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David Hemenway 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 David Hemenway sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 328 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Hemenway 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 David Hemenway sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 81 D-Index — 96th percentile

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

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

Overview

David Hemenway is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has a significant record of research primarily within the social sciences, with a focus on psychology. Their work covers multiple subfields, including health, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, ophthalmology, and general health professions.

The main topics of study in Hemenway's research include gun ownership and violence research, suicide and self-harm studies, traumatic ocular and foreign body injuries, crime patterns and interventions, injury epidemiology and prevention, public health policies and education, and policing practices and perceptions.

Frequent co-authors include Deborah Azrael, Catherine Barber, Matthew Miller, and Vageesh Jain.

Hemenway has published extensively in several academic venues. These include:

  • Preventive Medicine
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Injury Epidemiology
  • Journal of Urban Health
  • Injury Prevention

Representative recent papers by Hemenway and collaborators include:

  • "Crossing Lines - A Change in the Leading Cause of Death among U.S. Children" (2022), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "A Typology of Civilians Shot and Killed by US Police: a Latent Class Analysis of Firearm Legal Intervention Homicide in the 2014-2015 National Violent Death Reporting System" (2020), published in Journal of Urban Health
  • "The Scope of the Problem: Gun Violence in the USA" (2020), published in Current Trauma Reports
  • "The association between weather and the number of daily shootings in Chicago (2012-2016)" (2020), published in Injury Epidemiology
  • "Who owned the gun in firearm suicides of men, women, and youth in five US states?" (2022), published in Preventive Medicine

Best Publications

  • Is more always better?: A survey on positional concerns

    Sara J. Solnick;David Hemenway

  • Violent Death Rates: The US Compared with Other High-income OECD Countries, 2010.

    Erin Grinshteyn;David A. Hemenway

  • Are Positional Concerns Stronger in Some Domains than in Others

    Sara J. Solnick;David Hemenway

  • Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States

    Eric W. Fleegler;Lois Kaye Lee;Michael C. Monuteaux;David Hemenway

  • Household firearm ownership and rates of suicide across the 50 United States.

    Margaret Miller;Steven J. Lippmann;Deborah R. Azrael;David A. Hemenway

  • High injury rates among female army trainees: a function of gender?

    Nicole S. Bell;Thomas W. Mangione;David A. Hemenway;Paul J. Amoroso

  • Firearm availability and unintentional firearm deaths, suicide, and homicide among 5-14 year olds.

    Margaret Miller;Deborah R. Azrael;David A. Hemenway

  • Physicians' responses to financial incentives. Evidence from a for-profit ambulatory care center.

    David Hemenway;Alice Killen;Suzanne B. Cashman;Cindy Lou Parks

  • Homicide, suicide, and unintentional firearm fatality: comparing the United States with other high-income countries, 2003

    Erin G. Richardson;David A. Hemenway

  • Intimate partner violence functions as both a risk marker and risk factor for women's HIV infection: findings from Indian husband-wife dyads.

    Michele R. Decker;George R. Seage;David A. Hemenway;Anita Raj

  • Firearm availability and homicide: A review of the literature

    Lisa M. Hepburn;David A. Hemenway

  • Guns and suicide in the United States

    Margaret Miller;David A. Hemenway

  • The epidemiology of case fatality rates for suicide in the northeast

    Margaret Miller;Deborah R. Azrael;David A. Hemenway

  • Household firearm ownership and suicide rates in the United States.

    Margaret Miller;Deborah R. Azrael;David A. Hemenway

  • Rates of Household Firearm Ownership and Homicide Across US Regions and States, 1988–1997

    Margaret Miller;Deborah R. Azrael;David A. Hemenway

  • The relationship between firearms and suicide: A review of the literature

    Margaret Miller;David A. Hemenway

  • Industrywide voluntary product standards

    David Hemenway

  • The US gun stock: results from the 2004 national firearms survey.

    L. Hepburn;Margaret Miller;Deborah R. Azrael;David A. Hemenway

  • The Stock and Flow of U.S. Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey

    Deborah Azrael;Lisa Hepburn;David Hemenway;Matthew Miller

  • Child-rearing violence

    David Hemenway;Sara Solnick;Jennifer Carter

  • Humanitarian Relief Workers and Trauma-related Mental Illness

    Ellen Connorton;Melissa J. Perry;David Hemenway;Matthew Miller

  • Firearms and violence: a critical review

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Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah R. Azrael
Deborah R. Azrael Harvard University
Renee M. Johnson
Renee M. Johnson Johns Hopkins University
Matthew C. Miller
Matthew C. Miller Northeastern University
Jay G. Silverman
Jay G. Silverman University of California, San Diego
Emily F. Rothman
Emily F. Rothman Boston University
Jhumka Gupta
Jhumka Gupta George Mason University
Beth E. Molnar
Beth E. Molnar Northeastern University
Michael Siegel
Michael Siegel Tufts University
Michele R. Decker
Michele R. Decker Johns Hopkins University
Michael C. Monuteaux
Michael C. Monuteaux Boston Children's Hospital

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