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Sarah Cunningham-Burley

Sarah Cunningham-Burley

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
47
Citations
6870
World Ranking
3461
National Ranking
583

Sarah Cunningham-Burley 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 Sarah Cunningham-Burley sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 189 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sarah Cunningham-Burley 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 Sarah Cunningham-Burley sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% 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

  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 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
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Sarah Cunningham-Burley is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a body of work encompassing topics such as ethics in clinical research, biomedical ethics and regulation, mental health and patient involvement, digital games and media, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, maternal and perinatal health interventions, and health policy implementation science.

Their scholarly contributions feature frequent publications spanning various prominent venues. These include Manchester University Press eBooks, Social Science & Medicine, the International Journal for Population Data Science, Wellcome Open Research, and Sociology of Health & Illness.

Their recent papers illustrate a diverse set of interests within medicine and public health:

  • What makes AI 'intelligent' and 'caring'? Exploring affect and relationality across three sites of intelligence and care (2021, Social Science & Medicine)
  • Exploring ethnic minority women's experiences of maternity care during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a qualitative study (2021, BMJ Open)
  • Evaluation of the Arabin cervical pessary for prevention of preterm birth in women with a twin pregnancy and short cervix (STOPPIT-2): An open-label randomised trial and updated meta-analysis (2021, PLoS Medicine)
  • Public involvement in the governance of population-level biomedical research: unresolved questions and future directions (2020, Journal of Medical Ethics)
  • Accomplishing an adaptive clinical trial for cancer: Valuation practices and care work across the laboratory and the clinic (2020, Social Science & Medicine)

Coauthorship plays a significant role in their research endeavors with frequent collaborations including Julia Swallow, Anne Kerr, Choon Key Chekar, and Emily Ross.

Their publications also extend into book form, including a work published by the University of Glasgow entitled "Personalised cancer medicine: Future crafting in the genomic era" (2021).

Sarah Cunningham-Burley has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2014) and Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Their expertise spans several subfields within medicine including public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, sociology and political science, physiology, and epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • Public responses to the sharing and linkage of health data for research purposes: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

    Mhairi Aitken;Jenna de St. Jorre;Claudia Pagliari;Ruth Jepson

  • Shifting Subject Positions Experts and Lay People in Public Dialogue

    Anne Kerr;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Richard Tutton

  • The new genetics and health: mobilizing lay expertise.

    Anne Kerr;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Amanda Amos

  • Learning the lives of disabled children: developing a reflexive approach

    John Davis;Nick Watson;Sarah Cunningham-Burley

  • Health Care Robotics: Qualitative Exploration of Key Challenges and Future Directions

    Kathrin Cresswell;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Aziz Sheikh

  • On ambivalence and risk : Reflexive modernity and the new human genetics

    Anne Kerr;Sarah Cunningham-Burley

  • Drawing the line: an analysis of lay people's discussions about the new genetics.

    Anne Kerr;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Amanda Amos

  • The new genetics: professionals’ discursive boundaries

    Anne Kerr;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Amanda Amos

  • Mapping the New Molecular Landscape: Social Dimensions of Epigenetics

    Martyn Pickersgill;Jörg Niewöhner;Ruth Müller;Paul Martin

  • Constituting neurologic subjects: Neuroscience, subjectivity and the mundane significance of the brain

    Martyn Pickersgill;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Paul Martin

  • Contrasting lives, contrasting views? Understandings of health inequalities from children in differing social circumstances.

    Kathryn Backett-Milburn;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;John Davis

  • Smoking in the home after the smoke-free legislation in Scotland: qualitative study

    Richard Phillips;Amanda Amos;Deborah Ritchie;Sarah Cunningham-Burley

  • Tackling community concerns about commercialisation and genetic research: a modest interdisciplinary proposal.

    Gillian Haddow;Graeme Laurie;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Kathryn G. Hunter

  • Alcohol consumption and young people: exploring meaning and social context

    Stephen Pavis;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Amanda Amos

  • Epinephrine auto‐injector use in adolescents at risk of anaphylaxis: a qualitative study in Scotland, UK

    M. Gallagher;Allison Worth;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Aziz Sheikh

  • Defining the 'social': towards an understanding of scientific and medical discourses on the social aspects of the new human genetics

    Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Anne Kerr

  • Readings in medical sociology

    Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Neil P. McKeganey

  • Disabled Children, Ethnography and Unspoken Understandings: The Collaborative Construction of Diverse Identities

    John Davis;Nicholas Watson;Sarah Cunningham-Burley

  • Moving from trust to trustworthiness: Experiences of public engagement in the Scottish Health Informatics Programme.

    Mhairi Aitken;Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Claudia Pagliari

  • Public knowledge and public trust.

    Sarah Cunningham-Burley

  • Mapping the New Molecular Landscape

    Martyn Pickersgill;Jörg Niewöhner;Ruth Müller;Paul Martin

  • Health related behavioural change in context: Young people in transition

    S. Pavis;S. Cunningham-Burley;A. Amos

Frequent Co-Authors

Amanda Amos
Amanda Amos University of Edinburgh
Andrew Weeks
Andrew Weeks University of Liverpool
Brian R. Walker
Brian R. Walker Newcastle University
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh University of Oxford
Claudia Pagliari
Claudia Pagliari University of Edinburgh
Sally Wyke
Sally Wyke University of Glasgow
Lorraine Greaves
Lorraine Greaves University of British Columbia
Helen Sweeting
Helen Sweeting University of Glasgow
Devi Sridhar
Devi Sridhar University of Edinburgh
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh

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