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Christine Bigby

Christine Bigby

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
51
Citations
9356
World Ranking
2611
National Ranking
187

Christine Bigby 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 Christine Bigby sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 347 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christine Bigby 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 Christine Bigby 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
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christine Bigby is affiliated with La Trobe University in Australia and has a research focus primarily within the Social Sciences and Health Professions. Their work spans several subfields including General Health Professions, Education, Safety Research, Clinical Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their publication record includes contributions to multiple journals with particular frequency in:

  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
  • Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability
  • Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
  • Australian Social Work

Main topics covered in their research include:

  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Disability Rights and Representation
  • Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
  • Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
  • Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
  • Health, Medicine and Society
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Bigby include Jacinta Douglas, Ilan Wiesel, E. Smith, Tal Araten-Bergman, and Shih-Ning Then.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Christine Bigby reflect the focus on intellectual disability and related social issues:

  • Dedifferentiation and people with intellectual disabilities in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme: Bringing research, politics and policy together (2020), Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability
  • People with intellectual disability and the digitization of services (2021), Geoforum
  • Social inclusion of LGBTQ and gender diverse adults with intellectual disability in disability services: A systematic review of the literature (2021), Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
  • COVID-19 IDD: Findings from a global survey exploring family members' and paid staff's perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their caregivers (2022), HRB Open Research
  • Violence Prevention Strategies for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review (2020), Australian Social Work

Best Publications

  • Conceptualizing Inclusive Research with People with Intellectual Disability

    Christine Bigby;Patsie Frawley;Paul Ramcharan

  • Known well by no‐one: Trends in the informal social networks of middle‐aged and older people with intellectual disability five years after moving to the community

    Christine Bigby

  • Ageing with a Lifelong Disability: A Guide to Practice, Program and Policy Issues for Human Services Professionals

    Christine Bigby

  • A systematic review of hospital experiences of people with intellectual disability

    Teresa. Iacono;Christine. Bigby;Carolyn A. Unsworth;Jacinta. Douglas

  • Breaking out of a distinct social space: reflections on supporting community participation for people with severe and profound intellectual disability

    Timothy Frederick. Clement;Christine. Bigby

  • Improving Quality of Life Outcomes in Supported Accommodation for People with Intellectual Disability: What Makes a Difference?

    Christine Bigby;Julie Beadle-Brown;Julie Beadle-Brown

  • Reflections on doing inclusive research in the “Making Life Good in the Community” study

    Christine Bigby;Patsie Frawley

  • 'It's pretty hard with our ones, they can't talk, the more able bodied can participate' : staff attitudes about the applicability of disability policies to people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities

    Christine. Bigby;Timothy Frederick. Clement;Jim. Mansell;Julie. Beadle-Brown

  • Social inclusion and people with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour: a systematic review.

    Christine Bigby

  • Supported Decision Making: Understanding How its Conceptual Link to Legal Capacity is Influencing the Development of Practice

    Michelle Browning;Christine Bigby;Jacinta Douglas

  • Beset by obstacles: a review of Australian policy development to support ageing in place for people with intellectual disability.

    Christine Bigby

  • Group Homes for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Encouraging Inclusion and Participation

    Timothy. Clement;Christine. Bigby

  • Issues of active ageing: Perceptions of older people with lifelong intellectual disability

    Laurie Buys;Gillian Boulton-Lewis;Jan Tedman-Jones;Helen Edwards

  • Ageing people with a lifelong disability: challenges for the aged care and disability sectors

    Christine Bigby

  • Uncovering dimensions of culture in underperforming group homes for people with severe intellectual disability.

    Christine. Bigby;Marie. Knox;Julie. Beadle-Brown;Timothy. Clement

  • Social Interaction with Adults with Severe Intellectual Disability: Having Fun and Hanging Out

    Hilary Johnson;Jacinta Douglas;Christine Bigby;Teresa Iacono

  • Providing Support for Decision Making to Adults with Intellectual Disability: Perspectives of Family Members and Workers in Disability Support Services.

    Christine Bigby;Mary Whiteside;Jacinta Douglas

  • Parental Substitutes: The Role of Siblings in the Lives of Older People with Intellectual Disability

    Christine Bigby

  • Supporting workers with disabilities: a scoping review of the role of human resource management in contemporary organisations

    Jillian Cavanagh;Timothy Bartram;Hannah Meacham;Christine Bigby

  • Encounter as a dimension of social inclusion for people with intellectual disability: Beyond and between community presence and participation

    Christine Bigby;Ilan Wiesel

  • A Collaborative Group Method of Inclusive Research

    Christine Bigby;Patsie Frawley;Paul Ramcharan

  • A survey of people with intellectual disabilities living in residential aged care facilities in Victoria.

    Christine. Bigby;Ruth. Webber;Barbara. Bowers;Barbara. McKenzie-Green

  • Australian social work

    Christine Bigby;Mark Hughes;Elizabeth Ozanne

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacinta Douglas
Jacinta Douglas La Trobe University
Julie Beadle-Brown
Julie Beadle-Brown University of Kent
Teresa Iacono
Teresa Iacono La Trobe University
Susan Balandin
Susan Balandin Deakin University
Roger J. Stancliffe
Roger J. Stancliffe University of Sydney
Jim Mansell
Jim Mansell University of Kent
Luis Salvador-Carulla
Luis Salvador-Carulla Australian National University
Gillian M. Boulton-Lewis
Gillian M. Boulton-Lewis Queensland University of Technology
Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson University of Melbourne
Tamar Heller
Tamar Heller University of Illinois at Chicago

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