Donald W. Light

7.0k citations
138 papers · 4.3k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 32
Topics
Healthcare Policy and Management (30 papers)Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (23 papers)Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (22 papers)

In The Last Decade

Donald W. Light

135 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Soc...196720261986200619672505007501000

Peers

Donald W. Light
Comparison fields: 5 of 181
  • General Health Professions 1.4k
  • Economics and Econometrics 1.2k
  • Sociology and Political Science 780
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 509
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 378
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
1 40
2 4
3 6
4 84
5 26
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Globalizing restricted and segmented markets: Challenges to theory and values in economic sociology
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8 56
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Foreign Free Riders and the High Price of U.S. Medicines
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The International War on Cheap Drugs
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11 10
12 12
13 1
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The radical experiment: transforming Britain's national health system to interlocking markets.
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15 16
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Labelling waste as inefficiency.
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Biting hard on the research bit.
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Learning from their mistakes?
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Medical house arrest.
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The contribution of the Geographer to the study of Heritage
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About Donald W. Light

Donald W. Light is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions and Pharmacology, having authored 138 papers that have together received 4.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Healthcare Policy and Management (30 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (23 papers) and Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Family Practice (144 citations), General Health Professions (1.4k citations) and Economics and Econometrics (1.2k citations). Donald W. Light has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann, Joel Lexchin, Frederic W. Hafferty, Rebecca Warburton, Sol Levine, Hagop M. Kantarjian, Martha Gerrity, Robert F. DeVellis and Patricia Fernández‐Kelly. Their work appears in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

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