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Joshua A. Fishman

Joshua A. Fishman

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
67
Citations
20791
World Ranking
893
National Ranking
425

Joshua A. Fishman 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 Joshua A. Fishman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 392 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joshua A. Fishman 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 Joshua A. Fishman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% 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

  • 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

  • Bilingualism With and Without Diglossia; Diglossia With and Without Bilingualism

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • The Sociology of Language

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Readings in the Sociology of Language

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Who speaks what language to whom and when

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Handbook of language & ethnic identity

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Language and ethnicity

    James R. Dow;Joshua A. Fishman

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

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Language Loyalty in the United States

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Language Problems of Developing Nations.

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

  • Bilingualism in the barrio

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Sociolinguistics: A Brief Introduction

    Robbins Burling;Joshua A. Fishman

  • Language and Nationalism; Two Integrative Essays

    Joshua Aaron Fishman

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

    Glenn G. Gilbert;Joshua A. Fishman

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

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Language Problems of Developing Nations

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Advances in language planning

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Language Loyalty in the United States

    Paul Wexler;Joshua A. Fishman

  • Sociolinguistics : a brief introduction.

    Joshua A. Fishman

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

    Joshua A. Fishman

  • Progress in Language Planning : International Perspectives

    Juan Cobarrubias;Joshua A. Fishman

  • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

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

  • Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective

    Jarmila L. A. Horna;Joshua A. Fishman

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Ofelia García
Ofelia García City University of New York
Guadalupe Valdés
Guadalupe Valdés Stanford University
Morton Deutsch
Morton Deutsch Columbia University
Bernard Spolsky
Bernard Spolsky Bar-Ilan University
Nancy H. Hornberger
Nancy H. Hornberger University of Pennsylvania
Suzanne Romaine
Suzanne Romaine University of Oxford
Michael Clyne
Michael Clyne University of Melbourne
Robert B. Kaplan
Robert B. Kaplan University of Southern California
Braj B. Kachru
Braj B. Kachru University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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