Neil Stephens

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Neil Stephens is a scholar working on Physiology, Sociology and Political Science and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil Stephens has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Physiology, 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Neil Stephens's work include Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (17 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (12 papers) and Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education (12 papers). Neil Stephens is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (17 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (12 papers) and Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education (12 papers). Neil Stephens collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Canada. Neil Stephens's co-authors include Alexandra Sexton, Marianne J. Ellis, Sara Delamont, L. Di Silvio, Rebecca Dimond, Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson, Clemens Driessen, Jamie Lewis and Kate O’Riordan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Science & Medicine and Trends in Food Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Neil Stephens

61 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Bringing cultured meat to market: Technical, socio-political, and regulatory challenges in cellular agriculture

2018 477 citations Neil Stephens, L. Di Silvio et al. Trends in Food Science & Technology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Neil Stephens United Kingdom	19	524	366	253	183	175	66	1.5k
Paul Β. Thompson United States	24	301 0.6×	100 0.3×	531 2.1×	183 1.0×	131 0.7×	178	2.5k
Ellen Goddard Canada	22	270 0.5×	530 1.4×	181 0.7×	137 0.7×	185 1.1×	113	1.8k
Marleen C. Onwezen Netherlands	25	838 1.6×	940 2.6×	394 1.6×	80 0.4×	362 2.1×	50	3.4k
Pieter Rutsaert Belgium	23	384 0.7×	498 1.4×	484 1.9×	69 0.4×	121 0.7×	39	2.1k
Kerry Shephard New Zealand	25	356 0.7×	34 0.1×	233 0.9×	108 0.6×	81 0.5×	95	2.8k
Meike Janßen Germany	22	472 0.9×	847 2.3×	139 0.5×	34 0.2×	269 1.5×	43	2.6k
Machiel J. Reinders Netherlands	25	757 1.4×	864 2.4×	479 1.9×	163 0.9×	393 2.2×	67	3.1k
Luca Panzone United Kingdom	20	365 0.7×	342 0.9×	144 0.6×	29 0.2×	165 0.9×	54	1.7k
Damian Collins Canada	28	31 0.1×	144 0.4×	665 2.6×	93 0.5×	162 0.9×	92	2.2k
Charles E. Stevens United States	27	197 0.4×	126 0.3×	144 0.6×	295 1.6×	17 0.1×	60	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Neil Stephens

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Fields of papers citing papers by Neil Stephens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Neil Stephens

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Stephens, Neil, et al.. (2025). Effective altruism, technoscience and the making of philanthropic value. Economy and Society. 54(1). 1–25.

Dimond, Rebecca, et al.. (2023). Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’. Social Science & Medicine. 338. 116333–116333.

Lewis, Jamie, Andrew Bartlett, Hauke Riesch, & Neil Stephens. (2023). Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science. Public Understanding of Science. 32(5). 658–672. 4 indexed citations

Ellis, Marianne J., et al.. (2022). The triple bottom line framework can connect people, planet and profit in cellular agriculture. Nature Food. 3(10). 804–806. 4 indexed citations

Delamont, Sara, et al.. (2021). Os Joelhos! Os Joelhos! Protective Embodiment and Occasional Injury in Capoeira. Frontiers in Sociology. 5. 584300–584300. 2 indexed citations

Stephens, Neil & Marianne J. Ellis. (2020). Cellular agriculture in the UK: a review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 12–12. 8 indexed citations

Stephens, Neil & Marianne J. Ellis. (2020). Cellular agriculture in the UK: a review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 12–12. 10 indexed citations

Stephens, Neil, Alexandra Sexton, & Clemens Driessen. (2019). Making Sense of Making Meat: Key Moments in the First 20 Years of Tissue Engineering Muscle to Make Food. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 3. 45–45. 83 indexed citations

Delamont, Sara & Neil Stephens. (2019). «Capoeira is everything to me». British student commitment to the African-Brazilian martial art. 365–384. 1 indexed citations

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Stephens, Neil, et al.. (2018). Bringing cultured meat to market: Technical, socio-political, and regulatory challenges in cellular agriculture. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 78. 155–166. 477 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stephens, Neil, Emma King, & Catherine Lyall. (2018). Blood, meat, and upscaling tissue engineering: Promises, anticipated markets, and performativity in the biomedical and agri-food sectors. BioSocieties. 13(2). 368–388. 28 indexed citations

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Banerjee, Ananya, et al.. (2016). A Pilot Examination of a Mosque-Based Physical Activity Intervention for South Asian Muslim Women in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 19(2). 349–357. 39 indexed citations

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Stephens, Neil, et al.. (2016). Promise and Ontological Ambiguity in theIn vitroMeat Imagescape: From Laboratory Myotubes to the Cultured Burger. Science as Culture. 25(3). 327–355. 42 indexed citations

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Draanen, Jenna van, et al.. (2014). How to Offer Culturally Relevant Type 2 Diabetes Screening: Lessons Learned from the South Asian Diabetes Prevention Program. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 38(5). 329–333. 5 indexed citations

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Tupasela, Aaro & Neil Stephens. (2013). The boom and bust cycle of biobanking – thinking through the life cycle of biobanks. Croatian Medical Journal. 54(5). 501–503. 18 indexed citations

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Chadwick, Ruth, et al.. (2012). Cesagen response to Nuffield Council on bioethics consultation on novel neurotechnologies: intervening in the brain. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 8 indexed citations

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Stephens, Neil, Jamie Lewis, & Paul Atkinson. (2012). Closing the regulatory regress: GMP accreditation in stem cell laboratories. Sociology of Health & Illness. 35(3). 345–360. 13 indexed citations

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Stephens, Neil, Paul Atkinson, & Peter Glasner. (2011). Globalising standards, banking on trust:Stem cell banking in three national systems. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff. 9 indexed citations

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Stephens, Neil, Paul Atkinson, & Peter Glasner. (2011). Documenting the doable and doing the documented: Bridging strategies at the UK Stem Cell Bank. Social Studies of Science. 41(6). 791–813. 18 indexed citations

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Stephens, Neil, et al.. (2010). ‘I'm your teacher, I'm Brazilian!’ Authenticity and authority in European capoeira. Sport Education and Society. 15(1). 103–120. 20 indexed citations

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