2026 Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	47	3262	3002	1572	1424	164	19038

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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19038

World Ranking

3262

National Ranking

1572

Research.com Recognitions

1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Social Sciences, with contributions across diverse subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology, Reproductive Medicine, and Transplantation.

Their work addresses multiple topics related to health and society. These include:

Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
Reproductive Health and Technologies
Reproductive Health and Contraception
Organ Donation and Transplantation
Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research
Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

Nancy Scheper-Hughes has frequently published in the following venues:

Anthropology Today
Social Anthropology
Anthropologie et Sociétés

Recent publications by Nancy Scheper-Hughes include:

"Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today" (2020), published in Social Anthropology
"Anthropologie médicale, stratégies d'analyse et postures éthiques face à la mort et la souffrance sociale" (2021), published in Anthropologie et Sociétés
"EPIDEMICS AND CONTAINMENT: Cuba and the HIV/AIDS epidemic" (2020), published in Anthropology Today
"PAUL RABINOW (1944-2021): A MEMOIR" (2021), published in Anthropology Today

Their frequent collaborators include:

Elżbieta Drążkiewicz
Thomas Strong
Hugh Turpin
A. Jamie Saris
Joanna Mishtal

Nancy Scheper-Hughes received the award of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986.

Best Publications

Death without weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

5761
Citations
The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology

Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Margaret M. Lock

2986
Citations
The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

1246
Citations
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe Bourgois;Joseph Conrad;Michael Thomas Taussig

1057
Citations
The Global Traffic in Human Organs1

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

854
Citations
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

326
Citations
Ethical Incentives — Not Payment — For Organ Donation

Francis L. Delmonico;Robert Arnold;Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Laura A. Siminoff

319
Citations
Parts unknown Undercover ethnography of the organs-trafficking underworld

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

299
Citations
Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking: Maternal Detachment and Infant Survival in a Brazilian Shantytown

Nancy Scheper‐Hughes

279
Citations
Three propositions for a critically applied medical anthropology.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

232
Citations
Violence in war and peace

Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Philippe I. Bourgois

222
Citations
The tyranny of the gift: sacrificial violence in living donor transplants.

N. Scheper‐Hughes

217
Citations
A Talent for Life: Reflections on Human Vulnerability and Resilience

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

199
Citations
Ire in Ireland

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

197
Citations
Small wars and invisible genocides.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

195
Citations
Theft of Life: The Globalization of Organ Stealing Rumours

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

187
Citations
Speaking “Truth” to Illness1: Metaphors, Reification, and a Pedagogy for Patients

Nancy Scheper-Hughes;Margaret M. Lock

181
Citations
Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

173
Citations
Violence at the urban margins

Javier Auyero;Philippe I. Bourgois;Nancy Scheper-Hughes

163
Citations
Bodies for Sale – Whole or in Parts:

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

158
Citations
Dangerous and Endangered Youth: Social Structures and Determinants of Violence

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

151
Citations
La muerte sin llanto: violencia y vida cotidiana en Brasil

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

142
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret Lock McGill University

Philippe Bourgois University of California, Los Angeles

Veena Das Johns Hopkins University

Loïc Wacquant University of California, Berkeley

Paul Farmer Harvard University

Hannah Arendt Keele University

Jean Paul Sartre Université Paris Cité

Noam Chomsky MIT

Pierre Bourdieu Collège de France

External Links

Wikipedia of Nancy Scheper-Hughes Personal website of Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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