Cicely Saunders

2.7k total citations
45 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Cicely Saunders is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Cicely Saunders has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 4 papers in Clinical Psychology and 4 papers in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Recurrent topics in Cicely Saunders's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (22 papers), Pain Management and Opioid Use (4 papers) and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 papers). Cicely Saunders is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (22 papers), Pain Management and Opioid Use (4 papers) and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 papers). Cicely Saunders collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Australia. Cicely Saunders's co-authors include Mary Baines, John Ellershaw, Nigel Sykes, Moira Kelly, Timothy O’Brien, Robert Kastenbaum, David Clark, Declan Walsh, Robert Dunlop and N Sykes and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Journal of Medicine, Patient Education and Counseling and Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

In The Last Decade

Cicely Saunders

43 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cicely Saunders United Kingdom 21 1.0k 468 313 301 143 45 1.5k
Ned H. Cassem United States 25 318 0.3× 476 1.0× 395 1.3× 177 0.6× 142 1.0× 57 2.2k
Nigel Sykes United Kingdom 18 870 0.9× 311 0.7× 339 1.1× 328 1.1× 250 1.7× 41 1.4k
Michael Norup Denmark 19 1.2k 1.2× 472 1.0× 626 2.0× 439 1.5× 63 0.4× 36 1.6k
Jane Ingham United States 17 616 0.6× 255 0.5× 344 1.1× 421 1.4× 324 2.3× 30 1.4k
Franco Toscani Italy 23 1.1k 1.1× 355 0.8× 505 1.6× 316 1.0× 126 0.9× 52 1.4k
Sheila Lander Canada 8 1.0k 1.0× 739 1.6× 283 0.9× 369 1.2× 33 0.2× 8 1.7k
David Kuhl Canada 14 700 0.7× 347 0.7× 296 0.9× 232 0.8× 36 0.3× 25 1.1k
Nikki McCaffrey Australia 21 332 0.3× 206 0.4× 446 1.4× 144 0.5× 134 0.9× 78 1.6k
Raymond C. Tait United States 12 421 0.4× 128 0.3× 340 1.1× 468 1.6× 500 3.5× 17 1.7k
Christine Sanderson Australia 16 568 0.6× 401 0.9× 249 0.8× 172 0.6× 248 1.7× 44 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cicely Saunders

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cicely Saunders

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cicely Saunders. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cicely Saunders based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cicely Saunders. Cicely Saunders is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Saunders, Cicely. (2006). The Treatment of Intractable Pain In Terminal Cancer. Oxford University Press eBooks. 56. 61–64. 16 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely. (2002). Hospice: a global network. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 95(9). 468–468. 2 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely. (2001). The Evolution of Palliative Care. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 94(9). 430–432. 123 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely. (2000). The evolution of palliative care. Patient Education and Counseling. 41(1). 7–13. 81 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely & Robert Kastenbaum. (1997). Hospice care on the international scene. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 59 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely. (1996). A personal therapeutic journey. BMJ. 313(7072). 1599–1601. 91 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely. (1996). Hospice. Mortality. 1(3). 317–321. 1 indexed citations
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Ellershaw, John, et al.. (1995). On withholding nutrition and hydration in the terminally ill: has palliative medicine gone too far? A reply.. Journal of Medical Ethics. 21(3). 141–143. 39 indexed citations
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Ellershaw, John, et al.. (1995). Dehydration and the dying patient. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 10(3). 192–197. 177 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely & Nigel Sykes. (1993). The management of terminal malignant disease. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 119 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Timothy, Moira Kelly, & Cicely Saunders. (1992). Motor neurone disease: a hospice perspective.. BMJ. 304(6825). 471–473. 114 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely. (1987). Care of the dying. The last refuge.. PubMed. 82(43). 28–30. 2 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely. (1983). Living with dying.. PubMed. 49(580). 79–83. 50 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely & Mary Baines. (1983). Living With Dying: The Management of Terminal Disease. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 104 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely, et al.. (1980). Cuidados de la enfermedad maligna terminal. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 33(9). 1609–1616. 10 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely. (1979). [Watch with me].. PubMed. 43(6). 621–7. 11 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely. (1976). Care of the dying-6. The nursing of patients dying of cancer.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 72(31). 1203–5. 2 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely. (1976). Care of the dying-5. Mental distress in the dying.. PubMed. 72(30). 1172–4. 1 indexed citations
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Saunders, Cicely, et al.. (1971). Analgesics in terminal disease.. BMJ. 3(5768). 245.1–245. 3 indexed citations

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