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Researcher · University of Pennsylvania · United States

Martin E. P. Seligman

Martin E. P. Seligman publishes mostly in Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Applied Psychology, on topics such as Optimism, Hope, and Well-being, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

ORCID 0000-0002-2028-0009 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,204
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#507
of 1,627,098
Works
479
Citations
124k
Citations per work
258.2
h-index
134
i10-index 295Top 0.1% in Clinical Psychology
Martin E. P. Seligman

What does Martin E. P. Seligman research?

Martin E. P. Seligman's work is mostly in Psychology (59%), Neuroscience (4%).

Social Sciences: 284 works · 59.2% of their workPsychology: 284 works · 59.2% of their workClinical Psychology: 90 works · 18.7% of their workSocial Psychology: 76 works · 15.8% of their workApplied Psychology: 51 works · 10.6% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 45 works · 9.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 23 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 176 works · 36.8% of their workLife Sciences: 19 works · 4.0% of their workNeuroscience: 19 works · 4.0% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 19 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKMartin E. P.Seligman479works
Life Sciences4%Social Sciences59%

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. Psychology28459.2%
  2. Everything else17636.8%
    1. Neuroscience194.0%
  1. 1Clinical Psychology19% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology16% of their works
  3. 3Applied Psychology11% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology9% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Martin E. P. Seligman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mental Health, Positive Psychology, Resilience, Positive Emotions, Health Behavior, Well-being, Hope Theory and Optimism.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Mental Health1733 topics
  2. Positive Psychology1662 topics
  3. Resilience1662 topics
  4. Positive Emotions1252 topics
  5. Health Behavior1102 topics
  6. Well-being1082 topics
  7. Hope Theory841 topic
  8. Optimism841 topic
  9. Happiness821 topic
  10. Subjective Well-Being821 topic
  11. Psychopathology812 topics
  12. Children481 topic
  13. Emotion Regulation481 topic
  14. Adversity431 topic
  15. Psychological Resilience431 topic
  16. Mental Disorders331 topic
  17. Network Analysis331 topic
  18. Future Orientation261 topic
  19. Time Perspective261 topic
  20. Behavioral Interventions241 topic
  21. Special Education241 topic
  22. School Engagement221 topic
  23. Student-Teacher Relationships221 topic

Where does Martin E. P. Seligman work?

Martin E. P. Seligman's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pennsylvania, United States.

How many publications and citations does Martin E. P. Seligman have?

OpenAlex counts 479 works and 123,691 citations for Martin E. P. Seligman, an h-index of 134, ranking #1,204 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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