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Researcher · Princeton University · United States

Sara McLanahan

Sara McLanahan publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and Demography, on topics such as Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Family Dynamics and Relationships and Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving.

ORCID 0000-0002-3473-5190 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,397
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#566
of 1,627,098
Works
438
Citations
30k
Citations per work
68.5
h-index
77
i10-index 191Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Sara McLanahan

What does Sara McLanahan research?

Sara McLanahan's work is mostly in Social Sciences (67%), Health Professions (5%), Psychology (5%).

Social Sciences: 314 works · 71.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 294 works · 67.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 100 works · 22.8% of their workGender Studies: 93 works · 21.2% of their workDemography: 77 works · 17.5% of their workEducation: 25 works · 5.6% of their workPsychology: 20 works · 4.6% of their workClinical Psychology: 20 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 102 works · 23.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 22 works · 5.0% of their workHealth Professions: 22 works · 5.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 22 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKSara McLanahan438works
Health Sciences5%Social Sciences72%

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 Sciences29467.1%
    2. Psychology204.6%
  2. Everything else10223.3%
    1. Health Professions225.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science23% of their works
  2. 2Gender Studies21% of their works
  3. 3Demography18% of their works
  4. 4Education6% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions5% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sara McLanahan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Parenting, Gender Inequality, Labor Force Participation, Divorce, Fertility, Social Support, Family Support and Intergenerational Relations.

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. Parenting1562 topics
  2. Gender Inequality1411 topic
  3. Labor Force Participation1411 topic
  4. Divorce1371 topic
  5. Fertility1371 topic
  6. Social Support1252 topics
  7. Family Support1091 topic
  8. Intergenerational Relations1091 topic
  9. Neighborhood Effects362 topics
  10. Sex Ratios291 topic
  11. Son Preference291 topic
  12. School Engagement251 topic
  13. Student-Teacher Relationships251 topic
  14. Residential Segregation201 topic
  15. Social Mobility201 topic
  16. Emotion Regulation191 topic
  17. Psychopathology191 topic
  18. Social Relationships161 topic
  19. Socioeconomic Inequalities161 topic

Where does Sara McLanahan work?

Sara McLanahan's main affiliation in the publication record is Princeton University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Sara McLanahan have?

OpenAlex counts 438 works and 30,023 citations for Sara McLanahan, an h-index of 77, ranking #1,397 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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