2026 Lani Florian: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	44	4070	3758	682	628	157	10363

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

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

1220
Citations
Achievement and inclusion in schools

Lani Florian;Kristine Black-Hawkins;Martyn Rouse

502
Citations
The inclusive practice project in Scotland: Teacher education for inclusive education

Lani Florian;Martyn Rouse

453
Citations
Preparing teachers for inclusive education: using inclusive pedagogy to enhance teaching and learning for all

Lani Florian;Holly Linklater

430
Citations
Enacting inclusion: a framework for interrogating inclusive practice

Lani Florian;Jennifer Spratt

410
Citations
What counts as evidence of inclusive education

Lani Florian

404
Citations
Special or Inclusive Education: Future Trends.

Lani Florian

384
Citations
Developing teachers as agents of inclusion and social justice

Nataša Pantić;Lani Florian

382
Citations
Promoting Inclusive Practice

Christina Tilstone;Lani Florian;Richard Rose

370
Citations
Inclusive practice : What, why and how?

Lani Florian

367
Citations
Teaching strategies and approaches for pupils with special educational needs: a scoping study

P Davis;L Florian;M Ainscow;R Byers

311
Citations
On the necessary co-existence of special and inclusive education

Lani Florian

300
Citations
Preparing teachers for inclusive and diverse educational environments: studying curricular reform in an initial teacher education course

Lani Florian;Kathryn S Young;Martyn Rouse

297
Citations
The relationships between violence in childhood and educational outcomes: A global systematic review and meta-analysis

Deborah Fry;Xiangming Fang;Stuart Elliott;Tabitha Casey

287
Citations
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

246
Citations
Preparing Teachers to Work in Inclusive Classrooms: Key Lessons for the Professional Development of Teacher Educators from Scotland's Inclusive Practice Project

Lani Florian

221
Citations
Classroom teachers’ craft knowledge of their inclusive practice

Kristine Black-Hawkins;Lani Florian

205
Citations
Effective Inclusive Schools: a study in two countries

Martyn Rouse;Lani Florian

195
Citations
Inclusive pedagogy : from learning to action. Supporting each individual in the context of 'everybody'

Jennifer Spratt;Lani Florian

176
Citations
The SAGE Handbook of Special Education

Lani Florian

169
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Dyson University of Manchester

Mel Ainscow University of Manchester

Rune J. Simeonsson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Neil Humphrey University of Manchester

Anthony J. Holland University of Cambridge

Peter Farrell University of Manchester

Marleen C. Pugach University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Dragan Gasevic Monash University

External Links

Personal website of Lani Florian

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