| Validity, trustworthiness and rigour: reasserting realism in qualitative research S Porter Journal of advanced nursing 60 (1), 79-86, 2007 | 444 | 2007 |
| Critical realist ethnography: The case of racism and professionalism in a medical setting S Porter Sociology 27 (4), 591-609, 1993 | 377* | 1993 |
| A participant observation study of power relations between nurses and doctors in a general hospital S Porter Journal of advanced nursing 16 (6), 728-735, 1991 | 251 | 1991 |
| Music therapy for children and adolescents with behavioural and emotional problems: a randomised controlled trial S Porter, T McConnell, K McLaughlin, F Lynn, C Cardwell, HJ Braiden, ... Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 58 (5), 586-594, 2017 | 218 | 2017 |
| Nursing research conventions: objectivity or obfuscation? S Porter Journal of Advanced Nursing 18 (1), 137-143, 1993 | 209 | 1993 |
| Social theory and nursing practice S Porter Red Globe Press, 1998 | 186 | 1998 |
| Women in a women's job: the gendered experience of nurses S Porter Sociology of Health & Illness 14 (4), 510-527, 1992 | 183 | 1992 |
| The redundancy of positivism as a paradigm for nursing research M Corry, S Porter, H McKenna Nursing Philosophy 20 (1), e12230, 2019 | 173 | 2019 |
| Multidimensional rehabilitation programmes for adult cancer survivors DA Scott, M Mills, A Black, M Cantwell, A Campbell, CR Cardwell, ... Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2013 | 168 | 2013 |
| Reviewing Foucault: Possibilities and problems for nursing and health care J Cheek, S Porter Nursing Inquiry 4 (2), 108-119, 1997 | 150 | 1997 |
| The poverty of professionalization: a critical analysis of strategies for the occupational advancement of nursing S Porter Journal of Advanced Nursing 17 (6), 720-726, 1992 | 142 | 1992 |
| Breaking the boundaries between nursing and sociology: a critical realist ethnography of the theory‐practice gap S Porter, S Ryan Journal of Advanced Nursing 24 (2), 413-420, 1996 | 138 | 1996 |
| The uncritical realism of realist evaluation S Porter Evaluation 21 (1), 65-82, 2015 | 131 | 2015 |
| Early warning systems and rapid response to the deteriorating patient in hospital: a systematic realist review J McGaughey, P O'Halloran, S Porter, B Blackwood Journal of advanced nursing 73 (12), 2877-2891, 2017 | 128 | 2017 |
| On the problems of mixing RCTs with qualitative research: the case of the MRC framework for the evaluation of complex healthcare interventions B Blackwood, P O'Halloran, S Porter Journal of Research in Nursing 15 (6), 511-521, 2010 | 127 | 2010 |
| Nursing's relationship with medicine S Porter Avebury, 1995 | 124 | 1995 |
| The use and limitation of realistic evaluation as a tool for evidence‐based practice: A critical realist perspective S Porter, P O’Halloran Nursing inquiry 19 (1), 18-28, 2012 | 116 | 2012 |
| Music therapy for palliative care: a realist review T McConnell, S Porter Palliative & supportive care 15 (4), 454-464, 2017 | 107 | 2017 |
| Fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing: the challenge of evidence-based practice S Porter Advances in Nursing Science 33 (1), 3-14, 2010 | 106 | 2010 |
| Realist evaluation: an immanent critique S Porter Nursing Philosophy 16 (4), 239-251, 2015 | 96 | 2015 |
