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44
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8095
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4146
National Ranking
1975

Lawton R. Burns 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 Lawton R. Burns sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 166 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lawton R. Burns 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 Lawton R. Burns sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lawton R. Burns is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of dentistry. Their research output spans various subfields, including oral surgery, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, periodontics, and overall health studies.

The main areas of focus in their work include endodontics and root canal treatments, dental education, practice, and research, dental health and care utilization, social media in health education, dental research related to COVID-19, medical education and admissions, and health literacy and information accessibility.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Dental Education
  • Journal of Endodontics
  • International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry
  • The Journal of the American Dental Association
  • International Endodontic Journal

Their collaborations involve several frequent co-authors, such as Cheryline Pezzullo, Heather T. Gold, Nihan Gencerliler, Ásgeir Sigurðsson, and Kenneth Hargreaves.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Lawton R. Burns include:

  • Outcomes of primary root canal therapy: An updated systematic review of longitudinal clinical studies published between 2003 and 2020 (2022), International Endodontic Journal
  • YouTube use among dental students for learning clinical procedures: A multi-institutional study (2020), Journal of Dental Education
  • Exploring predoctoral dental student use of YouTube as a learning tool for clinical endodontic procedures (2021), Journal of Dental Education
  • Assessing the pipeline: Perceived barriers to applying to dental school among pipeline program alumni (2020), Journal of Dental Education
  • Junior faculty perspectives on the academic environment: A call for development and onboarding (2022), Journal of Dental Education

Best Publications

  • Adoption and abandonment of matrix management programs: effects of organizational characteristics and interorganizational networks.

    Lawton R. Burns;Douglas R. Wholey

  • All Organizations are Public: Bridging Public and Private Organizational Theories.

    Lawton R. Burns;Barry Bozeman

  • Integrated Delivery Networks: A Detour On The Road To Integrated Health Care?

    Lawton R. Burns;Mark V. Pauly

  • The effects of patient, hospital, and physician characteristics on length of stay and mortality.

    Lawton R. Burns;Douglas R. Wholey

  • Two Decades of Organizational Change in Health Care: What Have we Learned?

    Gloria J. Bazzoli;Linda Dynan;Lawton R. Burns;Clarence Yap

  • Implementing evidence-based medicine: the role of market pressures, compensation incentives, and culture in physician organizations.

    Stephen M. Shortell;James L. Zazzali;Lawton R. Burns;Jeffery A. Alexander

  • Hospital-Physician Collaboration: Landscape of Economic Integration and Impact on Clinical Integration

    Lawton Robert Burns;Ralph W. Muller

  • The business of healthcare innovation

    Lawton Robert Burns

  • The effect of physician factors on the cesarean section decision.

    Lawton R. Burns;Stacie E. Geller;Douglas R. Wholey

  • Does reengineering really work? An examination of the context and outcomes of hospital reengineering initiatives.

    S L Walston;L R Burns;J R Kimberly

  • The impact of physician characteristics in conditional choice models for hospital care.

    Lawton R. Burns;Douglas R. Wholey

  • Organizational Culture and Physician Satisfaction with Dimensions of Group Practice

    James L Zazzali;Jeffrey A Alexander;Stephen M Shortell;Lawton R Burns

  • Hospital purchasing alliances: utilization, services, and performance.

    Lawton R. Burns;J. Andrew Lee

  • Horizontal and vertical integration of physicians: a tale of two tails.

    Lawton Robert Burns;Jeff C. Goldsmith;Aditi Sen

  • Accountable Care Organizations May Have Difficulty Avoiding The Failures Of Integrated Delivery Networks Of The 1990s

    Lawton R. Burns;Mark V. Pauly

  • Trends and models in physician-hospital organization.

    Lawton R. Burns;Darrell P. Thorpe

  • Owned vertical integration and health care: promise and performance.

    Stephen L. Walston;John R. Kimberly;Lawton R. Burns

  • The Health Care Value Chain: Producers, Purchasers, and Providers

    Lawton Robert Burns

  • Physician And Health System Integration

    Peter P. Budetti;Stephen M. Shortell;Teresa M. Waters;Jeffrey A. Alexander

  • The fall of the house of AHERF: the Allegheny bankruptcy

    Lawton R. Burns;John Cacciamani;James Clement;Welman Aquino

  • Time preference for health gains versus health losses.

    Linda D. MacKeigan;Lon N. Larson;Jo Laine R. Draugalis;J. Lyle Bootman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Alexander
Jeffrey A. Alexander University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen M. Shortell
Stephen M. Shortell University of California, Berkeley
Mark V. Pauly
Mark V. Pauly University of Pennsylvania
Robert J. Town
Robert J. Town The University of Texas at Austin
Ronald M. Andersen
Ronald M. Andersen University of California, Los Angeles
Roger Feldman
Roger Feldman University of Minnesota
Michael A. Morrisey
Michael A. Morrisey Texas A&M University
Michael Drummond
Michael Drummond University of York
Thomas D'Aunno
Thomas D'Aunno New York University
Gloria J. Bazzoli
Gloria J. Bazzoli Virginia Commonwealth University

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