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Brigitte Nerlich 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 Brigitte Nerlich sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 307 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Brigitte Nerlich 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 Brigitte Nerlich sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% 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

Brigitte Nerlich is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research integrates social sciences and psychology, focusing on the intersection of social representations, health, and communication. The scientist's work spans several subfields such as sociology and political science, social psychology, general health professions, molecular biology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research themes cover a range of topics including:

  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Social Representations and Identity
  • Community Health and Development
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

Nerlich's frequent publication venues highlight a consistent presence in interdisciplinary journals, notably:

  • New Genetics and Society
  • Medical Humanities
  • DuEPublico (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  • Public Understanding of Science
  • Palgrave Communications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Nerlich include:

  • "Social representations of 'social distancing' in response to COVID-19 in the UK media," 2021, Current Sociology
  • "Conceptualising Foot and Mouth Disease: The Socio-Cultural Role of Metaphors, Frames and Narratives," 2025, DuEPublico (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Other notable related works in which Nerlich is connected by frequent collaboration or thematic alignment are:

  • "Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome," 2020, Palgrave Communications
  • "Social representations, identity threat, and coping amid COVID-19," 2020, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
  • "Social representations of COVID-19 skeptics: denigration, demonization, and disenfranchisement," 2022, Politics Groups and Identities

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following coauthors:

  • Rusi Jaspal
  • Carmen McLeod
  • Carol Morris
  • Catherine Waddams Price
  • Aleksandra Stelmach

Nerlich is recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Science communication reconsidered.

    Tania M. Bubela;Matthew C. Nisbet;Rick Borchelt;Fern Brunger

  • Theory and language of climate change communication

    Brigitte Nerlich;Nelya Koteyko;Brian J. Brown

  • Disease metaphors in new epidemics: the UK media framing of the 2003 SARS epidemic.

    Patrick Wallis;Brigitte Nerlich

  • Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC Working Group 1 report.

    Warren Pearce;Kim Holmberg;Iina Hellsten;Brigitte Nerlich

  • Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media.

    Brigitte Nerlich;Christopher Halliday

  • 'Climategate': paradoxical metaphors and political paralysis

    Brigitte Nerlich

  • Metaphors and Biorisks: The War on Infectious Diseases and Invasive Species

    Brendon M. H. Larson;Brigitte Nerlich;Patrick Wallis

  • Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe

    Brigitte Nerlich;Rusi Jaspal

  • Fracking in the UK press: threat dynamics in an unfolding debate.

    Rusi Jaspal;Brigitte Nerlich

  • Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930: From etymology to contextuality

    Brigitte Nerlich

  • Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus

    Warren Pearce;Brian Brown;Brigitte Nerlich;Nelya Koteyko

  • Ambiguities we live by: towards a pragmatics of polysemy

    Brigitte Nerlich;David D. Clarke

  • The Book of Life: How the Completion of the Human Genome Project was Revealed to the Public:

    Brigitte Nerlich;Robert Dingwall;David D. Clarke

  • False friends: their origin and semantics in some selected languages

    Pedro J. Chamizo Domı́nguez;Brigitte Nerlich

  • Language, Action and Context: The Early History of Pragmatics in Europe and America 1780-1930

    Brigitte Nerlich;David D. Clarke

  • Polysemy : flexible patterns of meaning in mind and language

    Brigitte Nerlich

  • Climate change and ‘climategate’ in online reader comments: a mixed methods study

    Nelya Koteyko;Rusi Jaspal;Brigitte Nerlich

  • The meanings of ‘risk’: a view from corpus linguistics:

    Craig Hamilton;Svenja Adolphs;Brigitte Nerlich

  • Human Responses to Climate Change: Social Representation, Identity and Socio-psychological Action

    Rusi Jaspal;Brigitte Nerlich;Marco Cinnirella

  • From Carbon Markets to Carbon Morality: Creative Compounds as Framing Devices in Online Discourses on Climate Change Mitigation

    Nelya Koteyko;Mike Thelwall;Brigitte Nerlich

  • "The post-antibiotic apocalypse" and the "war on superbugs": catastrophe discourse in microbiology, its rhetorical form and political function.

    Brigitte Nerlich;Richard James

Frequent Co-Authors

David D. Clarke
David D. Clarke University of Nottingham
Rusi Jaspal
Rusi Jaspal University of Brighton
Robert Dingwall
Robert Dingwall Nottingham Trent University
Svenja Adolphs
Svenja Adolphs University of Nottingham
Timothy Caulfield
Timothy Caulfield University of Alberta
Gail Geller
Gail Geller Johns Hopkins University
Ronald Carter
Ronald Carter University of Nottingham
John Dupré
John Dupré University of Exeter
Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge
Matthew C. Nisbet
Matthew C. Nisbet Northeastern University

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