Sonya Sharma

525 total citations
32 papers, 280 citations indexed

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Sonya Sharma is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonya Sharma has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 280 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Health and 3 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sonya Sharma's work include Religion, Society, and Development (15 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (13 papers) and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (10 papers). Sonya Sharma is often cited by papers focused on Religion, Society, and Development (15 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (13 papers) and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (10 papers). Sonya Sharma collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Sonya Sharma's co-authors include Sheryl Reimer‐Kirkham, Kristin Aune, Mathew Guest, Giselle Vincett, Richard Sawatzky, Gwen E. Chapman, Kelly Schutt, Barbara Pesut, Katie Wilkinson and Kendra L. Rieger and has published in prestigious journals such as Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, Qualitative Health Research and The Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Sonya Sharma

27 papers receiving 250 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonya Sharma United Kingdom	9	209	89	41	39	24	32	280
Jenny Rankine New Zealand	10	115 0.6×	71 0.8×	13 0.3×	37 0.9×	25 1.0×	15	227
Margaret D. Jacobs United States	9	106 0.5×	47 0.5×	17 0.4×	32 0.8×	33 1.4×	38	243
Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak United States	5	244 1.2×	228 2.6×	42 1.0×	21 0.5×	45 1.9×	7	345
Kathleen Garces-Foley United States	9	177 0.8×	75 0.8×	20 0.5×	11 0.3×	41 1.7×	16	233
Josh Packard United States	8	217 1.0×	32 0.4×	56 1.4×	46 1.2×	10 0.4×	12	282
Nancy J. Ramsay United States	8	166 0.8×	127 1.4×	35 0.9×	19 0.5×	93 3.9×	17	286
Shane Sharp United States	9	174 0.8×	167 1.9×	22 0.5×	28 0.7×	82 3.4×	25	293
J. Scott Carter United States	11	233 1.1×	45 0.5×	31 0.8×	28 0.7×	20 0.8×	20	337
Rachel Kraus United States	10	117 0.6×	60 0.7×	19 0.5×	19 0.5×	33 1.4×	22	216
Robert W. Balch United States	10	192 0.9×	63 0.7×	29 0.7×	16 0.4×	42 1.8×	11	281

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Sharma, Sonya, et al.. (2025). Young Muslim women on Nadiya Hussain, turbanisation and the politics of respectability: Navigating public space and Islamophobia. The Sociological Review.

Sharma, Sonya. (2025). A lateral exploration of faith, intimacy and care among adult sisters. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 45(7-8). 640–651.

Rieger, Kendra L., et al.. (2023). Arts-based spiritual care in healthcare: A participatory, scoping review. The Arts in Psychotherapy. 84. 102027–102027. 9 indexed citations

Sharma, Sonya & Sheryl Reimer‐Kirkham. (2022). In plain view: Gender in the work of women healthcare chaplains. Social Compass. 69(4). 631–647. 1 indexed citations

Reimer‐Kirkham, Sheryl, et al.. (2020). Prayer as Transgression?. McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Reimer‐Kirkham, Sheryl, et al.. (2017). ‘The Elephant on the Table’: Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Home Health Services. Journal of Religion and Health. 58(3). 908–925. 3 indexed citations

Reimer‐Kirkham, Sheryl, et al.. (2017). Expressions of Prayer in Residential Care Homes. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy. 24(2). 67–85. 4 indexed citations

Sharma, Sonya, et al.. (2016). Introduction: Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities. 17–17. 1 indexed citations

Sharma, Sonya & Sheryl Reimer‐Kirkham. (2015). Faith as social capital: Diasporic women negotiating religion in secularized healthcare services. Women s Studies International Forum. 49. 34–42. 6 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sonya. (2013). Exploring Acts of Agency within Christian Women’s Sexuality. 7(2).

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Guest, Mathew, et al.. (2013). Gender and career progression in theology and religious studies.. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 8 indexed citations

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Guest, Mathew, et al.. (2013). Christianity and the University Experience : Understanding Student Faith. Bloomsbury Academic eBooks. 15 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sonya & Mathew Guest. (2012). Navigating religion between university and home: Christian students' experiences in English universities. Social & Cultural Geography. 14(1). 59–79. 29 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sonya. (2012). Good Girls, Good Sex: Women Talk about Church and Sexuality. Research Repository (Kingston University London). 6 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sonya. (2012). ‘The Church is … My Family’: Exploring the Interrelationship between Familial and Religious Practices and Spaces. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 44(4). 816–831. 13 indexed citations

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Reimer‐Kirkham, Sheryl, et al.. (2011). Sacred spaces in public places: religious and spiritual plurality in health care. Nursing Inquiry. 19(3). 202–212. 21 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sonya & Gwen E. Chapman. (2011). Food, Photographs, and Frames: Photo Elicitation in a Canadian Qualitative Food Study. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 3(1). 0–0. 4 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sonya, et al.. (2009). Practicing the Awareness of Embodiment in Qualitative Health Research: Methodological Reflections. Qualitative Health Research. 19(11). 1642–1650. 51 indexed citations

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Aune, Kristin, Sonya Sharma, & Giselle Vincett. (2008). Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization. Pure (Coventry University). 65 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sonya. (2008). Young Women, Sexuality and Protestant Church Community. European Journal of Women s Studies. 15(4). 345–359. 8 indexed citations

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