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Bruce G. Simons-Morton

Bruce G. Simons-Morton

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Social Sciences and Humanities
USA
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
92
Citations
32957
World Ranking
159
National Ranking
74

Bruce G. Simons-Morton 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 Bruce G. Simons-Morton sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 374 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bruce G. Simons-Morton 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 Bruce G. Simons-Morton sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 92 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award

Overview

Bruce G. Simons-Morton is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and has a research portfolio centered on medicine, health professions, and engineering disciplines. Their work predominantly focuses on several subfields, including safety, risk, reliability and quality, transportation, physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, physiology, and epidemiology.

The scientist's main areas of research revolve around topics such as traffic and road safety, urban transport and accessibility, older adults driving studies, smoking behavior and cessation, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, injury epidemiology and prevention, and cannabis and cannabinoid research.

Recent publications by Bruce G. Simons-Morton demonstrate a diverse engagement with adolescent health, risk behaviors, and transportation safety. These publications include:

  • Neural processes during adolescent risky decision making are associated with conformity to peer influence, 2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Mapping the complex causal mechanisms of drinking and driving behaviors among adolescents and young adults, 2022, Social Science & Medicine
  • Learner Driver Experience and Teenagers' Crash Risk During the First Year of Independent Driving, 2020, JAMA Pediatrics
  • Attitudes, Subjective Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control Associated with Age of First Use of Cannabis among Adolescents, 2020, Journal of School Health
  • Factors Contributing to Delay in Driving Licensure Among U.S. High School Students and Young Adults, 2020, Journal of Adolescent Health

Their frequent collaborators include Denise L. Haynie, Kaigang Li, Ronald J. Iannotti, Federico E. Vaca, and Barbara C. Banz. This network of coauthors reflects a consistent engagement with interdisciplinary research teams that contribute to the fields of adolescent health and transportation safety.

Bruce G. Simons-Morton's research has been published repeatedly in several notable venues, indicating their active involvement in the dissemination of knowledge related to health and safety. These venues include:

  • Traffic Injury Prevention
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Journal of Safety Research

Best Publications

  • Bullying Behaviors Among US Youth: Prevalence and Association With Psychosocial Adjustment

    Tonja R. Nansel;Mary Overpeck;Ramani S. Pilla;W. June Ruan

  • Bullies, Victims, and Bully/Victims: Distinct Groups of At-Risk Youth

    Denise L. Haynie;Tonja Nansel;Patricia Eitel;Aria Davis Crump

  • A cross-national profile of bullying and victimization among adolescents in 40 countries

    Wendy Craig;Yossi Harel-Fisch;Haya Fogel-Grinvald;Suzanne Dostaler

  • Distracted driving and risk of road crashes among novice and experienced drivers

    Sheila G. Klauer;Feng Guo;Bruce G. Simons-Morton;Marie Claude Ouimet

  • Determinants of physical activity and interventions in youth.

    James F. Sallis;Bruce G. Simons-Morton;Elaine J. Stone;Charles B. Corbin

  • The observed effects of teenage passengers on the risky driving behavior of teenage drivers.

    Bruce G Simons-Morton;Neil Lerner;Jeremiah Singer

  • Recent findings on peer group influences on adolescent smoking.

    Bruce G. Simons-Morton;Tilda Farhat

  • Peer and Parent Influences on Smoking and Drinking among Early Adolescents

    Bruce Simons-Morton;Denise L. Haynie;Aria D. Crump;Patricia Eitel

  • Self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and diabetes self-management in adolescents with type 1 diabetes

    Ronald J Iannotti;Stefan Schneider;Tonja R Nansel;Denise L Haynie

  • Student–school bonding and adolescent problem behavior

    Bruce G. Simons-Morton;Aria Davis Crump;Denise L. Haynie;Keith E. Saylor

  • Promoting physical activity and a healthful diet among children: results of a school-based intervention study.

    Bruce G. Simons-Morton;Guy S. Parcel;Tom Baranowski;Ronald Forthofer

  • The Association of Bullying and Victimization with Middle School Adjustment

    Tonja R. Nansel;Denise L. Haynie;Bruce G. Simonsmorton

  • Overweight, obesity, youth, and health-risk behaviors

    Tilda Farhat;Ronald J. Iannotti;Bruce G. Simons-Morton

  • Peer and Parent Influences on School Engagement Among Early Adolescents

    Bruce G. Simons-Morton;Rusan Chen

  • The effect of passengers and risk-taking friends on risky driving and crashes/near crashes among novice teenagers

    Bruce G. Simons-Morton;Marie Claude Ouimet;Marie Claude Ouimet;Zhiwei Zhang;Sheila E. Klauer

  • Bullying victimization and substance use among U.S. adolescents: Mediation by depression.

    Jeremy W. Luk;Jing Wang;Bruce G. Simons-Morton

  • Decreases in adolescent weekly alcohol use in Europe and North America: evidence from 28 countries from 2002 to 2010.

    Margaretha de Looze;Quinten Raaijmakers;Tom ter Bogt;Pernille Bendtsen

  • Prevalence and patterns of polysubstance use in a nationally representative sample of 10th graders in the United States.

    Kevin P. Conway;Genevieve C. Vullo;Brandon Nichter;Jing Wang

  • Over time relationships between early adolescent and peer substance use.

    Bruce G. Simons-Morton;Rusan S. Chen

  • Psychosocial, school, and parent factors associated with recent smoking among early-adolescent boys and girls.

    Bruce Simons-Morton;Aria Davis Crump;Denise L. Haynie;Keith E. Saylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Denise L. Haynie
Denise L. Haynie National Institutes of Health
Ronald J. Iannotti
Ronald J. Iannotti National Institutes of Health
Thomas A. Dingus
Thomas A. Dingus Virginia Tech
Stephen E. Gilman
Stephen E. Gilman Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Paul S. Albert
Paul S. Albert National Institutes of Health
Jean T. Shope
Jean T. Shope University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Emmanuel Kuntsche
Emmanuel Kuntsche La Trobe University
Kenneth H. Beck
Kenneth H. Beck University of Maryland, College Park
C. Raymond Bingham
C. Raymond Bingham University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Guy S. Parcel
Guy S. Parcel The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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