Sara MacKian

1.3k total citations
28 papers, 712 citations indexed

About

Sara MacKian is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, General Health Professions and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara MacKian has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 712 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 9 papers in General Health Professions and 7 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Sara MacKian's work include Religious Tourism and Spaces (8 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (5 papers) and Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (4 papers). Sara MacKian is often cited by papers focused on Religious Tourism and Spaces (8 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (5 papers) and Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (4 papers). Sara MacKian collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Slovakia and Italy. Sara MacKian's co-authors include Jennie Popay, Sara Mallinson, Dawn Edge, James R. Barker, Steve Pile, Nadia Bartolini, Mark Banks, Helen Busby, H. A. Elliott and Michele Messmer Uccelli and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Sara MacKian

28 papers receiving 651 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sara MacKian United Kingdom 14 249 155 112 98 96 28 712
Laurie Kain Hart United States 9 304 1.2× 372 2.4× 30 0.3× 32 0.3× 114 1.2× 22 867
Andrew R. Hatala Canada 14 241 1.0× 213 1.4× 16 0.1× 41 0.4× 307 3.2× 47 743
Sarah Horton United States 18 438 1.8× 482 3.1× 15 0.1× 35 0.4× 53 0.6× 35 995
Gregory L. Weiss United States 12 335 1.3× 123 0.8× 12 0.1× 30 0.3× 56 0.6× 27 738
Naomi Adelson Canada 13 587 2.4× 281 1.8× 15 0.1× 62 0.6× 535 5.6× 24 1.1k
Chelsea Bond Australia 15 314 1.3× 269 1.7× 11 0.1× 36 0.4× 356 3.7× 44 788
Rory Williams United Kingdom 18 382 1.5× 330 2.1× 8 0.1× 40 0.4× 357 3.7× 34 1.1k
Juanita Sherwood Australia 18 360 1.4× 382 2.5× 11 0.1× 101 1.0× 504 5.3× 54 1.1k
Trudy Rudge Australia 18 345 1.4× 224 1.4× 11 0.1× 36 0.4× 23 0.2× 61 820
Noreen Mokuau United States 20 447 1.8× 391 2.5× 10 0.1× 49 0.5× 244 2.5× 55 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara MacKian

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara MacKian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara MacKian

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

All Works

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Bartolini, Nadia, Sara MacKian, & Steve Pile. (2017). Spirit knows: materiality, memory and the recovery of Spiritualist places and practices in Stoke-on-Trent. Social & Cultural Geography. 20(8). 1114–1137. 8 indexed citations
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Bartolini, Nadia, et al.. (2016). Nature Light Truth: An exploration of Spiritualism in the Everyday Life of Stoke-on-Trent. Open Research Online (The Open University). 2 indexed citations
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Bartolini, Nadia, et al.. (2016). Nature Light Truth. 1 indexed citations
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Bartolini, Nadia, et al.. (2016). The place of spirit. Progress in Human Geography. 41(3). 338–354. 35 indexed citations
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MacKian, Sara & Joan Simons. (2013). Leading, managing, caring : understanding leadership and management in health and social care. Routledge eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Bartolini, Nadia, et al.. (2013). Psychics, crystals, candles and cauldrons: alternative spiritualities and the question of their esoteric economies. Social & Cultural Geography. 14(4). 367–388. 12 indexed citations
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MacKian, Sara. (2007). What the papers say: Reading therapeutic landscapes of women's health and empowerment in Uganda. Health & Place. 14(1). 106–115. 32 indexed citations
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Popay, Jennie, et al.. (2007). Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support: addressing health inequalities at the individual level. Part II: lay perspectives. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 61(11). 972–977. 77 indexed citations
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Popay, Jennie, et al.. (2007). Social problems, primary care and pathways to help and support: addressing health inequalities at the individual level. Part I: the GP perspective. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 61(11). 966–971. 49 indexed citations
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Mallinson, Sara, et al.. (2006). Developing the public health workforce: a ‘communities of practice’ perspective. Policy & Politics. 34(2). 265–285. 10 indexed citations
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MacKian, Sara. (2004). Up the garden path and over the edge: where might health-seeking behaviour take us?. Health Policy and Planning. 19(3). 137–146. 118 indexed citations
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Popay, Jennie, et al.. (2004). Developing public health work in local health systems. Primary Health Care Research & Development. 5(4). 338–350. 12 indexed citations
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MacKian, Sara, H. A. Elliott, Helen Busby, & Jennie Popay. (2003). ‘Everywhere and nowhere’: locating and understanding the ‘new’ public health. Health & Place. 9(3). 219–229. 20 indexed citations
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MacKian, Sara. (2003). A review of health seeking behaviour: problems and prospects.. 100 indexed citations
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MacKian, Sara. (2000). Contours of coping: mapping the subject world of long-term illness. Health & Place. 6(2). 95–104. 21 indexed citations
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Banks, Mark & Sara MacKian. (2000). Jump In! The Water's Warm: A Comment on Peck's ‘Grey Geography’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 25(2). 249–254. 25 indexed citations
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MacKian, Sara. (1998). The citizen's new clothes: care in a Welsh community. Critical Social Policy. 18(54). 27–50. 10 indexed citations
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MacKian, Sara. (1995). ‘That great dust-heap called history’:∗ recovering the multiple spaces of citizenship. Political Geography. 14(2). 209–216. 9 indexed citations

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