2026 David Hemenway: 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	81	356	307	165	141	328	19448

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

1031
Citations
Violent Death Rates: The US Compared with Other High-income OECD Countries, 2010.

Erin Grinshteyn;David A. Hemenway

506
Citations
Are Positional Concerns Stronger in Some Domains than in Others

Sara J. Solnick;David Hemenway

423
Citations
Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States

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

363
Citations
Household firearm ownership and rates of suicide across the 50 United States.

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

341
Citations
High injury rates among female army trainees: a function of gender?

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

326
Citations
Firearm availability and unintentional firearm deaths, suicide, and homicide among 5-14 year olds.

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

297
Citations
Physicians' responses to financial incentives. Evidence from a for-profit ambulatory care center.

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

297
Citations
Homicide, suicide, and unintentional firearm fatality: comparing the United States with other high-income countries, 2003

Erin G. Richardson;David A. Hemenway

267
Citations
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

259
Citations
Firearm availability and homicide: A review of the literature

Lisa M. Hepburn;David A. Hemenway

259
Citations
Guns and suicide in the United States

Margaret Miller;David A. Hemenway

257
Citations
The epidemiology of case fatality rates for suicide in the northeast

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

256
Citations
Household firearm ownership and suicide rates in the United States.

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

250
Citations
Rates of Household Firearm Ownership and Homicide Across US Regions and States, 1988–1997

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

238
Citations
The relationship between firearms and suicide: A review of the literature

Margaret Miller;David A. Hemenway

235
Citations
Industrywide voluntary product standards

David Hemenway

234
Citations
The US gun stock: results from the 2004 national firearms survey.

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

226
Citations
The Stock and Flow of U.S. Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey

Deborah Azrael;Lisa Hepburn;David Hemenway;Matthew Miller

218
Citations
Child-rearing violence

David Hemenway;Sara Solnick;Jennifer Carter

216
Citations
Humanitarian Relief Workers and Trauma-related Mental Illness

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

210
Citations
Firearms and violence: a critical review

D Hemenway

12
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah R. Azrael Harvard University

Renee M. Johnson Johns Hopkins University

Matthew C. Miller Northeastern University

Jay G. Silverman University of California, San Diego

Emily F. Rothman Boston University

Jhumka Gupta George Mason University

Michael Siegel Tufts University

Michele R. Decker Johns Hopkins University

Beth E. Molnar Northeastern University

Marc A. Zimmerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

Wikipedia of David Hemenway Personal website of David Hemenway Google Scholar page

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