Leaderboards/Health Services Management and Policy

Health Services Management and Policy

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Clare Dyer
BMJ Group (United Kingdom)
2
Jacqui Wise
Transnational Press London
3
Clare Dyer
BMJ Group (United Kingdom)
4
Kate Bowie
BMJ Group (United Kingdom)
5
Adrian O’Dowd
Transnational Press London
6
Chuan De Foo
National University System
7
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ Group (United Kingdom)
8
Jacqui Thornton
Transnational Press London
9
Elisabeth Mahase
BMJ Group (United Kingdom)
10
Matthew Limb
Transnational Press London

Rising Stars Papers

1
Global life expectancy to increase by almost five years by 2050, study predicts
BMJ|2024
21 cit.
2
Guidelines on gender related treatment flouted standards and overlooked poor evidence, finds Cass review
BMJ|2024
18 cit.
3
What is the NHS 10 year plan promising and how will it be delivered?
BMJ|2025
17 cit.
4
Former GP is suspended for five months over protests to end fossil fuel extraction
BMJ|2024
14 cit.
5
Competition ratios: Hundreds of doctors compete for some specialty training posts, show “scandalous” NHS data
BMJ|2025
14 cit.
6
Covid-19: Two rare vaccine side effects detected in large global study
BMJ|2024
12 cit.
7
Antisemitism in medicine: As Wes Streeting vows sweeping changes, how did we get here?
BMJ|2025
12 cit.
8
UK-US pharmaceutical deal: NHS will pay billions more for new drugs
BMJ|2025
12 cit.
9
Measles: Birmingham outbreak declared a national incident and likely to spread
BMJ|2024
11 cit.
10
MPs back legalising assisted dying in England and Wales
BMJ|2025
11 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Doris Pfabigan
Vienna University of Economics and Business
2
Patrick Manning
Seton Hall University
3
Jason C.H. Yap
National University of Singapore
4
Mirjam Schülle
University of Kassel
5
E. Mangada Miguel
Parkway School District
6
Piotr Ozierański
University of Bath
7
Michele Rivkin‐Fish
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8
Chinedu Udeh‐Momoh
University of California, San Francisco
9
Gareth Iacobucci
BMJ Group (United Kingdom)
10
Sukhy Mahl
Mount Sinai Hospital

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Healthier SG: Singapore’s multi-year strategy to transform primary healthcare
The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific|2023
51 cit.
2
Considerations for widespread implementation of blood‐based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer s & Dementia|2024
40 cit.
3
Covid-19: NHS trusts declare “critical incidents” because of staff shortages
BMJ|2022
31 cit.
4
Covid-19: Government abandons mandatory vaccination of NHS staff
BMJ|2022
28 cit.
5
International comparison of pharmaceutical industry payment disclosures in the UK and Japan: implications for self-regulation, public regulation, and transparency
Globalization and Health|2023
26 cit.
6
Capitalizing on transparency: Commercial surveillance and pharmaceutical marketing after the Physician Sunshine Act
Big Data & Society|2022
22 cit.
7
Covid-19: Fourth vaccine doses—who needs them and why?
BMJ|2022
21 cit.
8
Dementia risk reduction in the African context: Multi‐national implementation of multimodal strategies to promote healthy brain aging in Africa (the Africa‐FINGERS project)
Alzheimer s & Dementia|2024
20 cit.
9
England plans to raise legal age for buying tobacco each year to create “smoke-free” generation
BMJ|2023
19 cit.
10
England saw record 4.3 million referrals to mental health services in 2021
BMJ|2022
16 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Lucy Gilson
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2
Alistair McGuire
London School of Economics and Political Science
3
Allyson M Pollock
Newcastle University
4
Martin McKee
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
5
Paul Aylin
NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre
6
Dana A. Forgione
Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
7
Nicholas Mays
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
8
Stephen Thomas
University of Greenwich
9
Brian Nolan
MaineHealth
10
Elías Mossialos
Imperial College London

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The public health effect of economic crises and alternative policy responses in Europe: an empirical analysis
The Lancet|2009
1.5k cit.
2
Financial crisis, austerity, and health in Europe
The Lancet|2013
1.4k cit.
3
Trust and the development of health care as a social institution
Social Science & Medicine|2003
1.2k cit.
4
Migration and health in an increasingly diverse Europe
The Lancet|2013
891 cit.
5
'Doing' health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges
Health Policy and Planning|2008
878 cit.
6
Huge variation in Russian mortality rates 1984–94: artefact, alcohol, or what?
The Lancet|1997
788 cit.
7
The dark side of coproduction: do the costs outweigh the benefits for health research?
Health Research Policy and Systems|2019
786 cit.
8
QALYs: The Basics
Value in Health|2009
754 cit.
9
The global burden of disease attributable to low consumption of fruit and vegetables: implications for the global strategy on diet.
PubMed|2005
751 cit.
10
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care
Nature Cancer|2020
599 cit.

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