    Deborah J Russell;Yuejen Zhao;Steven Guthridge;Mark Ramjan

  • Where is the evidence that rural exposure increases uptake of rural medical practice

    Geethanjali Piyawadani Ranmuthugala;John Stirling Humphreys;Barbara Solarsh;Lucie Walters

  • From 'problem-describing' to 'problem-solving': challenging the 'deficit' view of remote and rural health.

    Lisa Bourke;John S Humphreys;John Wakerman;Judy Taylor

  • Beyond workforce : a systemic solution for health service provision in small rural and remote communities

    John Stirling Humphreys;John Wakerman;Robert Wells;Pim Kuipers

  • Sustainable primary health care services in rural and remote areas: innovation and evidence.

    John Wakerman;John S. Humphreys

  • Impact of community participation in primary health care: what is the evidence?

    Jessamy Bath;John Wakerman

  • What stresses remote area nurses? Current knowledge and future action.

    Sue Lenthall;John Wakerman;Tess Opie;Maureen Dollard

  • Zinc and vitamin A supplementation in Indigenous Australian children hospitalised with lower respiratory tract infection: a randomised controlled trial

    Anne B Chang;Paul J Torzillo;Naomi C Boyce;Andrew V White

  • Nursing workforce in very remote Australia, characteristics and key issues

    Sue Lenthall;John Wakerman;Tess Opie;Sandra Dunn

  • Levels of occupational stress in the remote area nursing workforce.

    Tessa Opie;Maureen Dollard;Sue Lenthall;John Wakerman

  • Better health outcomes at lower costs: the benefits of primary care utilisation for chronic disease management in remote Indigenous communities in Australia’s Northern Territory

    Yuejen Zhao;Susan L Thomas;Steven L Guthridge;John Wakerman

Frequent Co-Authors

John Stirling Humphreys
John Stirling Humphreys Monash University
Michael E. Jones
Michael E. Jones Macquarie University
Maureen F. Dollard
Maureen F. Dollard University of South Australia
David F. J. Campbell
David F. J. Campbell Danube University Krems
David Isaacs
David Isaacs Children's Hospital at Westmead
Anne B. Chang
Anne B. Chang Boston Children's Hospital
David M. Purdie
David M. Purdie Global Blood Therapeutics (United States)
David Simmons
David Simmons Western Sydney University
Peter A. Jones
Peter A. Jones Van Andel Institute
Ian B. Hickie
Ian B. Hickie University of Sydney

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