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Researcher · The Chicago School · United States

Myra Leifer

Myra Leifer publishes mostly in Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Safety Research, on topics such as Child Abuse and Trauma, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development and Child Welfare and Adoption.

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World rank
#2,180,072
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#654,976
of 1,627,098
Works
27
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
41.2
h-index
15
i10-index 19Top 30% in Clinical Psychology
Myra Leifer

What does Myra Leifer research?

Myra Leifer's work is mostly in Psychology (48%), Social Sciences (24%), Medicine (8%).

Social Sciences: 20 works · 72.8% of their workPsychology: 13 works · 48.5% of their workClinical Psychology: 10 works · 36.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 3 works · 12.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 24.3% of their workSafety Research: 2 works · 9.1% of their workDemography: 2 works · 7.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 7.6% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 19.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 7.6% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 7.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 works · 7.6% of their workTHEIR WORKMyra Leifer27works
Health Sciences8%Social Sciences73%

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. Psychology1348.5%
    2. Social Sciences724.3%
  2. Everything else519.6%
    1. Medicine27.6%
  1. 1Clinical Psychology36% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology12% of their works
  3. 3Safety Research9% of their works
  4. 4Demography8% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Myra Leifer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mental Health, Adverse Experiences, Childhood Trauma, Developmental Trajectories, Parenting, Attachment, Emotion Regulation and Child Welfare.

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. Mental Health253 topics
  2. Adverse Experiences131 topic
  3. Childhood Trauma131 topic
  4. Developmental Trajectories122 topics
  5. Parenting112 topics
  6. Attachment102 topics
  7. Emotion Regulation102 topics
  8. Child Welfare61 topic
  9. Children61 topic
  10. Foster Care61 topic
  11. Psychopathology61 topic
  12. Divorce51 topic
  13. Fertility51 topic
  14. Ethical Principles41 topic
  15. Marital Quality41 topic
  16. Maternal Mental Health41 topic
  17. Multicultural Counseling41 topic
  18. Perinatal Depression41 topic
  19. Psychological Testing41 topic
  20. Relationships41 topic
  21. Rorschach Comprehensive System41 topic

Where does Myra Leifer work?

Myra Leifer's main affiliation in the publication record is The Chicago School, United States.

How many publications and citations does Myra Leifer have?

OpenAlex counts 27 works and 1,113 citations for Myra Leifer, an h-index of 15, ranking #2,180,072 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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