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D-Index
44
Citations
10363
World Ranking
4069
National Ranking
683

Lani Florian 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 Lani Florian sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 157 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lani Florian 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 Lani Florian sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% 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

  • 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
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Lani Florian is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and medicine, with a focus on education, child health, and safety. Florian's work primarily addresses themes related to teacher education, inclusion, neonatal respiratory health, infant development, and children's rights.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Medicine

Within these broader areas, their subfields of study are diverse and interdisciplinary:

  • Education
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Safety Research
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Central topics addressed in Florian's body of work include:

  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Their recent publications showcase a range of research interests:

  • Inclusive school leaders - their role in raising the achievement of all learners (2020, Journal of Educational Administration)
  • Making sense of teacher agency for change with social and epistemic network analysis (2021, Journal of Educational Change)
  • Adolescents' Experiences of Participating in Sensitive Research: A Scoping Review of Qualitative Studies (2022, Trauma Violence & Abuse)
  • The development of inclusive practice under a policy of integration (2020, International Journal of Inclusive Education)
  • Consortium for the Study of Pregnancy Treatments (Co-OPT): An international birth cohort to study the effects of antenatal corticosteroids (2023, PLoS ONE)

Florian frequently collaborates with various researchers, including:

  • Lakshmi Neelakantan
  • Deborah Fry
  • Franziska Meinck
  • Emily M. Frier
  • Chun Lin

Their contributions have appeared in prominent venues such as:

  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Journal of Educational Administration
  • Journal of Educational Change
  • Trauma Violence & Abuse
  • PLoS ONE

Lani Florian has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom. This distinction highlights their standing within the social sciences community.

Best Publications

  • Exploring inclusive pedagogy

    Lani Florian;Kristine Black-Hawkins

  • Achievement and inclusion in schools

    Lani Florian;Kristine Black-Hawkins;Martyn Rouse

  • The inclusive practice project in Scotland: Teacher education for inclusive education

    Lani Florian;Martyn Rouse

  • Preparing teachers for inclusive education: using inclusive pedagogy to enhance teaching and learning for all

    Lani Florian;Holly Linklater

  • Enacting inclusion: a framework for interrogating inclusive practice

    Lani Florian;Jennifer Spratt

  • What counts as evidence of inclusive education

    Lani Florian

  • Special or Inclusive Education: Future Trends.

    Lani Florian

  • Developing teachers as agents of inclusion and social justice

    Nataša Pantić;Lani Florian

  • Promoting Inclusive Practice

    Christina Tilstone;Lani Florian;Richard Rose

  • Inclusive practice : What, why and how?

    Lani Florian

  • Teaching strategies and approaches for pupils with special educational needs: a scoping study

    P Davis;L Florian;M Ainscow;R Byers

  • On the necessary co-existence of special and inclusive education

    Lani Florian

  • Preparing teachers for inclusive and diverse educational environments: studying curricular reform in an initial teacher education course

    Lani Florian;Kathryn S Young;Martyn Rouse

  • The relationships between violence in childhood and educational outcomes: A global systematic review and meta-analysis

    Deborah Fry;Xiangming Fang;Stuart Elliott;Tabitha Casey

  • Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Classification of Children With Disabilities Part I. Issues in the Classification of Children With Disabilities

    Lani Florian;Judith Hollenweger;Rune J. Simeonsson;Klaus Wedell

  • Preparing Teachers to Work in Inclusive Classrooms: Key Lessons for the Professional Development of Teacher Educators from Scotland's Inclusive Practice Project

    Lani Florian

  • Classroom teachers’ craft knowledge of their inclusive practice

    Kristine Black-Hawkins;Lani Florian

  • Effective Inclusive Schools: a study in two countries

    Martyn Rouse;Lani Florian

  • Inclusive pedagogy : from learning to action. Supporting each individual in the context of 'everybody'

    Jennifer Spratt;Lani Florian

  • The SAGE Handbook of Special Education

    Lani Florian

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Rose
Richard Rose Google (United States)
Alan Dyson
Alan Dyson University of Manchester
Mel Ainscow
Mel Ainscow University of Manchester
Rune J. Simeonsson
Rune J. Simeonsson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dragan Gasevic
Dragan Gasevic Monash University
Marleen C. Pugach
Marleen C. Pugach University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Peter Farrell
Peter Farrell University of Manchester
Anthony J. Holland
Anthony J. Holland University of Cambridge
Neil Humphrey
Neil Humphrey University of Manchester
Sheila Riddell
Sheila Riddell University of Edinburgh

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