Mike Bury

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 760 citations indexed

About

Mike Bury is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Philosophy and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Bury has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 760 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in General Health Professions, 3 papers in Philosophy and 2 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Mike Bury's work include Disability Rights and Representation (2 papers), Empathy and Medical Education (2 papers) and Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 papers). Mike Bury is often cited by papers focused on Disability Rights and Representation (2 papers), Empathy and Medical Education (2 papers) and Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 papers). Mike Bury collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Mike Bury's co-authors include David Pink and Peter Conrad and has published in prestigious journals such as Sociology of Health & Illness, Theory Culture & Society and Ageing and Society.

In The Last Decade

Mike Bury

13 papers receiving 696 citations

Hit Papers

Illness narratives: fact or fiction? 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Illness narratives: fact or fiction?
    2001 567 citations Mike Bury Sociology of Health & Illness profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mike Bury United Kingdom 8 271 188 176 133 103 15 760
Per‐Anders Tengland Sweden 14 490 1.8× 134 0.7× 61 0.3× 123 0.9× 75 0.7× 24 848
A Giorgi Italy 4 160 0.6× 130 0.7× 63 0.4× 182 1.4× 56 0.5× 6 681
Robyn Lewis Brown United States 20 304 1.1× 197 1.0× 60 0.3× 270 2.0× 35 0.3× 50 907
Deborah Rutter United Kingdom 21 470 1.7× 113 0.6× 160 0.9× 387 2.9× 148 1.4× 38 978
Trudy Rudge Australia 18 345 1.3× 224 1.2× 63 0.4× 208 1.6× 50 0.5× 61 820
Tiziana Volpe Canada 18 366 1.4× 224 1.2× 362 2.1× 456 3.4× 104 1.0× 44 1.2k
Robert I. Paulson United States 17 555 2.0× 91 0.5× 218 1.2× 438 3.3× 55 0.5× 30 950
Ram Cnaan United States 14 352 1.3× 205 1.1× 105 0.6× 150 1.1× 15 0.1× 30 729
Ezra E. H. Griffith United States 16 377 1.4× 370 2.0× 174 1.0× 580 4.4× 83 0.8× 71 1.2k
Elianne Riska Finland 15 269 1.0× 158 0.8× 68 0.4× 103 0.8× 34 0.3× 49 879

Countries citing papers authored by Mike Bury

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mike Bury

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike Bury

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Bury, Mike. (2010). Health, Emotion and the Body. Sociology of Health & Illness. 32(3). 502–503. 35 indexed citations
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Bury, Mike. (2009). The Medicalization of Society: On the transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders ‐ by Conrad, P.. Sociology of Health & Illness. 31(1). 147–148. 5 indexed citations
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Bury, Mike. (2006). Dominance from above and below. Society. 43(6). 37–40. 2 indexed citations
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Bury, Mike & David Pink. (2005). The HSJ debate. Self-management of chronic disease doesn't work.. PubMed. 115(5947). 18–9, 1. 20 indexed citations
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Bury, Mike, et al.. (2005). The ‘biological clock’? : Ageing, health and the body across the lifecourse. 119–130. 4 indexed citations
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Bury, Mike. (2004). Researching patient-professional interactions. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 9(1_suppl). 48–54. 33 indexed citations
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Bury, Mike. (2001). Illness narratives: fact or fiction?. Sociology of Health & Illness. 23(3). 263–285. 567 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bury, Mike. (2000). A comment on the ICIDH2. Disability & Society. 15(7). 1073–1077. 26 indexed citations
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Conrad, Peter & Mike Bury. (1997). Anselm Strauss and the sociological study of chronic illness: a reflection and appreciation.. Sociology of Health & Illness. 19(3). 373–376. 5 indexed citations
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Conrad, Peter & Mike Bury. (1997). Anselm Strauss and the sociological study of chronic illness: a reflection and appreciation. Sociology of Health & Illness. 19(3). 373–376. 12 indexed citations
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Bury, Mike. (1996). Disability and the Myth and the Independant Researcher: A reply. Disability & Society. 11(1). 112–115. 19 indexed citations
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Bury, Mike. (1996). DEFINING AND RESEARCHING DISABILITY: CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES. 28 indexed citations
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Bury, Mike. (1986). The Social Significance of Snooker: Sports-Games in the Age of Television. Theory Culture & Society. 3(2). 49–62. 3 indexed citations

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