2026 Robert Dingwall: 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	58	1617	1447	298	268	497	21210

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

21210

World Ranking

1617

National Ranking

298

Research.com Recognitions

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Robert Dingwall is affiliated with Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields including general health professions, sociology and political science, oncology, economics and econometrics, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work has been published frequently in the following venues:

BMJ
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society
Social Science & Medicine
Critical Public Health
Evidence & Policy

Robert Dingwall's main research topics include:

COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Empathy and Medical Education
Healthcare cost, quality, practices
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Health Policy Implementation Science
Public Health Policies and Education

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert Dingwall are:

"Shared decision making: doctors have expertise that patients want or need" (2020, BMJ)
"Science, society, and policy in the face of uncertainty: reflections on the debate around face coverings for the public during COVID-19" (2020, Critical Public Health)
"Urgency and uncertainty: covid-19, face masks, and evidence informed policy" (2020, BMJ)
"Ethical moments and institutional expertise in UK Government COVID-19 pandemic policy responses: where, when and how is ethical advice sought?" (2022, Evidence & Policy)
"Substandard and falsified medicines in African pharmaceutical markets: A case study from Ethiopia" (2024, Social Science & Medicine)

Frequent co-authors in Robert Dingwall's research include:

Graham Martin
Esmée Hanna
Jackie Cassell
Margaret McCartney
Akalework Mengesha

Robert Dingwall has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

Qualitative research methods in health technology assessment: a review of the literature.

E Murphy;R Dingwall;D Greatbatch;S Parker

1583
Citations
The Protection of Children: State Intervention and Family Life

Robert Dingwall;John Eekelaar;Topsy Murray

869
Citations
The ethics of ethnography

E Murphy;R Dingwall

706
Citations
An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing

Robert Dingwall;Anne Marie Rafferty;Charles Webster

622
Citations
The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others

Robert Dingwall;Philip Simon Coleman Lewis

500
Citations
Sociology and Social Research

Geoff Payne;Robert Dingwall;Judy Payne;Mick Carter

470
Citations
On the remarkable persistence of asymmetry in doctor/patient interaction: a critical review.

Alison Pilnick;Robert Dingwall

451
Citations
Informed consent, anticipatory regulation and ethnographic practice

Elizabeth Murphy;Robert Dingwall

435
Citations
Face masks for the public during Covid-19: an appeal for caution in policy

Graham Martin;Esmée Hanna;Robert Dingwall

425
Citations
An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

370
Citations
Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research

Elizabeth Murphy;Robert Dingwall

365
Citations
Aspects of Illness

Robert Dingwall

362
Citations
Context and Method in Qualitative Research

Gale Miller;Robert Dingwall

354
Citations
Accounts, interviews and observations

R Dingwall

321
Citations
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault;Robert Dingwall;Raymond De Vries

308
Citations
The ethical case against ethical regulation in humanities and social science research

Robert Dingwall

298
Citations
"Atrocity Stories" and Professional Relationships

Robert Dingwall

247
Citations
Ethics and Ethnography

Robert Dingwall

244
Citations
SELECTIVE FACILITATION: SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON A STRATEGY USED BY DIVORCE MEDIATORS

David Greatbatch;Robert Dingwall

244
Citations
The Sociology of the Professions

Robert Dingwall;Philip Lewis

205
Citations
Qualitative Health Research

Robert Dingwall

91
Citations
Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order.

Robert Dingwall;Paul Drew;Anthony Wootton

75
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brigitte Nerlich University of Nottingham

Justin Waring University of Birmingham

David D. Clarke University of Nottingham

Graham P. Martin University of Cambridge

Huw Davies University of St Andrews

Richard Ashcroft Queen Mary University of London

Steven Cummins London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town

Ian F. Connerton University of Nottingham

Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford

External Links

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