2026 Kieran Walshe: 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	47	3316	3051	563	515	245	12696

Overview

Kieran Walshe is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Health Professions, with a particular emphasis on healthcare quality and management, healthcare systems and challenges, and medical malpractice and liability issues.

The main fields of study for Walshe include:

Health Professions

Within this broader category, the subfields they have contributed to are:

General Health Professions
Health Information Management
Pharmacy
Emergency Medical Services
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Their work covers several important research topics such as:

Healthcare Quality and Management
Healthcare Systems and Challenges
Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
Global Health Workforce Issues
Primary Care and Health Outcomes
Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment

Kieran Walshe has published multiple papers in well-known academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

BMJ
BMJ Open
PLoS ONE
Health Policy
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management

Recent notable papers by Walshe encompass:

Early diagnosis of sepsis in emergency departments, time to treatment, and association with mortality: An observational study, 2020, PLoS ONE
The development of hospital accreditation in low- and middle-income countries: a literature review, 2020, Health Policy and Planning
'You're just a locum': professional identity and temporary workers in the medical profession, 2020, Sociology of Health & Illness
Mediators of change in healthcare organisations subject to external assessment: a systematic review with narrative synthesis, 2020, BMJ Open
How do medical managers strategize? A strategy-as-practice perspective, 2020, Public Money & Management

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Walshe's research. Frequent coauthors include:

Jane Ferguson
Thomas Allen
Gemma Stringer
Christos Grigoroglou
Darren M. Ashcroft

Best Publications

Realist review - a new method of systematic review designed for complex policy interventions

Ray Pawson;Trisha Greenhalgh;Gill Harvey;Kieran Walshe

3727
Citations
Evidence-based management: from theory to practice in health care.

Kieran Walshe;Thomas G. Rundall

816
Citations
Realist synthesis - an introduction

R Pawson;T Greenhalgh;G Harvey;K Walshe

813
Citations
The Top Patient Safety Strategies That Can Be Encouraged for Adoption Now

Paul G. Shekelle;Peter J. Pronovost;Robert M. Wachter;Kathryn M. McDonald

409
Citations
The relationship between organizational culture and performance in acute hospitals.

Rowena Jacobs;Russell Mannion;Huw T.O. Davies;Stephen Harrison

382
Citations
Understanding what works--and why--in quality improvement: the need for theory-driven evaluation.

Kieran Walshe

315
Citations
Advancing the Science of Patient Safety

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

284
Citations
When Things Go Wrong: How Health Care Organizations Deal With Major Failures

Kieran Walshe;Stephen M. Shortell

243
Citations
Pseudoinnovation: the development and spread of healthcare quality improvement methodologies

Kieran Walshe

242
Citations
Rules and guidelines in clinical practice: a qualitative study in operating theatres of doctors’ and nurses’ views

R McDonald;J Waring;S Harrison;K Walshe

229
Citations
Effectiveness of quality improvement: learning from evaluations

Kieran Walshe;T. Freeman

223
Citations
Regulating Healthcare: A Prescription for Improvement

Kieran Walshe

213
Citations
Working within and beyond the Cochrane Collaboration to make systematic reviews more useful to healthcare managers and policy makers.

John N. Lavis;Huw T.O. Davies;Russell L. Gruen;Kieran Walshe

165
Citations
The "redisorganisation" of the NHS: another reorganisation involving unhappy managers can only worsen the service

Judith Smith;Kieran Walshe;David J Hunter

159
Citations
The rise of regulation in the NHS.

Kieran Walshe

158
Citations
Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care: lessons from the theory of communities of practice

Roman Kislov;Gill Harvey;Kieran Walshe

144
Citations
Adverse events in health care: issues in measurement

Kieran Walshe

142
Citations
Organizational failure and turnaround: Lessons for public services from the for-profit sector

Kieran Walshe;Gill Harvey;Paula Hyde;Naresh R. Pandit

129
Citations
Regulating U.S. Nursing Homes: Are We Learning From Experience?

Kieran Walshe

128
Citations
Absorptive Capacity in a Non-Market Environment

Gill Harvey;Chris Skelcher;Eileen Spencer;Pauline Jas

120
Citations
A very public failure: lessons for quality improvement in healthcare organisations from the Bristol Royal Infirmary

K Walshe;N Offen

115
Citations
What counts as 'evidence' in 'evidence-based practice'?

Jon Glasby;Kieran Walshe;Gill Harvey

18
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gill Harvey University of Adelaide

Ruth Boaden University of Manchester

Ruth McDonald University of Manchester

Dianne Parker University of Manchester

Huw Davies University of St Andrews

Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Matt Sutton University of Manchester

Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford

Russell Mannion University of Birmingham

Helena Legido-Quigley National University of Singapore

External Links

Personal website of Kieran Walshe Google Scholar page

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