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38
Citations
6749
World Ranking
5912
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2817

Thomas C. Ricketts 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 Thomas C. Ricketts sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 205 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas C. Ricketts 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 Thomas C. Ricketts sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Defining Urban and Rural Areas in U.S. Epidemiologic Studies

    Susan A. Hall;Jay S. Kaufman;Thomas C. Ricketts

  • Access in health services research: The battle of the frameworks

    Thomas C. Ricketts;Laurie J. Goldsmith

  • The Effects of Having a Regular Doctor on Access to Primary Care

    Jeanne M. Lambrew;Gordon H. Defriese;Timothy S. Carey;Thomas C. Ricketts

  • The Changing Nature of Rural Health Care

    Thomas C. Ricketts

  • Rural health in the United States

    Thomas C. Ricketts

  • Hospitalization rates as indicators of access to primary care.

    Thomas C Ricketts;Randy Randolph;Hilda Ann Howard;Donald E Pathman

  • The comparative retention of National Health Service Corps and other rural physicians. Results of a 9-year follow-up study.

    Donald E. Pathman;Thomas R. Konrad;Thomas C. Ricketts

  • Geographic information systems and public health.

    Thomas C. Ricketts

  • Alliances in health care: what we know, what we think we know, and what we should know.

    Howard S. Zuckerman;Arnold D. Kaluzny;Thomas C. Ricketts

  • Cancer in Rural Versus Urban Populations: A Review

    Adele C. Monroe;Thomas C. Ricketts;Lucy A. Savitz

  • Poverty, Health Services, and Health Status in Rural America

    Donald L. Patrick;Jane Stein;Miquel Porta;Carol Q. Porter

  • Geographic Methods for Health Services Research: A Focus on the Rural-Urban Continuum

    Lucy A. Savitz;Wilbert M. Gesler;Thomas C. Ricketts

  • Understanding Biased Selection in Medicare HMOs

    Michelle M. Mello;Sally C. Stearns;Edward C. Norton;Thomas C. Ricketts

  • The global health workforce shortage: role of surgeons and other providers.

    George F. Sheldon;Thomas C Ricketts;Anthony G Charles;Jennifer King

  • Workforce issues in rural areas: a focus on policy equity.

    Thomas C. Ricketts

  • Comparison of Number and Geographic Distribution of Pediatric Subspecialists and Patient Proximity to Specialized Care in the US Between 2003 and 2019.

    Adam Turner;Thomas Ricketts;Laurel K Leslie

  • Clinical trial enrollment of rural patients with cancer.

    Electra D. Paskett;M. Robert Cooper;Nancy Stark;Thomas C. Ricketts

  • How adults' access to outpatient physician services relates to the local supply of primary care physicians in the rural southeast.

    Donald E. Pathman;Thomas C. Ricketts;Thomas R. Konrad

  • The role of physician recommendation in women's mammography use: is it a 2-stage process?

    Sarah Tropman Hawley;Jo Anne Earp;Michael O'Malley;Thomas C. Ricketts

  • The National Health Service Corps Experience for Rural Physicians in the Late 1980s

    Donald E. Pathman;Thomas R. Konrad;Thomas C. Ricketts

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel W. Belsky
Daniel W. Belsky Columbia University
Electra D. Paskett
Electra D. Paskett The Ohio State University
Edward C. Norton
Edward C. Norton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joseph P. Morrissey
Joseph P. Morrissey University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Giselle Corbie-Smith
Giselle Corbie-Smith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jay S. Kaufman
Jay S. Kaufman McGill University
Bryan J. Weiner
Bryan J. Weiner University of Washington
Laurel K. Leslie
Laurel K. Leslie Tufts University
Guadalupe X. Ayala
Guadalupe X. Ayala San Diego State University
David M. Murray
David M. Murray National Institutes of Health

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