2026 Clay Routledge: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	48	5836	5424	3165	2871	122	12908

Overview

Clay Routledge is affiliated with North Dakota State University in the United States. Their main fields of study include Psychology and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on the subfields of Social Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, and Health.

The research topics covered by Routledge span several areas related to human behavior and psychological processes. These include:

Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior
Media Influence and Health
Media, Gender, and Advertising
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Routledge has contributed to several recent academic papers, including:

"Time capsule: Nostalgia shields psychological wellbeing from limited time horizons." (2020), Emotion
"The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis" (2020), Emotion Review
"Why Meaning in Life Matters for Societal Flourishing" (2021), Frontiers in Psychology
"Combating Loneliness With Nostalgia: Nostalgic Feelings Attenuate Negative Thoughts and Motivations Associated With Loneliness" (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
"Is Nostalgia a Past or Future-Oriented Experience? Affective, Behavioral, Social Cognitive, and Neuroscientific Evidence" (2020), Frontiers in Psychology

The frequent publication venues for Routledge's work include:

Frontiers in Psychology
Emotion
Emotion Review
Personality and Individual Differences
Religion Brain & Behavior

The list of frequent co-authors includes:

Taylor A. FioRito
Andrew A. Abeyta
Tim Wildschut
Constantine Sedikides
Erica G. Hepper

Best Publications

Nostalgia: Content, Triggers, Functions

Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Jamie Arndt;Clay Routledge

1634
Citations
Nostalgia Past, Present, and Future

Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Jamie Arndt;Clay Routledge

808
Citations
The past makes the present meaningful: nostalgia as an existential resource.

Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides

649
Citations
A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia.

Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut

583
Citations
Nostalgia as a repository of social connectedness: the role of attachment-related avoidance.

Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt

479
Citations
To nostalgize: mixing memory with affect and desire

Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt

410
Citations
Nostalgia counteracts self-discontinuity and restores self-continuity

Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt

376
Citations
The power of the past: nostalgia as a meaning-making resource

Clay Routledge;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Jacob Juhl

344
Citations
A Time to Tan: Proximal and Distal Effects of Mortality Salience on Sun Exposure Intentions

Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Jamie L. Goldenberg

335
Citations
Nostalgia as a resource for the self

Matthew Vess;Jamie Arndt;Clay Routledge;Constantine Sedikides

326
Citations
Fighting the future with the past: nostalgia buffers existential threat

Jacob Juhl;Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Constantine Sedikides

314
Citations
When Death is Good for Life: Considering the Positive Trajectories of Terror Management

Kenneth E. Vail;Jacob Juhl;Jamie Arndt;Matthew Vess

310
Citations
Adjusting to death: The effects of mortality salience and self-esteem on psychological well-being, growth motivation, and maladaptive behavior

Clay Routledge;Brian Ostafin;Jacob Juhl;Constantine Sedikides

303
Citations
Nostalgia as a Resource for Psychological Health and Well‐Being

Clay Routledge;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Jacob Juhl

277
Citations
The blueprint of terror management: understanding the cognitive architecture of psychological defense against the awareness of death

Jamie Arndt;Alison Cook;Clay Routledge

258
Citations
Nostalgia fosters self-continuity: Uncovering the mechanism (social connectedness) and consequence (eudaimonic well-being).

Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Wing-Yee Cheung;Clay Routledge

248
Citations
When death thoughts lead to death fears: mortality salience increases death anxiety for individuals who lack meaning in life

Clay Routledge;Jacob Juhl

246
Citations
The mnemonic mover: nostalgia regulates avoidance and approach motivation.

Elena Stephan;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Xinyue Zhou

239
Citations
The dynamics of death and meaning: the effects of death-relevant cognitions and personal need for structure on perceptions of meaning in life.

Matthew Vess;Clay Routledge;Mark J. Landau;Jamie Arndt

235
Citations
Nostalgia as enabler of self continuity.

Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Lowell Gaertner;Clay Routledge

205
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jamie Arndt University of Missouri

Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton

Tim Wildschut University of Southampton

Jamie L. Goldenberg University of South Florida

Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets Tilburg University

Joshua A. Hicks Texas A&M University

Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona

Kennon M. Sheldon University of Missouri

Michael D. Robinson North Dakota State University

Mark J. Landau University of Kansas

External Links

Personal website of Clay Routledge

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