James Gilligan

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

James Gilligan is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Gilligan has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Clinical Psychology and 6 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in James Gilligan's work include Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (5 papers), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 papers) and Psychology of Social Influence (4 papers). James Gilligan is often cited by papers focused on Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (5 papers), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 papers) and Psychology of Social Influence (4 papers). James Gilligan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and France. James Gilligan's co-authors include Bandy X. Lee, L. Jonathan Cohen, Irvin Waller, Finn Kjaerulf, Peter Donnelly, Rachel Davis, Berit Kieselbach, Shannon Turner, Robert Muggah and Grace Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James Gilligan

30 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Transforming Our World: Implementing the 2030 Agenda Thro... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Transforming Our World: Implementing the 2030 Agenda Through Sustainable Development Goal Indicators
    2016 347 citations Bandy X. Lee, Finn Kjaerulf et al. Journal of Public Health Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Gilligan United States 14 480 432 225 212 134 32 1.2k
Lynn McDonald Canada 24 414 0.9× 488 1.1× 146 0.6× 360 1.7× 225 1.7× 87 1.6k
Wendy Stainton Rogers United Kingdom 11 331 0.7× 239 0.6× 164 0.7× 243 1.1× 58 0.4× 19 1.3k
Peter J. Aspinall United Kingdom 24 877 1.8× 321 0.7× 158 0.7× 453 2.1× 175 1.3× 97 2.2k
Nicola Burns United Kingdom 21 539 1.1× 336 0.8× 141 0.6× 561 2.6× 94 0.7× 58 1.4k
Dan A. Lewis United States 20 938 2.0× 410 0.9× 300 1.3× 484 2.3× 156 1.2× 77 2.0k
Rachel Vannatta Reinhart United States 4 297 0.6× 255 0.6× 241 1.1× 120 0.6× 85 0.6× 10 1.3k
Meg Huby United Kingdom 18 464 1.0× 175 0.4× 170 0.8× 260 1.2× 86 0.6× 40 1.5k
Davide Morselli Switzerland 20 623 1.3× 226 0.5× 473 2.1× 210 1.0× 196 1.5× 82 1.5k
Julie Ann Pooley Australia 20 449 0.9× 491 1.1× 370 1.6× 198 0.9× 119 0.9× 75 1.8k
Helen Moewaka Barnes New Zealand 20 504 1.1× 187 0.4× 75 0.3× 335 1.6× 209 1.6× 64 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by James Gilligan

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Gilligan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Gilligan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James Gilligan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James Gilligan 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 James Gilligan. James Gilligan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gilligan, James. (2020). Research: Dispositions as a Discursive Process: Using Proleptic Autobiography to Support Teacher Candidate Development. English Education. 53(1). 54–71. 2 indexed citations
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Marotta, Phillip, et al.. (2019). Government political structure and violent death rates: A longitudinal analysis of forty-three countries, 1960–2008. Aggression and Violent Behavior. 47. 101313–101313. 2 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James, et al.. (2018). Violence, Morality, and Religion. Tikkun. 33(4). 49–61. 1 indexed citations
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Hoyt, Tim, et al.. (2017). Preliminary evaluation of treatment outcomes at a military intensive outpatient program.. Psychological Services. 15(4). 510–519. 12 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James. (2016). Can psychoanalysis help us to understand the causes and prevention of violence?. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 30(2). 125–137. 5 indexed citations
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Lee, Bandy X., Finn Kjaerulf, Shannon Turner, et al.. (2016). Transforming Our World: Implementing the 2030 Agenda Through Sustainable Development Goal Indicators. Journal of Public Health Policy. 37(S1). 13–31. 347 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gilligan, James, et al.. (2016). A case for studying country regimes in the public health model of violence. Journal of Public Health Policy. 37(S1). 133–144. 2 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James. (2015). A Modest Proposal to Universalize the Insanity Defense and Replace Prisons and Punishment with Treatment and Education. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. 12(2). 134–152. 2 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James. (2011). Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 15 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qing, James Gilligan, Hua-Zhu Ke, et al.. (2008). Replacement of Bone Marrow by Bone in Rat Femurs: The Bone Bioreactor. Tissue Engineering. 2883342133–2883342133. 3 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James & B. Lee. (2005). The Resolve to Stop the Violence Project: transforming an in-house culture of violence through a jail-based programme. Journal of Public Health. 27(2). 149–155. 15 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James & B. Lee. (2005). The Resolve to Stop the Violence Project: reducing violence in the community through a jail-based initiative. Journal of Public Health. 27(2). 143–148. 29 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James, et al.. (2004). The Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Violent Youth. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1036(1). 356–381. 6 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James, et al.. (2004). Beyond the Prison Paradigm: From Provoking Violence to Preventing It by Creating “Anti‐Prisons” (Residential Colleges and Therapeutic Communities). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1036(1). 300–324. 16 indexed citations
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Fahy, T. J., et al.. (2002). Risperidone in chronic schizophrenia: a detailed audit, open switch study and two-year follow-up of patients on depot medication. European Psychiatry. 17(8). 459–465. 8 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James. (2001). The Last Mental Hospital. Psychiatric Quarterly. 72(1). 45–61. 32 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James. (2000). Punishment and Violence: Is the Criminal Law Based on One Huge Mistake?. Social research. 67(3). 745–772. 13 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James. (2000). Violence in public health and preventive medicine. The Lancet. 355(9217). 1802–1804. 15 indexed citations
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Gilligan, James. (1996). Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic. 251 indexed citations

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