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D-Index
38
Citations
15837
World Ranking
5768
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2733

David L. Featherman 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 David L. Featherman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 99 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David L. Featherman 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 David L. Featherman sits on this spectrum.

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: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% 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

  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David L. Featherman is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their academic career is recognized through various honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986.

Best Publications

  • Life-Span Development and Behavior

    Paul B. Baltes;David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner;Orville Gilbert Brim

  • Opportunity and Change

    David L. Featherman;Robert Mason Hauser

  • Socioeconomic background and achievement

    Otis Dudley Duncan;David L. Featherman;Beverly Duncan

  • The Process of Stratification: Trends and Analyses

    Robert Mason Hauser;David L. Featherman

  • A revised socioeconomic index of occupational status

    Gillian Stevens;David L Featherman

  • High, usual and impaired functioning in community-dwelling older men and women: Findings from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on successful aging

    Lisa F. Berkman;Teresa E. Seeman;Marilyn Albert;Dan Blazer

  • Assumptions of social mobility research in the U.S.: The case of occupational status☆

    David L Featherman;F Lancaster Jones;Robert M Hauser

  • Equality of Schooling: Trends and Prospects.

    Robert M. Hauser;David L. Featherman

  • Sexual Inequalities and Socioeconomic Achievement in the U.S., 1962-1973.

    David L. Featherman;Robert M. Hauser

  • Intraindividual variability in perceived control in an older sample: the MacArthur successful aging studies.

    Dara R. Eizenman;John R. Nesselroade;David L. Featherman;John W. Rowe

  • Ontogenesis and sociogenesis: Problematics for theory and research about development and socialization across the lifespan.

    David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner

  • Response Errors of Black and Nonblack Males in Models of the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status

    William T. Bielby;Robert M. Hauser;David L. Featherman

  • Life-Span Development and Behavior : Volume 10

    Paul B. Baltes;David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner

  • Changes in the Socioeconomic Stratification of the Races, 1962-73.

    David L. Featherman;Robert M. Hauser

  • Prestige or Socioeconomic Scales in the Study of Occupational Achievement

    David L. Featherman;Robert M. Hauser

  • The Socioeconomic Achievement of White Religio-Ethnic Subgroups: Social and Psychological Explanations

    David L. Featherman

  • Introduction: Late Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood

    Lonnie R. Sherrod;Robert J. Haggerty;David L. Featherman

  • 7 – A Revised Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status: Application in Analysis of Sex Differences in Attainment1

    David L. Featherman;Gillian Stevens

  • How Americans Responded: A Study of Public Reactions to 9/11/01

    Michael Traugott;Ted Brader;Deborah Coral;Richard Curtin

  • Social self-efficacy and short-term variability in social relationships: the MacArthur successful aging studies.

    Frieder R. Lang;David L. Featherman;John R. Nesselroade

  • Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life@@@Schooling and Achievement in American Society

    David H. Kamens;Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis;William H. Sewell

  • Life-Span Development and Behavior : Volume 11

    David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner;Marion Perlmutter

  • Opportunity and Change.

    Gary D. Sandefur;David L. Featherman;Robert M. Hauser

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Hauser
Robert M. Hauser University of Wisconsin–Madison
John R. Nesselroade
John R. Nesselroade University of Virginia
Karl Ulrich Mayer
Karl Ulrich Mayer Max Planck Society
Otis Dudley Duncan
Otis Dudley Duncan University of Arizona
Dennis P. Hogan
Dennis P. Hogan Brown University
Robert L. Kahn
Robert L. Kahn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Herbert Gintis
Herbert Gintis Santa Fe Institute
William H. Sewell
William H. Sewell University of Wisconsin–Madison
Deborah A. Phillips
Deborah A. Phillips Georgetown University
Marilyn S. Albert
Marilyn S. Albert Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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