Neil Small

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
135 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Neil Small is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil Small has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in General Health Professions, 28 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 24 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Neil Small's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (19 papers), Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (11 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (11 papers). Neil Small is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (19 papers), Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (11 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (11 papers). Neil Small collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Neil Small's co-authors include John Wright, Merryn Gott, Kate E. Pickett, Sheila Payne, David Seamark, Sarah Barnes, Penny Rhodes, Salah Gariballa, Chris Parker and Eleonora Uphoff and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Neil Small

132 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

A systematic review of the relationships between social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in health: a contribution to understanding the psychosocial pathway of health inequalities

2013 300 citations Kate E. Pickett, Neil Small et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Neil Small United Kingdom	35	1.4k	1.2k	842	771	411	135	3.9k
Morag Farquhar United Kingdom	36	1.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	596 0.7×	625 0.8×	571 1.4×	145	4.1k
Jane Phillips Australia	42	1.8k 1.3×	2.7k 2.3×	1.2k 1.5×	817 1.1×	251 0.6×	322	6.5k
Suzanne C. Smeltzer United States	35	901 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	670 0.8×	756 1.0×	196 0.5×	119	3.7k
Karen Schumacher United States	34	1.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	939 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	184 0.4×	71	4.9k
Päivi Åstedt‐Kurki Finland	36	1.0k 0.7×	999 0.8×	1.5k 1.8×	560 0.7×	273 0.7×	173	3.8k
Wendy Duggleby Canada	34	1.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	769 1.0×	413 1.0×	159	3.8k
Joakim Öhlén Sweden	32	2.0k 1.5×	1.9k 1.6×	809 1.0×	507 0.7×	163 0.4×	173	4.4k
Kathleen Ell United States	34	1.3k 0.9×	790 0.7×	649 0.8×	544 0.7×	294 0.7×	80	3.8k
Karin Dahlberg Sweden	37	1.5k 1.1×	940 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	350 0.5×	210 0.5×	88	4.5k
Karl Atkin United Kingdom	35	1.6k 1.2×	776 0.7×	768 0.9×	676 0.9×	401 1.0×	205	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Neil Small

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Fields of papers citing papers by Neil Small

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Neil Small

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

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Pickett, Kate E., Bo Hou, Brian Kelly, et al.. (2022). Vulnerabilities in child well-being among primary school children: a cross-sectional study in Bradford, UK. BMJ Open. 12(6). e049416–e049416. 6 indexed citations

Arciero, Elena, Sufyan Abid Dogra, Daniel Malawsky, et al.. (2021). Fine-scale population structure and demographic history of British Pakistanis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7189–7189. 14 indexed citations

Small, Neil, et al.. (2019). An ecological framework for improving child and adolescent health. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 105(3). 299–301. 4 indexed citations

Islam, Shahid, Neil Small, Maria Bryant, et al.. (2018). Addressing obesity in Roma communities: a community readiness approach. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare. 12(2). 79–90. 17 indexed citations

Power, Maddy, Neil Small, Bob Doherty, & Kate E. Pickett. (2018). The Incompatibility of System and Lifeworld Understandings of Food Insecurity and the Provision of Food Aid in an English City. VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 31(5). 907–922. 11 indexed citations

Small, Neil, et al.. (2018). Healthcare use for children with complex needs: using routine health data linked to a multiethnic, ongoing birth cohort. BMJ Open. 8(3). e018419–e018419. 7 indexed citations

Power, Maddy, Neil Small, Bob Doherty, Barbara Stewart‐Knox, & Kate E. Pickett. (2017). “Bringing heaven down to earth”: the purpose and place of religion in UK food aid. Social enterprise journal. 13(3). 251–267. 12 indexed citations

Gove, Dianne, Murna Downs, M. Vernooij‐Dassen, & Neil Small. (2015). Stigma and GPs’ perceptions of dementia. Aging & Mental Health. 20(4). 391–400. 63 indexed citations

Gardiner, Clare, Sarah Barnes, Neil Small, et al.. (2010). Reconciling informed consent and ‘do no harm’: ethical challenges in palliative-care research and practice in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Palliative Medicine. 24(5). 469–472. 22 indexed citations

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Gardiner, Clare, Merryn Gott, Sheila Payne, et al.. (2009). Exploring the care needs of patients with advanced COPD: An overview of the literature. Respiratory Medicine. 104(2). 159–165. 133 indexed citations

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Small, Neil, et al.. (2009). Post-acute rehabilitation care for older people in community hospitals and general hospitals – Philosophies of care and patients' and caregivers' reported experiences: A qualitative study. Disability and Rehabilitation. 31(22). 1862–1872. 15 indexed citations

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Green, John, et al.. (2008). Older people’s care experience in community and general hospitals: a comparative study. Nursing Older People. 20(6). 33–39. 19 indexed citations

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Small, Neil, Katherine Froggatt, & Murna Downs. (2007). Living and dying with dementia : dialogues about palliative care.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 40 indexed citations

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Barnes, Sarah, Merryn Gott, Sheila Payne, et al.. (2006). Communication in heart failure: perspectives from older people and primary care professionals. Health & Social Care in the Community. 14(6). 482–490. 88 indexed citations

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Barnes, Sarah, Merryn Gott, Sheila Payne, et al.. (2006). Characteristics and views of family carers of older people with heart failure. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 12(8). 380–387. 52 indexed citations

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Small, Neil & Russell Mannion. (2005). A hermeneutic science: health economics and Habermas. Journal of Health Organization and Management. 19(3). 219–235. 14 indexed citations

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Mannion, Russell, Neil Small, & Carl Thompson. (2005). Alternative futures for health economics: implications for nursing management. Journal of Nursing Management. 13(5). 377–386. 5 indexed citations

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Greasley, Peter J. & Neil Small. (2002). Primary care. Take it from here.. PubMed. 112(5795). 28–9. 2 indexed citations

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Greasley, Peter J., et al.. (2002). The Bradford salaried non-principal scheme: addressing the problems of GP recruitment and retention in the inner city – it's not just the money but the support. Primary Health Care Research & Development. 3(2). 85–95. 2 indexed citations

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Small, Neil. (1989). Politics and planning in the National Health Service. Open University Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations

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