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Researcher · San Diego State University · United States

Jean M. Twenge

Jean M. Twenge publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Clinical Psychology, on topics such as Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research and Impact of Technology on Adolescents.

ORCID 0000-0002-6542-8281 OpenAlex
World rank
#691
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#318
of 1,627,098
Works
277
Citations
52k
Citations per work
186.5
h-index
99
i10-index 178Top 0.2% in Social Psychology
Jean M. Twenge

What does Jean M. Twenge research?

Jean M. Twenge's work is mostly in Psychology (49%), Social Sciences (24%).

Social Sciences: 200 works · 72.2% of their workPsychology: 135 works · 48.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 55 works · 19.8% of their workClinical Psychology: 38 works · 13.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 26 works · 9.3% of their workApplied Psychology: 16 works · 5.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 65 works · 23.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 53 works · 19.2% of their workGender Studies: 12 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 77 works · 27.8% of their workTHEIR WORKJean M. Twenge277works
Social Sciences72%

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. Psychology13548.6%
    2. Social Sciences6523.6%
  2. Everything else7727.8%
  1. 1Social Psychology20% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  3. 3Clinical Psychology14% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology9% of their works
  5. 5Applied Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6Gender Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jean M. Twenge's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Well-being, Mental Health, Personality Traits, Self-Esteem, Positive Emotions, Positive Psychology, Future Orientation and Time Perspective.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Well-being953 topics
  2. Mental Health562 topics
  3. Personality Traits552 topics
  4. Self-Esteem522 topics
  5. Positive Emotions331 topic
  6. Positive Psychology331 topic
  7. Future Orientation321 topic
  8. Time Perspective321 topic
  9. Addiction301 topic
  10. Social Media301 topic
  11. Ostracism291 topic
  12. Social Exclusion291 topic
  13. Intergroup Contact281 topic
  14. Social Identity281 topic
  15. Big Five231 topic
  16. Narcissism231 topic
  17. Cultural Psychology211 topic
  18. Values211 topic
  19. Digital Technology181 topic
  20. Parental Mediation181 topic

Where does Jean M. Twenge work?

Jean M. Twenge's main affiliation in the publication record is San Diego State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Jean M. Twenge have?

OpenAlex counts 277 works and 51,655 citations for Jean M. Twenge, an h-index of 99, ranking #691 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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