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Ade Kearns publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ade Kearns sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 232 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Ade Kearns D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ade Kearns sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Ade Kearns is a researcher affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their primary areas of work combine social sciences with health professions, with research spanning topics related to health disparities, urban studies, and social issues affecting vulnerable populations.

Their recent publication record includes work focused on housing and its impacts on wellbeing and public health, urban regeneration, neighborhood empowerment, and the complexities of social support systems. Key papers include:

  • Housing space and occupancy standards: developing evidence for policy from a health and wellbeing perspective in the UK context (2022, Building Research & Information)
  • Urban regeneration and mental health: Investigating the effects of an area-based intervention using a modified intention to treat analysis with alternative outcome measures (2020, Health & Place)
  • Are housing and neighbourhood empowerment beneficial for mental health and wellbeing? Evidence from disadvantaged communities experiencing regeneration (2020, SSM - Population Health)
  • Housing as a public health investment (2020, BMJ)

The primary topics of Ade Kearns's research include health disparities and outcomes, homelessness and social issues, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, migration, aging, tourism, food security and health in diverse populations, employment and welfare studies, and global health care issues.

Frequent collaborators in their work are Phil Mason, Seemanti Ghosh, Matt Egan, Elise Whitley, and Louise Lawson.

Ade Kearns has published multiple papers in notable venues such as Housing Studies, Building Research & Information, SSM - Population Health, Health & Place, and BMJ.

The subfields of study encompassing their research are general health professions, health, sociology and political science, demography, and areas relating to health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Ade Kearns has been recognized with the distinction of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Social Cohesion, Social Capital and the Neighbourhood

    Ray Forrest;Ade Kearns

  • Social Cohesion and Multilevel Urban Governance

    Ade Kearns;Ray Forrest

  • What Makes People Dissatisfied with their Neighbourhoods

    Alison Parkes;Ade Kearns;Rowland Atkinson

  • The Significance of Neighbourhood

    Ade Kearns;Michael Parkinson

  • Perceptions of Place and Health in Socially Contrasting Neighbourhoods

    Anne Ellaway;Sally Macintyre;Ade Kearns

  • Natural experiments: an underused tool for public health?

    Mark Petticrew;Steven Cummins;Catherine Ferrell;Anne Findlay

  • Ontological Security and Psycho-Social Benefits from the Home: Qualitative Evidence on Issues of Tenure

    Rosemary Hiscock;Ade Kearns;Sally MacIntyre;Anne Ellaway

  • 'Beyond Four Walls'. The Psycho-social Benefits of Home: Evidence from West Central Scotland

    Ade Kearns;Rosemary Hiscock;Anne Ellaway;Sally MaCintyre

  • In the driving seat: psychosocial benefits from private motor vehicle transport compared to public transport

    Anne Ellaway;Sally Macintyre;Rosemary Hiscock;Ade Kearns

  • Joined-up Places?: Social Cohesion and Neighbourhood Regeneration

    Ray Forrest;Ade Kearns

  • MEANS OF TRANSPORT AND ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY: DO CARS PROVIDE PSYCHO-SOCIAL BENEFITS TO THEIR USERS?

    Rosemary Hiscock;Sally Macintyre;Ade Kearns;Anne Ellaway

  • New Challenges for Urban Governance

    Ade Kearns;Ronan Paddison

  • What features of the home and the area might help to explain observed relationships between housing tenure and health? Evidence from the west of Scotland

    Sally Macintyre;Anne Ellaway;Rosemary Hiscock;Ade Kearns

  • Living in and leaving poor neighbourhood conditions in England

    Ade Kearns;Alison Parkes

  • Do urban regeneration programmes improve public health and reduce health inequalities? A synthesis of the evidence from UK policy and practice (1980–2004)

    Hilary Thomson;Rowland Atkinson;Mark Petticrew;Ade Kearns

  • Exploring the relationships between housing, neighbourhoods and mental wellbeing for residents of deprived areas

    Lyndal Bond;Ade Kearns;Phil Mason;Carol Tannahill

  • Active citizenship and local governance: political and geographical dimensions

    Ade Kearns

  • Loneliness, social relations and health and well-being in deprived communities

    Ade Kearns;Elise Whitley;Carol Tannahill;Anne Ellaway

  • Place Attachment in Deprived Neighbourhoods: The Impacts of Population Turnover and Social Mix

    Nick Bailey;Ade Kearns;Mark Livingston

  • People's attachment to place: the influence of neighbourhood deprivation

    M. Livingston;N. Bailey;A. Kearns

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Ellaway
Anne Ellaway University of Glasgow
Lyndal Bond
Lyndal Bond Victoria University
Rosemary Hiscock
Rosemary Hiscock University of Bath
Sally Macintyre
Sally Macintyre MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Mark Petticrew
Mark Petticrew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Alastair H. Leyland
Alastair H. Leyland University of Glasgow
Hilary Thomson
Hilary Thomson University of Glasgow
Rowland Atkinson
Rowland Atkinson University of Sheffield
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi University of Glasgow
Ray Forrest
Ray Forrest City University of Hong Kong

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