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The impact of papers in Sociology of Health and Illness: a bibliographic study
Author(s) -
Armstrong David
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.00340
Subject(s) - sociology of health and illness , sociology , identity (music) , citation , field (mathematics) , social science , epistemology , health care , library science , political science , computer science , philosophy , law , mathematics , pure mathematics , aesthetics
This paper examines the citation counts of papers published in the first 25 years of the Sociology of Health and Illness . According to this measure only a small number of papers have made a major impact on the discipline of sociology of health and illness and an analysis of these select papers identifies some common themes. In particular, ‘successful’ papers have provided important theoretical constructs for the field while exploration of aspects of identity has been a recurrent focus.