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Rita Charon 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 Rita Charon sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 138 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rita Charon 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 Rita Charon sits on this spectrum.

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: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Rita Charon is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with multiple contributions to subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Philosophy, and Education.

The core focus of their scholarly work involves topics such as Empathy and Medical Education, Innovations in Medical Education, Film in Education and Therapy, Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity, Health and Medical Research Impacts, Ethics in Medical Practice, and Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare.

A selection of their recent published papers includes:

  • Knowing, seeing, and telling in medicine, 2021, The Lancet
  • Racial Justice in Medicine: Narrative Practices toward Equity, 2021, Narrative

Other notable publications in their recent work, although not solely authored by them, touch related fields and topics:

  • COVID 19: Ethical dilemmas in human lives, 2020, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • Reading the Self: Medical Students' Experience of Reflecting on Their Writing Over Time, 2020, Academic Medicine
  • Disability and narrative medicine: Challenges and opportunities, 2023, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

Rita Charon has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Maura Spiegel, Smadar Bustan, Mirco Nacoti, Mylène Botbol-Baum, and Katherine Fischkoff.

Their work has appeared in various publication venues such as The Lancet, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Academic Medicine, Narrative, and Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology.

In addition to journal articles, Rita Charon has contributed to book publications, including "Encountering Pain: Hearing, seeing, speaking," published by UCL Press in 2021.

In recognition of their contributions, they were awarded the title of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Narrative Medicine: A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust

    Rita Charon

  • Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness

    Rita Charon

  • Personal illness narratives: using reflective writing to teach empathy.

    Sayantani DasGupta;Rita Charon

  • Narrative and Medicine

    Rita Charon

  • Narrative Medicine: Form, Function, and Ethics

    Rita Charon

  • The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine

    Rita Charon;Nellie Hermann;Maura Spiegel;Sayantani DasGupta

  • The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics.

    Rita Charon;Arthur W. Frank

  • Literature and medicine: contributions to clinical practice.

    Rita Charon;Joanne Trautmann Banks;Julia E. Connelly;Anne Hunsaker Hawkins

  • Narrative medicine as a means of training medical students toward residency competencies

    Shannon L. Arntfield;Kristen Slesar;Jennifer Dickson;Rita Charon

  • Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics

    Rita Charon;Martha Montello

  • Older patient satisfaction with communication during an initial medical encounter.

    Michele G. Greene;Ronald D. Adelman;Erika Friedmann;Rita Charon

  • What to do with stories: The sciences of narrative medicine

    Rita Charon

  • Ageism in the medical encounter: an exploratory study of the doctor-elderly patient relationship.

    Michele G. Greene;Ronald Adelman;Rita Charon;Susie Hoffman

  • Narrative Medicine: Attention, Representation, Affiliation

    Rita Charon

  • The Physician-Elderly Patient-Companion Triad in the Medical Encounter: The Development of a Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda

    Ronald D. Adelman;Michele G. Greene;Rita Charon

  • Narrative evidence based medicine.

    Rita Charon;Peter Wyer

  • Close Reading and Creative Writing in Clinical Education: Teaching Attention, Representation, and Affiliation.

    Rita Charon;Nellie Hermann;Michael J. Devlin

  • Sounding narrative medicine: studying students' professional identity development at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

    Eliza Miller;Dorene Balmer;Nellie Hermann;Gillian Graham

  • At the membranes of care: stories in narrative medicine.

    Rita Charon

  • Psychosocial Concerns In the Medical Encounter: A Comparison of the Interactions of Doctors with Their Old and Young Patients

    Michele G. Greene;Susie Hoffman;Rita Charon;Ronald Adelman

Frequent Co-Authors

Erika Friedmann
Erika Friedmann University of Maryland, Baltimore
Susie Hoffman
Susie Hoffman Columbia University
Arthur W. Frank
Arthur W. Frank University of Calgary
Kathryn Anastos
Kathryn Anastos Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Steven M. Asch
Steven M. Asch Stanford University

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