David Nicholls

1.3k total citations
70 papers, 656 citations indexed

About

David Nicholls is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science and Rehabilitation. According to data from OpenAlex, David Nicholls has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 656 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in General Health Professions, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Rehabilitation. Recurrent topics in David Nicholls's work include Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation (7 papers), Occupational Therapy Practice and Research (6 papers) and Mental Health and Patient Involvement (6 papers). David Nicholls is often cited by papers focused on Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation (7 papers), Occupational Therapy Practice and Research (6 papers) and Mental Health and Patient Involvement (6 papers). David Nicholls collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia. David Nicholls's co-authors include Julianne Cheek, Henry Cowell, Filip Marić, Jenny Setchell, Barbara E. Gibson, Kathryn McPherson, Joanna K. Fadyl, Dushmanta Dutta, Shaun Kim and David Geggus and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Science & Medicine and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

David Nicholls

57 papers receiving 530 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Nicholls New Zealand 16 139 101 89 56 52 70 656
Ka Po Wong Hong Kong 10 79 0.6× 154 1.5× 26 0.3× 31 0.6× 13 0.3× 44 569
Mansha Mirza United States 16 248 1.8× 187 1.9× 118 1.3× 84 1.5× 41 0.8× 58 956
Ali Lakhani Australia 18 65 0.5× 144 1.4× 14 0.2× 50 0.9× 1 0.0× 69 827
Catherine White Canada 11 101 0.7× 200 2.0× 31 0.3× 39 0.7× 27 450
Kurt Johnson United States 14 102 0.7× 79 0.8× 77 0.9× 71 1.3× 6 0.1× 34 722
Niko Yiannakoulias Canada 12 98 0.7× 50 0.5× 18 0.2× 74 1.3× 3 0.1× 30 793
Agneta Kullberg Sweden 13 131 0.9× 243 2.4× 7 0.1× 124 2.2× 29 0.6× 18 498
Heather Gibb Australia 13 93 0.7× 138 1.4× 10 0.1× 25 0.4× 24 460
Jonathan Cook United States 10 75 0.5× 109 1.1× 7 0.1× 20 0.4× 8 0.2× 32 455
Laura Senier United States 14 153 1.1× 152 1.5× 54 0.6× 22 0.4× 8 0.2× 37 616

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Nicholls

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Nicholls

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nicholls, David, et al.. (2024). Troublesome boys, prison, and intimate partner violence. Psychotherapy and Politics International. 22(1). 1–24.
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Littlejohn, Geoffrey, Catherine O’Sullivan, Tegan Smith, et al.. (2024). Optimising patient outcomes: temporal trends in remission rates of rheumatoid arthritis patients in the Australian OPAL dataset between 2009 and 2022. Clinical Rheumatology. 43(6). 1823–1832. 1 indexed citations
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Nicholls, David. (2023). Fragility and Back Pain: Lessons From the Frontiers of Biopsychosocial Practice. Physical Therapy. 103(6). 3 indexed citations
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Elvidge, Jamie, et al.. (2023). Diagnostics and treatments of COVID-19: two-year update to a living systematic review of economic evaluations. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 14. 1291164–1291164. 1 indexed citations
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Nicholls, David, et al.. (2023). Critical physiotherapy: a ten-year retrospective. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. 40(11). 2617–2629. 10 indexed citations
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Elvidge, Jamie, et al.. (2022). Diagnostics and Treatments of COVID-19: A Living Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations. Value in Health. 25(5). 773–784. 13 indexed citations
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Marić, Filip, Kenneth Chance-Larsen, Julia Chevan, et al.. (2021). A progress report on planetary health, environmental and sustainability education in physiotherapy – Editorial. European Journal of Physiotherapy. 23(4). 201–202. 18 indexed citations
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Nicholls, David, et al.. (2020). Løgstrup’s thinking: a contribution to ethics in physiotherapy. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. 38(1). 1–13. 10 indexed citations
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Gibson, Barbara E., et al.. (2018). Manipulating practices. 35(1). 60–60.
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Nicholls, David, et al.. (2016). Connectivity: An emerging concept for physiotherapy practice. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. 32(3). 159–170. 26 indexed citations
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Fadyl, Joanna K., Kathryn McPherson, & David Nicholls. (2015). Re/creating entrepreneurs of the self: discourses of worker and employee ‘value’ and current vocational rehabilitation practices. Sociology of Health & Illness. 37(4). 506–521. 12 indexed citations
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Fadyl, Joanna K., David Nicholls, & Kathryn McPherson. (2012). Interrogating discourse: The application of Foucault’s methodological discussion to specific inquiry. Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine. 17(5). 478–494. 28 indexed citations
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Nicholls, David, et al.. (2008). The Distribution of the Southern Brown Bandicoot 'Isoodon Obesulus' in South Central Victoria. The Victorian naturalist. 125(5). 128. 10 indexed citations
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Nicholls, David. (2008). Putting Foucault to work: an approach to the practical application of Foucault's methodological imperatives. Tuwhera (Auckland University of Technology). 1(1). 30–40. 13 indexed citations
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Booth, Alan & David Nicholls. (2005). History teaching in Higher Education: breaking down the barriers to progression and dialogue. SAS-Space (University of London). 3 indexed citations
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Nicholls, David, et al.. (1998). The making of the British middle class? : studies of regional and cultural diversity since the eighteenth century. 16 indexed citations
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Nicholls, David. (1989). Deity and Domination: Images of God and the State in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 9 indexed citations
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Nicholls, David. (1971). Embryo-Politics in Haiti. Government and Opposition. 6(1). 75–85. 3 indexed citations
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Nicholls, David. (1971). Biology and Politics in Haiti. Race. 13(2). 203–214. 1 indexed citations

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