2026 Susan Greenhalgh: 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	52	2371	2157	1151	1033	165	18911

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

2371

2157

1151

1033

165

18911

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

18911

World Ranking

2371

National Ranking

1151

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Susan Greenhalgh is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily revolves around medicine and health professions, with significant contributions in surgery, pharmacy, pathology and forensic medicine, pharmacology, and general health professions.

The major topics covered in their work include spine and intervertebral disc pathology, medical malpractice and liability issues, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, healthcare quality and management, infectious diseases and tuberculosis, healthcare decision-making and restraints, and clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills.

Recent papers by Susan Greenhalgh include the following:

International Framework for Red Flags for Potential Serious Spinal Pathologies, 2020, Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy
A qualitative study to explore the experiences of first contact physiotherapy practitioners in the NHS and their experiences of their first contact role, 2020, Musculoskeletal Science and Practice
Safety netting; best practice in the face of uncertainty, 2020, Musculoskeletal Science and Practice
Defensive medicine: A symptom of uncertainty?, 2022, Musculoskeletal Science and Practice
Inside ILSI: How Coca-Cola, Working through Its Scientific Nonprofit, Created a Global Science of Exercise for Obesity and Got It Embedded in Chinese Policy (1995-2015), 2020, Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Susan Greenhalgh are:

Gillian Yeowell
James Selfe
Rachel L. Leech
Laura Finucane
Emma Willis

Their most frequent publication venues include:

Musculoskeletal Science and Practice
Musculoskeletal Care
Physiotherapy
Population and Development Review
PLoS ONE

Susan Greenhalgh has received the award Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2016.

Best Publications

Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.

Susan Greenhalgh;Arturo Escobar

7644
Citations
Urban life in contemporary China

Susan Greenhalgh;Martin King Whyte;William L. Parish

793
Citations
Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China.

Susan Greenhalgh;Arthur Kleinman

559
Citations
Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China

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452
Citations
Sexual Stratification: The Other Side of "Growth with Equity" in East Asia

Susan Greenhalgh

424
Citations
In the name of the family : rethinking family values in the postmodern age

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389
Citations
The Social Construction of Population Science: An Intellectual, Institutional, and Political History of Twentieth-Century Demography

Susan Greenhalgh

355
Citations
Situating fertility : anthropology and demographic inquiry

Susan Greenhalgh

319
Citations
Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China

Susan Greenhalgh

289
Citations
The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood

Susan Greenhalgh;Sharon Hays

269
Citations
controlling births and bodies in village China

Susan Greenhalgh

238
Citations
An alternative to the one-child policy in China.

John Bongaarts;Susan Greenhalgh

235
Citations
Shifts in China's Population Policy, 1984-86: Views from the Central, Provincial, and Local Levels

Susan Greenhalgh

221
Citations
de-Orientalizing the Chinese family firm

Susan Greenhalgh

217
Citations
Toward a Political Economy of Fertility: Anthropological Contributions

Susan Greenhalgh

210
Citations
Engendering reproductive policy and practice in peasant China: for a feminist demography of reproduction

Susan Greenhalgh;Jiali Li

199
Citations
Governing China's Population

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163
Citations
Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain

Susan Greenhalgh

161
Citations
Science, Modernity, and the Making of China's One‐Child Policy

Susan Greenhalgh

157
Citations
Planned births, unplanned persons: "Population" in the making of Chinese modernity

Susan Greenhalgh

140
Citations
Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China

Susan Greenhalgh

116
Citations
Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction.

Susan Greenhalgh;Faye D. Ginsburg;Rayna Rapp

116
Citations
Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development.

Susan Greenhalgh;Irene Tinker

54
Citations
Social Change and the Family in Taiwan.

Susan Greenhalgh;Arland Thornton;Hui-Sheng Lin

29
Citations
Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry

Susan Cotts Watkins;Susan Greenhalgh

4
Citations
Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry.

Alan Swedlund;Susan Greenhalgh

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John Bongaarts Population Council

Susan Cotts Watkins University of California, Los Angeles

Arturo Escobar University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Arland Thornton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

Personal website of Susan Greenhalgh

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