2026 Sally Thorne: 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	72	669	583	39	36	307	28379

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

669

583

307

28379

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

28379

World Ranking

669

National Ranking

Overview

Sally Thorne is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a focus on several subfields: General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology.

Their work addresses multiple main topics, including:

Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Ethics in medical practice
Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
Patient Dignity and Privacy
Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership

Sally Thorne has contributed to various publication venues with a significant number of papers in:

Nursing Inquiry (24 publications)
Global Qualitative Nursing Research (6 publications)
Nurse author & editor (4 publications)
Journal of Clinical Nursing (3 publications)
Nursing Philosophy (3 publications)

Their recent papers include:

"Interpretive description: A flexible qualitative methodology for medical education research," 2020, Medical Education
"The Great Saturation Debate: What the "S Word" Means and Doesn't Mean in Qualitative Research Reporting," 2020, Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
"The rocks and hard places of MAiD: a qualitative study of nursing practice in the context of legislated assisted death," 2020, BMC Nursing
"Riding an elephant: A qualitative study of nurses' moral journeys in the context of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)," 2020, Journal of Clinical Nursing
"Beyond theming: Making qualitative studies matter," 2020, Nursing Inquiry

Frequent co-authors with whom Sally Thorne has collaborated include:

A. Fuchsia Howard
Barbara Pesut
Leah K. Lambert
Kelsey Lynch
Michael McKenzie

Best Publications

Interpretive Description: Qualitative Research for Applied Practice

Sally Thorne

2932
Citations
Interpretive description: a noncategorical qualitative alternative for developing nursing knowledge.

Sally Thorne;Sheryl Reimer Kirkham;Janet MacDonald-Emes

2265
Citations
Data analysis in qualitative research

Sally Thorne

2246
Citations
The Analytic Challenge in Interpretive Description

Sally Thorne;Sheryl Reimer Kirkham;Katherine O'Flynn-Magee

2124
Citations
Time to challenge the spurious hierarchy of systematic over narrative reviews

Trisha Greenhalgh;Sally Thorne;Kirsti Malterud

1021
Citations
Qualitative Metasynthesis: Reflections on Methodological Orientation and Ideological Agenda

Sally Thorne;Louise Jensen;Margaret H. Kearney;George Noblit

988
Citations
Focus on Qualitative Methods Interpretive Description: A Noncategorical Qualitative Alternative for Developing Nursing Knowledge

Sally Thorne;Sheryl Reimer Kirkham

920
Citations
Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research

Barbara Paterson;Sally Thorne;Connie Canam;Carol Jillings

795
Citations
Interpretive description: A flexible qualitative methodology for medical education research

Julie Thompson Burdine;Sally Thorne;Gurjit Sandhu

543
Citations
Influence of the Research Frame on Qualitatively Derived Health Science Knowledge

Sally Thorne;Gloria Joachim;Barbara Paterson;Connie Canam

383
Citations
An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

370
Citations
Negotiating Health Care: The Social Context of Chronic Illness

Sally E. Thorne

349
Citations
Reciprocal trust in health care relationships

Sally E. Thorne;Carole A. Robinson

340
Citations
The Structure of Everyday Self-Care Decision Making in Chronic Illness

Sally Thorne;Barbara Paterson;Cynthia Russell

336
Citations
Shifting Images of Chronic Illness

Sally Thorne;Barbara Paterson

334
Citations
Is there a cost to poor communication in cancer care?: a critical review of the literature.

Sally E Thorne;Barry D Bultz;Walter F Baile

305
Citations
Adapting to and Managing Diabetes

Barbara L. Paterson;Sally Thorne;Marilyn Dewis

300
Citations
Chronic Illness Experience: Insights from a Metastudy

Sally Thorne;Barbara Paterson;Sonia Acorn;Connie Canam

283
Citations
Attitudes toward patient expertise in chronic illness.

Sally E Thorne;Kerstin Ternulf Nyhlin;Barbara L Paterson

270
Citations
Complementary/alternative medicine in chronic illness as informed self-care decision making

Sally Thorne;Barbara Paterson;Cynthia Russell;Annette Schultz

264
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Oliffe University of British Columbia

Marit Kirkevold University of Oslo

Carol Tishelman Karolinska Institute

Joan L. Bottorff University of British Columbia

Barry D. Bultz University of Calgary

Janice M. Morse University of Utah

Linda E. Carlson University of Calgary

Martha J. Radford New York University

Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford

Karen A. Gelmon University of British Columbia

External Links

Personal website of Sally Thorne

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