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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 56 1899 1716 336 304 291 11875

Tom Dening publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Tom Dening between 1985 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Tom Dening published across 41 years, from 1985 to 2025, averaging 8.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 25 publications in 2017. 34 of the 350 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1985 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 25. Peak 25 publications in 2017. 1985: 1 publication 1986: 1 publication 1987: 2 publications 1988: 4 publications 1989: 8 publications 1990: 6 publications 1991: 5 publications 1992: 9 publications 1993: 4 publications 1994: 6 publications 1995: 6 publications 1996: 12 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 6 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 8 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 8 publications 2005: 1 publication 2006: 0 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 9 publications 2010: 0 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 13 publications 2017: 25 publications 2018: 18 publications 2019: 25 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 17 publications 2022: 18 publications 2023: 14 publications 2024: 21 publications 2025: 13 publications
1985 2025

350 publications in total across all disciplines

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Tom Dening: publications per year, 1985 to 2025
Year Publications
1985 1
1986 1
1987 2
1988 4
1989 8
1990 6
1991 5
1992 9
1993 4
1994 6
1995 6
1996 12
1997 4
1998 6
1999 2
2000 8
2001 5
2002 6
2003 3
2004 8
2005 1
2006 0
2007 2
2008 5
2009 9
2010 0
2011 7
2012 7
2013 10
2014 12
2015 10
2016 13
2017 25
2018 18
2019 25
2020 17
2021 17
2022 18
2023 14
2024 21
2025 13
Total 350
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Tom Dening 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 Tom Dening sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 284–293 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 291 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113 291
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Tom Dening 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 Tom Dening sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 56 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 56 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109 56
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Tom Dening is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and health professions, with a significant focus on general health professions and mental health subfields such as psychiatry, clinical psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's body of work includes publications across various topics, notably dementia and cognitive impairment research, geriatric care and nursing homes, mental health and psychiatry, mental health and patient involvement, psychiatric care and mental health services, hearing loss and rehabilitation, and broader health, psychology, and well-being themes.

Recent notable publications by Tom Dening include:

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment: the Manchester consensus, 2020, Age and Ageing
  • Determinants for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the general population: a systematic review of reviews, 2022, Journal of Public Health
  • Use of menopausal hormone therapy and risk of dementia: nested case-control studies using QResearch and CPRD databases, 2021, BMJ
  • Setting Priorities to Inform Assessment of Care Homes' Readiness to Participate in Healthcare Innovation: A Systematic Mapping Review and Consensus Process, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Undiagnosed dementia in primary care: a record linkage study, 2020, Health Services and Delivery Research

Tom Dening collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors, including Jen Yates, Eithne Heffernan, Helen Henshaw, Martin Orrell, and Esme Moniz-Cook.

Their research is published in multiple well-known venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Age and Ageing
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
  • BMJ

The scientist has also contributed to academic books, including a publication with IntechOpen titled Updates on Hearing Loss and its Rehabilitation, released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease.

    Robert Howard;Rupert McShane;James Lindesay;Craig Ritchie

  • Anticholinergic Drug Exposure and the Risk of Dementia: A Nested Case-Control Study

    Carol A. C. Coupland;Trevor Hill;Tom Dening;Richard Morriss

  • A two decade dementia incidence comparison from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies I and II

    F. E. Matthews;F. E. Matthews;B. C. M. Stephan;L. Robinson;C. Jagger

  • Perception, attention, and working memory are disproportionately impaired in dementia with Lewy bodies compared with Alzheimer's disease

    J Calderon;R J Perry;S W Erzinclioglu;G E Berrios

  • Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: A position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics

    Franka Meiland;Anthea Innes;Gail Mountain;Louise Robinson

  • Antidepressants for treating depression in dementia.

    Jatinder Bains;Jacqueline Birks;Tom Dening

  • Wilson's disease. Psychiatric symptoms in 195 cases.

    Thomas R. Dening;German E. Berrios

  • Prevalence of dementia in institutional care

    Fiona E Matthews;Tom Dening

  • Longitudinal course of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: systematic review.

    Rianne M van der Linde;Tom Dening;Blossom C M Stephan;A Matthew Prina

  • The Cambridge Neurological Inventory: a clinical instrument for assessment of soft neurological signs in psychiatric patients.

    Eric Y.H Chen;Eric Y.H Chen;Jane Shapleske;Rogelio Luque;Peter J McKenna

  • Neuropathological Correlates of Dementia in Over-80-Year-Old Brain Donors from the Population-Based Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) Study

    Carol Brayne;Kathryn Richardson;Fiona E. Matthews;Jane Fleming

  • Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS)

    Andrew Kingston;Pia Wohland;Raphael Wittenberg;Louise Robinson

  • Nursing home placement in the Donepezil and Memantine in Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease (DOMINO-AD) trial: secondary and post-hoc analyses

    Robert Howard;Robert Howard;Rupert McShane;James Lindesay;Craig Ritchie

  • Decline across different domains of cognitive function in normal ageing: results of a longitudinal population‐based study using CAMCOG

    Sarah Cullum;Felicia A. Huppert;Magnus Mcgee;T. O. M. Dening

  • Grouping of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

    Rianne M. van der Linde;Tom Dening;Fiona E. Matthews;Carol Brayne

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment: the Manchester consensus

    Ross A Dunne;Dag Aarsland;John T O'Brien;Clive Ballard

  • Determining the minimum clinically important differences for outcomes in the DOMINO trial

    Robert Howard;Patrick Phillips;Tony Johnson;John T. O'Brien

  • Population norms for the MMSE in the very old: Estimates based on longitudinal data

    Carole Dufouil;D Clayton;Carol Brayne;Lin-Yang Chi

  • Mental health problems

    Alistair Burns;Tom Dening;Robert Baldwin

  • The association between depressive symptoms in the community, non-psychiatric hospital admission and hospital outcomes: a systematic review.

    A. Matthew Prina;A. Matthew Prina;Theodore D. Cosco;Tom Dening;Aartjan Beekman

  • Changes in self-rated health, disability and contact with services in a very elderly cohort: a 6-year follow-up study

    Tom R. Dening;Lin Yang Chi;Carol Brayne;Felicia A. Huppert

  • Analysis of the apo E/apo C-I, angiotensin converting enzyme and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase genes as candidates affecting human longevity

    Daliah Galinsky;Carolyn Tysoe;Carol E. Brayne;Douglas F. Easton

  • Very old drivers: findings from a population cohort of people aged 84 and over

    Carol Brayne;Carole Dufouil;Anne Ahmed;Tom R. Dening

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol Brayne
Carol Brayne University of Cambridge
Fiona E. Matthews
Fiona E. Matthews Newcastle University
German E. Berrios
German E. Berrios University of Cambridge
Claire Goodman
Claire Goodman University of Hertfordshire
Justine Schneider
Justine Schneider University of Nottingham
Felicia A. Huppert
Felicia A. Huppert University of Sydney
Cornelius Katona
Cornelius Katona University College London
Robert Howard
Robert Howard University College London
Eugene S. Paykel
Eugene S. Paykel University of Cambridge
Alistair Burns
Alistair Burns University of Manchester

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