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Researcher · University of Michigan · United States

Kira S. Birditt

Kira S. Birditt publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Health and Social Psychology, on topics such as Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving, Health disparities and outcomes and Aging and Gerontology Research.

ORCID 0000-0003-1843-1901 OpenAlex
World rank
#41,471
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#15,925
of 1,627,098
Works
242
Citations
9.2k
Citations per work
37.9
h-index
48
i10-index 112Top 0.5% in Sociology and Political Science
Kira S. Birditt

What does Kira S. Birditt research?

Kira S. Birditt's work is mostly in Social Sciences (44%), Psychology (26%).

Social Sciences: 168 works · 69.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 106 works · 43.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 49 works · 20.3% of their workHealth: 32 works · 13.2% of their workDemography: 25 works · 10.4% of their workPsychology: 62 works · 25.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 29 works · 12.1% of their workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 20 works · 8.4% of their workClinical Psychology: 12 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 74 works · 30.6% of their workTHEIR WORKKira S. Birditt242works
Social Sciences69%

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 Sciences10643.9%
    2. Psychology6225.5%
  2. Everything else7430.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science20% of their works
  2. 2Health13% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology12% of their works
  4. 4Demography10% of their works
  5. 5Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology8% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kira S. Birditt's research?

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

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. Social Support2313 topics
  2. Social Relationships1382 topics
  3. Family Support971 topic
  4. Intergenerational Relations971 topic
  5. Loneliness841 topic
  6. Socioeconomic Inequalities841 topic
  7. Subjective Well-Being742 topics
  8. Aging722 topics
  9. Emotion541 topic
  10. Successful Aging541 topic
  11. Attachment501 topic
  12. Relationships501 topic
  13. Divorce491 topic
  14. Fertility491 topic
  15. Children261 topic
  16. Parental Illness261 topic
  17. Positive Psychology201 topic
  18. Well-being201 topic
  19. Alzheimer's Disease181 topic
  20. Mild Cognitive Impairment181 topic

Where does Kira S. Birditt work?

Kira S. Birditt's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Michigan, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kira S. Birditt have?

OpenAlex counts 242 works and 9,165 citations for Kira S. Birditt, an h-index of 48, ranking #41,471 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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