Most cited papers in Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
What are the most cited papers in Health Literacy and Information Accessibility?
The most cited paper in Health Literacy and Information Accessibility is "The content validity index: Are you sure you know what's being reported? critique and recommendations" (Denise F. Polit, Cheryl Tatano Beck, 2006), with 6,938 citations. Next come "Improving the Quality of Web Surveys: The Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys (CHERRIES)" (6,688) and "Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models" (6,348).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 748 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The content validity index: Are you sure you know what's being reported? critique and recommendations Denise F. Polit, Cheryl Tatano Beck · Research in Nursing & Health | 2006 | 6,938 |
| 2 | Improving the Quality of Web Surveys: The Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys (CHERRIES) Günther Eysenbach · Journal of Medical Internet Research | 29 Sep 2004 | 6,688 |
| 3 | Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models Kristine Sørensen, Stephan Van den Broucke, James Fullam et al. · BMC Public Health | 25 Jan 2012 | 6,348 |
| 4 | Low Health Literacy and Health Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review Nancy D Berkman, Stacey Sheridan, Katrina E Donahue et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 19 Jul 2011 | 5,609 |
| 5 | Health literacy as a public health goal: a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century Don Nutbeam · Health Promotion International | Sep 2000 | 5,353 |
| 6 | DISCERN: an instrument for judging the quality of written consumer health information on treatment choices. David Charnock, Sasha Shepperd, Gill Needham et al. · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | Feb 1999 | 3,299 |
| 7 | The evolving concept of health literacy Don Nutbeam · Social Science & Medicine | 26 Oct 2008 | 2,974 |
| 8 | eHEALS: The eHealth Literacy Scale Cameron D. Norman, Harvey A. Skinner · Journal of Medical Internet Research | 14 Nov 2006 | 2,873 |
| 9 | eHealth Literacy: Essential Skills for Consumer Health in a Networked World Cameron D. Norman, Harvey A. Skinner · Journal of Medical Internet Research | 16 Jun 2006 | 2,701 |
| 10 | Health literacy in Europe: comparative results of the European health literacy survey (HLS-EU) Kristine Sørensen, Jürgen M. Pelikan, Florian Röthlin et al. · European Journal of Public Health | 5 Apr 2015 | 2,683 |
| 11 | A New Dimension of Health Care: Systematic Review of the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Social Media for Health Communication S. Anne Moorhead, Diane E. Hazlett, Laura Harrison et al. · Journal of Medical Internet Research | 23 Apr 2013 | 2,646 |
| 12 | Physician Communication and Patient Adherence to Treatment Kelly B. Haskard Zolnierek, M. Robin DiMatteo · Medical Care | 24 Jul 2009 | 2,512 |
| 13 | A Meta-Analysis of Response Rates in Web- or Internet-Based Surveys Colleen Cook, Fred M. Heath, Russel L. Thompson · Educational and Psychological Measurement | Dec 2000 | 2,422 |
| 14 | Literacy and health outcomes Darren A. DeWalt, Nancy D Berkman, Stacey Sheridan et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine | Dec 2004 | 2,357 |
| 15 | Translation, Validation, and Norming of the Dutch Language Version of the SF-36 Health Survey in Community and Chronic Disease Populations Neil K. Aaronson, Martín Müller, Peter D. A. Cohen et al. · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | Nov 1998 | 2,328 |
| 16 | Quick Assessment of Literacy in Primary Care: The Newest Vital Sign Becki Weiss · The Annals of Family Medicine | Nov 2005 | 2,268 |
| 17 | The test of functional health literacy in adults Ruth M. Parker, David W. Baker, Mark V. Williams et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine | Oct 1995 | 2,052 |
| 18 | Mental health literacy Anthony Francis Jorm · The British Journal of Psychiatry | Nov 2000 | 2,024 |
| 19 | Association of Health Literacy With Diabetes Outcomes Dean Schillinger · JAMA | 24 Jul 2002 | 1,967 |
| 20 | How do consumers search for and appraise health information on the world wide web? Qualitative study using focus groups, usability tests, and in-depth interviews Günther Eysenbach · BMJ | 9 Mar 2002 | 1,960 |
| 21 | Brief questions to identify patients with inadequate health literacy. Lisa D. Chew, Katharine A. Bradley, Edward J. Boyko · PubMed | Sep 2004 | 1,942 |
| 22 | Medication Adherence: WHO Cares? Marie T. Brown, Jennifer K. Bussell · Mayo Clinic Proceedings | 9 Mar 2011 | 1,923 |
| 23 | Empirical Studies Assessing the Quality of Health Information for Consumers on the World Wide Web Günther Eysenbach, john a. powell, Oliver Kuß et al. · JAMA | 22 May 2002 | 1,917 |
| 24 | Consumer health information seeking on the Internet: the state of the art Rebecca J. Welch Cline · Health Education Research | Dec 2001 | 1,743 |
