2026 Katherine E. Smith: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	44	388	348	59	55	205	6301

Katherine E. Smith publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Katherine E. Smith sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 333+

This scientist: 205 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Katherine E. Smith D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Katherine E. Smith sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Katherine E. Smith is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Health, Management Science and Operations Research, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics covered in Smith's research include:

Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
Health disparities and outcomes
Evaluation and Performance Assessment
Employment and Welfare Studies
Obesity and Health Practices
Smoking Behavior and Cessation
Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Smith are:

Public understandings of potential policy responses to health inequalities: Evidence from a UK national survey and citizens' juries in three UK cities, 2021, Social Science & Medicine
An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: "How is this all getting done in silos, and why?", 2020, Social Science & Medicine
Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research, 2022, Critical Public Health
Governance of Intersectoral Collaborations for Population Health and to Reduce Health Inequalities in High-Income Countries: A Complexity-Informed Systematic Review, 2022, International Journal of Health Policy and Management
What are the care needs of families experiencing cardiac arrest?: A survivor and family led scoping review, 2021, Resuscitation

Smith has collaborated frequently with co-authors including Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch, Ellen Stewart, Justyna Bandola-Gill, and Richard Watermeyer.

Thevenues where Smith has frequently published include:

Policy Press eBooks
BMJ
Evidence & Policy
HRB Open Research
Social Science & Medicine

Regarding book publications, Smith has multiple titles published primarily with Policy Press, including:

The Impact Agenda (2020)
The Unequal Pandemic (2021)
Getting Better (2025)

Additional books are published by Bristol University Press eBooks and the University of Glasgow, with titles reflecting similar themes in health and social sciences.

Best Publications

Problematising power relations in ‘elite’ interviews

Katherine E. Smith

469
Citations
Beyond Evidence Based Policy in Public Health: The Interplay of Ideas

Katherine Smith

319
Citations
Beyond Evidence Based Policy in Public Health

Katherine Smith

277
Citations
Policy lessons from health taxes: a systematic review of empirical studies

Alexandra Wright;Katherine E. Smith;Mark Hellowell

252
Citations
What is known about tobacco industry efforts to influence tobacco tax? A systematic review of empirical studies

Katherine E Smith;Emily Savell;Anna B Gilmore;Anna B Gilmore

223
Citations
Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Policy Elites: An Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents

Gary J. Fooks;Anna B. Gilmore;Anna B. Gilmore;Katherine E. Smith;Jeff Collin

201
Citations
Rethinking policy 'impact' : four models of research policy relations

Christina Boswell;Katherine E. Smith

195
Citations
WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration

Katherine E. Smith

172
Citations
Scaling up: The politics of health and place.

Clare Bambra;Katherine E Smith;Jamie Pearce

166
Citations
The impact of Thatcherism on health and well-being in Britain

Alex Scott-Samuel;Clare Bambra;Chik Collins;David J Hunter

159
Citations
Groupwise Diffeomorphic Non-rigid Registration for Automatic Model Building

Timothy F. Cootes;Stephen Marsland;Carole J. Twining;Kate Smith

151
Citations
Partners in health? A systematic review of the impact of organizational partnerships on public health outcomes in England between 1997 and 2008

K. E. Smith;C. Bambra;K. E. Joyce;N. Perkins

150
Citations
A labour of Sisyphus? Public policy and health inequalities research from the Black and Acheson Reports to the Marmot Review

Clare Bambra;Katherine E Smith;Kayleigh Garthwaite;Kerry E Joyce

133
Citations
Research, Policy and Funding - Academic treadmills and the squeeze on intellectual spaces

Katherine E. Smith

132
Citations
“Working the system” —British American Tobacco's influence on the European Union Treaty and its implications for policy: an analysis of internal tobacco industry documents

Katherine E. Smith;Gary Fooks;Jeffrey Collin;Heide Weishaar

126
Citations
A glossary of theories for understanding policymaking

Katherine Elizabeth Smith;Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi

111
Citations
Capturing complex realities: understanding efforts to achieve evidence-based policy and practice in public health

Katherine E. Smith;Kerry E. Joyce

108
Citations
Health inequalities: the need to move beyond bad behaviours

Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi;Martin Higgins;Katherine Elizabeth Smith;Gareth Williams

105
Citations
'What Counts is What Works’? New Labour and Partnerships in Public Health

Neil Perkins;Katherine Smith;David J. Hunter;Clare Bambra

105
Citations
Why media representations of corporations matter for public health policy: a scoping review

Heide Weishaar;Lori Dorfman;Nicholas Freudenberg;Benjamin Hawkins

94
Citations
No longer deserving? sickness benefit reform and the politics of (ill) health

Clare Bambra;Katherine E. Smith

94
Citations
Health Inequalities: Critical Perspectives

Katherine E. Smith;Clare Bambra;Sarah E. Hill

91
Citations
Is the increasing policy use of Impact Assessment in Europe likely to undermine efforts to achieve healthy public policy

Katherine E Smith;Gary Fooks;Jeff Collin;Heide Weishaar

90
Citations
Global health governance and the commercial sector: a documentary analysis of tobacco company strategies to influence the WHO framework convention on tobacco control.

Heide Weishaar;Jeffrey Collin;Katherine Smith;Thilo Grüning

85
Citations
The public health system in England

David J. Hunter;Linda Marks;Katherine E. Smith

77
Citations
The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

Clare Bambra;Julia Lynch;Katherine E. Smith

9
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff Collin University of Edinburgh

Anna B Gilmore University of Bath

Clare Bambra Newcastle University

David J. Hunter Harvard University

Nasar Meer University of Glasgow

Benjamin Hawkins University of Cambridge

Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi University of Glasgow

Jamie Pearce University of Edinburgh

Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Laurence Moore University of Glasgow

External Links

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