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12460
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3533
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Tim Rapley 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 Tim Rapley sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 209 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Tim Rapley 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 Tim Rapley sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tim Rapley is affiliated with Northumbria University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a focus on several subfields including General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics within these fields, notably:

  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Diabetes Management and Education
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement

Tim Rapley has contributed to several recent publications, among them:

  • "Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: a normalisation process theory coding manual for qualitative research and instrument development" (2022) in Implementation Science
  • "Towards an Implementation-STakeholder Engagement Model (I-STEM) for improving health and social care services" (2023) in Health Expectations
  • "Tailored implementation of internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy in the multinational context of the ImpleMentAll project: a study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial" (2020) in Trials
  • "Facilitating transition of young people with long-term health conditions from children's to adults' healthcare services - implications of a 5-year research programme" (2020) in Clinical Medicine
  • "Surgical Treatment for Recurrent Bulbar Urethral Stricture: A Randomised Open-label Superiority Trial of Open Urethroplasty Versus Endoscopic Urethrotomy (the OPEN Trial)" (2020) in European Urology

The scientist frequently publishes in notable venues such as:

  • Trials
  • Health Technology Assessment
  • NIHR Open Research
  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Implementation Science

Collaborations form an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Tracy Finch
  • Carl May
  • Sebastian Potthoff
  • Garry A. Tew
  • Lesley Ward

Best Publications

  • Normalisation process theory: A framework for developing, evaluating and implementing complex interventions

    Elizabeth Murray;Shaun Treweek;Catherine Pope;Anne MacFarlane

  • Development of a theory of implementation and integration: Normalization Process Theory

    Carl R May;Frances Mair;Tracy Finch;Anne E. MacFarlane

  • The art(fulness) of open-ended interviewing: some considerations on analysing interviews

    Timothy John Rapley

  • Understanding the implementation of complex interventions in health care: the normalization process model.

    Carl James May;Tracy Finch;Frances S. Mair;Luciana Ballini

  • Using Normalization Process Theory in feasibility studies and process evaluations of complex healthcare interventions: a systematic review

    Carl May;Amanda Cummings;Melissa Girling;Michael Bracher

  • Doing Conversation, Discourse and Document Analysis

    Tim Rapley

  • Improving the normalization of complex interventions: part 2 - validation of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT)

    Tracy L. Finch;Melissa Girling;Carl R. May;Frances S. Mair

  • The New Old (and Old New) Medical Model: Four Decades Navigating the Biomedical and Psychosocial Understandings of Health and Illness.

    Albert Farre;Tim Rapley

  • Distributed decision making: The anatomy of decisions-in-action

    Timothy Rapley

  • Collaborative deliberation: a model for patient care

    Glyn Elwyn;Amy Lloyd;Carl May;Trudy van der Weijden

  • Evaluating complex interventions and health technologies using normalization process theory: development of a simplified approach and web-enabled toolkit

    Carl R May;Tracy Finch;Luciana Ballini;Anne E. MacFarlane

  • Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: a normalisation process theory coding manual for qualitative research and instrument development

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  • Sampling Strategies in Qualitative Research

    T Rapley

  • Improving the normalization of complex interventions: measure development based on normalization process theory (NoMAD): study protocol

    Tracy L Finch;Tim Rapley;Melissa Girling;Frances S Mair

  • Technogovernance: evidence, subjectivity, and the clinical encounter in primary care medicine.

    Carl May;Tim Rapley;Tiago Moreira;Tracy Finch

  • Improving the normalization of complex interventions: Part 1 - Development of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT) 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences 1701 Psychology

    T Rapley;M Girling;FS Mair;E Murray

  • Qualitative synthesis in practice: some pragmatics of meta-ethnography:

    Richard Philip Lee;Ruth Isla Hart;Rose Mary Watson;Tim Rapley

  • Still a difficult business? Negotiating alcohol-related problems in general practice consultations.

    Tim Rapley;Carl May;Eileen Frances Kaner

  • Head and neck cancer and dysphagia; caring for carers

    Joanne Patterson;Timothy Rapley;P. N. Carding;John A. Wilson

  • Some Pragmatics of Data Analysis

    T Rapley

  • Qualitative methods in a randomised controlled trial: the role of an integrated qualitative process evaluation in providing evidence to discontinue the intervention in one arm of a trial of a decision support tool

    M J Murtagh;R G Thomson;C R May;T Rapley

  • Some Pragmatics of Qualitative Data Analysis

    T Rapley

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl May
Carl May London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jeremy R. Parr
Jeremy R. Parr Newcastle University
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray University College London
Eileen Kaner
Eileen Kaner Newcastle University
Luke Vale
Luke Vale Newcastle University
Heleen Riper
Heleen Riper Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Annet Kleiboer
Annet Kleiboer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Helen McConachie
Helen McConachie Newcastle University
John D. Isaacs
John D. Isaacs Newcastle University
Gary A. Ford
Gary A. Ford University of Oxford

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