Nicole Brown

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 598 citations indexed

About

Nicole Brown is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicole Brown has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 598 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Education, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Nicole Brown's work include Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 papers), Higher Education Practises and Engagement (4 papers) and Reflective Practices in Education (4 papers). Nicole Brown is often cited by papers focused on Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 papers), Higher Education Practises and Engagement (4 papers) and Reflective Practices in Education (4 papers). Nicole Brown collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Nicole Brown's co-authors include Jennifer Leigh, Kodiane A. Jernberg, Andrew M. Ledbetter, Paul Schrodt, Graham Smart, Lynne ForsterLee, Irwin A. Horowitz, Jill Barr‐Walker, Mona Patel and Fiona Kumari Campbell and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Marine Drugs.

In The Last Decade

Nicole Brown

44 papers receiving 566 citations

Hit Papers

Ableism in academia: where are the disabled and ill acade... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150
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. Ableism in academia: where are the disabled and ill academics?
    2018 177 citations Nicole Brown, Jennifer Leigh Disability & Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicole Brown United Kingdom 13 180 175 150 86 84 49 598
David M. Merolla United States 12 222 1.2× 197 1.1× 119 0.8× 74 0.9× 39 0.5× 28 532
Susan Nall Bales United States 5 212 1.2× 339 1.9× 200 1.3× 85 1.0× 105 1.3× 13 689
Alise de Bie Canada 8 175 1.0× 138 0.8× 114 0.8× 103 1.2× 42 0.5× 22 545
Sue Ralph United Kingdom 14 144 0.8× 234 1.3× 142 0.9× 78 0.9× 130 1.5× 36 593
Sonja C. Grover Canada 9 347 1.9× 170 1.0× 112 0.7× 66 0.8× 115 1.4× 74 540
Jan Grue Norway 9 153 0.8× 85 0.5× 210 1.4× 78 0.9× 48 0.6× 30 468
Sally A. Dillow United States 6 102 0.6× 226 1.3× 59 0.4× 60 0.7× 44 0.5× 9 436
Nicole A. Steckler United States 8 97 0.5× 90 0.5× 81 0.5× 76 0.9× 169 2.0× 17 567
Jay Dolmage United States 10 172 1.0× 166 0.9× 244 1.6× 39 0.5× 38 0.5× 22 528
Mark Sherry United States 10 192 1.1× 307 1.8× 141 0.9× 72 0.8× 92 1.1× 38 741

Countries citing papers authored by Nicole Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicole Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Nicole Brown. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Nicole Brown. The network helps show where Nicole Brown may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicole Brown

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brown, Nicole, et al.. (2025). Social Fiction: bridging academic enquiry and creative writing. 1(1). 97–117.
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Cusick, Kathleen D., et al.. (2024). Toxin Dynamics among Populations of the Bioluminescent HAB Species Pyrodinium bahamense from the Indian River Lagoon, FL. Marine Drugs. 22(7). 311–311. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole, et al.. (2023). Competition and Collaboration in Higher Education: An (Auto)Ethnographic Poetic Inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry. 30(6). 526–532. 7 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole. (2022). Research ethics in a changing social sciences landscape. Research Ethics. 19(2). 157–165. 10 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole. (2021). Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education. UCL Discovery (University College London). 15 indexed citations
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Leigh, Jennifer & Nicole Brown. (2021). Researcher experiences in practice-based interdisciplinary research. Research Evaluation. 10 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole, et al.. (2021). Exploring experiences of ableism in academia: a constructivist inquiry. Higher Education. 83(6). 1225–1239. 27 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole. (2021). The Social Course of Fibromyalgia: Resisting Processes of Marginalisation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(1). 333–333. 5 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole, et al.. (2021). Making sense of cultural bumps: Supporting international graduate teaching assistants with their teaching. Innovations in Education and Teaching International. 59(5). 511–521. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole. (2021). Scope and continuum of participatory research. International Journal of Research & Method in Education. 45(2). 200–211. 40 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole, et al.. (2020). Where’s the validation? Role of emotion work and validation for doctoral students. Higher Education Research & Development. 40(7). 1389–1402. 12 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole. (2019). Identity boxes: using materials and metaphors to elicit experiences. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 22(5). 487–501. 22 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole. (2019). Partnership in learning: how staff-student collaboration can innovate teaching. European Journal of Teacher Education. 42(5). 608–620. 8 indexed citations
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Leigh, Jennifer, et al.. (2019). Creative and embodied methods to teach reflections and support students’ learning. Research in Dance Education. 20(1). 19–35. 18 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole. (2018). Exploring the lived experience of fibromyalgia using creative data collection methods. Cogent Social Sciences. 4(1). 1447759–1447759. 14 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole, et al.. (2018). Using LEGO® To Understand Emotion Work In Doctoral Education. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 5(4). 193–209. 9 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole & Jennifer Leigh. (2018). Ableism in academia: where are the disabled and ill academics?. Disability & Society. 33(6). 985–989. 177 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Nicole. (2016). ICT in the Primary Curriculum in the UK. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Nicole, et al.. (1997). Teaching tips for clinical faculty from the Zen tradition.. PubMed. 29(7). 513–6. 1 indexed citations

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