2026 R. Sean Morrison: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	81	16524	15543	8301	7681	270	27157

Overview

R. Sean Morrison is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with notable contributions to Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Clinical Psychology.

The scholar's main research focus lies in Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, an area represented in 98 of their publications. Other key topics addressed include Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Patient Dignity and Privacy, Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, and Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units.

Their research output includes papers published in prominent venues such as the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Journal of Palliative Medicine, JAMA, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and JAMA Network Open. Among recent publications are:

What's Wrong With Advance Care Planning? (2021), JAMA
Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong (2020), Journal of Palliative Medicine
Improving Support for Family Caregivers of People with a Serious Illness in the United States: Strategic Agenda and Call to Action (2020), Palliative Medicine Reports
Associations between informal care costs, care quality, carer rewards, burden and subsequent grief: the international, access, rights and empowerment mortality follow-back study of the last 3 months of life (IARE I study) (2020), BMC Medicine
Association Between the Implementation of Hospital-Based Palliative Care and Use of Intensive Care During Terminal Hospitalizations (2020), JAMA Network Open

Frequent co-authors include Laura P. Gelfman, Karen McKendrick, Melissa D. Aldridge, Diane E. Meier, and Nathan E. Goldstein. Collaboration with these scholars has contributed to multiple publications, with counts ranging from eight to thirteen joint works.

Best Publications

Cost savings associated with US hospital palliative care consultation programs.

R. Sean Morrison;Joan D. Penrod;J. Brian Cassel;Melissa Caust-Ellenbogen

986
Citations
Relationship Between Pain and Opioid Analgesics on the Development of Delirium Following Hip Fracture

R. Sean Morrison;Jay Magaziner;Marvin Gilbert;Kenneth J. Koval

961
Citations
The Inner Life of Physicians and Care of the Seriously Ill

Diane E. Meier;Anthony L. Back;R. Sean Morrison

890
Citations
Methods for constructing and assessing propensity scores.

Melissa M. Garrido;Melissa M. Garrido;M.S.H.S. Amy S. Kelley M.D.;M.S.H.S. Amy S. Kelley M.D.;B A Julia Paris;B A Katherine Roza

883
Citations
Palliative Care for the Seriously Ill

Amy S. Kelley;R. Sean Morrison

821
Citations
Association of timing of surgery for hip fracture and patient outcomes.

Gretchen M. Orosz;Jay Magaziner;Edward L. Hannan;R. Sean Morrison

761
Citations
The impact of post-operative pain on outcomes following hip fracture.

R.Sean Morrison;Jay Magaziner;Mary Ann McLaughlin;Gretchen Orosz

736
Citations
Study Design, Precision, and Validity in Observational Studies

Melissa D.A. Carlson;R. Sean Morrison

679
Citations
Mortality and Locomotion 6 Months After Hospitalization for Hip Fracture: Risk Factors and Risk-Adjusted Hospital Outcomes

Edward L. Hannan;Jay Magaziner;Jason J. Wang;Elizabeth A. Eastwood

600
Citations
Palliative Care Consultation Teams Cut Hospital Costs For Medicaid Beneficiaries

R. Sean Morrison;Jessica Dietrich;Susan Ladwig;Timothy Quill

567
Citations
Survival in End-Stage Dementia Following Acute Illness

R S Morrison;A L Siu

537
Citations
The Growth of Palliative Care in U.S. Hospitals: A Status Report

Tamara Dumanovsky;Rachel Augustin;Maggie Rogers;Katrina Lettang

450
Citations
The geriatric emergency department.

Ula Hwang;R. Sean Morrison

402
Citations
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Management of Pain, Dyspnea, and Nausea and Vomiting Near the End of Life: A Systematic Review

Cynthia X. Pan;R.Sean Morrison;Jose Ness;Adriane Fugh-Berman

385
Citations
The symptom burden of chronic critical illness.

Judith E. Nelson;Diane E. Meier;Ann Litke;Dana A. Natale

372
Citations
Pain and ethnicity in the United States: A systematic review.

Alexie Cintron;R. Sean Morrison

357
Citations
High short-term mortality in hospitalized patients with advanced dementia: lack of benefit of tube feeding.

Diane E. Meier;Judith C. Ahronheim;Jane Morris;Shari Baskin-Lyons

345
Citations
Cost and Utilization Outcomes of Patients Receiving Hospital-Based Palliative Care Consultation

Joan D. Penrod;Partha Deb;Carol Luhrs;Cornelia Dellenbaugh

338
Citations
Early ambulation after hip fracture: effects on function and mortality.

Albert L. Siu;Joan D. Penrod;Kenneth S. Boockvar;Kenneth Koval

329
Citations
Delirium on Hospital Admission in Aged Hip Fracture Patients Prediction of Mortality and 2-Year Functional Outcomes

M. M. Dolan;W. G. Hawkes;Sheryl I Zimmerman;R. S. Morrison

318
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Diane E. Meier Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Albert L. Siu Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Charles Normand Trinity College Dublin

Elizabeth H. Bradley Vassar College

Irene J Higginson King's College London

Jay Magaziner University of Maryland, Baltimore

Joan M. Teno Brown University

Thomas J. Smith Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

James A. Tulsky Harvard University

Colleen L. Barry Johns Hopkins University

External Links

Personal website of R. Sean Morrison

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