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Researcher · Illinois State University · United States

Eric D. Wesselmann

Eric D. Wesselmann publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health and Social and Intergroup Psychology.

ORCID 0000-0003-0717-441X OpenAlex
World rank
#82,911
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#32,016
of 1,627,098
Works
140
Citations
4.6k
Citations per work
32.6
h-index
38
i10-index 57Top 4.5% in Social Psychology
Eric D. Wesselmann

What does Eric D. Wesselmann research?

Eric D. Wesselmann's work is mostly in Psychology (52%), Social Sciences (24%), Neuroscience (4%).

Social Sciences: 111 works · 79.1% of their workPsychology: 73 works · 51.8% of their workSocial Psychology: 47 works · 33.6% of their workClinical Psychology: 25 works · 18.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 33 works · 23.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 22 works · 15.4% of their workHealth: 12 works · 8.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 3.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 5 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 16.4% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 4.5% of their workNeuroscience: 6 works · 4.5% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 6 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKEric D.Wesselmann140works
Life Sciences4%Social Sciences79%

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. Psychology7351.8%
    2. Social Sciences3323.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities53.5%
  2. Everything else2316.4%
    1. Neuroscience64.5%
  1. 1Social Psychology34% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology18% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  4. 4Health8% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience4% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Eric D. Wesselmann's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ostracism, Social Exclusion, Mental Health, Bereavement, Complicated Grief, Spirituality, Intergroup Contact and Social Identity.

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. Ostracism671 topic
  2. Social Exclusion671 topic
  3. Mental Health632 topics
  4. Bereavement411 topic
  5. Complicated Grief411 topic
  6. Spirituality292 topics
  7. Intergroup Contact271 topic
  8. Social Identity271 topic
  9. Emotion222 topics
  10. Health221 topic
  11. Religion221 topic
  12. Neuroscience192 topics
  13. Psychology192 topics
  14. Disgust121 topic
  15. Moral Judgment121 topic
  16. Narrative Persuasion101 topic
  17. Transportation101 topic
  18. Near-Death Experiences71 topic
  19. Paranormal Beliefs71 topic
  20. Self-Regulation61 topic
  21. Theory of Planned Behaviour61 topic

Where does Eric D. Wesselmann work?

Eric D. Wesselmann's main affiliation in the publication record is Illinois State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Eric D. Wesselmann have?

OpenAlex counts 140 works and 4,558 citations for Eric D. Wesselmann, an h-index of 38, ranking #82,911 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.

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