John Heritage

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

John Heritage is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, General Health Professions and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, John Heritage has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Language and Linguistics, 8 papers in General Health Professions and 4 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in John Heritage's work include Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 papers), Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (5 papers) and Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (4 papers). John Heritage is often cited by papers focused on Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 papers), Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (5 papers) and Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (4 papers). John Heritage collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. John Heritage's co-authors include Harold Garfinkel, James V. Spickard, Jeffrey D. Robinson, Douglas W. Maynard, Megan K. Beckett, Marc N. Elliott, Michael S. Wilkes, Chase Wesley Raymond, Paul Drew and Rebecca Clift and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine and Medical Education.

In The Last Decade

John Heritage

12 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology

1987 1.0k citations James V. Spickard, John Heritage et al. Sociological Analysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Heritage United States	11	1.1k	615	367	366	316	13	2.0k
Alexa Hepburn United Kingdom	25	1.4k 1.3×	392 0.6×	564 1.5×	523 1.4×	562 1.8×	61	2.5k
Anita Pomerantz United States	14	1.9k 1.8×	461 0.7×	918 2.5×	734 2.0×	526 1.7×	32	2.8k
Susan A. Speer United Kingdom	20	550 0.5×	178 0.3×	292 0.8×	155 0.4×	398 1.3×	46	1.3k
Anssi Peräkylä Finland	33	2.3k 2.2×	745 1.2×	680 1.9×	883 2.4×	370 1.2×	99	3.6k
Graham D. Bodie United States	29	361 0.3×	321 0.5×	249 0.7×	247 0.7×	408 1.3×	83	2.3k
Ellen Barton United States	18	564 0.5×	211 0.3×	443 1.2×	282 0.8×	135 0.4×	66	1.3k
Melanie Booth‐Butterfield United States	27	244 0.2×	321 0.5×	402 1.1×	301 0.8×	612 1.9×	80	2.5k
Suzanne Eggins Australia	13	1.1k 1.0×	235 0.4×	1.1k 3.1×	387 1.1×	176 0.6×	18	2.3k
Jon F. Nussbaum United States	28	187 0.2×	381 0.6×	329 0.9×	143 0.4×	704 2.2×	79	2.5k
Sue Fisher United Kingdom	20	223 0.2×	376 0.6×	116 0.3×	97 0.3×	467 1.5×	31	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by John Heritage

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Heritage

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Heritage

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Wu, Ruey-Jiuan Regina & John Heritage. (2025). The Assertoric Nod: Non-concordant uses in responses to polar questions in English conversation. Discourse Studies. 27(5). 866–883.

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Raymond, Chase Wesley & John Heritage. (2021). Probability and Valence: Two Preferences in the Design of Polar Questions and Their Management. Research on Language and Social Interaction. 54(1). 60–79. 17 indexed citations

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Raymond, Chase Wesley, Rebecca Clift, & John Heritage. (2021). Reference without anaphora: on agency through grammar. Linguistics. 59(3). 715–755. 16 indexed citations

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Heritage, John, Chase Wesley Raymond, & Paul Drew. (2019). Constructing apologies: Reflexive relationships between apologies and offenses. Journal of Pragmatics. 142. 185–200. 27 indexed citations

5.

Leydon, Geraldine, Beth Stuart, Paul Little, et al.. (2018). Findings from a feasibility study to improve GP elicitation of patient concerns in UK general practice consultations. Patient Education and Counseling. 101(8). 1394–1402. 12 indexed citations

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Robinson, Jeffrey D. & John Heritage. (2015). How patients understand physicians’ solicitations of additional concerns: implications for up-front agenda setting in primary care. Health Communication. 31(4). 434–444. 27 indexed citations

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Robinson, Jeffrey D., et al.. (2015). Agenda-setting revisited: When and how do primary-care physicians solicit patients’ additional concerns?. Patient Education and Counseling. 99(5). 718–723. 60 indexed citations

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Heritage, John, Jeffrey D. Robinson, Marc N. Elliott, Megan K. Beckett, & Michael S. Wilkes. (2007). Reducing Patients’ Unmet Concerns in Primary Care: the Difference One Word Can Make. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 22(10). 1429–1433. 294 indexed citations

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Heritage, John & Jeffrey D. Robinson. (2006). The Structure of Patients' Presenting Concerns: Physicians' Opening Questions. Health Communication. 19(2). 89–102. 171 indexed citations

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Maynard, Douglas W. & John Heritage. (2005). Conversation analysis, doctor–patient interaction and medical communication. Medical Education. 39(4). 428–435. 200 indexed citations

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Robinson, Jeffrey D. & John Heritage. (2005). The structure of patients’ presenting concerns: the completion relevance of current symptoms. Social Science & Medicine. 61(2). 481–493. 106 indexed citations

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Heritage, John, et al.. (2002). Large Investors, takeovers, and the rule of law. Monte Carlo Methods and Applications. 8(4). 1 indexed citations

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Spickard, James V., John Heritage, & Harold Garfinkel. (1987). Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology. Sociological Analysis. 48(2). 188–188. 1039 indexed citations breakdown →

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