Carla Willig

9.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
60 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Carla Willig is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carla Willig has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in General Health Professions and 11 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Carla Willig's work include Empathy and Medical Education (7 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 papers) and Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 papers). Carla Willig is often cited by papers focused on Empathy and Medical Education (7 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 papers) and Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 papers). Carla Willig collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Bangladesh. Carla Willig's co-authors include Wendy Stainton Rogers, Wendy Sims‐Schouten, Sarah Riley, Val Gillies, Angela Harden, Paula Reavey, Katherine Johnson, Timothy Auburn, Vicki Strange and Rachel Burbeck and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Plant Journal and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Carla Willig

56 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology

2001 1.9k citations Carla Willig profile →
Introducing qualitative research in psychology : adventures in theory and method

2008 1.1k citations Carla Willig Open University Press eBooks profile →
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology

2017 637 citations Carla Willig et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Engineering Agrobacterium for improved plant transformation 2025 ·The Plant Journal ·Greg S. Goralogia, Carla Willig, Steven H. Strauss	7
2	How do research participants with age-related vision loss talk about their experiences? A secondary discourse analysis of published qualitative extracts 2024 ·Ageing and Society ·Jamie Enoch, Ahalya Subramanian, Carla Willig	0
3	Existential uncertainty in the patient cancer experience: Delimiting the concept 2022 ·Palliative & Supportive Care ·(unknown), Carla Willig	2
4	Men's experience of their transition to first-time fatherhood during their partner's pregnancy: an interpretative phenomenological analysis 2021 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Carla Willig	4
5	Ontological and epistemological reflexivity: A core skill for therapists 2019 ·Counselling and Psychotherapy Research ·Carla Willig	12
6	A meta-synthesis of studies of patients’ experience of living with terminal cancer. 2018 ·Health Psychology ·Carla Willig, (unknown)	28
7	Liminality as a dimension of the experience of living with terminal cancer 2018 ·Palliative & Supportive Care ·Carla Willig, (unknown)	8
8	“My bus is here”: A phenomenological exploration of “living-with-dying”. 2015 ·Health Psychology ·Carla Willig	18
9	Layering the wounded self: Using a pluralistic qualitative approach to explore meaning–making around self–injury 2014 ·Daphné Josselin, Carla Willig	3
10	Evaluation of a group based cognitive behavioural therapy programme for menstrual pain management in young women with intellectual disabilities: protocol for a mixed methods controlled clinical trial 2014 ·BMC Women s Health ·Susan Kennedy, Siobhán O’Higgins, Kiran Sarma, Carla Willig, Brian E. McGuire	9
11	The personal experience of dysmenorrhoea: An interpretative phenomenological analysis 2013 ·Journal of Health Psychology ·Rachel Burbeck, Carla Willig	15
12	Cancer diagnosis as discursive capture: Phenomenological repercussions of being positioned within dominant constructions of cancer 2011 ·Social Science & Medicine ·Carla Willig	63
13	Introducing qualitative research in psychology : adventures in theory and method breakdown → 2008 ·Open University Press eBooks ·Carla Willig	1117
14	“I Don’t feel like melting butter”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of ‘inorgasmia’ 2005 ·Psychology and Health ·(unknown), Carla Willig	51
15	Discourses in the European Commission’s 1996–2000 Health Promotion Programme 2004 ·Journal of Health Psychology ·(unknown), Carla Willig, David F Marks	14
16	Women's collective constructions of embodied practices through memory work: Cartesian dualism in memories of sweating and pain 2004 ·British Journal of Social Psychology ·Val Gillies, Angela Harden, Katherine Johnson, Paula Reavey, Vicki Strange, Carla Willig	50
17	Applied discourse analysis : social and psychological interventions 1999 ·Open University Press eBooks ·Carla Willig	154
18	Constructions of Sexual Activity and Their Implications for Sexual Practice 1998 ·Journal of Health Psychology ·Carla Willig	23
19	The limitations of trust in intimate relationships: Constructions of trust and sexual risk taking 1997 ·British Journal of Social Psychology ·Carla Willig	26
20	Children's concepts and the primary curriculum 1990 ·Carla Willig	8

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