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Researcher · University of California, Riverside · United States

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Sonja Lyubomirsky publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Applied Psychology and Clinical Psychology, on topics such as Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Optimism, Hope, and Well-being and Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research.

ORCID 0000-0003-0727-5595 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,580
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,571
of 1,627,098
Works
257
Citations
51k
Citations per work
199.2
h-index
84
i10-index 163Top 0.4% in Social Psychology
Sonja Lyubomirsky

What does Sonja Lyubomirsky research?

Sonja Lyubomirsky's work is mostly in Psychology (72%), Social Sciences (5%), Health Professions (4%).

Social Sciences: 196 works · 76.2% of their workPsychology: 184 works · 71.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 90 works · 35.0% of their workApplied Psychology: 33 works · 12.7% of their workClinical Psychology: 32 works · 12.6% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 29 works · 11.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 4.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 12 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 20.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 3.7% of their workHealth Professions: 10 works · 3.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 10 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKSonja Lyubomirsky257works
Health Sciences4%Social Sciences76%

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. Psychology18471.6%
    2. Social Sciences124.6%
  2. Everything else5220.1%
    1. Health Professions103.7%
  1. 1Social Psychology35% of their works
  2. 2Applied Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3Clinical Psychology13% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology11% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sonja Lyubomirsky's research?

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

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. Well-being1843 topics
  2. Positive Psychology1782 topics
  3. Resilience1782 topics
  4. Mental Health1482 topics
  5. Happiness1311 topic
  6. Positive Emotions1311 topic
  7. Health Behavior772 topics
  8. Hope Theory471 topic
  9. Optimism471 topic
  10. Future Orientation301 topic
  11. Time Perspective301 topic
  12. Self-Regulation291 topic
  13. Theory of Planned Behaviour291 topic
  14. Cultural Psychology241 topic
  15. Values241 topic
  16. Mindfulness231 topic
  17. Self-Compassion231 topic
  18. Network Analysis191 topic
  19. Psychopathology191 topic
  20. Anxiety171 topic
  21. COVID-19171 topic

Where does Sonja Lyubomirsky work?

Sonja Lyubomirsky's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Riverside, United States.

How many publications and citations does Sonja Lyubomirsky have?

OpenAlex counts 257 works and 51,205 citations for Sonja Lyubomirsky, an h-index of 84, ranking #4,580 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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