Tom Kitwood

7.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Tom Kitwood is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Philosophy and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Kitwood has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in General Health Professions, 7 papers in Philosophy and 6 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Tom Kitwood's work include Mental Health and Psychiatry (6 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (5 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (4 papers). Tom Kitwood is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health and Psychiatry (6 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (5 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (4 papers). Tom Kitwood collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Tom Kitwood's co-authors include Dawn Brooker, Andrea Capstick, Clive Baldwin, Alan Smithers, John Wattis, Carol Borrill and Brian Toft and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Studies in Higher Education and Aging & Mental Health.

In The Last Decade

Tom Kitwood

32 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Towards a Theory of Dementia Care: Personhood and Well-being

1992 761 citations Tom Kitwood et al. Ageing and Society profile →
The experience of dementia

1997 577 citations Tom Kitwood profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Kitwood United Kingdom	16	1.4k	1.1k	519	509	494	36	2.6k
Brian Carpenter United States	30	881 0.7×	765 0.7×	347 0.7×	375 0.7×	556 1.1×	109	2.5k
Ladson Hinton United States	26	859 0.6×	767 0.7×	602 1.2×	1.1k 2.2×	291 0.6×	91	2.7k
Anthea Innes United Kingdom	33	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	548 1.1×	299 0.6×	412 0.8×	110	2.7k
Alison Phinney Canada	26	947 0.7×	576 0.5×	453 0.9×	394 0.8×	258 0.5×	68	2.0k
Elsa Marziali Canada	27	492 0.4×	621 0.6×	322 0.6×	1.6k 3.1×	240 0.5×	65	2.5k
Sherry L. Dupuis Canada	26	940 0.7×	476 0.4×	713 1.4×	269 0.5×	237 0.5×	76	2.0k
Justine Schneider United Kingdom	30	1.5k 1.1×	819 0.7×	545 1.1×	607 1.2×	322 0.7×	142	2.9k
Thomas S. Langner United States	21	1.1k 0.8×	347 0.3×	725 1.4×	1.5k 2.9×	158 0.3×	33	3.5k
Suzanne Meeks United States	27	631 0.5×	462 0.4×	195 0.4×	459 0.9×	139 0.3×	81	1.7k
Deborah O’Connor Canada	16	660 0.5×	410 0.4×	441 0.8×	303 0.6×	143 0.3×	39	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Kitwood

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Kitwood

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Kitwood

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kitwood, Tom. (2022). Demenz. 1 indexed citations

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Brooker, Dawn & Tom Kitwood. (2019). Dementia Reconsidered, Revisited; the person still comes first. 43 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (2005). Malignant Social Psychology. 243–249. 2 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom, et al.. (1998). Improving Dementia Care. 5 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom, et al.. (1995). Decline in quality of life for patients with severe dementia following a ward merger. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 10(11). 967–973. 23 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1995). Exploring the ethics of dementia research: A response to berghmans and ter meulen: A psychosocial perspective. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 10(8). 655–657. 10 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1993). Person and process in dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 8(7). 541–545. 121 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1993). Towards a Theory of Dementia Care: The Interpersonal Process. Ageing and Society. 13(1). 51–67. 225 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom, et al.. (1992). Towards a Theory of Dementia Care: Personhood and Well-being. Ageing and Society. 12(3). 269–287. 761 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kitwood, Tom, et al.. (1992). Person to person : a guide to the care of those with failing mental powers. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 34 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1992). A new approach to the evaluation of dementia care. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1. 110 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1990). The Dialectics of Dementia: With Particular Reference to Alzheimer's Disease. Ageing and Society. 10(2). 177–196. 303 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1989). Moral Restoration and its Context. Journal of Moral Education. 18(1). 3–14. 1 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1986). Long Waves in Economic Life: an Image Without a Method. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics. 1(2). 107–125. 2 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1984). Cognition and Emotion in the Psychology of Human Values. Oxford Review of Education. 10(3). 293–301. 2 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1984). Society and the new technology. Endeavour. 8(2). 101–101.

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Toft, Brian & Tom Kitwood. (1980). An exploratory study of adolescent speech, using measures derived from Bernstein's theories. Research in Education. 23(1). 44–56. 5 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1977). What Does ‘Having Values’ Mean?. Journal of Moral Education. 6(2). 81–89. 3 indexed citations

19.

Kitwood, Tom. (1976). Educational research and its standing as science. Studies in Higher Education. 1(1). 69–82. 12 indexed citations

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Kitwood, Tom. (1976). On Values and Value‐Systems: Evidence from Interviews with Adolescents. Educational Research. 18(3). 223–231. 3 indexed citations

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