2026 Graham Scambler: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	48	3132	2876	531	484	181	10155

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

Publications

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Social Sciences and Humanities

3132

2876

531

484

181

10155

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

10155

World Ranking

3132

National Ranking

531

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

Overview

Graham Scambler is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls under the Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Sociology and Political Science. Other notable subfields in their work include General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations, Finance, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics covered in Scambler's research include:

Political and Economic history of UK and US
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Social and Cultural Dynamics
Employment and Welfare Studies
Critical Realism in Sociology
Social Policy and Reform Studies

Among recent papers authored by Scambler are the following:

Covid-19 as a 'breaching experiment': exposing the fractured society (2020), Health Sociology Review
The fractured society: structures, mechanisms, tendencies (2020), Journal of Critical Realism
Bridge building, medical sociology and beyond: an interview with Graham Scambler (2024), Journal of Critical Realism
Let's Campaign for a Fairer Society in the Aftermath of COVID-19 (2022), Frontiers in Sociology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Scambler include:

George Ikkos
Alice Scavarda
Joanna Bourke
Edward Shorter
Rob Poole

Scambler has published extensively in certain venues, with the most frequent being:

Journal of Critical Realism
Frontiers in Sociology
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society
Health Sociology Review
Social Science & Medicine

Their book publications are associated with established academic presses. These include:

Mind, State and Society (2021), published by Cambridge University Press
Healthy Societies (2024), published by Policy Press
Healthy Societies (2024), published as an eBook by Bristol University Press eBooks

Recognition for their academic work includes election as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

Being epileptic: coming to terms with stigma

Graham Scambler;Anthony Hopkins

1105
Citations
Culture and health

A David Napier;Clyde Ancarno;Beverley Butler;Joseph Calabrese

908
Citations
Health-related stigma.

Graham Scambler

891
Citations
Stigma and disease: changing paradigms

Graham Scambler

486
Citations
Re-framing Stigma: Felt and Enacted Stigma and Challenges to the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions

Graham Scambler

384
Citations
Health work, female sex workers and HIV/AIDS: global and local dimensions of stigma and deviance as barriers to effective interventions.

Graham Scambler;Frederique Paoli

307
Citations
Communicative and strategic action in interpreted consultations in primary health care: a Habermasian perspective.

Trisha Greenhalgh;Nadia Robb;Graham Scambler

277
Citations
Health and Social Change

GN Scambler

267
Citations
Generating a model of epileptic stigma: the role of qualitative analysis.

Graham Scambler;Anthony Hopkins

232
Citations
Sociology as Applied to Medicine

Graham Scambler

225
Citations
Sex Work Stigma : Opportunist Migrants in London

Graham Scambler

220
Citations
Rethinking Prostitution: Purchasing Sex in the 1990s

Graham Scambler;Annette Scambler

196
Citations
Sociology, social structure and health-related stigma

Graham Scambler

166
Citations
Heaping blame on shame: ‘Weaponising stigma’ for neoliberal times:

Graham Scambler

153
Citations
Why parents of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities requiring gastrostomy feeding need more support

Gillian M Craig;Graham Scambler;Lewis Spitz

152
Citations
Sport And Society: History, Power And Culture

Graham Scambler

145
Citations
Health inequalities: Health inequalities

Graham Scambler

143
Citations
Habermas, Critical Theory and Health

Graham Scambler

142
Citations
Risk, governmentality and the reconceptualization of citizenship

Paul Higgs;Graham Scambler

135
Citations
HOW DOCTORS DEAL WITH EPILEPSY

Anthony Hopkins;Graham Scambler

131
Citations
Sociological Theory and Medical Sociology

Priscilla Alderson;G. Scambler

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh

Fiona Stevenson University College London

Clive Seale Brunel University London

Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford

David Blane University College London

William C. Cockerham University of Alabama at Birmingham

Nicky Britten University of Exeter

External Links

Wikipedia of Graham Scambler Personal website of Graham Scambler Google Scholar page

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