2026 Benjamin Hawkins: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	32	7322	6805	1162	1080	107	4396

Overview

Benjamin Hawkins is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on intersecting fields such as Business, Management and Accounting, Medicine, and Health Professions, with a notable emphasis on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management alongside Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's scholarly work extensively covers topics related to global public health policies and epidemiology, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, and health policy implementation science. Other key areas of research include consumer attitudes and food labeling, health services management and policy, opioid use disorder treatment, and the pharmaceutical industry's role in healthcare.

Benjamin Hawkins has published numerous papers across several high-impact academic venues. Frequent publication sources include:

International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Social Science & Medicine
Health Promotion International
European Journal of Public Health
Health Policy and Planning

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hawkins demonstrate a focus on corporate influence in public policy and industry-funded educational programs. Notable recent publications include:

Corporate Political Activity: Taxonomies and Model of Corporate Influence on Public Policy, 2023, International Journal of Health Policy and Management
The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries, 2021, BMJ Global Health
The politics and fantasy of the gambling education discourse: An analysis of gambling industry-funded youth education programmes in the United Kingdom, 2022, SSM - Population Health
Distilling the curriculum: An analysis of alcohol industry-funded school-based youth education programmes, 2022, PLoS ONE
Policy Process and Non-State Actors' Influence on the 2014 Mexican Soda Tax, 2020, Health Policy and Planning

Throughout their career, Hawkins has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include May CI van Schalkwyk, Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani, Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, and Adam D. Koon.

The scientist's interdisciplinary approach bridges health policy analysis, organizational behavior, and public health to investigate the impact of corporate and non-state actors on health outcomes and policy processes. Their work contributes data-driven insights into the relationships between industry practices and public health education, policy development, and epidemiological trends.

Best Publications

Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. the report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola

Suerie Moon;Devi Sridhar;Muhammad A Pate;Ashish K Jha

631
Citations
Political and institutional influences on the use of evidence in public health policy. A systematic review.

Marco Liverani;Benjamin Hawkins;Justin O. Parkhurst

338
Citations
Alcohol industry involvement in policymaking: a systematic review.

James McCambridge;Melissa Amina Madeleine Mialon;Benjamin Roberts Hawkins;Benjamin Roberts Hawkins

252
Citations
Framing and the health policy process: a scoping review

Adam D Koon;Benjamin Hawkins;Susannah H Mayhew

223
Citations
Systems Thinking as a Framework for Analyzing Commercial Determinants of Health

Cécile Knai;Mark Petticrew;Nicholas Mays;Simon Capewell

172
Citations
Industry use of evidence to influence alcohol policy: a case study of submissions to the 2008 Scottish government consultation.

Jim McCambridge;Ben Hawkins;Chris Holden;Chris Holden

162
Citations
Framing the alcohol policy debate: industry actors and the regulation of the UK beverage alcohol market

Benjamin Hawkins;Chris Holden

154
Citations
Vested interests in addiction research and policy. The challenge corporate lobbying poses to reducing society's alcohol problems: insights from UK evidence on minimum unit pricing.

Jim McCambridge;Benjamin Hawkins;Chris Holden

141
Citations
Alcohol industry influence on UK alcohol policy: a new research agenda for public health

Benjamin Hawkins;Chris Holden;Jim McCambridge

139
Citations
The 'good governance' of evidence in health policy

Benjamin Hawkins;Justin Parkhurst

133
Citations
Reassessing policy paradigms: A comparison of the global tobacco and alcohol industries

Benjamin Hawkins;Chris Holden;Jappe Eckhardt;Kelley Lee

126
Citations
Food security, food safety & healthy nutrition: are they compatible?

Helen Walls;Phillip Baker;Ephraim Chirwa;Benjamin Hawkins;Benjamin Hawkins

103
Citations
Be aware of Drinkaware

Jim McCambridge;Kypros Kypri;Peter Miller;Ben Hawkins

102
Citations
'Water dripping on stone'? Industry lobbying and UK alcohol policy

Ben Hawkins;Chris Holden

101
Citations
Why media representations of corporations matter for public health policy: a scoping review

Heide Weishaar;Lori Dorfman;Nicholas Freudenberg;Benjamin Hawkins

94
Citations
‘Whisky gloss’: The alcohol industry, devolution and policy communities in Scotland:

Chris Holden;Benjamin Hawkins

87
Citations
Cleavages and co-operation in the UK alcohol industry: a qualitative study.

Chris Holden;Benjamin Hawkins;Jim McCambridge

74
Citations
Industry Actors, Think Tanks, and Alcohol Policy in the United Kingdom

Benjamin Hawkins;Jim McCambridge

70
Citations
The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries

Cécile Knai;Mark Petticrew;Simon Capewell;Rebecca Cassidy

70
Citations
Agenda setting and framing of gender-based violence in Nepal: how it became a health issue

Manuela Colombini;Susannah H. Mayhew;Benjamin Hawkins;Meera Bista

67
Citations
Food and beverage product reformulation as a corporate political strategy.

C. Scott;B. Hawkins;C. Knai

57
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim McCambridge University of York

Kelley Lee Simon Fraser University

Susannah H. Mayhew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Cécile Knai London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Oliver Razum Bielefeld University

Nicholas Freudenberg City University of New York

Mark Petticrew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Laurence Moore University of Glasgow

Nicholas Mays London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Jim Orford University of Birmingham

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