| 25 | The role of pictures in improving health communication: A review of research on attention, comprehension, recall, and adherence Peter S. Houts, Cecilia Conrath Doak, Leonard G. Doak et al. · Patient Education and Counseling | 26 Aug 2005 | 1,634 |
| 26 | Rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine: a shortened screening instrument. Terry C. Davis, Sandra W. Long, Robert Howard Jackson et al. · PubMed | Jun 1993 | 1,611 |
| 27 | Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy David W. Baker, Mark V. Williams, Ruth M. Parker et al. · Patient Education and Counseling | Sep 1999 | 1,565 |
| 28 | Trust and Sources of Health Information Bradford William Hesse, David E. Nelson, Gary L. Kreps et al. · Archives of Internal Medicine | 12 Dec 2005 | 1,560 |
| 29 | General Performance on a Numeracy Scale among Highly Educated Samples Isaac M. Lipkus, Greg Samsa, Barbara K. Rimer · Medical Decision Making | Feb 2001 | 1,532 |
| 30 | Validation of Screening Questions for Limited Health Literacy in a Large VA Outpatient Population Lisa D. Chew, Joan M. Griffin, Melissa Ruth Partin et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine | 11 Mar 2008 | 1,473 |
| 31 | Infodemiology and Infoveillance: Framework for an Emerging Set of Public Health Informatics Methods to Analyze Search, Communication and Publication Behavior on the Internet Günther Eysenbach · Journal of Medical Internet Research | 27 Mar 2009 | 1,462 |
| 32 | Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills Cecilia Conrath Doak, Leonard G. Doak, Jane Root · AJN American Journal of Nursing | Dec 1996 | 1,448 |
| 33 | The prevalence of limited health literacy Michael K. Paasche‐Orlow, Ruth M. Parker, Julie A. Gazmararian et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine | Feb 2005 | 1,416 |
| 34 | The grounded psychometric development and initial validation of the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) Richard H. Osborne, Roy W. Batterham, Gerald R. Elsworth et al. · BMC Public Health | 15 Jul 2013 | 1,407 |
| 35 | Development of the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT): A new measure of understandability and actionability for print and audiovisual patient information Sarah J. Shoemaker, Michael S. Wolf, Cindy Brach · Patient Education and Counseling | 12 Jun 2014 | 1,364 |
| 36 | The meaning and the measure of health literacy David W. Baker · Journal of General Internal Medicine | 12 Jul 2006 | 1,357 |
| 37 | Healthcare information on YouTube: A systematic review Kapil Chalil Madathil, A. Joy Rivera-Rodriguez, Joel S. Greenstein et al. · Health Informatics Journal | 25 Mar 2014 | 1,326 |
| 38 | Measuring health literacy in populations: illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q) Kristine Sørensen, Stephan Van den Broucke, Jürgen M. Pelikan et al. · BMC Public Health | 10 Oct 2013 | 1,313 |
| 39 | Health related virtual communities and electronic support groups: systematic review of the effects of online peer to peer interactions Günther Eysenbach, john a. powell, Marina F Englesakis et al. · BMJ | 13 May 2004 | 1,304 |
| 40 | Social Ties and Susceptibility to the Common Cold Roger M. Heeler · JAMA | 15 Oct 1997 | 1,240 |
| 41 | Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations Briony Swire‐Thompson, David M. J. Lazer · Annual Review of Public Health | 24 Dec 2019 | 1,236 |
| 42 | Health Information on the Internet Gretchen K. Berland, Marc N. Elliott, Leo S. Morales et al. · JAMA | 23 May 2001 | 1,228 |
| 43 | The impact of patient, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO) as a search strategy tool on literature search quality: a systematic review Mette Brandt Eriksen, Tove Faber Frandsen · Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA | 4 Oct 2018 | 1,227 |
| 44 | How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making. Valerie F. Reyna, Wendy L. Nelson, Paul K. J. Han et al. · Psychological Bulletin | 2009 | 1,193 |
| 45 | Health Message Framing Effects on Attitudes, Intentions, and Behavior: A Meta-analytic Review Kristel M. Gallagher, John A. Updegraff · Annals of Behavioral Medicine | 12 Oct 2011 | 1,187 |
| 46 | Understanding and Responding to Health Literacy as a Social Determinant of Health Don Nutbeam, Jane E. Lloyd · Annual Review of Public Health | 9 Oct 2020 | 1,179 |
| 47 | Closing the Loop Dean Schillinger, John D. Piette, Kevin Grumbach et al. · Archives of Internal Medicine | 13 Jan 2003 | 1,178 |
| 48 | Relationship of Functional Health Literacy to Patients' Knowledge of Their Chronic Disease Mark V. Williams, David W. Baker, Ruth M. Parker et al. · Archives of Internal Medicine | 26 Jan 1998 | 1,172 |
| 49 | Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness Günther Eysenbach · Journal of Medical Internet Research | 25 Aug 2008 | 1,167 |
| 50 | Internet Health Information Seeking and the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Systematic Review Sharon Swee-Lin Tan, Nadee Goonawardene · Journal of Medical Internet Research | 19 Jan 2017 | 1,164 |
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