2026 Simon French: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	54	771	714	114	100	202	15206

Simon French publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Simon French sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 202 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Simon French D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Simon French sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Simon French is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as Pharmacology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Economics and Econometrics, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The main topics of Simon French's work include:

Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
Clinical practice guidelines implementation
Primary Care and Health Outcomes
Occupational Health and Performance
Pain Management and Placebo Effect

Simon French has contributed to numerous academic publications. Some recent notable papers include:

"Recommendations for the development, implementation, and reporting of control interventions in efficacy and mechanistic trials of physical, psychological, and self-management therapies: the CoPPS Statement" (2023), published in BMJ
"Explanatory Model Analysis: Explore, Explain, and Examine Predictive Models" (2022), published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
"Low-value care in musculoskeletal health care: Is there a way forward?" (2022), published in Pain Practice
"The global summit on the efficacy and effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy for the prevention and treatment of non-musculoskeletal disorders: a systematic review of the literature" (2021), published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies
"Eliciting Model Structures for Multivariate Probabilistic Risk Analysis" (2021), published in Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics

The most frequent co-authors collaborating with Simon French include:

Jan Hartvigsen (17 publications)
Hazel Jenkins (16 publications)
Mark J. Hancock (16 publications)
Christopher G. Maher (16 publications)
Katie de Luca (12 publications)

Simon French publishes regularly in several venues, most notably:

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies (21 publications)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) (3 publications)
Pain Practice (2 publications)
Pilot and Feasibility Studies (2 publications)
BMJ Open (2 publications)

Regarding book publications, Simon French has contributed to works published by Springer Science+Business Media, including the book titled Expert Judgement in Risk and Decision Analysis, published in 2021.

Best Publications

Multicriteria Methodology for Decision Aiding

S French

2109
Citations
Decision Theory: An Introduction to the Mathematics of Rationality

Simon French

1773
Citations
On the treatment of negative intensity observations

S. French;K. Wilson

1275
Citations
Multi-Objective Decision Analysis with Engineering and Business Applications

Simon French

1116
Citations
Planning under pressure : the strategic choice approach

Simon French

617
Citations
Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Theory and Application

Simon French

443
Citations
Statistical Decision Theory

Simon French;David Ríos Insua

402
Citations
Sequencing and Scheduling

Simon French

384
Citations
Professional Judgement: A Reader in Clinical Decision Making

Simon French

354
Citations
A FRAMEWORK FOR SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN DISCRETE MULTI OBJECTIVE DECISION MAKING

D Rios Insua;S French

320
Citations
Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support

Simon French;A. John Maule;Nadia Papamichail

304
Citations
Applied decision analysis

Simon French

293
Citations
Decision Theory: An Introduction to the Mathematics of Rationality.

Mark Feldman;Simon French

231
Citations
Integrating multicriteria decision analysis and scenario planning—Review and extension

Theodor J. Stewart;Theodor J. Stewart;Simon French;Jesus Rios

226
Citations
Uncertainty and Imprecision: Modelling and Analysis

Simon French

192
Citations
What is a conservative substitution

Simon French;Barry Robson

185
Citations
Multi-criteria decision support and evaluation of strategies for nuclear remediation management

Jutta Geldermann;Valentin Bertsch;Martin Treitz;Simon French

182
Citations
Readings in Decision Analysis

Simon French

178
Citations
The varied contexts of environmental decision problems and their implications for decision support

Simon French;Jutta Geldermann

175
Citations
Evaluation and Decision Models: a Critical Perspective

Simon French

11
Citations
Value-focused thinking: A path to creative decision making, Keeney, R. L., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-674-93197-1

Simon French

5
Citations
Statistical Analysis of Reliability Data

Simon French

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Theodor J. Stewart University of Cape Town

Raimo P. Hämäläinen Aalto University

Simon J. T. Pollard Cranfield University

Robert L. Winkler Duke University

Richard Shepherd University of Surrey

Ahti Salo Aalto University

Jian-Bo Yang University of Manchester

Joseph B. Kadane Carnegie Mellon University

Steve E. Hrudey University of Alberta

Robyn M. Dawes Carnegie Mellon University

External Links

Personal website of Simon French Google Scholar page

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