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Michael Herdman

Michael Herdman

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 50 2666 2437 20 20 159 24871

Michael Herdman publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Michael Herdman between 1989 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Michael Herdman published across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025, averaging 5.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 12 publications in 2008. 14 of the 200 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1989 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 12. Peak 12 publications in 2008. 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 1 publication 1993: 2 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 2 publications 1998: 4 publications 1999: 5 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 8 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 7 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 12 publications 2009: 12 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 6 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 10 publications 2019: 6 publications 2020: 8 publications 2021: 5 publications 2022: 4 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 8 publications
1989 2025

200 publications in total across all disciplines

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Michael Herdman: publications per year, 1989 to 2025
Year Publications
1989 1
1990 0
1991 1
1992 1
1993 2
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 2
1998 4
1999 5
2000 3
2001 8
2002 3
2003 7
2004 5
2005 5
2006 4
2007 7
2008 12
2009 12
2010 12
2011 6
2012 4
2013 10
2014 9
2015 7
2016 8
2017 12
2018 10
2019 6
2020 8
2021 5
2022 4
2023 3
2024 6
2025 8
Total 200
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Michael Herdman 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 Michael Herdman 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, 154–163 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: 159 publications — 46th percentile

46% 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
154–163 411 159
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
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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Michael Herdman 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 Michael Herdman 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, 50 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: 50 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% 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
50 187 50
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

Michael Herdman is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Delphi Technique in Research
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Pharmaceutical studies and practices

Michael Herdman has published in a range of journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Value in Health
  • PharmacoEconomics
  • The European Journal of Health Economics
  • Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore
  • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Their recent papers include:

  • "Valuing EQ-5D-Y: the current state of play" (2022), published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
  • "Systematic review reveals that EQ-5D minimally important differences vary with treatment type and may decrease with increasing baseline score" (2024), published in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • "Patient-caregiver agreement and test-retest reliability of the EQ-5D-Y-3L and EQ-5D-Y-5L in paediatric patients with haematological malignancies" (2021), published in The European Journal of Health Economics
  • "How Do Respondents Interpret and View the EQ-VAS? A Qualitative Study of Three Asian Populations" (2020), published in Patient
  • "Psychometric Properties of Generic Preference-Weighted Measures for Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review" (2022), published in PharmacoEconomics

Michael Herdman has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Nan Luo
  • Rachel Lee-Yin Tan
  • Nancy Devlin
  • Janine Verstraete
  • Zhihao Yang

Best Publications

  • Development and preliminary testing of the new five-level version of EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L)

    M Herdman;Claire Gudex;A Lloyd;MF Janssen

  • A model of equivalence in the cultural adaptation of HRQoL instruments: the universalist approach.

    M. Herdman;J. Fox-Rushby;X. Badia

  • Development of the EQ-5D-Y: a child-friendly version of the EQ-5D

    Nora Wille;Xavier Badia;Gouke J. Bonsel;Kristina Burström

  • Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Generic and Disease-Specific Instruments

    Maite Solans;Sabrina Pane;Maria-Dolors Estrada;Vicky Serra-Sutton

  • Reliability, construct and criterion validity of the KIDSCREEN-10 score: A short measure for children and adolescents' well-being and health-related quality of life

    Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer;Michael Erhart;Luis Rajmil;Michael Herdman

  • The European KIDSCREEN approach to measure quality of life and well-being in children: development, current application, and future advances

    Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer;Michael Herdman;Janine Devine;Christiane Otto

  • [The Spanish version of EuroQol: a description and its applications. European Quality of Life scale].

    X Badia;M Roset;S Montserrat;M Herdman

  • 'Equivalence' and the translation and adaptation of health-related quality of life questionnaires

    M. Herdman;J. Fox-Rushby;X. Badia

  • El EuroQol-5D: una alternativa sencilla para la medición de la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud en atención primaria

    M. Herdman;X. Badia;S. Berra

  • Feasibility, reliability, and validity of the EQ-5D-Y: Results from a multinational study

    Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer;Nora Wille;Xavier Badia;Gouke Bonsel

  • LA VERSION ESPANOLA DEL EUROQOL : DESCRIPCION Y APLICACIONES

    X Badía;M Roset;S Montserrat;M Herdman

  • Being Bullied: Associated Factors in Children and Adolescents 8 to 18 Years Old in 11 European Countries

    Filippos Analitis;Mariska Klein Velderman;Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer;Symone Detmar

  • Using the EuroQoI 5-D in the Catalan general population: feasibility and construct validity.

    X. Badia;A. Schiaffino;J. Alonso;M. Herdman

  • Generic health-related quality of life instruments in children and adolescents: a qualitative analysis of content.

    Luis Rajmil;Michael Herdman;Maria-Jose Fernandez de Sanmamed;Symone Detmar

  • A comparison of United Kingdom and Spanish general population time trade-off values for EQ-5D health states.

    Xavier Badia;Montserrat Roset;Michael Herdman;Paul Kind

  • From translation to version management: a history and review of methods for the cultural adaptation of the EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire.

    Rosalind Rabin;Claire Gudex;Caroline Selai;Michael Herdman

  • Development of EMPRO: A tool for the standardized assessment of patient-reported outcome measures

    Jose M. Valderas;Montse Ferrer;Joan Mendívil;Olatz Garin

  • Systematic review of megestrol acetate in the treatment of anorexia-cachexia syndrome

    Antonio Pascual López;Marta Roqué i Figuls;Gerard Urrútia Cuchi;Etelvina Graciela Berenstein

  • Assessing health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure: a systematic, standardized comparison of available measures.

    Olatz Garin;Michael Herdman;Gemma Vilagut;Montse Ferrer

  • Feasibility, validity and test-retest reliability of scaling methods for health states: the visual analogue scale and the time trade-off.

    X. Badia;S. Monserrat;M. Roset;M. Herdman

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis Rajmil
Luis Rajmil Government of Catalonia
Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso Pompeu Fabra University
Nancy Devlin
Nancy Devlin University of Melbourne
Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Paul Kind
Paul Kind University of Leeds
Monika Bullinger
Monika Bullinger Universität Hamburg
Wolfgang Greiner
Wolfgang Greiner Bielefeld University
Christopher B. Forrest
Christopher B. Forrest Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
David Parkin
David Parkin City, University of London
Mick Power
Mick Power National University of Singapore

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