Alan Petersen

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Alan Petersen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Petersen has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 22 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 22 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Alan Petersen's work include Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (22 papers), Ethics in Clinical Research (14 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 papers). Alan Petersen is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (22 papers), Ethics in Clinical Research (14 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 papers). Alan Petersen collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Alan Petersen's co-authors include Deborah Lupton, Alison Anderson, Saras Henderson, Stuart Allan, Megan Munsie, Kate Seear, Clare Wilkinson, Robin Bunton, Charles Waddell and Claire Tanner and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Social Science & Medicine and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Alan Petersen

121 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alan Petersen	1.2k	947	715	465	401	125	4.0k
Jason M. Fletcher	1.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	1.1k 1.5×	199 0.4×	524 1.3×	248	6.4k
Simon J. Williams	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	417 0.6×	157 0.3×	298 0.7×	105	4.2k
Sarah Cunningham‐Burley	990 0.8×	922 1.0×	865 1.2×	519 1.1×	96 0.2×	133	3.7k
Sarah Nettleton	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.7×	506 0.7×	154 0.3×	178 0.4×	125	4.4k
Margaret Lock	1.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.4×	1.6k 2.2×	335 0.7×	468 1.2×	122	7.8k
Eddie M. Clark	1.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.4×	603 0.8×	453 1.0×	225 0.6×	92	4.9k
Steven Epstein	966 0.8×	570 0.6×	479 0.7×	173 0.4×	261 0.7×	50	2.9k
Kathy Chapman	750 0.6×	996 1.1×	2.4k 3.4×	640 1.4×	202 0.5×	169	6.4k
Nancy Scheper‐Hughes	3.0k 2.4×	1.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	179 0.4×	569 1.4×	128	7.4k
Sandra C. Jones	929 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	732 1.0×	553 1.2×	195 0.5×	309	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Petersen

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All Works

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Petersen, Alan, et al.. (2025). Discrimination at Work? The Case of Pakistani Migrant Women in Australian Workplaces. Australian Feminist Studies. 40(126). 390–409. 1 indexed citations

Neves, Bárbara Barbosa & Alan Petersen. (2024). The social stigma of loneliness: A sociological approach to understanding the experiences of older people. The Sociological Review. 73(2). 362–383. 5 indexed citations

Layton, Natasha, Keith Hill, Kate Swaffer, et al.. (2024). The Right to Rehabilitation for People With Dementia: A Codesign Approach to Barriers and Solutions. Health Expectations. 27(5). e70036–e70036. 4 indexed citations

Neves, Bárbara Barbosa, et al.. (2024). Navigating artificial intelligence in care homes: Competing stakeholder views of trust and logics of care. Social Science & Medicine. 358. 117187–117187. 4 indexed citations

Buus, Niels, Alan Petersen, Susan McPherson, et al.. (2023). The relatives of people with depression: A systematic review and methodological critique of qualitative studies. Family Process. 63(3). 1469–1483. 2 indexed citations

Petersen, Alan & Kiran Pienaar. (2023). Competing realities, uncertain diagnoses of infectious disease: Mass self‐testing for COVID‐19 and liminal bio‐citizenship. Sociology of Health & Illness. 46(S1). 242–260. 2 indexed citations

Petersen, Alan, et al.. (2022). ‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information. Social Science & Medicine. 306. 115115–115115. 5 indexed citations

Petersen, Alan, Claire Tanner, & Megan Munsie. (2019). Navigating the cartographies of trust: how patients and carers establish the credibility of online treatment claims. Sociology of Health & Illness. 41(S1). 50–64. 13 indexed citations

Davis, Teresa, Margaret K. Hogg, David Marshall, Alan Petersen, & Tanja Schneider. (2019). The knowing mother: Maternal knowledge and the reinforcement of the feminine consuming subject in magazine advertisements. Journal of Consumer Culture. 22(1). 40–60. 12 indexed citations

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Collie, Alex, Sharon Newnam, Helen Keleher, et al.. (2018). Recovery Within Injury Compensation Schemes: A System Mapping Study. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 29(1). 52–63. 20 indexed citations

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Petersen, Alan. (2013). From bioethics to a sociology of bio-knowledge. Social Science & Medicine. 98. 264–270. 37 indexed citations

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Coleman, Roger, David Swann, Sue Hignett, et al.. (2009). Healthcare on the move Treating Patients in the Community: The Smart Pods Project. University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield). 1 indexed citations

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Petersen, Alan, et al.. (2007). The Medical Humanities Today: Humane Health Care or Tool of Governance?. Journal of Medical Humanities. 29(1). 1–4. 21 indexed citations

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Petersen, Alan. (2007). Is the New Genetics Eugenic?: Interpreting the Past, Envisioning the Future. New Formations. 60(60). 79–88. 3 indexed citations

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Petersen, Alan, Alison Anderson, Stuart Allan, & Clare Wilkinson. (2006). Nanotechnology in the news. UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol). 8 indexed citations

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Bere, Sam Regan de & Alan Petersen. (2006). Out of the dissecting room: News media portrayal of human anatomy teaching and research. Social Science & Medicine. 63(1). 76–88. 12 indexed citations

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Petersen, Alan. (2006). The best experts: The narratives of those who have a genetic condition. Social Science & Medicine. 63(1). 32–42. 88 indexed citations

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Petersen, Alan, Alison Anderson, & Stuart Allan. (2005). Science fiction/science fact: medical genetics in news stories. New Genetics and Society. 24(3). 337–353. 28 indexed citations

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Petersen, Alan. (2001). Biofantasies: genetics and medicine in the print news media. Social Science & Medicine. 52(8). 1255–1268. 169 indexed citations

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Petersen, Alan & Charles Waddell. (1998). Health matters : a sociology of illness, prevention and care. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 53 indexed citations

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