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D-Index
70
Citations
18262
World Ranking
776
National Ranking
146

Danny Dorling 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 Danny Dorling sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 438 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Danny Dorling 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 Danny Dorling 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: 70 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% 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

Danny Dorling is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several domains mainly within the Social Sciences and Health Professions, with a significant number of publications in these fields. The primary subfields they cover include General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science, Education, and Finance.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Employment and Welfare Studies, Health disparities and outcomes, Global Health Care Issues, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Homelessness and Social Issues, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Danny Dorling include:

  • Changes in population movement make COVID-19 spread differently from SARS, 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • Things Fall Apart: the British Health Crisis 2010-2020, 2020, British Medical Bulletin
  • Associations between school enjoyment at age 6 and later educational achievement: evidence from a UK cohort study, 2021, npj Science of Learning
  • Growing socio-spatial inequality in neo-liberal times? Comparing Beijing and London, 2020, Applied Geography
  • Spatial and temporal inequalities in mortality in the USA, 1968-2016, 2021, Health & Place

Frequent co-authors of Dorling include:

  • Lucinda Hiam
  • Martin McKee
  • Annika Koljonen
  • Qiujie Shi
  • Benjamin D. Hennig

Scholarly output by Danny Dorling has appeared regularly in certain publication venues, including:

  • BMJ
  • British Medical Bulletin
  • Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
  • Public Health
  • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science

In the area of academic books, Dorling has published titles through several presses. These include:

  • Policy Press: Using Evidence to End Homelessness (2020), Peak Injustice (2024)
  • Agenda Publishing eBooks: Finntopia (2020)
  • Yale University Press: Slowdown (2020)

Danny Dorling holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Injustice (revised edition): Why social inequality still persists

    Daniel Dorling

  • The widening gap: Health inequalities and policy in Britain

    Mary Shaw;Daniel Dorling;David Gordon;George Davey Smith

  • Life expectancy: women now on top everywhere

    Anna Barford;Danny Dorling;George Davey Smith;Mary Shaw

  • Poverty, social exclusion and minorities

    M Shaw;D Dorling;G Davey Smith

  • Mapping : Ways of Representing the World

    Daniel Dorling;David Fairbairn

  • AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ANALYSIS OF BRITISH AIR QUALITY

    Gordon Mitchell;Danny Dorling

  • Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists

    Daniel Dorling

  • Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005

    Eldin Fahmy;Danny Dorling;Jan Rigby;Ben Wheeler

  • Ecological study of social fragmentation, poverty, and suicide.

    Elise Whitley;David Gunnell;Daniel Dorling;George Davey Smith

  • All That Is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It

    Daniel Dorling

  • Why are suicide rates rising in young men but falling in the elderly?-- a time-series analysis of trends in England and Wales 1950-1998.

    David Gunnell;Nicos Middleton;Elise Whitley;Daniel Dorling

  • Area cartograms: Their use and creation

    Daniel Dorling

  • Government Debt

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  • People and Places: A 2001 Census Atlas of the UK

    Daniel Dorling;Bethan Thomas

  • Inequality and the 1

    Daniel Dorling

  • SimBritain: a spatial microsimulation approach to population dynamics

    Dimitris Ballas;Graham Clarke;Danny Dorling;Heather Eyre

  • The risk of prostate cancer amongst black men in the United Kingdom: the PROCESS cohort study.

    Y. Ben Shlomo;S. Evans;C. Metcalfe;F. Ibrahim

  • Geographies of the agenda: public policy, the discipline and its (re)‘turns’

    Danny Dorling;Mary Shaw

  • Inequalities in premature mortality in Britain: observational study from 1921 to 2007

    Bethan Thomas;Danny Dorling;George Davey Smith

  • Brexit: the decision of a divided country

    Danny Dorling

  • A New Social Atlas of Britain

    Daniel Dorling

  • Secular trends in antidepressant prescribing in the UK, 1975–1998

    Nicos Middleton;David Gunnell;Elise Whitley;Daniel Dorling

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Shaw
Mary Shaw University of Bristol
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol
Richard Mitchell
Richard Mitchell University of Glasgow
Charles Pattie
Charles Pattie University of Sheffield
Ron Johnston
Ron Johnston University of Bristol
Dimitris Ballas
Dimitris Ballas University of Groningen
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David Gunnell
David Gunnell University of Bristol
Jamie Pearce
Jamie Pearce University of Edinburgh
Graham Clarke
Graham Clarke University of Leeds

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