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44749
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141

Richard G. Wilkinson 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 Richard G. Wilkinson sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 210 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard G. Wilkinson 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 Richard G. Wilkinson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 70 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.

Overview

Richard G. Wilkinson is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Health Professions and Psychology, with subfields in General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Health.

The main topics addressed in Wilkinson's work include:

  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Global Health Care Issues

Recent publications by Wilkinson include:

  • "Why the world cannot afford the rich" (2024), published in Nature
  • "Editorial: Socio-economic inequality and child and adolescent mental health" (2024), published in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • "The health costs of political failure" (2024), published in BMJ

Frequent co-authorship in Wilkinson's research is noted with Kate E. Pickett, who has collaborated on three publications.

Wilkinson's work has been published in venues including:

  • Nature
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • BMJ

Best Publications

  • Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts

    Richard G. Wilkinson;M. G. Marmot

  • Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality

    Richard G. Wilkinson

  • The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • The spirit level : why equality is better for everyone

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence.

    Richard G Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • Income inequality and health: a causal review.

    Kate E. Pickett;Richard G. Wilkinson

  • The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett;Robert B. Reich

  • Income distribution and life expectancy.

    R. G. Wilkinson

  • Socioeconomic determinants of health. Health inequalities: relative or absolute material standards?

    Richard G Wilkinson

  • The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

    Richard G. Wilkinson

  • Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • Psychosocial and material pathways in the relation between income and health: a response to Lynch et al

    Michael Marmot;Richard G Wilkinson

  • Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Robert Costanza;Lew Daly;Lorenzo Fioramonti;Enrico Giovannini

  • Development: Time to leave GDP behind

    Robert Costanza;Ida Kubiszewski;Enrico Giovannini;Hunter Lovins

  • Crime: social disorganization and relative deprivation

    Ichiro Kawachi;Bruce P Kennedy;Richard G Wilkinson

  • The problems of relative deprivation: why some societies do better than others.

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being

    Richard G. Wilkinson;Kate E. Pickett

  • Health, Hierarchy, and Social Anxiety

    Richard G. Wilkinson

  • Mind the Gap: Hierarchies, Health, and Human Evolution

    Richard G. Wilkinson

  • Income inequality and health

    Ichiro Kawachi;Bruce P. Kennedy;Richard G. Wilkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Kate E. Pickett
Kate E. Pickett University of York
Michael Marmot
Michael Marmot University College London
Mai Stafford
Mai Stafford University College London
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London
Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Mel Bartley
Mel Bartley University College London
Karl Atkin
Karl Atkin University of York
James Nazroo
James Nazroo University of Manchester
Kathleen Kiernan
Kathleen Kiernan University of York
Marko Elovainio
Marko Elovainio University of Helsinki

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