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D-Index
42
Citations
7032
World Ranking
4776
National Ranking
805

Fiona Wood 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 Fiona Wood sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 151 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Fiona Wood 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 Fiona Wood sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Fiona Wood is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within Medicine and Health Professions, with a particular focus on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Sociology and Political Science, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's work covers several key topics including:

  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement

Fiona Wood has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Contribution of rare and predicted pathogenic gene variants to childhood-onset lupus: a large, genetic panel analysis of British and French cohorts, 2020, The Lancet Rheumatology
  • Perceived threat of COVID-19, attitudes towards vaccination, and vaccine hesitancy: A prospective longitudinal study in the UK, 2022, British Journal of Health Psychology
  • New insights on the evolutionary relationships between the major lineages of Amoebozoa, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Unpacking the 'black box of horrendousness': a qualitative exploration of the barriers and facilitators to conducting trials involving adults lacking capacity to consent, 2022, Trials
  • Early impact of COVID-19 social distancing measures on reported sexual behaviour of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis users in Wales, 2020, Sexually Transmitted Infections

The researcher frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Trials
  • Health Expectations
  • Lara D. Veeken
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • AIDS and Behavior

Collaborations form a significant part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Kerenza Hood
  • Victoria Shepherd
  • David Gillespie
  • Zoë Couzens
  • A. Williams

Best Publications

  • Keywords in Qualitative Methods

    Michael John Bloor;Fiona Claire Wood

  • ‘Distributed health literacy’: longitudinal qualitative analysis of the roles of health literacy mediators and social networks of people living with a long‐term health condition

    Michelle Edwards;Fiona Claire Wood;Myfanwy Davies;Adrian Edwards

  • Effect of using an interactive booklet about childhood respiratory tract infections in primary care consultations on reconsulting and antibiotic prescribing: a cluster randomised controlled trial

    Nicholas Andrew Francis;Christopher Collett Butler;Kerenza Hood;Sharon Anne Simpson

  • The development of health literacy in patients with a long-term health condition: the health literacy pathway model

    Michelle Edwards;Fiona Claire Wood;Myfanwy Davies;Adrian G. Edwards

  • General practitioners' perceptions of antimicrobial resistance: a qualitative study

    Sharon Anne Simpson;Fiona Claire Wood;Christopher Collett Butler

  • Antibiotic prescribing in UK general dental practice: a cross-sectional study

    Anwen Cope;Nicholas Andrew Francis;Fiona Claire Wood;Ivor Gordon Chestnutt

  • Systemic antibiotics for symptomatic apical periodontitis and acute apical abscess in adults

    Anwen Cope;Nicholas Francis;Fiona Wood;Mala K. Mann

  • Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions

    Sarah Morgan-Trimmer;Fiona Wood

  • Repositioning the patient: the implications of being 'at risk'

    S. Scott;L. Prior;F. Wood;J. Gray

  • Stigma revisited, disclosure of emotional problems in primary care consultations in Wales.

    Lindsay Prior;Fiona Wood;Glyn Lewis;Roisin Pill

  • Socially responsible antibiotic choices in primary care: A qualitative study of GPs' decisions to prescribe broad-spectrum and fluroquinolone antibiotics

    Fiona Claire Wood;Sharon Anne Simpson;Christopher Collett Butler

  • Shared decision making and risk communication in practice: a qualitative study of GPs' experiences

    Adrian Edwards;Glyn Elwyn;Fiona Wood;Christine Atwell

  • Influences of cancer symptom knowledge, beliefs and barriers on cancer symptom presentation in relation to socioeconomic deprivation: a systematic review

    Grace M. McCutchan;Fiona Wood;Adrian Edwards;Rebecca Richards

  • Public attitudes towards bacterial resistance: a qualitative study

    Nancy J. Hawkings;Fiona Claire Wood;Christopher Collett Butler

  • ‘The Body Gets Used to Them’: Patients’ Interpretations of Antibiotic Resistance and the Implications for Containment Strategies

    Lucy Brookes-Howell;Glyn Elwyn;Kerenza Hood;Fiona Claire Wood

  • Supporting shared decision making using an Option Grid for osteoarthritis of the knee in an interface musculoskeletal clinic: A stepped wedge trial

    Glyn Elwyn;Timothy E. Pickles;Adrian G. Edwards;Katharine Kinsey

  • Disease trajectories and ACT/RCPCH categories in paediatric palliative care.

    Fiona Claire Wood;Sharon Anne Simpson;Emma J. Barnes;Richard D. W. Hain

  • The implementation of guidelines and computerised forms improves the completeness of cancer pathology reporting. The CROPS project: a randomised controlled trial in pathology

    L.K Branston;S Greening;R.G Newcombe;R Daoud

  • Antibiotics in the community: a typology of user behaviours.

    Nancy Jane Hawkings;Christopher Collett Butler;Fiona Claire Wood

  • Protection by exclusion? The (lack of) inclusion of adults who lack capacity to consent to research in clinical trials in the UK

    Victoria Shepherd;Fiona Wood;Richard Griffith;Mark Sheehan

  • Characterising the nature of primary care patient safety incident reports in the England and Wales National Reporting and Learning System: a mixed-methods agenda-setting study for general practice

    Andrew Carson-Stevens;Andrew Carson-Stevens;Peter Hibbert;Huw Williams;Huw Prosser Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Edwards
Adrian Edwards Cardiff University
Kerenza Hood
Kerenza Hood Cardiff University
Christopher Collett Butler
Christopher Collett Butler University of Oxford
Michael Bloor
Michael Bloor Cardiff University
Glyn Elwyn
Glyn Elwyn Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh University of Oxford
Sharon Anne Simpson
Sharon Anne Simpson University of Glasgow
Gareth Parry
Gareth Parry Freeman Hospital
Robert G. Newcombe
Robert G. Newcombe Cardiff University
Herman Goossens
Herman Goossens University of Antwerp

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