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Alexander C. Wagenaar

Alexander C. Wagenaar

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 73 644 562 309 265 243 17092

Alexander C. Wagenaar publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Alexander C. Wagenaar between 1979 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Alexander C. Wagenaar published across 47 years, from 1979 to 2025, averaging 5.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 12 publications in 2013. 2 of the 255 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1979 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 12. Peak 12 publications in 2013. 1979: 1 publication 1980: 0 publications 1981: 3 publications 1982: 5 publications 1983: 4 publications 1984: 5 publications 1985: 8 publications 1986: 8 publications 1987: 8 publications 1988: 10 publications 1989: 10 publications 1990: 8 publications 1991: 5 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 6 publications 1994: 6 publications 1995: 8 publications 1996: 9 publications 1997: 10 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 9 publications 2000: 11 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 7 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 7 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 3 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 3 publications 2020: 2 publications 2021: 3 publications 2022: 0 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 1 publication
1979 2025

255 publications in total across all disciplines

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Alexander C. Wagenaar: publications per year, 1979 to 2025
Year Publications
1979 1
1980 0
1981 3
1982 5
1983 4
1984 5
1985 8
1986 8
1987 8
1988 10
1989 10
1990 8
1991 5
1992 2
1993 6
1994 6
1995 8
1996 9
1997 10
1998 3
1999 9
2000 11
2001 5
2002 7
2003 3
2004 7
2005 9
2006 3
2007 5
2008 2
2009 6
2010 8
2011 3
2012 4
2013 12
2014 5
2015 10
2016 7
2017 3
2018 4
2019 3
2020 2
2021 3
2022 0
2023 3
2024 1
2025 1
Total 255
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Alexander C. Wagenaar publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander C. Wagenaar sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 234–243 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 243 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170 243
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Alexander C. Wagenaar D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander C. Wagenaar sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 73 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46 73
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Alexander C. Wagenaar is a researcher affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a specific focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and broader Health topics.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
  • Health Policy Implementation Science

Among Alexander C. Wagenaar's recent publications are:

  • "The "Legal Epidemiology" of Pandemic Control" (2021), published in the New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial of a school, family, and community intervention for preventing drug misuse among older adolescents in the Cherokee Nation" (2022), published in Trials
  • "Conceptual Confusion Leads Policy Evaluation Astray" (2024), published in JAMA Health Forum
  • "Law Everywhere: A Causal Framework for Law and Infectious Disease" (2020), published in Public Health Reports
  • "Theory, Measurement, and Psychometric Properties of Risk and Protective Factors for Drug Misuse Among Adolescents Living on or near the Cherokee Nation Reservation" (2023), published in Adversity and Resilience Science

The venues where Wagenaar frequently publishes include:

  • Adversity and Resilience Science
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Trials
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • Public Health Reports

Frequent co-authors in Wheeler's research are:

  • Kelli A. Komro
  • Melvin D. Livingston
  • Terrence K. Kominsky
  • Bethany J. Livingston
  • Caroline M. Barry

The scope of Wagenaar's research reflects an interdisciplinary approach that integrates epidemiology, public health policy, and behavioral health. This includes examining substance use and its prevention, the effects of prenatal substance exposure, and the implementation and evaluation of health policies related to drug misuse and infectious disease control. The work also addresses methodological issues in policy evaluation and causal frameworks for understanding legal influences on public health.

Best Publications

  • Effects of beverage alcohol price and tax levels on drinking: a meta-analysis of 1003 estimates from 112 studies

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;Matthew J. Salois;Kelli A. Komro

  • Effects of minimum drinking age laws: review and analyses of the literature from 1960 to 2000.

    Alexander C Wagenaar;Traci L Toomey

  • Effects of Alcohol Tax and Price Policies on Morbidity and Mortality: A Systematic Review

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;Amy L. Tobler;Kelli A. Komro

  • Project Northland: outcomes of a communitywide alcohol use prevention program during early adolescence

    Cheryl L. Perry;Carolyn L. Williams;Sara Veblen-Mortenson;Traci L. Toomey

  • The Value of Interrupted Time-Series Experiments for Community Intervention Research

    Anthony Biglan;Dennis Ary;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Effects of minimum drinking age laws on alcohol use, related behaviors and traffic crash involvement among American youth: 1976-1987

    P. M. O'malley;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • The effects of community policies to reduce youth access to tobacco.

    Jean L. Forster;David M. Murray;Mark Wolfson;Therese M. Blaine

  • Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol: outcomes from a randomized community trial.

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;David M. Murray;John P. Gehan;Mark Wolfson

  • Developing public health regulations for marijuana: lessons from alcohol and tobacco.

    Rosalie Liccardo Pacula;Beau Kilmer;Alexander C. Wagenaar;Frank J. Chaloupka

  • Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol (CMCA): effects of a randomized trial on arrests and traffic crashes.

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;David M. Murray;Traci L. Toomey

  • Effects of state medical marijuana laws on adolescent marijuana use.

    Sarah D. Lynne-Landsman;Melvin D. Livingston;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Making the case for laws that improve health: a framework for public health law research.

    Scott Burris;Alexander C. Wagenaar;Jeffrey W. Swanson;Jennifer K. Ibrahim

  • Secondhand Effects of Student Alcohol Use Reported by Neighbors of Colleges: The Role of Alcohol Outlets

    Henry Wechsler;Jae Eun Lee;John Hall;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Sources of alcohol for underage drinkers

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;Traci L Toomey;David M. Murray;Brian J. Short

  • Mandated server training and reduced alcohol-involved traffic crashes: a time series analysis of the Oregon experience.

    Harold D. Holder;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Community Strategies for the Reduction of Youth Drinking: Theory and Application

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;Cheryl L. Perry

  • Environmental policies to reduce college drinking: options and research findings.

    Traci L Toomey;Alexander C Wagenaar

  • Environmental Policies to Reduce College Drinking: An Update of Research Findings*

    Traci L. Toomey;Kathleen M. Lenk;Alexander C. Wagenaar;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Commercial availability of alcohol to young people: results of alcohol purchase attempts

    J. L. Forster;D. M. Murray;Mark Wolfson;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Background, conceptualization and design of a community-wide research program on adolescent alcohol use: Project Northland

    Cheryl L. Perry;Carolyn L. Williams;Jean L. Forster;Mark Wolfson

  • Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;David M. Murray;John P. Gehan;Mark Wolfson

  • The injury fact book

    Alexander C Wagenaar;Daniel W Webster

Frequent Co-Authors

Traci L. Toomey
Traci L. Toomey University of Minnesota
Kelli A. Komro
Kelli A. Komro Emory University
David M. Murray
David M. Murray National Institutes of Health
Cheryl L. Perry
Cheryl L. Perry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Darin J. Erickson
Darin J. Erickson University of Minnesota
Scott Burris
Scott Burris Temple University
Harold D. Holder
Harold D. Holder Pacific Institute
Sara Markowitz
Sara Markowitz Emory University
Patrick M. O'Malley
Patrick M. O'Malley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Paul G. McGovern
Paul G. McGovern University of Minnesota

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