Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · University of California, Davis · United States

Jay Belsky

Jay Belsky publishes mostly in Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Education, on topics such as Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics and Early Childhood Education and Development.

ORCID 0000-0003-2191-2503 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,588
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#936
of 1,627,098
Works
600
Citations
70k
Citations per work
116.8
h-index
132
i10-index 403Top 0.1% in Clinical Psychology
Jay Belsky

What does Jay Belsky research?

Jay Belsky's work is mostly in Psychology (43%), Social Sciences (25%).

Social Sciences: 404 works · 67.3% of their workPsychology: 256 works · 42.7% of their workClinical Psychology: 133 works · 22.2% of their workSocial Psychology: 85 works · 14.1% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 38 works · 6.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 148 works · 24.6% of their workEducation: 74 works · 12.4% of their workDemography: 38 works · 6.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 35 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 196 works · 32.7% of their workTHEIR WORKJay Belsky600works
Social Sciences67%

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. Psychology25642.7%
    2. Social Sciences14824.6%
  2. Everything else19632.7%
  1. 1Clinical Psychology22% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology14% of their works
  3. 3Education12% of their works
  4. 4Demography6% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jay Belsky's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Emotion Regulation, Parenting, Mental Health, Children, Psychopathology, Attachment, Child Development and Marital Quality.

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. Emotion Regulation3672 topics
  2. Parenting3262 topics
  3. Mental Health2762 topics
  4. Children2281 topic
  5. Psychopathology2281 topic
  6. Attachment1902 topics
  7. Child Development1652 topics
  8. Marital Quality1391 topic
  9. Relationships1391 topic
  10. School Engagement1191 topic
  11. Student-Teacher Relationships1191 topic
  12. Divorce981 topic
  13. Fertility981 topic
  14. Evolutionary Psychology511 topic
  15. Human Behavior511 topic
  16. Oxytocin511 topic
  17. Social Behavior511 topic
  18. Adverse Experiences481 topic
  19. Childhood Trauma481 topic
  20. Maternal Mental Health461 topic
  21. Perinatal Depression461 topic

Where does Jay Belsky work?

Jay Belsky's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Davis, United States.

How many publications and citations does Jay Belsky have?

OpenAlex counts 600 works and 70,092 citations for Jay Belsky, an h-index of 132, ranking #2,588 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 Jay Belsky. 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.