Michael Bloor

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Michael Bloor is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Epidemiology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Bloor has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in General Health Professions, 35 papers in Epidemiology and 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Michael Bloor's work include HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (30 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (13 papers) and Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (13 papers). Michael Bloor is often cited by papers focused on HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (30 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (13 papers) and Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (13 papers). Michael Bloor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Michael Bloor's co-authors include Michelle Thomas, Jane Frankland, Kate Robson, Fiona Wood, Neil McKeganey, Helen Sampson, Joanne Neale, Martin Frischer, Fenella Starkey and Laurence Moore and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Michael Bloor

112 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Bloor United Kingdom	33	1.7k	1.4k	754	666	524	113	5.2k
Jean J. Schensul United States	34	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	676 0.9×	304 0.5×	607 1.2×	131	4.3k
Rosaline S. Barbour United Kingdom	30	1.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.7×	448 0.6×	1.2k 1.8×	944 1.8×	68	7.0k
Michael Hennessy United States	35	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	394 0.5×	429 0.6×	316 0.6×	142	4.3k
Nora Groce United Kingdom	40	935 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	496 0.7×	639 1.0×	365 0.7×	159	5.4k
Jackie Waterfield United Kingdom	15	1.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.5×	554 0.7×	1.4k 2.1×	609 1.2×	29	8.2k
Eleanor Singer United States	40	3.0k 1.8×	1.2k 0.9×	315 0.4×	527 0.8×	277 0.5×	100	6.3k
Monique Hennink United States	25	1.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.7×	582 0.8×	1.4k 2.1×	566 1.1×	81	8.0k
Heather Burroughs United Kingdom	14	1.5k 0.9×	2.2k 1.6×	590 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	484 0.9×	32	7.7k
Michael Agar United States	36	2.4k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	879 1.3×	854 1.6×	120	7.1k
Martin Johnson United Kingdom	33	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	241 0.3×	761 1.1×	490 0.9×	180	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Bloor

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Bloor

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Bloor, Michael. (2011). An essay on ‘health capital’ and the Faustian bargains struck by workers in the globalised shipping industry. Sociology of Health & Illness. 33(7). 973–986. 15 indexed citations

Bloor, Michael, Maria Gannon, Gordon Hay, et al.. (2008). Contribution of problem drug users' deaths to excess mortality in Scotland: secondary analysis of cohort study. BMJ. 337(jul22 2). a478–a478. 30 indexed citations

Campbell, Rona, Fenella Starkey, Jo Holliday, et al.. (2008). An informal school-based peer-led intervention for smoking prevention in adolescence (ASSIST): a cluster randomised trial. The Lancet. 371(9624). 1595–1602. 353 indexed citations

Bloor, Michael, John L. McIntosh, Neil McKeganey, & Michele Robertson. (2008). ‘Topping up’ methadone: An analysis of patterns of heroin use among a treatment sample of Scottish drug users. Public Health. 122(10). 1013–1019. 11 indexed citations

Fischer, Jan, Nick Jenkins, Michael Bloor, Joanne Neale, & Lee Berney. (2007). Drug User Involvement in Treatment Decisions. Research Repository (Kingston University London). 834. 63–73. 26 indexed citations

Neale, Joanne, Michele Robertson, & Michael Bloor. (2006). ‘Treatment experienced’ and ‘treatment naïve’ drug agency clients compared. International Journal of Drug Policy. 18(6). 486–493. 4 indexed citations

Wood, Fiona & Michael Bloor. (2006). Borna disease virus: The generation and review of a scientific study. Social Science & Medicine. 63(4). 1072–1083. 1 indexed citations

Starkey, Fenella, et al.. (2005). Rationale, design and conduct of a comprehensive evaluation of a school-based peer-led anti-smoking intervention in the UK: the ASSIST cluster randomised trial [ISRCTN55572965]. BMC Public Health. 5(1). 43–43. 36 indexed citations

Bloor, Michael, Tony Lane, Helen Sampson, et al.. (2004). The global seafarer: living and working conditions in a globalized industry. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 71 indexed citations

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Frankland, Jane, David John, & Michael Bloor. (1999). Decision-making in, and outcomes of, minor illness episodes – a qualitative approach. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations

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Bloor, Michael, Michelle Thomas, Kerenza Hood, et al.. (1998). Differences in sexual risk behaviour between young men and women travelling abroad from the UK. The Lancet. 352(9141). 1664–1668. 65 indexed citations

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Evans, Stuart W., David John, Michael Bloor, & D K Luscombe. (1997). Use of non-prescription advice offered to the public by community pharmacists. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 5(1). 16–25. 19 indexed citations

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Covell, Robert, et al.. (1993). HIV testing among injecting drug users in Glasgow. Journal of Infection. 26(1). 27–31. 19 indexed citations

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Frischer, Martin, et al.. (1993). Modeling the Behavior and Attributes of Injecting Drug Users: A New Approach to Identifying HIV Risk Practices. International Journal of the Addictions. 28(2). 129–152. 30 indexed citations

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Rhodes, Tim, Michael Bloor, M. C. Donoghoe, et al.. (1993). HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviour among injecting drug users in London and Glasgow. AIDS Care. 5(4). 413–425. 33 indexed citations

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Frischer, Martin, Michael Bloor, A. Finlay, et al.. (1991). A New Method of Estimating Prevalence of Injecting Drug Use in an Urban Population: Results from a Scottish City. International Journal of Epidemiology. 20(4). 997–1000. 55 indexed citations

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Bloor, Michael, Alastair H. Leyland, Marina Barnard, & Neil McKeganey. (1991). Estimating hidden populations: a new method of calculating the prevalence of drug‐injecting and non‐injecting female street prostitution. British Journal of Addiction. 86(11). 1477–1483. 34 indexed citations

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McKeganey, Neil, Marina Barnard, Michael Bloor, & Alastair H. Leyland. (1990). Injecting drug use and female street-working prostitution in Glasgow. AIDS. 4(11). 1153–1156. 23 indexed citations

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Bloor, Michael, et al.. (1989). Occupational status variations in disagreements on the diagnosis of cause of death. Human Pathology. 20(2). 144–148. 5 indexed citations

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Bloor, Michael, et al.. (1978). Geographical variation in the incidence of operations on the tonsils and adenoids. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. 92(9). 791–801. 22 indexed citations

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