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Susan Greenhalgh 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 Susan Greenhalgh sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 165 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Susan Greenhalgh 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 Susan Greenhalgh sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% 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

  • 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

  • Urban life in contemporary China

    Susan Greenhalgh;Martin King Whyte;William L. Parish

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

    Susan Greenhalgh;Arthur Kleinman

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

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

    Susan Greenhalgh

  • In the name of the family : rethinking family values in the postmodern age

    Unknown

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

    Susan Greenhalgh

  • Situating fertility : anthropology and demographic inquiry

    Susan Greenhalgh

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

    Susan Greenhalgh

  • The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood

    Susan Greenhalgh;Sharon Hays

  • controlling births and bodies in village China

    Susan Greenhalgh

  • An alternative to the one-child policy in China.

    John Bongaarts;Susan Greenhalgh

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

    Susan Greenhalgh

  • de-Orientalizing the Chinese family firm

    Susan Greenhalgh

  • Toward a Political Economy of Fertility: Anthropological Contributions

    Susan Greenhalgh

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

    Susan Greenhalgh;Jiali Li

  • Governing China's Population

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  • Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain

    Susan Greenhalgh

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

    Susan Greenhalgh

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

    Susan Greenhalgh

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

    Susan Greenhalgh

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

    Susan Greenhalgh;Faye D. Ginsburg;Rayna Rapp

  • Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development.

    Susan Greenhalgh;Irene Tinker

  • Social Change and the Family in Taiwan.

    Susan Greenhalgh;Arland Thornton;Hui-Sheng Lin

  • Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry

    Susan Cotts Watkins;Susan Greenhalgh

  • Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry.

    Alan Swedlund;Susan Greenhalgh

Frequent Co-Authors

John Bongaarts
John Bongaarts Population Council
Susan Cotts Watkins
Susan Cotts Watkins University of California, Los Angeles
Arturo Escobar
Arturo Escobar University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Arland Thornton
Arland Thornton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Arthur Kleinman
Arthur Kleinman Harvard University
Jane H. Hill
Jane H. Hill University of Arizona

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