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Michael .W. Calnan

Michael .W. Calnan

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 69 822 716 155 139 359 14496

Michael .W. Calnan publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Michael .W. Calnan between 1973 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Michael .W. Calnan published across 53 years, from 1973 to 2025, averaging 7.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 24 publications in 2013. 10 of the 394 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1973 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 24. Peak 24 publications in 2013. 1973: 1 publication 1974: 2 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 1 publication 1979: 1 publication 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 1 publication 1983: 4 publications 1984: 8 publications 1985: 7 publications 1986: 4 publications 1987: 3 publications 1988: 7 publications 1989: 2 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 10 publications 1992: 9 publications 1993: 6 publications 1994: 7 publications 1995: 8 publications 1996: 4 publications 1997: 7 publications 1998: 13 publications 1999: 15 publications 2000: 15 publications 2001: 10 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 11 publications 2007: 11 publications 2008: 17 publications 2009: 18 publications 2010: 20 publications 2011: 17 publications 2012: 20 publications 2013: 24 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 5 publications 2018: 8 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 16 publications 2021: 4 publications 2022: 9 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 3 publications 2025: 7 publications
1973 2025

394 publications in total across all disciplines

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Michael .W. Calnan: publications per year, 1973 to 2025
Year Publications
1973 1
1974 2
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 1
1979 1
1980 0
1981 0
1982 1
1983 4
1984 8
1985 7
1986 4
1987 3
1988 7
1989 2
1990 1
1991 10
1992 9
1993 6
1994 7
1995 8
1996 4
1997 7
1998 13
1999 15
2000 15
2001 10
2002 6
2003 6
2004 5
2005 6
2006 11
2007 11
2008 17
2009 18
2010 20
2011 17
2012 20
2013 24
2014 6
2015 6
2016 10
2017 5
2018 8
2019 4
2020 16
2021 4
2022 9
2023 9
2024 3
2025 7
Total 394
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Michael .W. Calnan publications per year - data summary

  • Michael .W. Calnan, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of Kent, has 394 publications recorded across 53 years, from 1973 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1973 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2013, with 24 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1973, 1978, 1979, 1982 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 5 of the 53 years in the span carry no publications at all (1975, 1976, 1977, 1980 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 7.4 papers per year over the whole span, or 8.2 per year counting only the 48 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 32 publications, 8% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1973-1990: 42 publications (2.3 per year); 1991-2008: 166 publications (9.2 per year); 2009-2025: 186 publications (10.9 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Michael .W. Calnan 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 Michael .W. Calnan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 354–363 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 359 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36 359
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Michael .W. Calnan publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 54 ranges running from 44–53 to 570+ publications.
  • Michael .W. Calnan, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of Kent, records 359 publications - the 93rd percentile of the discipline.
  • 93% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Michael .W. Calnan, and about 7% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 164–173 publications range, and Michael .W. Calnan ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 114–123 publications, holding 474 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 174–183 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 570 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Michael .W. Calnan 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 Michael .W. Calnan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 69 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40 69
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Michael .W. Calnan D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 71 ranges running from 30 to 100+ D-Index.
  • Michael .W. Calnan, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of Kent, records 69 D-Index - the 90th percentile of the discipline.
  • 90% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Michael .W. Calnan, and about 10% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 45 D-Index range, and Michael .W. Calnan ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 42 D-Index, holding 313 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 47 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more, 97 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Overview

Michael W. Calnan is affiliated with the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on health professions and social sciences, with significant contributions in general health professions, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, health, and modeling and simulation.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics, including vaccine coverage and hesitancy, healthcare cost, quality, and practices, health systems, economic evaluations and quality of life, healthcare systems and challenges, mental health and patient involvement, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and misinformation and its impacts.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "How do you measure trust in social institutions and health professionals? A systematic review of the literature (2012-2021)" (2023), Sociology Compass
  • "Hopes, hesitancy and the risky business of vaccine development" (2020), Health Risk & Society
  • "Canadians' trust in government in a time of crisis: Does it matter?" (2023), PLoS ONE
  • "Development and validation of the Trust in Multidimensional Healthcare Systems Scale (TIMHSS)" (2024), International Journal for Equity in Health
  • "Informing efforts beyond tailored promotional campaigns by understanding contextual factors shaping vaccine hesitancy among equity-deserving populations in Canada: an exploratory qualitative study" (2023), International Journal for Equity in Health

Frequent co-authors in Michael W. Calnan's work include Patrick Brown, Paul Ward, Samantha B. Meyer, Sumit Kane, and Katie Burns.

