Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · United States

Barbara L. Fredrickson

Barbara L. Fredrickson publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Mental Health Research Topics and Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions.

ORCID 0000-0002-3890-2646 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,947
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,418
of 1,627,098
Works
393
Citations
95k
Citations per work
241.5
h-index
99
i10-index 199Top 0.2% in Social Psychology
Barbara L. Fredrickson

What does Barbara L. Fredrickson research?

Barbara L. Fredrickson's work is mostly in Psychology (65%), Neuroscience (4%), Social Sciences (4%).

Social Sciences: 271 works · 68.9% of their workPsychology: 256 works · 65.2% of their workSocial Psychology: 126 works · 32.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 54 works · 13.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 46 works · 11.6% of their workApplied Psychology: 31 works · 7.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 3.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 15 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 105 works · 26.8% of their workLife Sciences: 17 works · 4.3% of their workNeuroscience: 17 works · 4.3% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 17 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKBarbara L.Fredrickson393works
Life Sciences4%Social Sciences69%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology25665.2%
    2. Social Sciences153.7%
  2. Everything else10526.8%
    1. Neuroscience174.3%
  1. 1Social Psychology32% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology14% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology12% of their works
  4. 4Applied Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience4% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Barbara L. Fredrickson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Well-being, Positive Psychology, Resilience, Happiness, Positive Emotions, Emotion Regulation, Meta-Analysis and Network Analysis.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Well-being1602 topics
  2. Positive Psychology1482 topics
  3. Resilience1482 topics
  4. Happiness1171 topic
  5. Positive Emotions1171 topic
  6. Emotion Regulation702 topics
  7. Meta-Analysis602 topics
  8. Network Analysis481 topic
  9. Psychopathology481 topic
  10. Mindfulness431 topic
  11. Self-Compassion431 topic
  12. Self-Regulation351 topic
  13. Theory of Planned Behaviour351 topic
  14. Hope Theory311 topic
  15. Optimism311 topic
  16. Cultural Psychology271 topic
  17. Guilt271 topic
  18. Shame271 topic
  19. Values271 topic
  20. Emotional Intelligence251 topic
  21. Leadership251 topic

Where does Barbara L. Fredrickson work?

Barbara L. Fredrickson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.

How many publications and citations does Barbara L. Fredrickson have?

OpenAlex counts 393 works and 94,905 citations for Barbara L. Fredrickson, an h-index of 99, ranking #9,947 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics have tabs of their own, above. Is this your page? Claim it with your ORCID iD, or request a correction or removal.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Barbara L. Fredrickson. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.