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Michael Herdman

Michael Herdman

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
50
Citations
24871
World Ranking
2666
National Ranking
20

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.

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44 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.

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.

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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.

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

  • Which multi-attribute utility instruments are recommended for use in cost-utility analysis? A review of national health technology assessment (HTA) guidelines.

    Matthew Kennedy-Martin;Bernhard Slaap;Michael Herdman;Mandy van Reenen

  • 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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