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Researcher · University of Chicago · United States

Linda J. Waite

Linda J. Waite publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Health and Gender Studies, on topics such as Health disparities and outcomes, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics and Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving.

ORCID 0000-0002-8997-5802 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,257
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,179
of 1,627,098
Works
300
Citations
32k
Citations per work
107.9
h-index
71
i10-index 166Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Linda J. Waite

What does Linda J. Waite research?

Linda J. Waite's work is mostly in Social Sciences (53%), Health Professions (6%), Medicine (4%).

Social Sciences: 160 works · 53.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 160 works · 53.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 57 works · 18.9% of their workHealth: 36 works · 12.1% of their workGender Studies: 36 works · 12.0% of their workDemography: 31 works · 10.3% of their workEverything else: 112 works · 37.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 28 works · 9.5% of their workHealth Professions: 17 works · 5.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 17 works · 5.6% of their workMedicine: 12 works · 3.9% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 12 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKLinda J. Waite300works
Health Sciences10%Social Sciences53%

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 Sciences16053.3%
  2. Everything else11237.2%
    1. Health Professions175.6%
    2. Medicine123.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  2. 2Health12% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies12% of their works
  4. 4Demography10% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions6% of their works
  6. 6Psychiatry and Mental health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Linda J. Waite's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Support, Social Relationships, Gender Inequality, Gender Roles, Loneliness, Socioeconomic Inequalities, Labor Force Participation and Welfare Reform.

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. Social Support1392 topics
  2. Social Relationships1062 topics
  3. Gender Inequality992 topics
  4. Gender Roles792 topics
  5. Loneliness791 topic
  6. Socioeconomic Inequalities791 topic
  7. Labor Force Participation671 topic
  8. Welfare Reform671 topic
  9. Family Support601 topic
  10. Intergenerational Relations601 topic
  11. Divorce471 topic
  12. Fertility471 topic
  13. Subjective Well-Being402 topics
  14. Telecommuting321 topic
  15. Work-Family Conflict321 topic
  16. Aging271 topic
  17. Emotion271 topic
  18. Erectile Dysfunction141 topic
  19. Sexual Dysfunction141 topic
  20. Positive Psychology131 topic
  21. Well-being131 topic

Where does Linda J. Waite work?

Linda J. Waite's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Chicago, United States.

How many publications and citations does Linda J. Waite have?

OpenAlex counts 300 works and 32,373 citations for Linda J. Waite, an h-index of 71, ranking #9,257 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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