Vanessa Northington Gamble

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Vanessa Northington Gamble is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vanessa Northington Gamble has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in General Health Professions and 3 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Vanessa Northington Gamble's work include Race, History, and American Society (8 papers), Public Health Policies and Education (4 papers) and Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 papers). Vanessa Northington Gamble is often cited by papers focused on Race, History, and American Society (8 papers), Public Health Policies and Education (4 papers) and Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 papers). Vanessa Northington Gamble collaborates with scholars based in United States, Slovenia and United Kingdom. Vanessa Northington Gamble's co-authors include Deborah Stone, Allison James, Aaron P. Scholnik, Danielle Laraque, Linda Edwards, Charles E. Inturrisi, Carolyn Montoya, Melissa Schori, Lawrence R. Robinson and Llewellyn J. Cornelius and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Public Health and American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Vanessa Northington Gamble

25 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and healt... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 250 500 750
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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. Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care.
    1997 913 citations Vanessa Northington Gamble American Journal of Public Health profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vanessa Northington Gamble United States 12 642 467 364 250 227 30 1.7k
Llewellyn J. Cornelius United States 27 853 1.3× 282 0.6× 215 0.6× 161 0.6× 227 1.0× 86 2.1k
Cathy L. Melvin United States 27 730 1.1× 700 1.5× 167 0.5× 166 0.7× 182 0.8× 114 3.0k
Myriam Khlat France 32 796 1.2× 327 0.7× 378 1.0× 470 1.9× 161 0.7× 120 3.1k
Alexandra Smith United Kingdom 27 643 1.0× 718 1.5× 289 0.8× 580 2.3× 383 1.7× 82 3.1k
Catherine Witkop United States 15 400 0.6× 445 1.0× 233 0.6× 89 0.4× 441 1.9× 47 2.2k
Sarah McGraw United States 33 1.2k 1.9× 642 1.4× 334 0.9× 204 0.8× 177 0.8× 71 2.7k
Débora Diniz Brazil 22 501 0.8× 683 1.5× 545 1.5× 115 0.5× 51 0.2× 133 1.6k
Elizabeth Dormandy United Kingdom 21 509 0.8× 408 0.9× 101 0.3× 81 0.3× 207 0.9× 34 1.9k
Antonella Surbone United States 27 698 1.1× 1.1k 2.4× 437 1.2× 160 0.6× 48 0.2× 82 2.7k
Rajib Acharya India 25 825 1.3× 563 1.2× 391 1.1× 454 1.8× 35 0.2× 82 2.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (2021). “Sisters of a Darker Race”: African American Graduates of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1867–1925. Bulletin of the history of medicine. 95(2). 169–197.
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (2019). Edith Irby: A Hidden Figure in the History of Medical Education. Academic Medicine. 94(11). 1670–1674.
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (2015). Lundy Braun. Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics.. The American Historical Review. 120(3). 972–973.
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (2014). The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksReconsidered. The Hastings Center Report. 44(1). inside back cover–inside back cover. 9 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (2012). "No Struggle, No Fight, No Court Battle": The 1948 Desegregation of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 68(3). 377–415. 2 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington & Theodore M. Brown. (2009). Midian Othello Bousfield: Advocate for the Medical and Public Health Concerns of Black Americans. American Journal of Public Health. 99(7). 1186–1186. 2 indexed citations
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Brawley, Otis W., Llewellyn J. Cornelius, Linda Edwards, et al.. (2008). National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement: Hydroxyurea Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease. Annals of Internal Medicine. 148(12). 932–938. 211 indexed citations
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Shore, Nancy, et al.. (2008). Introduction to Special Issue: Advancing the Ethics of Community-Based Participatory Research. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. 3(2). 1–4. 27 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington & Deborah Stone. (2006). U.s. Policy on Health Inequities: The Interplay of Politics and Research. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law. 31(1). 93–126. 41 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington & Brian Gibbs. (2006). Comparative Perspectives on Health Disparities. 2 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (2000). Subcutaneous Scars. Health Affairs. 19(1). 164–169. 8 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (1999). Teaching About Race and Racism in Medical History. Radical History Review. 1999(74). 140–161. 4 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (1997). Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care.. American Journal of Public Health. 87(11). 1773–1778. 913 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington & Stephanie J. Shaw. (1997). What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era.. Journal of American History. 83(4). 1426–1426. 8 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington, et al.. (1997). One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew.. The American Historical Review. 102(4). 1240–1240. 2 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (1995). Making a Place for Ourselves. Oxford University Press eBooks. 22 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (1993). A Legacy of Distrust: African Americans and Medical Research. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 9(6). 35–38. 322 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (1989). The Black community hospital : contemporary dilemmas in historical perspective. Garland Pub. eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (1989). Germs have no color line : Blacks and American medicine, 1900-1940. Garland Pub. eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Gamble, Vanessa Northington. (1989). H.R. 5198. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 12(2). 83–86. 1 indexed citations

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