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191

Mary Douglas 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 Mary Douglas sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 279 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mary Douglas 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 Mary Douglas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mary Douglas was affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned multiple disciplines within medicine and psychology, with particular attention to clinical psychology and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their work also engaged topics in pharmacy as well as public health, environmental, and occupational health.

Their main research interests included:

  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Organ Donation and Transplantation
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

Mary Douglas contributed to several publications, with at least two recent papers. One was titled "Increasing Parenting Self-Efficacy Through a Community Partnership in Akron, Ohio," published in 2022 in the Ohio Journal of Public Health. Another was "Attitudes, Beliefs and Knowledge About Brain Donation Among Black Americans; Focus Group Feedback Results," published in 2024 in Alzheimer's & Dementia.

They frequently collaborated with a range of co-authors, including:

  • Annette Sues-Mitzel
  • Alexandria M. Coffey
  • Marilyn Espe-Sherwindt
  • Dave Gothard
  • Deborah Maglionico

Mary Douglas's publications appeared primarily in venues such as the Ohio Journal of Public Health and Alzheimer's & Dementia, reflecting their interdisciplinary focus bridging public health and clinical neurology.

Best Publications

  • Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

    Mary Tew Douglas

  • Risk and Culture

    Michael Agar;Mary Douglas;Aaron Wildavsky

  • Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers

    Mary Douglas;Aaron Wildavsky

  • How Institutions Think

    Mary Tew Douglas

  • The World of Goods

    Mary Tew Douglas;Baron C. Isherwood

  • Risk and Blame

    Mary Douglas

  • Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.

    Edwin Ardener;Mary Douglas

  • Purity and Danger

    Mary Douglas

  • Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory

    Mary Tew Douglas

  • Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology

    Mary Tew Douglas

  • Risk and culture : an essay on the selection of technical and environmental dangers

    Mary Tew Douglas;Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • Deciphering a Meal

    Mary Douglas

  • The world of goods : towards an anthropology of consumption

    Mary Tew Douglas;Baron C. Isherwood

  • The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy.

    Mary Douglas;Richard M. Titmuss

  • Natural symbols; explorations in cosmology

    Mary Tew Douglas

  • Power, Action and Belief. A New Sociology of Knowledge?

    J Law;G. J Fyfe;M Callon;B Latour

  • The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

    Mary Douglas;Emile Durkheim;Karen Fields

  • The Idea of a Home: A Kind of Space

    Mary Douglas

  • Risk acceptability according to the social sciences

    Mary Tew Douglas

  • Comment pensent les institutions ; suivi de, La connaissaince de soi ; et, Il n'y a pas de don gratuit

    Mary Tew Douglas;Anne Abeillé

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron Wildavsky
Aaron Wildavsky University of California, Berkeley
Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Steve Rayner
Steve Rayner University of Oxford
Susanne Lohmann
Susanne Lohmann University of California, Los Angeles
Frank Hendriks
Frank Hendriks Tilburg University
Peter L. Berger
Peter L. Berger Boston University
Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow Princeton University
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt
David L. Hull
David L. Hull Northwestern University
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University

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