Pia Vuolanto

903 total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 441 citations indexed

About

Pia Vuolanto is a scholar working on Health, Sociology and Political Science and Complementary and alternative medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Pia Vuolanto has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 441 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Health, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Complementary and alternative medicine. Recurrent topics in Pia Vuolanto's work include Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (7 papers), Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (6 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 papers). Pia Vuolanto is often cited by papers focused on Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (7 papers), Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (6 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 papers). Pia Vuolanto collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Italy and United Kingdom. Pia Vuolanto's co-authors include Suvi Salmenniemi, Teemu Kemppainen, Laura Kemppainen, Johanna Nurmi, Rickard Danell, Caragh Brosnan, Kaija Appelqvist‐Schmidlechner, Pia Solin, Sebastian Therman and Nina Tamminen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Social Science & Medicine and Vaccine.

In The Last Decade

Pia Vuolanto

27 papers receiving 426 citations

Hit Papers

Use of complementary and alternative medicine in Europe: ... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200 250
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. Use of complementary and alternative medicine in Europe: Health-related and sociodemographic determinants
    2017 270 citations Laura Kemppainen, Teemu Kemppainen et al. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pia Vuolanto Finland 9 210 65 57 57 43 30 441
Laura Kemppainen Finland 10 192 0.9× 106 1.6× 58 1.0× 108 1.9× 42 1.0× 23 461
Teemu Kemppainen Finland 11 192 0.9× 126 1.9× 73 1.3× 153 2.7× 42 1.0× 34 540
Daniel Hollenberg Canada 10 245 1.2× 185 2.8× 24 0.4× 31 0.5× 41 1.0× 13 425
Beverly Wellman Canada 10 452 2.2× 152 2.3× 27 0.5× 73 1.3× 107 2.5× 13 652
Katsuya Tasaki United States 6 189 0.9× 152 2.3× 22 0.4× 47 0.8× 68 1.6× 9 527
Sarah Cant United Kingdom 14 224 1.1× 177 2.7× 18 0.3× 80 1.4× 48 1.1× 32 545
Esther Davis Australia 13 270 1.3× 197 3.0× 31 0.5× 52 0.9× 100 2.3× 30 718
Margaret King United States 12 91 0.4× 195 3.0× 19 0.3× 51 0.9× 44 1.0× 24 397
Elizabeth Sutherland United States 11 75 0.4× 98 1.5× 15 0.3× 160 2.8× 10 0.2× 22 422
Tracy Truant Canada 15 261 1.2× 227 3.5× 11 0.2× 53 0.9× 84 2.0× 37 700

Countries citing papers authored by Pia Vuolanto

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pia Vuolanto

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Pia Vuolanto. 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 Pia Vuolanto. The network helps show where Pia Vuolanto may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pia Vuolanto

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pia Vuolanto. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pia Vuolanto 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 Pia Vuolanto. Pia Vuolanto 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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Delaruelle, Katrijn, et al.. (2024). Unraveling COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Europeans 50 and older through a lens of preventive practices. Vaccine. 43(Pt 2). 126485–126485. 1 indexed citations
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Wagner, Aleksandra, Tadeusz Józef Rudek, Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková, et al.. (2024). Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses. Social Science & Medicine. 346. 116725–116725. 8 indexed citations
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Nurmi, Johanna, et al.. (2023). Sairaanhoitajien, terveydenhoitajien ja kätilöiden suhtautuminen rokotteisiin. Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti. 60(1). 1 indexed citations
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Numerato, Dino, Joana Mendonça, Mario Cardano, et al.. (2023). Recruiting a Hard-to-Reach, Hidden and Vulnerable Population: The Methodological and Practical Pitfalls of Researching Vaccine-Hesitant Parents. Qualitative Health Research. 33(13). 1189–1202. 13 indexed citations
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Brosnan, Caragh, et al.. (2023). The salutogenic gaze: Theorising the practitioner role in complementary and alternative medicine consultations. Sociology of Health & Illness. 45(5). 1008–1027. 5 indexed citations
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Moro, Giuseppina Lo, Maria Ferrara, Elisa Langiano, et al.. (2023). Countering vaccine hesitancy: a systematic review of interventions to strengthen healthcare professionals’ action. European Journal of Public Health. 33(5). 905–915. 6 indexed citations
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Betsch, Cornelia, Philipp Schmid, Pierre Verger, et al.. (2022). A call for immediate action to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake to prepare for the third pandemic winter. Nature Communications. 13(1). 17 indexed citations
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Albert, Mathieu, Pia Vuolanto, & Suzanne Laberge. (2022). Re-appraising disciplines: a commentary. Studies in Higher Education. 48(3). 413–423. 4 indexed citations
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Vuolanto, Pia, Laura Kemppainen, Teemu Kemppainen, & Johanna Nurmi. (2020). Täydentävien ja vaihtoehtoisten (CAM) hoitojen käyttö Suomessa. Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti. 57(1). 6 indexed citations
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Vuolanto, Pia, et al.. (2020). SOCIAL RESEARCH ON SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN NORDIC COUNTRIES. Zygon®. 55(1). 1 indexed citations
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Vuolanto, Pia, et al.. (2020). Gendered Boundary-work within the Finnish Skepticism Movement. Science Technology & Human Values. 46(4). 789–814. 8 indexed citations
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Vuolanto, Pia, et al.. (2020). Reconfiguring health knowledges? Contemporary modes of self-care as ‘everyday fringe medicine’. Public Understanding of Science. 29(5). 508–523. 19 indexed citations
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Danell, Rickard, et al.. (2019). Scandinavian research on complementary and alternative medicine: A bibliometric study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 48(6). 609–616. 5 indexed citations
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Vuolanto, Pia, et al.. (2018). Katsaus suomalaiseen CAM-tutkimukseen. Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti. 55(3). 2 indexed citations
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Brosnan, Caragh, et al.. (2018). Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 7 indexed citations
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Vuolanto, Pia, et al.. (2017). The Gender Perspective in Nursing Research: A Theoretical Treasure Chest or a ‘Thorn’ in the Side?. Minerva. 55(3). 371–390. 7 indexed citations
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Vuolanto, Pia. (2015). Boundary Work and Power in the Controversy Over Therapeutic Touch in Finnish Nursing Science. Minerva. 53(4). 359–380. 8 indexed citations
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Vuolanto, Pia. (2014). Boundary-Work and the Vulnerability of Academic Status: The Case of Finnish Nursing Science. Tampere University Institutional Repository (Tampere University). 18(9). 1133–1141. 6 indexed citations
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Vuolanto, Pia, et al.. (2012). Female employees in intermediary organisations: tasks, careers and networks. Tampere University Institutional Repository (Tampere University). 1 indexed citations

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