Conal Smith

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 466 citations indexed

About

Conal Smith is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Health and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Conal Smith has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 466 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Social Psychology, 5 papers in Health and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Conal Smith's work include Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (7 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (5 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (2 papers). Conal Smith is often cited by papers focused on Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (7 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (5 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (2 papers). Conal Smith collaborates with scholars based in France, New Zealand and United States. Conal Smith's co-authors include Romina Boarini, Nicolás Ruiz, Carlotta Balestra, Michael De Looper, Gaétan Lafortune, Kate C. Prickett, Michael Fletcher, Simon Chapple, Nguyen Anh Khoa Doan and Denise Scott Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Indicators Research and Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

In The Last Decade

Conal Smith

15 papers receiving 421 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.

How's life? : measuring well-being

2011 397 citations Carlotta Balestra, Romina Boarini et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Conal Smith France	5	171	160	104	91	90	18	466
Carlotta Balestra France	4	173 1.0×	150 0.9×	93 0.9×	86 0.9×	114 1.3×	4	473
Nicolás Ruiz Colombia	5	167 1.0×	142 0.9×	87 0.8×	82 0.9×	82 0.9×	14	437
Gaétan Lafortune France	3	151 0.9×	135 0.8×	85 0.8×	77 0.8×	84 0.9×	7	404
Martine Durand France	8	165 1.0×	155 1.0×	74 0.7×	70 0.8×	132 1.5×	14	504
Paul Allin United Kingdom	11	145 0.8×	211 1.3×	116 1.1×	102 1.1×	69 0.8×	21	552
Emma Samman United Kingdom	12	338 2.0×	150 0.9×	93 0.9×	44 0.5×	138 1.5×	28	690
Christopher Mackie Canada	7	159 0.9×	163 1.0×	124 1.2×	95 1.0×	176 2.0×	15	581
Pei‐Shan Liao Taiwan	8	185 1.1×	148 0.9×	44 0.4×	77 0.8×	60 0.7×	22	443
Joseph Sirgy United States	4	437 2.6×	209 1.3×	111 1.1×	114 1.3×	83 0.9×	7	822
Romina Boarini France	11	247 1.4×	187 1.2×	128 1.2×	101 1.1×	185 2.1×	23	663

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Conal Smith

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All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

Smith, Nick W., et al.. (2025). Gaps in environmental and social evidence base are holding back strategic action on our national food system. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 55(6). 2270–2275.

Turner, S. J. & Conal Smith. (2025). Closing the gap: the call for government-funded annual health checks for intellectually disabled New Zealanders. New Zealand Medical Journal. 138(1609). 110–115.

Grimes, Arthur, et al.. (2024). Housing Tenure and Subjective Wellbeing: The Importance of Public Housing. Applied Research in Quality of Life. 21(1). 305–328. 3 indexed citations

Grimes, Arthur, et al.. (2023). Public Housing in an Urban Setting: an inclusive wellbeing framework. Policy Quarterly. 19(3). 36–46. 6 indexed citations

Smith, Conal. (2020). Trust and Total Factor Productivity: What Do We Know About Effect Size and Causal Pathways?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 38. 3–28. 1 indexed citations

Prickett, Kate C., Michael Fletcher, Simon Chapple, Nguyen Anh Khoa Doan, & Conal Smith. (2020). Life in lockdown: The economic and social effect of lockdown during Alert Level 4 in New Zealand. ResearchArchive–Te Puna Rangahau (Victoria University of Wellington). 20 indexed citations

Chapple, Simon, Michael Fletcher, Kate C. Prickett, & Conal Smith. (2020). What People Said about Life under Lockdown. Policy Quarterly. 16(3). 2 indexed citations

Smith, Conal. (2018). TacklingPovertyNZ: the nature of poverty in NZ and how to address it. Policy Quarterly. 14(1). 1 indexed citations

Smith, Conal, et al.. (2016). A Review of General Social Surveys. 2 indexed citations

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Mackie, Christopher & Conal Smith. (2015). Conceptualizing Subjective Well-Being and its Many Dimensions – Implications for Data Collection in Official Statistics and for Policy Relevance. Statistics in Transition New Series. 16(3). 335–372. 1 indexed citations

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Mackie, Christopher & Conal Smith. (2015). Conceptualizing Subjective Well-Being and its Many Dimensions – Implications for Data Collection in Official Statistics and for Policy Relevance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 16(3). 335–372. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Conal. (2013). Fair and Impartial? Military Jurisdiction and the Decision to Seek the Death Penalty. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Boarini, Romina, et al.. (2013). Can Governments Boost People’s Sense of Well-Being? The Impact of Selected Labour Market and Health Policies on Life Satisfaction. Social Indicators Research. 114(1). 105–120. 14 indexed citations

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Flèche, Sarah, Conal Smith, Piritta Sorsa, & Georg Picot. (2012). Research Highlights. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. 20(2). 227–233. 1 indexed citations

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Brown, Denise Scott, et al.. (2012). An empirical investigation into the determinants of life satisfaction in New Zealand. New Zealand Economic Papers. 46(3). 239–251. 12 indexed citations

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Balestra, Carlotta, Romina Boarini, Michael De Looper, et al.. (2011). How's life? : measuring well-being. 1–286. 397 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smith, Conal. (1998). Serving the Poorest of the Poor: Black Medical Practitioners in the Arkansas Delta, 1880-1960. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 57(3). 287–287. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Conal, et al.. (1988). From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society.. Military Affairs. 52(3). 161–161. 1 indexed citations

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