2026 Joshua A. Fishman: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	67	893	425	392	20791

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Research.com Recognitions

1961 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Joshua A. Fishman was affiliated with Yeshiva University in the United States. Their research spanned several interconnected fields and topics, with a primary focus on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study in their work included:

Medicine
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields within these areas featured prominently in their research output and included:

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Genetics
Physiology
Molecular Biology
Economics and Econometrics

The core topics addressed in their scholarly work were:

Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
BRCA gene mutations in cancer
Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
Ethics in Clinical Research
Ethics in medical practice
Patient Dignity and Privacy
Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Joshua A. Fishman were the following:

"Reflection and soul searching": Negotiating nursing identity at the fault lines of palliative care and medical assistance in dying (2021, Social Science & Medicine)
Perfectionism, Locus of Control, And Academic Stress Among College Students (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)
Citizen science or scientific citizenship? Disentangling the uses of public engagement rhetoric in national research initiatives (2020, UNC Libraries)
After the revolution? Ethical and social challenges in 'personalized genomic medicine' (2020, UNC Libraries)
"Let's pull these technologies out of the ivory tower": The politics, ethos, and ironies of participant-driven genomic research (2020, UNC Libraries)

The scientist published frequently in several venues, with their work appearing most often in UNC Libraries, alongside contributions to Social Science & Medicine, SSRN Electronic Journal, PLoS ONE, and Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology.

Frequent collaborators included:

Eric T. Juengst
Michelle L. McGowan
Richard A. Settersten
Suparna Choudhury
Marcie A. Lambrix

Joshua A. Fishman was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1961.

Best Publications

Reversing Language Shift:Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages

Joshua A. Fishman

1889
Citations
Bilingualism With and Without Diglossia; Diglossia With and Without Bilingualism

Joshua A. Fishman

1780
Citations
The Sociology of Language

Joshua A. Fishman

527
Citations
Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective

Joshua A. Fishman

517
Citations
Readings in the Sociology of Language

Joshua A. Fishman

515
Citations
Who speaks what language to whom and when

Joshua A. Fishman

433
Citations
Handbook of language & ethnic identity

Joshua A. Fishman

385
Citations
Language and ethnicity

James R. Dow;Joshua A. Fishman

376
Citations
Can threatened languages be saved? : reversing language shift, revisited : a 21st century perspective

Joshua A. Fishman

370
Citations
Language Loyalty in the United States

Joshua A. Fishman

361
Citations
Language Problems of Developing Nations.

Mary Sanches;Joshua A. Fishman;Charles A. Ferguson;Jyotirindra das Gupta

333
Citations
Bilingualism in the barrio

Joshua A. Fishman

316
Citations
Sociolinguistics: A Brief Introduction

Robbins Burling;Joshua A. Fishman

315
Citations
Language and Nationalism; Two Integrative Essays

Joshua Aaron Fishman

297
Citations
The Sociology of Language: An Interdisciplinary Social Science Approach to Language in Society

Glenn G. Gilbert;Joshua A. Fishman

253
Citations
Language Loyalty in the United States: The Maintenance and Perpetuation of Non-English Mother Tongues by American Ethnic and Religious Groups.

Joshua A. Fishman

239
Citations
Language Problems of Developing Nations

Joshua A. Fishman

212
Citations
Advances in language planning

Joshua A. Fishman

172
Citations
Language Loyalty in the United States

Paul Wexler;Joshua A. Fishman

161
Citations
Sociolinguistics : a brief introduction.

Joshua A. Fishman

145
Citations
The sociology of language: An interdisciplinary social science approach to language in society

Joshua A. Fishman

133
Citations
Progress in Language Planning : International Perspectives

Juan Cobarrubias;Joshua A. Fishman

107
Citations
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Joshua A. Fishman;Joav Findling;David L. Sills

16
Citations
Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective

Jarmila L. A. Horna;Joshua A. Fishman

12
Citations
Language Loyalty in the United States: The Maintenance and Perpetuation of Non-English Mother Tongues by American Ethnic and Religious Groups.

Julian Samora;Joshua A. Fishman

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ofelia García City University of New York

Guadalupe Valdés Stanford University

Morton Deutsch Columbia University

Bernard Spolsky Bar-Ilan University

Nancy H. Hornberger University of Pennsylvania

Suzanne Romaine University of Oxford

Michael Clyne University of Melbourne

External Links

Personal website of Joshua A. Fishman

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