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Ronald L. Simons

Active 1988–2024

80
Papers
20,162
Citations
61
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Citations

Citations per year for Ronald L. Simons1986: 1 citations1989: 1 citations1990: 5 citations1991: 7 citations1992: 9 citations1993: 10 citations1994: 26 citations1995: 25 citations1996: 38 citations1997: 59 citations1998: 50 citations1999: 62 citations2000: 95 citations2001: 92 citations2002: 146 citations2003: 115 citations2004: 106 citations2005: 142 citations2006: 129 citations2007: 109 citations2008: 123 citations2009: 150 citations2010: 120 citations2011: 88 citations2012: 131 citations2013: 101 citations2014: 76 citations2015: 79 citations2016: 66 citations2017: 63 citations2018: 47 citations2019: 187 citations2020: 173 citations2021: 175 citations2022: 148 citations2023: 88 citations2024: 141 citations2025: 32 citations2026: 1 citations1987–1988: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,763 citing papers, 61.6% of this breakdownCanada: 155 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 152 citing papers, 5.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 82 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownChina: 73 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownGermany: 69 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownNetherlands: 67 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownItaly: 35 citing papers, 1.2% of this breakdownFinland: 34 citing papers, 1.2% of this breakdownNorway: 27 citing papers, 0.9% of this breakdownFrance: 24 citing papers, 0.8% of this breakdownSweden: 23 citing papers, 0.8% of this breakdown
0%61.6%Other 12.6%

Institutions

Fields

  • Psychology32.7%
  • Social Sciences30.3%
  • Health Professions13.1%
  • Medicine10.4%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7.5%
  • Neuroscience3%
  • Other3%

Topics

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development10.2%
  • Homelessness and Social Issues5.6%
  • Early Childhood Education and Development4.2%
  • Child Abuse and Trauma3.6%
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum3.3%
  • Health disparities and outcomes2.8%
  • Other70.3%

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  1. The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis

    Authors: Ronald L. Simons, Man‐Kit Lei, Eric T. Klopack, Steven R. H. Beach, Frederick X. Gibbons, Robert A. Philibert - Social Science & Medicine 2020 cited by 183

  2. Discrimination, segregation, and chronic inflammation: Testing the weathering explanation for the poor health of Black Americans.

    Authors: Ronald L. Simons, Man‐Kit Lei, Steven R. H. Beach, Ashley B. Barr, Leslie Gordon Simons, Frederick X. Gibbons, Robert A. Philibert - Developmental Psychology 2018 cited by 183

  3. Racial Discrimination, Inflammation, and Chronic Illness Among African American Women at Midlife: Support for the Weathering Perspective

    Authors: Ronald L. Simons, Man‐Kit Lei, Eric T. Klopack, Yue Zhang, Frederick X. Gibbons, Steven R. H. Beach - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 2020 cited by 99

  4. Economic hardship and biological weathering: The epigenetics of aging in a U.S. sample of black women

    Authors: Ronald L. Simons, Man‐Kit Lei, Steven R. H. Beach, Robert A. Philibert, Carolyn E. Cutrona, Frederick X. Gibbons, Ashley B. Barr - Social Science & Medicine 2015 cited by 221

  5. Economic Stress, Coercive Family Process, and Developmental Problems of Adolescents

    Authors: Rand D. Conger, Xiaojia Ge, Glen H. Elder, Frederick O. Lorenz, Ronald L. Simons - Child Development 1994 cited by 1,575

  6. Methylomic Aging as a Window onto the Influence of Lifestyle: Tobacco and Alcohol Use Alter the Rate of Biological Aging

    Authors: Steven R. H. Beach, Meeshanthini V. Dogan, Man‐Kit Lei, Carolyn E. Cutrona, Meg Gerrard, Frederick X. Gibbons, Ronald L. Simons, Gene H. Brody, Robert A. Philibert - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2015 cited by 99

  7. Shifts in lifestyle and socioeconomic circumstances predict change—for better or worse—in speed of epigenetic aging: A study of middle-aged black women

    Authors: Ronald L. Simons, Mei Ling Ong, Man‐Kit Lei, Eric Klopach, Mark T. Berg, Yue Zhang, Robert A. Philibert, Frederick X. Gibbons, Steven R. H. Beach - Social Science & Medicine 2022 cited by 31

  8. Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults

    Authors: Mark T. Berg, Ethan M. Rogers, Man‐Kit Lei, Ronald L. Simons - Journal of Health and Social Behavior 2021 cited by 48

  9. (Re)Setting Epigenetic Clocks: An Important Avenue Whereby Social Conditions Become Biologically Embedded across the Life Course

    Authors: Ronald L. Simons, Man‐Kit Lei, Eric Klopach, Mark T. Berg, Yue Zhang, Steven S. R. Beach - Journal of Health and Social Behavior 2021 cited by 29

