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D-Index
41
Citations
4892
World Ranking
5147
National Ranking
868

Shirley Dex 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 Shirley Dex sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 172 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shirley Dex 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 Shirley Dex 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: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Shirley Dex is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on health professions, social sciences, and medicine. Within these areas, the scientist has contributed notably to subfields including general health professions, urban studies, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The main topics covered by Shirley Dex's work include cultural industries and urban development, health and medical studies, birth, development, and health, as well as child and adolescent health.

Their recent publication history includes the paper titled British Film Institute Television Industry Tracking Study, 1994-1998, published in 2023. This work appeared in the UK Data Archive and has been cited in multiple subsequent studies. The research reflects interests intersecting cultural industries and urban development.

Shirley Dex often collaborates with other researchers, some of the more frequent coauthors being:

  • Richard Paterson
  • J Willis

The scientist's publications are frequently found in the following venue:

  • UK Data Archive

Best Publications

  • Flexible and Family‐Friendly Working Arrangements in UK‐Based SMEs: Business Cases

    Shirley Dex;Fiona Scheibl

  • Women's labor force transitions in connection with childbirth: a panel data comparison between Germany, Sweden and Great Britain.

    Siv S. Gustafsson;Cecile M. M. P. Wetzels;Jan Dirk Vlasblom;Shirley Dex

  • Women's Employment Transitions Around Childbearing

    Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi;Susan Macran;Andrew McCulloch

  • Measuring work-life balance and its covariates:

    Shirley Dex;Sue Bond

  • Children of the 21st century: From birth to nine months

    Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi

  • Employment after Childbearing: A Survival Analysis:

    Susan Macran;Heather Joshi;Shirley Dex

  • Freelance Workers and Contract Uncertainty: The effects of Contractual Changes in the Television Industry

    Shirley Dex;Janet Willis;Richard Paterson;Elaine Sheppard

  • Business Performance and Family-Friendly Policies

    Shirley Dex;Fiona Scheibl

  • The nature and pattern of family-friendly employment policies in Britain

    Shirley Dex;Colin Smith

  • Employment after childbearing and women's subsequent labour force participation: evidence from the British 1958 birth cohort.

    Heather Joshi;Susan Macran;Shirley Dex

  • Women's Occupational Mobility: A Lifetime Perspective

    Shirley Dex

  • A life-course perspective on ethnic differences in women's economic activity in Britain

    Angela Dale;Joanne Lindley;Shirley Dex

  • Careers and motherhood: policies for compatibility

    Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi

  • Women and Employment

    Jacqueline Scott;Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi

  • A widening gulf among Britain's mothers

    S Dex;H Joshi;S Macran

  • Life and work history analyses : qualitative and quantitative developments

    Shirley Dex

  • Should we have more family-friendly policies?

    Fiona Scheibl;Shirley Dex

  • Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges

    J Scott;Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi

  • CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS OF THE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN MARRIED TO UNEMPLOYED MEN

    S. Dex;S.S. Gustafsson;N. Smith;T. Callans

  • Women's occupational mobility

    Shirley Dex

  • Employment after childbearing : A survival analysis

    Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi;Susan Macran

  • Children of the 21st centuryFrom birth to nine months

    Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi

Frequent Co-Authors

Heather Joshi
Heather Joshi University College London
Nina Smith
Nina Smith Aarhus University
Paul Robson
Paul Robson Royal Holloway University of London
Ricardo Sabates
Ricardo Sabates University of Cambridge
Mark P. Taylor
Mark P. Taylor Washington University in St. Louis
Linda McDowell
Linda McDowell University of Oxford
Jonathan Bradshaw
Jonathan Bradshaw University of York
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Jürgen Schupp
Jürgen Schupp German Institute for Economic Research
Diane Felmlee
Diane Felmlee Pennsylvania State University

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