Jane Shears

430 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 265 citations indexed

About

Jane Shears is a scholar working on Public Administration, General Health Professions and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jane Shears has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 265 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Public Administration, 5 papers in General Health Professions and 1 paper in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jane Shears's work include Social Work Education and Practice (6 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (4 papers) and Mental Health and Patient Involvement (4 papers). Jane Shears is often cited by papers focused on Social Work Education and Practice (6 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (4 papers) and Mental Health and Patient Involvement (4 papers). Jane Shears collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Jane Shears's co-authors include Sarah Banks, Ana M. Sobočan, María Jesús Úriz Pemán, Ed de Jonge, Merlinda Weinberg, Tian Cai, Rory Truell, Michelle Shum, Brian J. Taylor and Jim Campbell and has published in prestigious journals such as The British Journal of Social Work, Health Risk & Society and International Social Work.

In The Last Decade

Jane Shears

8 papers receiving 247 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Practising ethically during COVID-19: Social work challenges and responses

2020 196 citations Sarah Banks, Tian Cai et al. International Social Work profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jane Shears United Kingdom	5	155	145	131	40	24	9	265
Tian Cai United Kingdom	5	153 1.0×	143 1.0×	133 1.0×	45 1.1×	23 1.0×	8	264
Ana M. Sobočan Slovenia	6	146 0.9×	143 1.0×	134 1.0×	54 1.4×	27 1.1×	13	290
María Jesús Úriz Pemán Spain	7	175 1.1×	177 1.2×	131 1.0×	63 1.6×	43 1.8×	31	348
Linda Kreitzer Canada	11	130 0.8×	129 0.9×	91 0.7×	93 2.3×	56 2.3×	28	281
Nancy S. Dickinson United States	8	211 1.4×	252 1.7×	154 1.2×	82 2.0×	50 2.1×	12	402
Chaitali Das United Kingdom	9	142 0.9×	134 0.9×	68 0.5×	114 2.9×	62 2.6×	17	319
Alessandro Sicora Italy	10	184 1.2×	214 1.5×	99 0.8×	74 1.9×	57 2.4×	28	328
Drorit Levy Israel	8	93 0.6×	57 0.4×	66 0.5×	71 1.8×	37 1.5×	24	225
Jane Fenton United Kingdom	12	161 1.0×	152 1.0×	38 0.3×	79 2.0×	48 2.0×	30	270
Katharine Briar‐Lawson United States	9	183 1.2×	159 1.1×	136 1.0×	60 1.5×	73 3.0×	32	333

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jane Shears

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jane Shears

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Banks, Sarah, et al.. (2025). Slow Ethics in an Age of Fast Technology: The Ethical Implications of Industry 4.0 for Social Work. Ethics and Social Welfare. 19(2). 137–155.

2.

Banks, Sarah, et al.. (2024). Social work beyond the pandemic: Exploring social work values for a new eco-social world. International Social Work. 67(4). 890–904. 1 indexed citations

3.

Taylor, Brian J., Mary Baginsky, Jim Campbell, et al.. (2022). Making Sense of Risk: Social Work at the Boundary between Care and Control. Health Risk & Society. 25(1-2). 75–92. 7 indexed citations

4.

Shears, Jane, et al.. (2021). Social Workers’ Sensual Bodies during COVID-19: The Suspended, Displaced and Reconstituted Body in Social Work Practice. The British Journal of Social Work. 52(5). 2834–2853. 10 indexed citations

5.

Banks, Sarah, Tian Cai, Ed de Jonge, et al.. (2020). Ethical challenges for social workers during Covid-19: A global perspective. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 42 indexed citations

6.

Shears, Jane. (2020). The Approved Mental Health Professional Practice Handbook. Practice. 32(4). 318–319. 1 indexed citations

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Banks, Sarah, Tian Cai, Ed de Jonge, et al.. (2020). Practising ethically during COVID-19: Social work challenges and responses. International Social Work. 63(5). 569–583. 196 indexed citations breakdown →

8.

Banks, Sarah J., Tian Cai, Ed de Jonge, et al.. (2020). Practising During Pandemic Conditions : Ethical Guidance for Social Workers. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 5 indexed citations

9.

Shears, Jane, et al.. (2004). Empowering Mental Health Research: User Led Research into the Care Programme Approach. 3 indexed citations

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