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World Ranking
438
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David Nicholas 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 Nicholas sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 529 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Nicholas 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 Nicholas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

David Nicholas is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, health professions, and social sciences. Within these disciplines, their work concentrates on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as speech and hearing.

Their main topics of investigation include family and disability support research, autism spectrum disorder research, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, social work education and practice, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, family and patient care in intensive care units, and disability education and employment.

David Nicholas has contributed to multiple recent publications. These include:

  • "Workplace Social Challenges Experienced by Employees on the Autism Spectrum: An International Exploratory Study Examining Employee and Supervisor Perspectives" (2020), Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • "Patient- and Family-Centered Care in the Emergency Department for Children With Autism" (2020), PEDIATRICS
  • "Transitional Care Interventions for Youth With Disabilities: A Systematic Review" (2020), PEDIATRICS
  • "Autism Voices: A novel method to access first-person perspective of autistic youth" (2021), Autism
  • "Autism voices: Perspectives of the needs, challenges, and hopes for the future of autistic youth" (2022), Autism

Their frequent coauthors reflect collaborative research efforts and include Rosslynn Zulla, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Lucyna Lach, Gina Dimitropoulos, and Julie Drolet. These professional relationships have contributed to advancing work in autism and related fields.

David Nicholas often publishes in venues specializing in autism and healthcare-related research. Notably, these include the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Autism, Paediatrics & Child Health, Transformative Social Work, and Autism in Adulthood.

Best Publications

  • Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (“Google Generation” project)

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  • The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future

    Ian Rowlands;David Nicholas;Peter Williams;Paul Huntington

  • Social media use in the research workflow

    Ian Rowlands;David Nicholas;Bill Russell;Nicholas Canty

  • The IMPACT questionnaire: a valid measure of health-related quality of life in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

    Anthony Otley;Claire Smith;David Nicholas;Marla Munk

  • Assessing Information Needs: Tools, Techniques and Concepts for the Internet Age

    David Nicholas

  • High-throughput detection of West Nile virus RNA

    Pei-Yong Shi;Elizabeth B. Kauffman;Ping Ren;Andy Felton

  • Literature and Bibliometrics

    David Nicholas;Maureen Ritchie

  • What do faculty and students really think about e‐books?

    Ian Rowlands;David Nicholas;Hamid R. Jamali;Paul Huntington

  • Peer review: still king in the digital age

    David Nicholas;Anthony Watkinson;Hamid R. Jamali;Eti Herman

  • Scholarly e-books: the views of 16,000 academics

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  • Scholarly communication in the digital environment: what do authors want?

    Ian Rowlands;David Nicholas;Paul Huntington

  • Patient navigators for people with chronic disease: A systematic review

    Kerry A. McBrien;Noah Ivers;Lianne Barnieh;Jacob J. Bailey

  • Scholarly e-books: the views of 16,000 academics Results from the JISC National E-Book Observatory

    R M Hamid Jamali;David Nicholas;Ian Rowlands

  • Early career researchers and their publishing and authorship practices

    David Nicholas;Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo;Anthony Watkinson;Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri

  • Social media use in the research workflow

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  • Integrated complex care coordination for children with medical complexity: A mixed-methods evaluation of tertiary care-community collaboration

    Eyal Cohen;Eyal Cohen;Ashley Lacombe-Duncan;Karen Spalding;Jennifer MacInnis

  • Bereavement experiences of mothers and fathers over time after the death of a child due to cancer.

    Rifat Alam;Maru Barrera;Norma D'Agostino;David B Nicholas

  • UK scholarly e‐book usage: a landmark survey

    David Nicholas;Ian Rowlands;David J. Clark;Paul Huntington

  • Online versus offline research: implications for evaluating digital media

    Barrie Gunter;David Nicholas;Paul Huntington;Peter Williams

  • Challenges and strategies of children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease: a qualitative examination

    David B Nicholas;Anthony R Otley;Claire Smith;Julie Avolio

  • A user‐oriented evaluation of digital libraries: case study the “electronic journals” service of the library and information service of the University of Patras, Greece

    Maria Monopoli;David Nicholas;Panagiotis Georgiou;Marina Korfiati

  • Scholarly journal usage: the results of deep log analysis

    David Nicholas;Paul Huntington;Anthony Watkinson

  • Google Generation II: web behaviour experiments with the BBC

    David Nicholas;Ian Rowlands;David J. Clark;Peter Williams

  • Detection by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay of Antibodies to West Nile virus in Birds

    Gregory D. Ebel;Alan P. Dupuis;David Nicholas;Donna Young

  • Using ICT with people with special education needs: what the literature tells us

    Peter Williams;Hamid R. Jamali;David Nicholas

  • E-textbook use, information seeking behaviour and its impact: Case study business and management

    David Nicholas;Ian Rowlands;Hamid R. Jamali

  • The information seeking behaviour of the users of digital scholarly journals

    David Nicholas;Paul Huntington;Hamid R. Jamali;Anthony Watkinson

  • Student digital information‐seeking behaviour in context

    David Nicholas;Paul Huntington;Hamid R. Jamali;Ian Rowlands

  • Where and how early career researchers find scholarly information

    David Nicholas;David Nicholas;Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri;Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo;Jie Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Huntington
Paul Huntington University College London
Ian Rowlands
Ian Rowlands University College London
Hamid R. Jamali
Hamid R. Jamali Charles Sturt University
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Barrie Gunter
Barrie Gunter University of Leicester
Carol Tenopir
Carol Tenopir University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jie Xu
Jie Xu Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Joyce Magill-Evans
Joyce Magill-Evans University of Alberta
Maru Barrera
Maru Barrera University of Toronto
Wendy Roberts
Wendy Roberts University of Toronto

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