Margaret Lock

15.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
122 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Margaret Lock is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Margaret Lock has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 19 papers in Genetics and 13 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Margaret Lock's work include Race, Genetics, and Society (15 papers), Organ Donation and Transplantation (14 papers) and Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments (9 papers). Margaret Lock is often cited by papers focused on Race, Genetics, and Society (15 papers), Organ Donation and Transplantation (14 papers) and Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments (9 papers). Margaret Lock collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Margaret Lock's co-authors include Nancy Scheper‐Hughes, Susan Greenhalgh, Patricia Kaufert, Arthur Kleinman, Patricia A. Kaufert, Shirley Lindenbaum, Sheila K. Johnson, Judith Farquhar, Melissa K. Melby and Vinh‐Kim Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Margaret Lock

118 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medica... 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 1994 1993 400 800 1.2k
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. The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology
    1987 1.3k citations Nancy Scheper‐Hughes, Margaret Lock Medical Anthropology Quarterly profile →
  2. Encounters with AgingMythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
    1994 375 citations Margaret Lock profile →
  3. Cultivating the Body: Anthropology and Epistemologies of Bodily Practice and Knowledge
    1993 320 citations Margaret Lock profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Margaret Lock Canada 43 1.9k 1.6k 1.3k 1.3k 1.1k 122 7.8k
Peter Conrad United States 46 2.0k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 582 0.4× 2.4k 1.8× 2.1k 2.0× 146 9.5k
Thomas W. McDade United States 59 1.5k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 633 0.5× 2.0k 1.6× 1.2k 1.1× 265 12.1k
John Wright United States 50 3.6k 1.9× 370 0.2× 1.3k 1.0× 730 0.6× 2.2k 2.1× 248 8.5k
Robert A. Hahn United States 42 931 0.5× 746 0.5× 257 0.2× 2.1k 1.6× 1.3k 1.2× 110 5.7k
Byron J. Good United States 35 1.7k 0.9× 806 0.5× 144 0.1× 2.1k 1.6× 2.3k 2.2× 76 7.0k
Catherine Panter‐Brick United Kingdom 41 2.1k 1.1× 843 0.5× 358 0.3× 2.0k 1.5× 4.3k 4.1× 112 8.6k
Cheryl Mattingly United States 31 1.4k 0.7× 493 0.3× 84 0.1× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 65 5.0k
Nancy Scheper‐Hughes United States 35 3.0k 1.6× 1.1k 0.7× 253 0.2× 1.4k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 128 7.4k
Leon Eisenberg United States 36 756 0.4× 763 0.5× 184 0.1× 1.6k 1.2× 2.3k 2.2× 194 6.4k
Barbara A. Smith United States 40 770 0.4× 642 0.4× 694 0.5× 295 0.2× 216 0.2× 165 6.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Margaret Lock

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Margaret Lock

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lock, Margaret, M. Austin Argentieri, & Alexandra E. Shields. (2021). The Contribution of Ethnography to Epigenomics Research: Toward a New Bio-Ethnography for Addressing Health Disparities. Epigenomics. 13(21). 1771–1786. 6 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret. (2021). Culture, Technology and the New Death: Deadly Disputes in Japan and North America. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 17(1-2). 27–42.
3.
Lock, Margaret. (2013). The Alzheimer Conundrum. Princeton University Press eBooks. 96 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret. (2012). The Epigenome and Nature/Nurture Reunification: A Challenge for Anthropology. Medical Anthropology. 32(4). 291–308. 99 indexed citations
5.
Lock, Margaret. (2012). L’avenir. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. 36(4). 582–583. 1 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret, et al.. (2008). Situating the practice of organ donation in familial, cultural, and political context. Transplantation Reviews. 22(3). 154–157. 25 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret & Judith Farquhar. (2007). Beyond the body proper : reading the anthropology of material life. 193 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret, Susan Cox, & Lori d’Agincourt-Canning. (2006). Social, Political, and Epistemological Aspects of Genetics and Genomics. Public Health Genomics. 9(3). 137–141. 3 indexed citations
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Melby, Melissa K., Margaret Lock, & Patricia Kaufert. (2005). Culture and symptom reporting at menopause. Human Reproduction Update. 11(5). 495–512. 195 indexed citations
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Choudhry, Sujit, Abdallah S. Daar, Janet Radcliffe Richards, et al.. (2003). Unrelated living organ donation: ULTRA needs to go. Journal of Medical Ethics. 29(3). 169–170. 12 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret. (2002). Symptom reporting at menopause: a review of cross-cultural findings. The Journal of the British Menopause Society. 8(4). 132–136. 43 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret & Patricia Kaufert. (2001). Menopause, local biologies, and cultures of aging. American Journal of Human Biology. 13(4). 494–504. 179 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret. (2001). The Tempering of Medical Anthropology: Troubling Natural Categories. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 15(4). 478–492. 141 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret. (1999). Genetic Diversity and the Politics of Difference. Chicago-Kent law review. 75(1). 83. 3 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret. (1998). Menopause. Psychosomatic Medicine. 60(4). 410–419. 86 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret. (1998). Deadly Disputes: Hybrid Selves and the Calculation of Death in Japan and North America. Osiris. 13. 410–429. 1 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret. (1995). Transcending Mortality: Organ Transplants and the Practice of Contradictions. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 9(3). 390–393. 26 indexed citations
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Scheper‐Hughes, Nancy & Margaret Lock. (1991). The message in the bottle illness and the micropolitics of resistance. 18(4). 409–432. 34 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret. (1990). On being ethnic: The politics of identity breaking and making in Canada, or, Nevra on Sunday. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. 14(2). 237–254. 51 indexed citations
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Lock, Margaret, Patricia Kaufert, & Penny Gilbert. (1988). Cultural construction of the menopausal syndrome: the Japanese case. Maturitas. 10(4). 317–332. 122 indexed citations

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