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45

Burton H. Singer 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 Burton H. Singer sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 279 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Burton H. Singer 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 Burton H. Singer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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
  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Burton H. Singer is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation, Epidemiology, General Health Professions, and Health as subfields. The topics covered in their work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, global health care issues, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, and respiratory viral infections research.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Recent papers by Burton H. Singer include:

  • Impact of international travel and border control measures on the global spread of the novel 2019 coronavirus outbreak, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Impact of Vaccination on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreaks in the United States, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Projecting hospital utilization during the COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The implications of silent transmission for the control of COVID-19 outbreaks, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Burton H. Singer has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Alison P. Galvani, Seyed M. Moghadas, Abhishek Pandey, Chad R. Wells, and Meagan C. Fitzpatrick.

Awards received by Burton H. Singer include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2005
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1994
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1984
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1981
  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 1980

Best Publications

  • The Contours of Positive Human Health

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton Singer

  • Know Thyself and Become What You are: A Eudaimonic Approach to Psychological Well-Being

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton H. Singer

  • A METHOD FOR MINIMIZING THE IMPACT OF DISTRIBUTIONAL ASSUMPTIONS IN ECONOMETRIC MODELS FOR DURATION DATA

    J. Heckman;B. Singer

  • Psychological Well-Being: Meaning, Measurement, and Implications for Psychotherapy Research

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton Singer

  • Price of Adaptation—Allostatic Load and Its Health Consequences: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging

    Teresa E. Seeman;Burton H. Singer;John W. Rowe;Ralph I. Horwitz

  • Allostatic load as a marker of cumulative biological risk: MacArthur studies of successful aging

    Teresa E. Seeman;Bruce S. McEwen;John W. Rowe;Burton H. Singer

  • Positive health: connecting well-being with biology.

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton H. Singer;Gayle Dienberg Love

  • Econometric duration analysis

    James J. Heckman;Burton Singer;Burton Singer

  • Interpersonal Flourishing: A Positive Health Agenda for the New Millennium:

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton Singer

  • Best news yet on the six-factor model of well-being

    Carol D. Ryff;Burton H. Singer;Burton H. Singer

  • Psychological Well-Being and Ill-Being: Do They Have Distinct or Mirrored Biological Correlates?

    Carol D. Ryff;Gayle Dienberg Love;Heather L. Urry;Daniel Muller

  • Making a Life Worth Living Neural Correlates of Well-Being

    Heather L. Urry;Jack B. Nitschke;Isa Dolski;Daren C. Jackson

  • The impact of vaccination on COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States.

    Seyed M Moghadas;Thomas N Vilches;Kevin Zhang;Chad R Wells

  • Social relationships, gender, and allostatic load across two age cohorts.

    Teresa E Seeman;Burton H Singer;Carol D Ryff;Gayle Dienberg Love

  • Cumulative biological risk and socio-economic differences in mortality: MacArthur studies of successful aging.

    Teresa E Seeman;Eileen Crimmins;Mei-Hua Huang;Burton Singer

  • Allostatic load as a predictor of functional decline. MacArthur studies of successful aging.

    Arun S Karlamangla;Burton H Singer;Bruce S McEwen;John W Rowe

  • Recursive partitioning in the health sciences

    Ho-pʿing Chang;Burton Singer

  • Randomness and degrees of irregularity.

    Steve Pincus;Burton H. Singer

  • Impact of international travel and border control measures on the global spread of the novel 2019 coronavirus outbreak.

    Chad R. Wells;Pratha Sah;Seyed M. Moghadas;Abhishek Pandey

  • Now You Feel It, Now You Don't Frontal Brain Electrical Asymmetry and Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation

    Daren C. Jackson;Corrina J. Mueller;Isa Dolski;Kim M. Dalton

  • Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data

    Ian Plewis;James Heckman;Burton Singer

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol D. Ryff
Carol D. Ryff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marcia C. Castro
Marcia C. Castro Harvard University
Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles
Alison P. Galvani
Alison P. Galvani Yale University
Elaine Holmes
Elaine Holmes Imperial College London
Bruce S. McEwen
Bruce S. McEwen Rockefeller University
Yulan Wang
Yulan Wang Nanyang Technological University
Mitchell G. Weiss
Mitchell G. Weiss Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Tara L. Gruenewald
Tara L. Gruenewald Chapman University
Heather L. Urry
Heather L. Urry Tufts University

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