2026 Carol Thomas: 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	48	3114	2859	526	479	226	10831

Overview

Carol Thomas is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with specific attention to Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Plant Science, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health as subfields of study.

Their academic work covers a range of topics including:

Mosquito-borne diseases and control
Insect Pest Control Strategies
Malaria Research and Control
Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
Health and Wellbeing Research
Obesity and Health Practices

Carol Thomas has contributed to several academic publications across multiple journals and venues, including:

Journal of Medical Entomology
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
BMC Primary Care
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology

Their recent papers include:

"Baseline Susceptibility Status of Florida Populations of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) and Aedes albopictus," 2020, Journal of Medical Entomology
"Avoidance-Endurance Model in Older Black Men with Low Back Pain: Exploring Relationships," 2022, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
"The i-ACT™ in Obesity educational intervention: a pilot study on improving Canadian family physician care in obesity medicine," 2022, BMC Primary Care
"prepOSCE: A Virtual, Scalable Solution to Prepare Residents for Their OSCE Examination," 2022, Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
"P213 UNMET MEDICAL NEED ACROSS THE ASTHMA DISEASE SPECTRUM: A US FOCUS GROUP STUDY," 2020, Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology

Carol Thomas has worked collaboratively with co-authors including Dottington Fullwood, Stuart Menzies, Laura Garofalo, Casey Parker, and Daviela Ramirez.

In addition to journal publications, Carol Thomas has authored a book published by Dialética eBooks titled A tutela jurídica da mata ciliar urbana e o registro imobiliário como instrumento à informação ambiental, released in 2024.

Best Publications

Female Forms: Experiencing and Understanding Disability

Carol Thomas

1191
Citations
How is disability understood? An examination of sociological approaches

Carol Thomas

840
Citations
Sociologies of Disability and Illness

Carol Thomas

791
Citations
Theorising inequalities in health : the place of lay knowledge.

Jennie Popay;Gareth Williams;Carol Thomas;Tony Gatrell

429
Citations
Companions through cancer : the care given by informal carers in cancer contexts

Carol J. Thomas;Sara M. Morris;Juliet C. Harman;Juliet C. Harman

389
Citations
Sociologies of Disability and Illness: Contested Ideas in Disability Studies and Medical Sociology

Carol Thomas

376
Citations
Place of death: preferences among cancer patients and their carers.

Carol Thomas;S. M. Morris;D. Clark

301
Citations
Health seeking behaviour and the control of sexually transmitted disease.

Helen Ward;Thierry E Mertens;Carol Thomas

274
Citations
A proper place to live: health inequalities, agency and the normative dimensions of space.

Jennie Popay;Carol Thomas;Gareth Howard Williams;Sharon Bennett

272
Citations
De-Constructing Concepts of Care:

Carol Thomas

258
Citations
The significant unmet needs of cancer patients: probing psychosocial concerns.

Keith L. Soothill;Sara Morris;J. Harman;Brian J. Francis

234
Citations
The psychosocial needs of cancer patients: findings from an observational study.

Malcolm B. McIllmurray;Carol Thomas;Brian J. Francis;Sara Morris

223
Citations
Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies

Nick Watson;Alan Roulstone;Carol H. Thomas

220
Citations
Informal carers of cancer patients: what are their unmet psychosocial needs?

Keith L. Soothill;Sara Morris;J. Harman;Brian J. Francis

220
Citations
Beyond 'beer, fags, egg and chips'? Exploring lay understandings of social inequalities in health

Jennie Popay;Sharon Bennett;Carol Thomas;Gareth Howard Williams

216
Citations
Rescuing a social relational understanding of disability

Carol Thomas

211
Citations
Disability theory : key ideas, issues and thinkers

Carol Thomas

190
Citations
Implications for public health research of models and theories of disability: A scoping study and evidence synthesis

Maria Jeanne Berghs;Karl Michael Atkin;Hilary Mavis Graham;Chris Hatton

186
Citations
Mapping the determinants of health inequalities in social space: can Bourdieu help us?

Anthony C Gatrell;Jennie Popay;Carol Thomas

172
Citations
The baby and the bath water: disabled women and motherhood in social context.

Carol Thomas

161
Citations
De-Constructing Concepts of Care

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92
Citations
Effective public health practice project quality assessment tool

Maria Berghs;Karl Atkin;Hilary Graham;Chris Hatton

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Hatton Manchester Metropolitan University

Karl Atkin University of York

Brian Francis Lancaster University

Hilary Graham University of York

Jennie Popay Lancaster University

Christine Milligan Lancaster University

Jane Simpson Lancaster University

Craig Murray Lancaster University

External Links

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