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Communication and Medicine
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Communication and Medicine

1612-1783

Published by: Equinox Publishing

https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CAM

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 1225 9 14 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 21
Documents by Best Scientists*: 24
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 26
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.187
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Communication in medicine?

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Social psychology, Conversation analysis, Medical education, Health care and Discourse analysis. In addition to Social psychology research, the journal aims to explore topics under Context (language use), Narrative and Negotiation. The journal focuses on Conversation analysis but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as MEDLINE, Patient participation, Cognitive psychology and Psychiatry.

The journal dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Medical education and Pedagogy. It explores issues in Health care which can be linked to other research areas like Nursing and Public relations. Communication in medicine connects the study in Discourse analysis with the closely related area of Psychotherapist.

  • Social psychology (27.73%)
  • Conversation analysis (16.81%)
  • Medical education (14.57%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Listening to people with seizures: how can linguistic analysis help in the differential diagnosis of seizure disorders? (69 citations)
  • Journalists and jabs: media coverage of the MMR vaccine. (58 citations)
  • Patients' responses to interpretations: a dialogue between conversation analysis and psychoanalytic theory. (44 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Communication in medicine:

The journal publications are organized to reinforce research efforts on Social psychology, Conversation analysis, Conversation, Pedagogy and Context (language use). Issues in Social psychology were discussed in the most cited publications, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Health care, MEDLINE and Norwegian. While work presented in the published articles provide substantial information on Context (language use), it also covers topics in Variety (cybernetics), Attunement, Narrative and Discourse analysis.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Health care

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Medical education, Pandemic, Qualitative property, Perspective (graphical) and Context (language use). Medical education research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Language barrier, Multilingualism, Content analysis, Expatriate and Gesture. The journal aims to bridge the gap between the study of Pandemic and disciplines such as Gender studies, Social relation, Criminology, Video monitoring and Participant observation.

It focuses on Qualitative property as well as the interrelated topic of Applied psychology. The Perspective (graphical) study tackled in Communication in medicine also covered diverse fields such as In patient, Phenomenon, Patient centred, Patient centredness and Presupposition. While work presented in Communication in medicine provided substantial information on Context (language use), it also covered topics in Social media, Public relations and Reputation.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Opening up space for compassion in nurses' handover meetings (1 citations)
  • Reconceptualising research, reconceptualising responsibility: A rejoinder to ‘Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic’ by David Silverman (0 citations)
  • Studying social relations in a pandemic: A rejoinder to ‘Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic’ by David Silverman (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Communication in medicine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Srikant Sarangi (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ellen Barton (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Johanna Ruusuvuori (5 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Anssi Peräkylä (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Rick Iedema (5 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Communication in medicine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Cardiff University (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of Tampere (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Aalborg University (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Linköping University (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wayne State University (6 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 18.18% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 44.44% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.11% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 44.44% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic

    David Silverman

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • Communication skills, expertise and ethics in healthcare education and practice.

    (2024)
    4 Citations
  • Communicative vulnerability and its mutation in interpreter-mediated healthcare encounters

    Srikant Sarangi

    (2020)
    3 Citations
  • Doing qualitative health services research remotely: A rejoinder to ‘Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic’ by David Silverman

    Fiona Wood

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic

    (2021)
    2 Citations
  • Editorial

    (2021)
    2 Citations
  • Third party insurance?: Interactional role alignment in family member mediated primary care consultations

    Celia Roberts;Srikant Sarangi

    (2020)
    1 Citations
  • Adaptability and change: A rejoinder to ‘Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic’ by David Silverman

    Sue Ziebland

    (2020)
    1 Citations
  • Clinical implications of covert recording

    (2023)
    0 Citations
  • Methodological pragmatism in doing data: A rejoinder to 'Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic' by David Silverman

    Srikant Sarangi

    (2021)
    0 Citations

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