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D-Index
41
Citations
6268
World Ranking
5100
National Ranking
2407

Johanna Shapiro 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 Johanna Shapiro sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 189 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Johanna Shapiro 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 Johanna Shapiro sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Johanna Shapiro is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a particular focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology, and Health Information Management.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Film in Education and Therapy
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Resilience and Mental Health

Frequent coauthors of Shapiro's work are:

  • Tan Nguyen
  • Cynthia Haq
  • Avital Fischer
  • Reece Fenning
  • Tien Lam

The most common publication venues for Shapiro include:

  • Journal of Medical Humanities
  • CMAJ Open
  • Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare
  • Families Systems & Health
  • PLoS ONE

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Shapiro highlight a focus on medical education, empathy, and the intersection of medicine and the humanities. Notable papers include:

  • "Medical Students' Creation of Original Poetry, Comics, and Masks to Explore Professional Identity Formation" (2021, Journal of Medical Humanities)
  • "Healing words: My journey with poetry and medicine." (2020, Families Systems & Health)

Other relevant recent papers in related research fields where Shapiro was involved as an author or coauthor include:

  • "Clinical empathy as perceived by patients with chronic illness in Canada: a qualitative focus group study" (2023, CMAJ Open)
  • "Views from the trenches: California family physicians' challenges and resilience factors while providing patient care during the initial wave of COVID-19" (2022, Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare)
  • "A randomized, controlled study to assess if allopathic-osteopathic collaboration influences stereotypes, interprofessional readiness, and doctor-patient communication" (2022, PLoS ONE)

Best Publications

  • Teaching empathy to first year medical students: evaluation of an elective literature and medicine course.

    Johanna Shapiro;Elizabeth H. Morrison;John R. Boker

  • Medical humanities and their discontents: definitions, critiques, and implications.

    Johanna Shapiro;Jack Coulehan;Delese Wear;Martha Montello

  • Walking a mile in their patients' shoes: empathy and othering in medical students' education

    Johanna Shapiro

  • Training the clinical eye and mind: using the arts to develop medical students' observational and pattern recognition skills.

    Johanna Shapiro;Lloyd Rucker;Jill Beck

  • All the world's a stage: the use of theatrical performance in medical education.

    Johanna Shapiro;Lynn Hunt

  • Cultural Models of Transition: Latina Mothers of Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities

    Robert Rueda;Lilia Monzo;Johanna Shapiro;Juan Gomez

  • Perspective: Does medical education promote professional alexithymia? A call for attending to the emotions of patients and self in medical training

    Johanna Shapiro

  • Family reactions and coping strategies in response to the physically ill or handicapped child: a review.

    Johanna Shapiro

  • Words and Wards: A Model of Reflective Writing and Its Uses in Medical Education

    Johanna Shapiro;Deborah Kasman;Audrey Shafer

  • Contributions to depression in Latina mothers with and without children with retardation: Implications for caregiving

    Jan Blacher;Steven Lopez;Johanna Shapiro;Judith Fusco

  • Depression in Latina mothers of children with mental retardation: A neglected concern.

    J Blacher;J Shapiro;S Lopez;L Diaz

  • How do physicians teach empathy in the primary care setting

    Johanna Shapiro

  • Can Poetry Make Better Doctors? Teaching the Humanities and Arts to Medical Students and Residents at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine

    Johanna Shapiro;Lloyd Rucker

  • Latina mothers' attributions, emotions, and reactions to the problem behaviors of their children with developmental disabilities.

    Víctor Chavira;Steven R. López;Jan Blacher;Johanna Shapiro

  • Alienated advocacy: perspectives of Latina mothers of young adults with developmental disabilities on service systems.

    Johanna Shapiro;Lilia D. Monzó;Robert Rueda;Juan A. Gomez

  • Illness narratives: reliability, authenticity and the empathic witness

    Johanna Shapiro

  • Resident doctors' understanding of their roles as clinical teachers.

    Elizabeth H Morrison;Johanna F Shapiro;Miriam Harthill

  • Point-of-view writing: A method for increasing medical students' empathy, identification and expression of emotion, and insight.

    Johanna Shapiro;Lloyd Rucker;John Boker;Desiree Lie

  • Generational differences in psychosocial adaptation and predictors of psychological distress in a population of recent Vietnamese immigrants.

    J Shapiro;K Douglas;O de la Rocha;S Radecki

  • Sexual Behavior and AIDS-Related Knowledge among Community College Students in Orange County, California

    Johanna Shapiro;Stephen Radecki;Arthur S. Charchian;Valerie Josephson

  • Primary care resident, faculty, and patient views of barriers to cultural competence, and the skills needed to overcome them.

    Johanna Shapiro;Judy Hollingshead;Elizabeth H Morrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Blacher
Jan Blacher University of California, Riverside
Steven R. López
Steven R. López University of Southern California
Shauna L. Shapiro
Shauna L. Shapiro Santa Clara University
Richard L. Kravitz
Richard L. Kravitz University of California, Davis

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