Their research has been published in several venues, with multiple articles appearing in Emerald Open Research, International Journal for Equity in Health, Frontiers in Sociology, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society, and Sociology Compass.

Best Publications

  • Disseminating research findings: what should researchers do? A systematic scoping review of conceptual frameworks

    Paul M Wilson;Mark Petticrew;Mike W Calnan;Irwin Nazareth

  • The 'limits' of medicalization?: modern medicine and the lay populace in 'late' modernity.

    Simon J. Williams;Michael .W. Calnan

  • Convergence and divergence: assessing criteria of consumer satisfaction across general practice, dental and hospital care settings.

    Simon J. Williams;Michael Calnan

  • Facilitated physical activity as a treatment for depressed adults: randomised controlled trial

    Melanie Chalder;Nicola j. Wiles;John Campbell;Sandra P. Hollinghurst

  • Towards a conceptual framework of lay evaluation of health care.

    Michael Calnan

  • Key Determinants of Consumer Satisfaction With General Practice

    Simon J. Williams;Michael .W. Calnan

  • Public trust in health care: the system or the doctor?

    Michael .W. Calnan;E. Sanford

  • Health and Illness: The Lay Perspective

    Michael Calnan

  • Trust relations in health care--the new agenda.

    Rosemary Rowe;Michael .W. Calnan

  • The reprofessionalisation of community pharmacy? An exploration of attitudes to extended roles for community pharmacists amongst pharmacists and General Practioners in the United Kingdom

    June Edmunds;Michael W Calnan

  • The health belief model and participation in programmes for the early detection of breast cancer: a comparative analysis

    Michael Calnan

  • Dignity in older age: what do older people in the United Kingdom think?

    Gillian Woolhead;Michael Calnan;Paul Dieppe;Win Tadd

  • Patients' action during their cardiac event: qualitative study exploring differences and modifiable factors

    Annmarie Ruston;Julie Clayton;Michael Calnan

  • Work Stress: The Making of a Modern Epidemic

    David Wainwright;Michael .W. Calnan

  • Job strain, effort-reward imbalance, and stress at work: competing or complementary models?

    Michael Calnan;Emma Jane Kirsty Wadsworth;Margaret May;Andrew Paul Smith

  • Trust in the health-care provider-patient relationship: a systematic mapping review of the evidence base

    Nicola Brennan;Rebecca Barnes;Michael .W. Calnan;Oonagh Corrigan

  • Modern medicine : lay perspectives and experiences

    Michael Calnan

  • Researching trust relations in health care

    Michael W Calnan;Rosemary E Rowe

  • Identity in the fourth age: perseverance,adaptation and maintaining dignity

    Liz Lloyd;Michael Calnan;Ailsa Cameron;Jane Seymour

  • Patients' views of physical activity as treatment for depression: a qualitative study.

    Aidan Searle;Michael Calnan;Glyn Lewis;John Campbell

  • Patient perspective of measuring treatment efficacy: The rheumatoid arthritis patient priorities for pharmacologic interventions outcomes

    Tessa Sanderson;Marianne Morris;Michael .W. Calnan;Pam Richards

  • The Sociology of the Health Service

    Jonathan Gabe;Michael Calnan;Michael Bury

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Gabe
Jonathan Gabe Royal Holloway University of London
Peter P. Groenewegen
Peter P. Groenewegen Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research
Simon J. Williams
Simon J. Williams University of Warwick
Paul Ward
Paul Ward Torrens University Australia
John Coveney
John Coveney Flinders University
Paul Dieppe
Paul Dieppe University of Exeter
Peter Taylor-Gooby
Peter Taylor-Gooby University of Kent
David Coggon
David Coggon University of Southampton
Nadine E. Foster
Nadine E. Foster University of Queensland
Vikki Entwistle
Vikki Entwistle University of Aberdeen

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