  10. Economic pressure in African American families: A replication and extension of the family stress model.

    Authors: Rand D. Conger, Lora Ebert Wallace, Yumei Sun, Ronald L. Simons, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Gene H. Brody - Developmental Psychology 2002 cited by 1,410

  11. The effect of early discrimination on accelerated aging among African Americans.

    Authors: Sierra Carter, Mei Ling Ong, Ronald L. Simons, Frederick X. Gibbons, Man‐Kit Lei, Steven R. H. Beach - Health Psychology 2019 cited by 83

  12. A Family Process Model of Economic Hardship and Adjustment of Early Adolescent Boys

    Authors: Rand D. Conger, Katherine J. Conger, Glen H. Elder, Frederick O. Lorenz, Ronald L. Simons, Les B. Whitbeck - Child Development 1992 cited by 1,451

  13. Families in Troubled Times: Adapting to Change in Rural America.

    Authors: Ann R. Tickamyer, Rand D. Conger, Glen H. Elder, Frederick O. Lorenz, Ronald L. Simons, Les B. Whitbeck - Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews 1995 cited by 920

  14. Direct and Indirect Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Discrimination on Subjective Cognitive Decline: A Longitudinal Study of African American Women

    Authors: Ronald L. Simons, Mei Ling Ong, Steven R. H. Beach, Man‐Kit Lei, Robert A. Philibert, Michelle M. Mielke - The Journals of Gerontology Series B 2023 cited by 20

  15. Trajectories of stressful life events and depressive symptoms during adolescence.

    Authors: Xiaojia Ge, Frederick O. Lorenz, Rand D. Conger, Glen H. Elder, Ronald L. Simons - Developmental Psychology 1994 cited by 796

  16. Perceived Discrimination and the Adjustment of African American Youths: A Five-Year Longitudinal Analysis With Contextual Moderation Effects

    Authors: Gene H. Brody, Yi‐fu Chen, Velma McBride Murry, Xiaojia Ge, Ronald L. Simons, Frederick X. Gibbons, Meg Gerrard, Carolyn E. Cutrona - Child Development 2006 cited by 711

  17. Racial discrimination during middle age predicts higher serum phosphorylated tau and neurofilament light chain levels a decade later: A study of aging black Americans

    Authors: Ronald L. Simons, Mei Ling Ong, Man‐Kit Lei, Steven R. H. Beach, Yue Zhang, Robert A. Philibert, Michelle M. Mielke - Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024 cited by 16

  18. Racial Discrimination as a Moderator of the Links Among Stress, Maternal Psychological Functioning, and Family Relationships

    Authors: Velma McBride Murry, Prudence Brown, Gene H. Brody, Carolyn E. Cutrona, Ronald L. Simons - Journal of Marriage and the Family 2001 cited by 265

  19. It's about timing and change: Pubertal transition effects on symptoms of major depression among African American youths.

    Authors: Xiaojia Ge, Irene J. Kim, Gene H. Brody, Rand D. Conger, Ronald L. Simons, Frederick X. Gibbons, Carolyn E. Cutrona - Developmental Psychology 2003 cited by 220

  20. The effect of smoking on DNA methylation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from African American women

    Authors: Meeshanthini V. Dogan, Bridget E. Shields, Carolyn E. Cutrona, Long Gao, Frederick X. Gibbons, Ronald L. Simons, Martha M. Monick, Gene H. Brody, Kai Tan, Steven R. H. Beach, Robert A. Philibert - BMC Genomics 2014 cited by 206

  21. The Effect of Tobacco Smoking Differs across Indices of DNA Methylation-Based Aging in an African American Sample: DNA Methylation-Based Indices of Smoking Capture These Effects

    Authors: Man‐Kit Lei, Frederick X. Gibbons, Ronald L. Simons, Robert A. Philibert, Steven R. H. Beach - Genes 2020 cited by 39

  22. Childhood adversity predicts black young adults’ DNA methylation-based accelerated aging: A dual pathway model

    Authors: Steven R. H. Beach, Frederick X. Gibbons, Sierra E. Carter, Mei Ling Ong, Justin A. Lavner, Man-Kit Lei, Ronald L. Simons, Meg Gerrard, Robert A. Philibert - Development and Psychopathology 2021 cited by 18

  23. Do Loneliness and Per Capita Income Combine to Increase the Pace of Biological Aging for Black Adults across Late Middle Age?

    Authors: Steven R. H. Beach, Eric T. Klopack, Sierra Carter, Robert A. Philibert, Ronald L. Simons, Frederick X. Gibbons, Mei Ling Ong, Meg Gerrard, Man‐Kit Lei - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022 cited by 15

  24. Linking Economic Hardship to Marital Quality and Instability

    Authors: Rand D. Conger, Glen H. Elder, Frederick O. Lorenz, Katherine J. Conger, Ronald L. Simons, Les B. Whitbeck, Shirley Huck, Janet N. Melby - Journal of Marriage and the Family 1990 cited by 817