2026 Robert G. Evans: 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	38	5810	5393	343	328	169	9870

Overview

Robert G. Evans is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans extensive work in medicine and social sciences, evident from a strong publication record in these fields.

The primary fields of study for Evans include:

Medicine
Social Sciences

The subfields in which they have made significant contributions are:

Economics and Econometrics
General Health Professions
Health
Surgery
Psychiatry and Mental Health

Evans's research focuses on a range of topics including:

Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Health Disparities and Outcomes
Global Health Care Issues
Healthcare Policy and Management
Employment and Welfare Studies
Family and Disability Support Research
Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders

Among the frequent publication venues for Evans are:

Health Economics
Social Science & Medicine
SSRN Electronic Journal
HRB Open Research
Alzheimer's & Dementia

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Evans include:

Johan Jarl
Sanjib Saha
Gawain Heckley
Anna Linder
Ann I. Alriksson-Schmidt

Recent notable papers by Evans demonstrate a focus on health economics, quality of life measurement, and healthcare cost analysis. These include:

Experience-Based Swedish TTO and VAS Value Sets for EQ-5D-5L Health States, 2020, PharmacoEconomics
Inequality and heterogeneity in health-related quality of life: findings based on a large sample of cross-sectional EQ-5D-5L data from the Swedish general population, 2021, Quality of Life Research
Healthcare costs of dementia diseases before, during and after diagnosis: Longitudinal analysis of 17 years of Swedish register data, 2022, Alzheimer's & Dementia
Healthcare costs after kidney transplantation compared to dialysis based on propensity score methods and real world longitudinal register data from Sweden, 2023, Scientific Reports
Education, immigration and rising mental health inequality in Sweden, 2020, Social Science & Medicine

Best Publications

Why are some people healthy and others not? : the determinants of health of populations

Robert G. Evans;Morris L. Barer;Theodore R. Marmor

1424
Citations
Producing Health, Consuming Health Care

R.G. Evans;G.L. Stoddart

1315
Citations
Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of the Health of Populations.

Constance A. Nathanson;Robert G. Evans;Morris L. Barer;Theodore R. Marmor

517
Citations
How does direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) affect prescribing? A survey in primary care environments with and without legal DTCA

Barbara Mintzes;Morris L. Barer;Richard L. Kravitz;Ken Bassett

422
Citations
Strained mercy : the economics of Canadian health care

J.A. Boan;Robert G. Evans

400
Citations
Influence of direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising and patients' requests on prescribing decisions: two site cross sectional survey

Barbara Mintzes;Morris L Barer;Richard L Kravitz;Arminée Kazanjian

390
Citations
Controlling health expenditures--the Canadian reality.

Robert G. Evans;Jonathan Lomas;Morris L. Barer;Roberta J. Labelle

360
Citations
APOCALYPSE NO: Population Aging and The Future of Health Care Systems

Robert G. Evans;Kimberlyn M. McGrail;Steven G. Morgan;Morris L. Barer

335
Citations
Age, costs of acute and long-term care and proximity to death: evidence for 1987-88 and 1994-95 in British Columbia.

K Mcgrail;B Green;M L Barer;R G Evans

291
Citations
Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health

C. Hertzman;J. Frank;R. G. Evans

218
Citations
“Breakthrough” drugs and growth in expenditure on prescription drugs in Canada

Steven G Morgan;Kenneth L Bassett;James M Wright;Robert G Evans

180
Citations
Going for the gold: the redistributive agenda behind market-based health care reform.

Robert G. Evans

178
Citations
Consuming Research, Producing Policy?

Robert G. Evans;Greg L. Stoddart

166
Citations
Aging and health care utilization: New evidence on old fallacies

Morris L. Barer;Robert G. Evans;Clyde Hertzman;Jonathan Lomas

166
Citations
Avalanche or Glacier?: Health Care and the Demographic Rhetoric

Morris L. Barer;Robert G. Evans;Clyde Hertzman

160
Citations
Fee controls as cost control: tales from the frozen North.

Morris L. Barer;Robert G. Evans;Roberta J. Labelle

141
Citations
Dancing with the porcupine: rules for governing the university–industry relationship

Steven Lewis;Patricia Baird;Robert G. Evans;William A. Ghali

128
Citations
Conspicuous consumption: characterizing high users of physician services in one Canadian province.

Robert Reid;Robert Evans;Morris Barer;Samuel Sheps

123
Citations
Information Theory and the Analysis of Hospital Cost Structure

Robert G. Evans;Hugh D. Walker

87
Citations
Finding the levers, finding the courage: lessons from cost containment in North America.

Robert G. Evans

81
Citations
Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian Health Care

J. J. Madden;Robert G. Evans

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Clyde Hertzman University of British Columbia

David Feeny McMaster University

Amiram Gafni McMaster University

Noralou P. Roos University of Manitoba

Daniel Callahan Hastings Center

Aleck Ostry University of Victoria

Timothy G. Evans McGill University

Charles Normand Trinity College Dublin

John N. Lavis McMaster University

External Links

Personal website of Robert G. Evans

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