3(top 5%)
Impact Factor
3.3(top 5%)
extended IF
110(top 3%)
H-Index
1.4K
authors
3.2K
papers
74.3K
citations
5.9K
citing journals
26.3K
citing authors

Most Cited Articles of Sociology of Health and Illness

TitleYearCitations
Chronic illness as biographical disruption19822.1K
The methodology of Focus Groups: the importance of interaction between research participants19941.9K
Loss of self: a fundamental form of suffering in the chronically ill19831K
The rise of surveillance medicine1995608
The genesis of chronic illness: narrative re-construction1984566
The sociology of chronic illness: a review of research and prospects1991481
Illness narratives: fact or fiction?2001472
Being epileptic: coming to terms with stigma1986448
The experience of infertility: a review of recent literature2010442
Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept2000372
Health-related stigma2009356
Illness and narrative2008351
Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox: the implications of coronary candidacy for health education.1991345
Sociology of diagnosis: a preliminary review2009321
Embodied health movements: new approaches to social movements in health2004321
Dynamic professional boundaries in the healthcare workforce2005319
Doctor in the house: the Internet as a source of lay health knowledge and the challenge to expertise1999314
‘Everybody just freezes. Everybody is just embarrassed’: felt and enacted stigma among parents of children with high functioning autism2002295
Care = organisation + physical labour + emotional labour1992289
The development of a subjective health indicator1980276
Considering the Vignette Technique and its Application to a Study of Drug Injecting and HIV Risk and Safer Behaviour1998275
'Ignorance is bliss sometimes': constraints on the emergence of the 'informed patient' in the changing landscapes of health information2003270
Empty ethics: the problem with informed consent2003255
Belief, knowledge and expertise: the emergence of the lay expert in medical sociology2003255
A theoretical proposal for the relationship between context and disease2001253