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Researcher · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · United States

Glen H. Elder

Glen H. Elder publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Education and Demography, on topics such as Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving, Family Dynamics and Relationships and Youth Education and Societal Dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,010
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#429
of 1,627,098
Works
356
Citations
53k
Citations per work
149.4
h-index
103
i10-index 228Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Glen H. Elder

What does Glen H. Elder research?

Glen H. Elder's work is mostly in Social Sciences (51%), Psychology (14%).

Social Sciences: 234 works · 65.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 183 works · 51.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 90 works · 25.4% of their workEducation: 37 works · 10.5% of their workDemography: 32 works · 9.0% of their workGender Studies: 23 works · 6.5% of their workPsychology: 51 works · 14.2% of their workClinical Psychology: 30 works · 8.3% of their workSocial Psychology: 21 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 122 works · 34.4% of their workTHEIR WORKGlen H. Elder356works
Social Sciences66%

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. Social Sciences18351.4%
    2. Psychology5114.2%
  2. Everything else12234.4%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science25% of their works
  2. 2Education10% of their works
  3. 3Demography9% of their works
  4. 4Clinical Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Gender Studies6% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Glen H. Elder's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Parenting, Social Support, Family Support, Intergenerational Relations, Social Relationships, Divorce, Fertility and Social Exclusion.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Parenting742 topics
  2. Social Support732 topics
  3. Family Support471 topic
  4. Intergenerational Relations471 topic
  5. Social Relationships472 topics
  6. Divorce431 topic
  7. Fertility431 topic
  8. Social Exclusion391 topic
  9. Youth Transitions391 topic
  10. Gender Inequality341 topic
  11. Labor Force Participation341 topic
  12. Emotion Regulation311 topic
  13. Psychopathology311 topic
  14. School Engagement281 topic
  15. Student-Teacher Relationships281 topic
  16. Loneliness261 topic
  17. Socioeconomic Inequalities261 topic
  18. Aging211 topic
  19. Emotion211 topic

Where does Glen H. Elder work?

Glen H. Elder's main affiliation in the publication record is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.

How many publications and citations does Glen H. Elder have?

OpenAlex counts 356 works and 53,197 citations for Glen H. Elder, an h-index of 103, ranking #1,010 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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