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Researcher · The University of Texas at Austin · United States

Karen L. Fingerman

Karen L. Fingerman publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology and Demography, on topics such as Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving, Aging and Gerontology Research and Health disparities and outcomes.

ORCID 0000-0001-9260-9400 OpenAlex
World rank
#18,763
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#6,770
of 1,627,098
Works
297
Citations
11k
Citations per work
36.4
h-index
53
i10-index 151Top 0.3% in Sociology and Political Science
Karen L. Fingerman

What does Karen L. Fingerman research?

Karen L. Fingerman's work is mostly in Social Sciences (51%), Psychology (29%).

Social Sciences: 238 works · 80.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 151 works · 50.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 82 works · 27.5% of their workDemography: 37 works · 12.4% of their workHealth: 32 works · 10.9% of their workPsychology: 87 works · 29.3% of their workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 40 works · 13.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 29 works · 9.9% of their workClinical Psychology: 18 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 59 works · 19.9% of their workTHEIR WORKKaren L.Fingerman297works
Social Sciences80%

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 Sciences15150.8%
    2. Psychology8729.3%
  2. Everything else5919.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science28% of their works
  2. 2Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3Demography12% of their works
  4. 4Health11% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology10% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Karen L. Fingerman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Support, Social Relationships, Family Support, Intergenerational Relations, Subjective Well-Being, Aging, Emotion and Loneliness.

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. Social Support2693 topics
  2. Social Relationships1942 topics
  3. Family Support1491 topic
  4. Intergenerational Relations1491 topic
  5. Subjective Well-Being1362 topics
  6. Aging1071 topic
  7. Emotion1071 topic
  8. Loneliness871 topic
  9. Socioeconomic Inequalities871 topic
  10. Divorce661 topic
  11. Fertility661 topic
  12. Children531 topic
  13. Parental Illness531 topic
  14. Attachment331 topic
  15. Relationships331 topic
  16. Positive Psychology291 topic
  17. Well-being291 topic
  18. Autobiographical Memory181 topic
  19. Narrative Identity181 topic

Where does Karen L. Fingerman work?

Karen L. Fingerman's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Texas at Austin, United States.

How many publications and citations does Karen L. Fingerman have?

OpenAlex counts 297 works and 10,821 citations for Karen L. Fingerman, an h-index of 53, ranking #18,763 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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