Richard Wilkinson

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Richard Wilkinson is a scholar working on Health, Archeology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Wilkinson has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Health, 15 papers in Archeology and 11 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Richard Wilkinson's work include Health disparities and outcomes (16 papers), Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (15 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (10 papers). Richard Wilkinson is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (16 papers), Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (15 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (10 papers). Richard Wilkinson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Richard Wilkinson's co-authors include Kate E. Pickett, KV Ragnarsdottir, Lars Fogh Mortensen, Ida Kubiszewski, Roberto De Vogli, Robert Costanza, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Enrico Giovannini, Lew Daly and Mai Stafford and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Richard Wilkinson

40 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connecti... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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. Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
    2016 493 citations Kate E. Pickett, Richard Wilkinson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Wilkinson United Kingdom 14 403 381 372 212 188 47 1.5k
Elizabeth Burton United Kingdom 19 361 0.9× 362 1.0× 530 1.4× 395 1.9× 125 0.7× 32 2.8k
Jerome Billeter 22 1.2k 2.9× 216 0.6× 357 1.0× 272 1.3× 55 0.3× 196 2.5k
Alun E. Joseph Canada 30 799 2.0× 512 1.3× 701 1.9× 368 1.7× 42 0.2× 87 2.9k
William Ascher United States 18 398 1.0× 292 0.8× 506 1.4× 162 0.8× 152 0.8× 75 3.4k
Sarah Wakefield Canada 22 460 1.1× 287 0.8× 810 2.2× 80 0.4× 268 1.4× 37 2.4k
Helen Cole Spain 26 304 0.8× 270 0.7× 612 1.6× 167 0.8× 57 0.3× 64 2.5k
Kevin M. Leyden United States 16 235 0.6× 330 0.9× 582 1.6× 161 0.8× 85 0.5× 30 2.0k
Hugh Barton United Kingdom 19 239 0.6× 288 0.8× 174 0.5× 75 0.4× 121 0.6× 34 1.4k
Bruce Tranter Australia 25 260 0.6× 94 0.2× 1.1k 2.9× 151 0.7× 423 2.3× 113 2.0k
Boyd Hunter Australia 25 435 1.1× 720 1.9× 706 1.9× 227 1.1× 48 0.3× 192 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Wilkinson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Wilkinson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Wilkinson

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

All Works

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Hochschild, Arlie Russell, et al.. (2018). ‘A Little Crow in the Tree’: Growing Inequality and White Working-Class Politics in the U.S.. 3(1). 133–145. 2 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard & Kate E. Pickett. (2017). How inequality hollows out the soul. Clinical Psychology Forum. 1(297). 2–3.
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Johnson, Sheri L., Erik Wibbels, & Richard Wilkinson. (2015). Economic inequality is related to cross-national prevalence of psychotic symptoms. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 50(12). 1799–1807. 26 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard & Kate E. Pickett. (2011). Greater Equality The Hidden Key to Better Health and Higher Scores. The American Educator. 35(1). 5–9. 12 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard & Kate E. Pickett. (2010). Desigualdad. Un análisis de la (in)felicidad colectiva. 8(38). 12 indexed citations
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Kouvonen, Anne, Tuula Oksanen, Jussi Vahtera, et al.. (2008). Low Workplace Social Capital as a Predictor of Depression: The Finnish Public Sector Study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 167(10). 1143–1151. 167 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard & Kate E. Pickett. (2006). Health inequalities and the UK Presidency of the EU. The Lancet. 367(9517). 1126–1128. 3 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard. (2004). The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas Behind It. 50. 4 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard. (2004). Why is Violence More Common Where Inequality is Greater?. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1036(1). 1–12. 109 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard. (2003). Magia y símbolo en el arte egipcio. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 61(1). 91–6. 1 indexed citations
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Stafford, Mai, Mel Bartley, Amanda Sacker, et al.. (2003). Measuring the Social Environment: Social Cohesion and Material Deprivation in English and Scottish Neighbourhoods. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 35(8). 1459–1475. 103 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard. (2002). Commentary: Liberty, fraternity, equality. International Journal of Epidemiology. 31(3). 538–543. 36 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard, et al.. (2002). KV 5: A Preliminary Report on the Excavation of the Tomb of the Sons of Rameses II in the Valley of the Kings. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 39. 251–251. 6 indexed citations
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Bender, Susan J., et al.. (2001). The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations : Mapping Art and Science. 2 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard. (2001). Las desigualdades perjudican: jerarquías, salud y evolución humana. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 3 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard. (1997). Hierarchy harms health. Nursing Standard. 11(28). 18–18. 1 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard & Donald B. Redford. (1993). Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times.. The American Historical Review. 98(3). 841–841. 6 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Richard. (1991). The Representation of the Bow in the Art of Egypt and the Ancient Near East. 20(1). 2366–88. 4 indexed citations

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