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Researcher · Indiana State University · United States

Virgil L. Sheets

Virgil L. Sheets publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology, on topics such as Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior and Family Dynamics and Relationships.

ORCID 0000-0002-7333-7515 OpenAlex
World rank
#261,358
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#95,800
of 1,627,098
Works
55
Citations
12k
Citations per work
222.7
h-index
26
i10-index 35Top 3.3% in Sociology and Political Science
Virgil L. Sheets

What does Virgil L. Sheets research?

Virgil L. Sheets's work is mostly in Social Sciences (28%), Psychology (27%).

Social Sciences: 30 works · 54.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 27.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 8 works · 14.6% of their workEducation: 4 works · 7.3% of their workHealth: 3 works · 5.7% of their workPsychology: 15 works · 26.9% of their workClinical Psychology: 6 works · 10.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 5 works · 9.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 works · 6.5% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 45.5% of their workTHEIR WORKVirgil L. Sheets55works
Social Sciences54%

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 Sciences1527.6%
    2. Psychology1526.9%
  2. Everything else2545.5%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology11% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology10% of their works
  4. 4Education7% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6Health6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Virgil L. Sheets's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Support, Attachment, Relationships, Divorce, Evolutionary Psychology, Fertility, Human Behavior and Religion.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Support183 topics
  2. Attachment81 topic
  3. Relationships81 topic
  4. Divorce61 topic
  5. Evolutionary Psychology61 topic
  6. Fertility61 topic
  7. Human Behavior61 topic
  8. Religion61 topic
  9. Spirituality61 topic
  10. Family Support41 topic
  11. Intergenerational Relations41 topic
  12. Adaptive Designs31 topic
  13. Environmental Attitudes31 topic
  14. Experimental Design31 topic
  15. False Discovery Rate31 topic
  16. Optimization31 topic
  17. Pro-environmental Behavior31 topic

Where does Virgil L. Sheets work?

Virgil L. Sheets's main affiliation in the publication record is Indiana State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Virgil L. Sheets have?

OpenAlex counts 55 works and 12,246 citations for Virgil L. Sheets, an h-index of 26, ranking #261,358 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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